Rocks and Pebbles as Home Furniture

These rocks are home furniture and not real rocks, but they look so real that you might think this would be about landscaping or gardening. Those are floor cushions from SMarin Design. It is designed by Stephanie Marine, a designer who lives in Nice, and creates furniture pieces that are playful and natural, and projects that are a link between art and interior design. These pebbles are part of the Livingstones collection and come in various shapes and sizes and can be a nice addition for contemporary interiors. It can be used as a sofa, lounger, ottoman, bean bag or just plain accessory to a contemporary designed room. This fanciful furniture is for those people who are playful and adventurous in their design style. The indoor collection can be used for the kid’s room, entertainment room, or even in the living room and bedroom, depending on the size and shape. Any item from the outdoor collection would be a fine piece to add drama and style in your lanai and poolside. Depending on your design style and imagination these pebbles and rocks can be a great addition to your home and will definitely be a great conversation piece that will arouse attention and comments among your friends and visitors.

Outdoor Collection






Indoor Collection

Yellows in your Living Room

A living room should always have a comfortable and cheerful ambiance. It is where you entertain guests, have family conversations, and where you usually lounge around. This room should always be filled with good times and happiness. It is usually the first place to be seen when entering your house that is why it is also called a front room. Adding a splash of yellows in your living room will make it cheerful, comfortable, and will make the surrounding more pleasant and warm. The yellow color is associated with sunshine, joy, happiness, intellect and energy. Although moderation is needed in using yellows to decorate your living room because too much of this color may have a disturbing effect. Babies are known to cry more in yellow rooms and people lose their tempers more in a yellow surrounding. It is not advisable for people to have a yellow wall together with yellow colored sofa together with other yellow decors. Because yellow is an attention grabbing color, it can be overwhelming and unbearable if too much of it will be used in your living room. A yellow wall, a yellow curtain, a yellow vase, or an artwork with bright yellows will accentuate warmth and energy in your living room, just do not overuse this color. Adding just the right amount of yellow is enough to brighten up your living room.

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Chalet Hermine


Kenneth Brown

Brigid Calderhead


Elysees Apartment in Paris

Tony A. Conway


Pat Emery


Ammie Kim

Shelly Riehl David

Ghislaine Viñas

Resort Style Bedrooms

A resort style bedroom should exude the feeling of a relaxed, comfortable, laid-back surrounding. While all bedrooms should embody these three characteristics a resort style bedroom should make one feel extra laid-back as if one is on a perpetual holiday. We all love taking vacations because it makes us feel peaceful and rejuvenated, and you can have that same feeling if you have a resort style bedroom. Resort style bedrooms make ample use of natural and organic materials like wood. The color that is usually used is blue because it is the color of the ocean and blue invokes a peaceful and tranquil mood. Whites and neutrals can also be used as the major color. If white or neutrals will be the main color of the bedroom, it is good to add fixtures and decors with the colors of nature and happiness to make the room exude such ambiance. A resort style bedroom must be airy, fresh, and spacious or at least have the illusion of being one. An addition of a stylish ceiling fan or having big windows is a good way of creating an airy and fresh atmosphere for the bedroom. Another characteristic of a resort style bedroom is that it is not filled with unimportant fixtures and clutters, only the essential things should be present in the room. One reason why we feel very relaxed and peaceful while on vacation is that the rooms are not filled with our work table and other things that will remind us of our workload. The choice of a bed and the material it is made of is significant in creating a resort-themed bedroom. Since the bed is the main furniture in the bedroom it must exude a carefree, comfortable and relaxed feeling, the way we feel when we are on holidays. Taking a break or a vacation may not be a daily thing or a frequent thing for you but you can have that same feeling in your own home if you have a resort style bedroom where you can relax and unwind everyday.

Design ideas for a resort style bedroom.

Villa Asta - Bali

The Arsana Villas - Bali

Altamer Resort – Russian Amythyst Villa – Anguilla

Esperanza Resort – Cabo San Lucas

Hale Nana Kohola – Hawaii

Frank Roop

Ty Pennington

Sills Huniford Associates

Amanpulo Resort – Philippines

El San Juan Hotel and Casino – Puerto Rico

White Sofa for your Living Room

The sofa is the main furniture in the living room. Careful choosing needs to be done before buying the kind of sofa that will fit not only to your budget but also to the interior design of your living room. Many people shun away from getting a white sofa because it is quite hard to maintain the look and cleanliness of a white sofa. If you still have young kids in the house, you may have to think several times before getting a white sofa for your living room. But a white sofa exudes elegance, cleanliness, purity and goodness. Some people consider the color white the color of perfection. White gives the environment a feeling of lightness, calmness, and relaxation. Since white also gives the illusion of a bigger space or furniture, a white sofa will make your living room look larger, airy and wider. A white sofa in the living room will also give emphasis on the other decors and fixtures in your living room, the red or orange flowers in the vase will pop out, the colorful scented and decorated candles will be noticed, the colorful abstract painting in the wall will easily catch attention and the rug will be emphasized. A white sofa will also easily blend with any seasonal theme that you may want to do in your living room in the future. A different color of window treatment will not be a problem for a white sofa to blend in, and a white curtain in the windows is also a perfect partner for your white sofa just add complimenting decors and fixtures in a different color to liven up your living room. And with the many varieties of white, you will not have a problem choosing the right shade of white. Next time you need to buy a new sofa, consider getting one in white.

Below are exceptional white sofas from Roche Bobois of Paris

Water Resistant TearDrop iPod Speaker

This TearDrop iPod Water Resistant Speaker is not only striking but also very useful. Because it comes in a variety of colors, you can choose what will suit the place where you will most likely use it often. This can be a very good gift for your teenager or to yourself, after all we all like to listen to our favorite music. I personally like the orange one because the color brightens any surrounding it will be placed into. With this iPod water resistant speaker, you can now listen to your favorite music anywhere you go, you can bring your iPod in the bathroom while taking a bath, to the beach, swimming pool, kitchen, and in the backyard and garden without worrying that you may wet and damage your iPod. And this iPod speaker being water resistant does not mean you should only use it in water surroundings, with its stylish shape and features you can bring and use it anywhere to protect your iPod. This can also be a good looking house decor and will be a great addition in any room of your house if your interiors are modern, eclectic, or even in some contemporary designs, but may not be a good decor for homes with rustic, western, and even victorian interior design style. This good-looking iPod Water Resistant Speaker operates on batteries and can be used for iPods such as iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle or other MP3 Players.

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Western Style Interior Design

Western Style Interior Design is often associated with the country, farmhouse and rustic look. Western Style homes usually make use of earthy colors with a dash of reds and yellows here and there, pottery home decors, leather sofas and ottomans, lots of wood and stones of different surfaces and textures. Another special feature of a Western Style home is the fireplace, here you can display various accessories like bronze sculptures, cowboy paintings, and enough supply of log woods adds to the rustic and western theme. Although this style may look masculine, you can balance it by using colorful fabrics for your quilts, bed sheets, and table napkins. Ceramic displays and clay tiles also adds a feminine feel and style. I love Western Style kitchens because of the hanging pans, the colorful window treatments, the potteries, the wine racks, the stone walls, and the fruits and spices display, it makes me want to cook and bake for my family the whole day. Western style homes often have cowboy memorabilia, antler lightings, fishing and hunting tools, with the addition of potteries, clay tiles, colorful quilts and other decors to make it have the homey, laid-back, and weathered look.

JLF and Associates is a Montana based design-build firm and is one of the most reputable in the United States that specializes in American Western designs. Their completed projects are simply marvelous, creating a place of warmth and comfort without trading beauty and nature. Below is their Livingood House project in Jackson, Wyoming.