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How to Decorate a Small Kitchen

10 June 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

It is not that all of us are gifted with lavish and spacious homes. In fact, most of the people the world over either live on rents, or in small apartments or non-luxurious homes. How you make your house look beautiful is all dependent on your creativity and level of inspiration. The interior designers, however, are always there to help you decorate the different corners of the homes in an effective and more professional way.

Decorate a Small Kitchen

It is absolutely true that the females are to spend most of their day’s time in kitchen. Apart from the decoration and beauty of the other parts of the house, they want something nice and extraordinary for their kitchen. It is alright if you have a small kitchen, you can still make it look wonderful and great. Here is how to decorate a small kitchen efficiently.

1. Pay Attention to Every Detail

As you have a small kitchen, you cannot afford to keep the things spread everywhere. Pay keen attention to every detail. Get benefited from each and every corner of this small kitchen such as if the length of your kitchen is small enough, then you can have the cabinets high towards the roof so that some space can be saved. In the same way, one should not consider to keep a dining table in the small kitchen because such things would look good in your living area or a separate dining room.

2. Wall Paints of Light Color

The walls with dark paint colors give a feel of being restricted in small area. As your kitchen is already tiny, so you should have its walls painted with light colors. For those who have a taste of multi-colored wallpapers can get varying shades for each wall, but of course these should be lighter. For example, you can have off-white, sea-green, sky-blue, light brown, or pinkish colors to decorate the walls of the small kitchen.

3. Ask an Interior Decorator

For better ideas and useful suggestions, asking an interior decoration will be more than wonderful. There are a lot of ways of how to decorate your small kitchen. Most of us remain unaware of the most trendy and top notch techniques, and it is only an interior designer who can help to cope up with such things efficiently.

4. Organize Your Kitchen

It is must to have a well-organized kitchen. For this you need to keep each and everything disciplined. Don’t go for something that can give a heavy-feel to your kitchen as such items aren’t suitable for small kitchen spaces. Bring home utensils, stove, and other kitchen essentials—all with lightweight like qualities. This is the only trick you can adapt to decorate your small kitchen awesomely. The organization of the kitchen gadgets is of much importance as you cannot afford to bulk it up with so many unnecessary things.

5. Have a Kitchen Store for Extra Space

If possible, have a kitchen store in one corner of your house for extra space. This is going to be the place where you can keep the useless but favorite kitchen gadgets. Some of the lemon reamers and French rolling pins that we don’t use every day can be easily adjusted in the kitchen store. Keep it separated from the area where your kitchen is present.

With all the above in mind, you can certainly make your small kitchen look expensive and appealing. One never go out of taste and creativity until all the things are properly managed.

6 Things Every Tiny Apartment Should Have

10 June 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

When it comes to decoration of apartments, we are to take very good care of their space. Usually the apartments, being tiny in size, are where you need to keep lightweight yet adorable things for giving an edge to your lifestyle. Some of the things are essential for apartments while others aren’t necessary as long as you make them a part of your life.

Here are discussed 6 things every tiny apartment should have.

1. Opt for foldable dining chairs and tables

It is good to opt for foldable dining chairs and tables that serve you better than un-foldable dining tables and chairs. This is good because using such items can be of help to save your space. In the tiny apartments, one cannot afford to keep heavyweight tables and dining chairs, regardless of the fact that they look lavish and adorable. You need to focus on space. Bring home the foldable dining chairs and tables to enjoy great meal with friends or family members.

2. A clever paint job

Your apartment needs a cleverer paint job that can give grander illusion to even the tiniest spaces. This is a way you can make your apartment look beautiful. You must pay attention to each and every detail to get good results and to get benefited from every corner of the apartment.

3. A bike in the living room

This is true that all of us want to park our bikes somewhere inside the home, but what if you don’t have enough space in yours. To cope up with such a problem, it is good to have separate little portion in your living room where the bike can be parked.

4. A Medium-sized Bed

Certainly you need to sleep in the nighttime. Having a bed on risers, storage bins below and lengthy bedskirt for concealing it can help you a lot. This will not only be providing you extra comfort when you are tired and want to sleep, but also will make your apartment look prettier and more creative.

5. Hanging Night-lights

Are you short of space for the bedside table? If it is so, don’t worry, keep this table in storeroom and have hanging night-lights. For the children’s room, the nightlights should be hanged right above their bed so that they can study appropriately, without any shortage of light. The hanging lights have to be of different colors. Try to bring home lightweight and fancy lights so that your requirements of lightening are fulfilled, and at the same time these make your bedroom(s) look marvelous.

6. Invest in Cutting Board or Sink Cover in Your Kitchen

Obviously the kitchen of an apartment is never very big. This is as per the area of your residential place. For enjoying additional counter space in this small and tiny kitchen, think of investing in cutting board or sink cover like things that are easy to keep anywhere and helpful for your day-to-day kitchen tasks.

It is mandatory to not waste even an inch with floor-to-ceiling shelves because these go bad with the apartments. Such things not only require extraordinary space but also can lead you to suffer from spending so much money.

6 Must Have Things in a Multipurpose Living Room

09 June 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

A living room is where you spend most of your spare time of the day. When it comes to the decoration of homes, the males and females try to give extraordinary look to each and every part of their house.

Here are the 6 must to have things in a multipurpose living room.

1. Expandable Table

If your dining room is small, don’t worry because you can still host dinner parties. Just bring home one or two expandable tables. The specialty of these tables is that they are easy to adjust and flexible in their structure. Entertain your relatives or friends with a lavish dinner at night. To serve a whole big group of family members, a large-sized expandable table will be ideal. Once the party is over, fold the table and keep in a corner of your storeroom.

2. Modular Seating

Sectional sofas provide much flexibility than you can even imagine. Nothing can beat modular seats that are easy to separate. The special thing about these seats is that they can be adjusted from one corner to another of your living room, giving it multipurpose and amazing look. Being lighter in weight, these chairs can be moved easily.

3. A Room Divider

Although it is optional but will be more than great if you have a room divider. For this, consult a wood-maker to get you a divider made of wood which looks fancy and is very lightweight. Usually the people with large living rooms do have bulletin board-esque dividers. Such things are even present in the spacious offices. With a room divider, you can ensure your privacy from the children while watching television and ask them to continue playing their video games and don’t enter the area where you are sitting with your partner. What should be the color of your room divider is dependent on the overall color scheme of the living area.

4. A Coffee Table

A coffee table with lots of storage area is a perfect idea to enhance the overall beauty and charm of your living room. It should be as sleek as your living area it. If you are a family of 3-4 members, then it is okay to bring home a coffee table with 4-6 chairs. As compared to this, those with big families and high-profile lifestyle can go to the markets and buy the coffee tables of high prices. You can even keep bed and pillows in one corner of the living room to make it more and more comfortable.

5. A Pull-out Couch

What is the role of a pull-out couch in a living room? Are you going to ask this question? Sleeping sofas never get you complete comfort and enjoyment. As compared to this a pull-out couch is something you can get placed in your living room. If some guests are coming and they are going to stay for a few days with you, then bringing a couch would be ideal other than placing too many mattresses in the whole rooming and ruining its overall beauty.

6. Side Table that double as Seating

A side table is one of the necessities of the living room. This is purposed to provide you lots more comfort and facility. For the eager hostesses with small living areas, side tables that double as seating are perfect. These add value to your multifunctional rooms.

For me, living room requires much of attention and creativity. Here your guests are to sit, you are to enjoy coffee, have some fun watching television, and to do so many things the whole day. Thus, it can be easily analyzed that the living room has really to be multipurpose, fulfilling most of your requirements.

5 Smartest Ways to Reclaim Your Bedroom Zen

09 June 201509 June 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

The bedroom is where you sleep and enjoy leisure moments. This place is dedicated to provide you rest and privacy to much extent. The decoration of a bedroom is a totally different phenomenon than the decoration of other parts of your home sweet home.

Here are 5 smartest ways to reclaim your bedroom zen.

1. Mood Lighting

It is up to you of how much light you want in your bedroom. As compared to the study rooms where the light has to be bright enough, the bedrooms are okay to have minimal light. You can place a bedside lamp which not only will look beautiful but also will give you extra light whenever needed. Hand modern sconces and say goodbye to those ordinary and low quality tube-lights that have long ruined the beauty of your home.

2. Say No to “Shelfies”

It is better to make use of the top drawer of your dresser for storing lotion bottles, deodorants, and makeup items. You can even place your undergarments and some sleeping clothes in this drawer. It is all purposed to get some extra space in your bedroom which is often occupied by heavy cupboards. Use inexpensive and recyclable plastic bags or bins to keep dirty clothes. Keeping the things organized is of much importance.

3. Out of Sight, Out of Mind

If you want to access everything close to your bed, it is better to get a closed nightstand with drawers and cabinet doors. This should be painted as per the color of your room’s furniture. Don’t bulk up your room with so many unnecessary things because this will make you confused of how to adjust them in a way that is most appropriate.

4. Dust Bunnies Only Sound Cute

Storing things under the bed should be your last and only option. This doesn’t leave good impression when it comes to hygiene or cleanliness of the bedrooms. It is better to get a large drawer or bin that is easy to pull out. This should be cleaned off twice a week or 3-4 times per month.

5. Hook It Up

Installation of hooks on the back of the doors and windows of your bedroom is a good idea. This will give you chance to hang out the clothes and fancy dresses, when not in use. But don’t place so many things on those hooks because the overall charm of the room will be disturbed. You need not to air out your dirty clothes in the backyard, because hooking the bedroom up is going to help a lot.

With all these things in mind, the people with small and large size bedrooms can easily manage and organize the things. It is important to remember that just like your kitchen and living area, the bedroom needs your attention. Its decoration is much more important because this is where your friends or close relatives can arrive and sit with you for several hours. Imagine that the bedroom is non-organized and suddenly a bunch of friends arrives. What would happen? You can easily think yourself, so be conscious and don’t let anyone raise finger on your creativity.

6 Best Things Every Reading Nook Needs

08 June 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

Book worms always give preference to sit alone in their reading rooms so that they can have some spare moments to enjoy reading. There are a lot of things the reading nooks need. Below are the 6 best things every reading nook needs.

1. Privacy Maintained

While reading, a person surely wants his privacy to be maintained. How will you feel if your kids aren’t letting your read and bothering you again and again? To escape from such a situation, the best option is to keep your reading room separated. It should either be in backyard or on the terrace where the children find it tough to reach. The space of the room has to be sufficient. Here you can have bookshelves or large plants to create clearer vision.

2. A Small Reading Area

You don’t need to make the whole room a full-fledged reading area, but a table and chair with a lamp in a side is enough. Those who are fond of keeping a collection of books can get a cupboard of medium-size in which you can arrange your favorite books, novels, and other reading materials. The size of the table and chair for your reading has to be as per the size of room, neither too big nor too small.

3. A Coffee Section

A separate coffee section is a very good idea for your reading room. Curling up with a book and a cup of fresh coffee is surely a way to get lots of pleasure. The coffee section needs not much space, just a small area where you can place mug and coffee maker is sufficient.

4. Plenty of Light

Yes, you need plenty of light because it is one of the major requirements of a reading room. Don’t bother your eyes to study in dim lights. You can enhance the overall beauty and charm of your reading room by having energy savers of different colors. At the same time, don’t forget to place a large-sized lamp on your study table that promises to give more than enough light. All of the corners of your reading room should look brightly lightened.

5. Space to Stretch out

Definitely continuous reading for hours is not possible for any of us. This is why, you should have some space in your room to stretch out in the times when you feel tired and want to relax. Maybe your room has no space for a full daybed like many of the cozy-style nooks, but this doesn’t mean you don’t have other options. Try to add an ottoman or a study side table if your space is small. You can place some cushions and a mattress of medium size in one corner of the room for having some sleep, when fed up.

6. Carpeted Room

It is a good idea to have your reading room carpeted. This is a lavish style to enjoy. Walking on the plain or marble floors can cause disturbance. As compared to this, a carpeted room gives us feeling of calm and relaxed environment. If you have made your mind to have a carpet in your reading room, don’t forget to buy light-shaded carpet that soothes the eyes.

Last but not the least, you can have some good things to look at in your reading area because sometimes the attention has to be diverted to energize your mind. There is absolutely no need to bulk-up this room with so many useless things.