Home Practical Improvements

Are you obsessed over furniture? Then using eco-friendly furniture like Green Design Furniture is one way or the other, making environmentally savvy choices in furnishing your home or office can make a big difference in your impact on the planet and your health.

The pictures you see here are contemporary home furniture that meets eco-harmony.

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Occasions can be done even at the luxury of just staying in your homes. You can have conversation with your friends, you can have indoor picnic inside your house, you can enjoy watching movies in there and you can even set up a very romantic date inside your home if its design and space permits it. Speaking of all of these events, there is one thing that would definitely add life, color and mood to whatever occasion it is that is on progress. It is the tables used which can add more fun when doing all of these activities.

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When it comes to choosing furniture to adorn every space of your home, proportion is important. On this aspect, take into consideration and put forward the following tips:

• Measure your space. Write it on a paper. Include other details like door and window location.

• Source the furniture and measure these pieces.

• Layout the size of the furniture in your space. Use masking tape or make a cut-out to layout the furniture size on the floor.

• Check if it fits. If it doesn’t eat up too much space and you think that it works well with the area, by all means buy the furniture. Just make sure that you’re still within your design theme.

Remember the fairytale about The Princess and the Pea, and how a single pea caused so much discomfort when she slept? While that was from our storybooks, it does have its basis on reality – how a good night’s sleep is so important for all of us.

Considering all the stress we encounter on an everyday basis, there’s nothing so  comforting as laying one’s head and body on a comfortable mattress. And the good news is that Our Home, the lifestyle store, where one can get great designs at great prices, has a new collection of mattresses from Uratex that combine technology with comfort,  therapeutic benefits with great designs.

There are therapeutic mattresses good for the health, hygienic mattresses that protect us from anti-allergy microbes, senso memory mattresses for better circulation, and Rajo Laurel’s trapunto mattresses designed to make you sleep like a princess.

Now, that’s a long way when our ancestors slept on piles of leaves and animal skins, and more recently, mattresses with artificial fillers from the 1930s and with foam fibers inthe 1950s!

Let home spaces come alive and become vibrant with a touch of sober elegance and comfort that never goes out of style. Sophisticated yet functional pieces which combine a long tradition of excellent craftsmanship with innovative technology are a perfect complement for today’s contemporary lifestyle. FurnItalia, the country’s exclusive distributor of Italy’s premier home and office furniture brands led by managing director Florence Ko, continues to provide innovative solutions for your modern home as it unveils another topnotch collection from the renowned Italian furniture brand Molteni & C.

Spend a perfect weekend afternoon lounging on Molteni & C’s ultra cozy sofa in soothing earthly brown hues accented with a classy glass table.

Led by Molteni & C export area manager Max Merati, the global brand gave a fresh new meaning to the living, classic and informal furniture setting through its recent collaboration with world-famous designer Patricia Urquiola. With her indisputable creative flair and intimate yet practical designs, Urquiola achieved a prominent status in the design arena when she became chair of the jury for the 19th CDIM Design Award and a lecturer in the Domus Academy in 2001, and was awarded Furniture Designer of the Year during the 2006 Design Awards.

Dorm hunting, apartment hunting, or condo hunting all amounts to the same thing: finding a comfy place to live in. But first you have to find a space in which you can fit a small kitchen, dining area and, most important for a stressed-out student, a bed.

Dimensione offers solutions not only make dorms livable but a home away from home. Sofa beds are the ultimate solution for small spaces; these nifty pieces come in various shapes, lengths and sizes that are adaptable to whatever space you find yourself settling in. For a room with plain walls, the Darla, Danica, Dannah or Denise sofa bed is the perfect choice, not only because it accentuates the area; it also fits two people at the same time for P25,950. The Darla can give you the fluffiness of the bed you left behind but saves space as a pullout from the wall. The Danica is similar except that it’s made out of micro-fiber and available in shades of red and black. The Dannah, on the other hand, is more streamlined and resembles an orthopedic bed in feel, but requires less time to set up since all you have to do is flip the seat over and put the backrest forward. It comes in red or black, depending on your color preference. The Denise sofa bed is modern in appeal with its neutral brown shade and open backrest, which when pushed down will turn into a bed.

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Often than not, people confuse porcelain and china. Porcelain is commonly called china as this is where the material originated.

One type of porcelain is the bone china, which was created and perfected by Englishman Josiah Spode II in 1800. Bone china comes from actual bones of animals, fired at temperatures reaching to 1,000 degrees and then pulverized. The resulting ash is mixed with water and clay additives to come up with a wide range of ceramic wares, furnishings and decor. Materials made of bone ash are highly valued for their intrinsic qualities. Such qualities make the bone china rare and as Filipino entrepreneur Clemente Manrique Jr. and owner of CSM International Corporation, an exporter of decorative porcelain, home furnishings and holiday décor, would ascertain, “bone china commands a very high quality standard and is the most difficult ceramic to work with.”

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