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Interior Design Furniture Trends

Contemporary Office Furniture Mid-Century Office Furniture becomes Popular Again The mid-century  office furniture has been redesigned by Mark Gabbertas, featuring a two-seated sofa and two arm chairs. The furniture is designed for hospitality as well as corporate spaces. Innovative Furniture Innovative chair or two-seater sofa The two seated sofa designed to be twisted as a chair and striped with a leather belt.  See more about  workspace seating furniture

Finishing Touch - Floor Design

According to Griem , interior architect , one of the most important finishing touches while planning home interior are flooring design. Firstly, it is important to consider the functional and practical aspects of the flooring. In countries where warmer climate prevails, a hard surface should be used as the indoor and outdoor activities merge and thus cleaning would be easier when the floor is made of tiles, natural stone or similar hard material. Because of the advanced technologies, there are variety of styles of floor tiles to choose from, including images of natural stone. The trending floor style is large floor tiles that reminds of slabs. Some people prefer porcelain tiles as it appears to be very realistic and natural. Another choice is wood that provides a feeling of warmth. It is also advised to use hardwearing wood flooring, it provides an organic look. Also there are variety of colour lights to choose from as well as the lengths and widths. 

Interior Office Design - Coming Back to Traditional Office Style?

The contemporary office design features an open-space interior design. Most of the reasons behind it is the rapid expansion of new technology that allows us to communicate and work with less restrictions than ever before. Although there are plenty advantages of an open-plan workspace, including increased flexibility, collaboration, creativity, there are some disadvantages also. People who work in open-space office complain that they are distracted much easier and more often by their colleagues, moreover, employees say that the lack of privacy affects their work effectiveness also. In order to deal with such issues, some organizations have thus created special spaces in the offices where employees can work on their own without any distraction. For example, one of the new Coca-Cola's offices in London, have considered the negative aspects of hot-desking and designed their offices in a way that each employee has its own desk. As a result, it should provide employees with more p...

Must Have Gadgets to Improve Your Life at Home

Petnet SmartFeeder A special bowl that can be programmed to give food automatically.  Beam Brush  A brush that works using blue-tooth technology that can track brushing habits and offer advice in order to make improvements in your brush habits.  Crock-Pot Smart Slow Cooker With WeMo A pot that allows you to control the temperature and timing remotely using your smart phone. Parrot Flower Power   A sensor system that allows you to monitor and take care of your plans while tracking the stat on your phone. Kwikset Kevo A lock that can be controlled with your phone - No more struggling while holding bags! Philips Hue Connected Bulbs   Lighting can be controlled by your smart phone - an amazing gadget to have at home that allows you to control the lighting when you're in bed.   

Office Design: Before And Now

In recent years, the structure of organizations has changed, so as the design of offices. In the past offices used to be location specific and organizations usually owned its own space or long term lease. The space was highly territorial and had a strong physical branding. The interaction within organization was very formal because of the office structure. The space was limited to physical space and mobile technology. Office Design Before On the other hand, the number of flexible offices nowadays are expanding and it changes the structure of organization itself, encouraging communication, freedom and creativity. As organizations are based within many different locations, because some of the work might be outsourced elsewhere, it is common for organizations to have offices in many different locations therefore short term lease is becoming increasingly popular. The space within organization is usually shared with other companies. Brand expression that is created within an o...

Unusual Properties: The Floating Homes

According to various experiments and research, it is predicted that sea levels will rise 0.9 m or more by 2100, therefore the climate change is likely to cause a trouble to low-lying towns and cities including Miami. Bankok, London. As a result, it is essential to think about new ways of living that could be applied in new kind of conditions. The country such as The Netherlands is ideal for solutions that suggest floating. The country is also one of the world's leading source for flood-proof architecture and design. The floating home developments are on the rise in Amsterdam. Since the there is a shortage of land, the idea of floating homes has been adopted. Because of the properties being on the water, the challenges that officials had included the fire brigade which was land-based therefore, the traditional fire escape was not applicable. Moreover, the transportation of such homes was also an issue as homes couldn't be wider than 6.5 m. In order to avoid homes...