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The Beginners Guide To Taking The Perfect Portrait
Taking a good portrait is more than capturing a face. A good photographer will spend time considering lighting, background, pose and expression. Here is a short overview of how you can start to take photographs which rival the experts.
The most importan [read more...]
Footstools Taking Over The Home
It may seem unheard of to you, but there are about a million households all over the world that haven’t managed or bothered to incorporate any footstools into their decor, whether it is in the living room or any other part of the house. Generally, we al [read more...]
Tub Chairs: Contemporary Or Retro?
When you think of furniture from the 1960’s and 70’s era, there is a good chance that you will have flashbacks to several popular films of the era, many of which focused on futuristic furniture design as an aesthetic support to the plot line. If y [read more...]
Dining Chairs: Where To Draw The Line Between Function And Aesthetic
The sad truth is, not every one of us has the space within our houses to accommodate a full dining room. Often, smaller homes and apartments just haven’t been designed with a dining room in mind simply because the home basics held precedent: living room [read more...]
Sit Down In The Quantum of Solace
Anna Pinnock was the set director for the much-awaited new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, and she’s done some interesting detail work with the furniture seen throughout the movie. The designer has blatantly stated that no, she did not actually watc [read more...]
Top Tips On Buying A Single Seater Barcelona
Reproduction vs Original costs - If you are working on a budget, there are significant savings out there if you are happy with a reproduction. The repro faux leather single seater Barcelona (75cm x 75cm x 75cm) should really cost anywhere between 300 and 500 p [read more...]
Get It Right - Agyness Deyn Style
Choosing what to wear is a notoriously difficult task. We all spend hours every week planning and trying on different clothes to ensure that we make the right impression at the right occasion. Despite the time and effort that we put into our clothing choices w [read more...]
Bar Stools In The Home
Bar stools are one of those types of furniture that has persevered over decades and decades because of their simplicity of design, functionality and their appeal in so many different settings. Traditionally speaking, bar stools are used exactly where you woul [read more...]
Coffee Tables and Contemporary Design
The coffee table is one of the most important pieces of furniture in the modern home, and it certainly held an important function in the traditional home as well. True to its name, the coffee table was meant to serve coffee, snacks and perhaps tea to guests a [read more...]
What Do Women Keep In Their Display Cabinets
As the main home care provider, women were traditionally called upon to deal with cooking, cleaning, overseeing other household chores and also making sure that their homes were presentable and respectable. Not only was an untidy or unclean home something to [read more...]
