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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Wall Stickers That Lend a Personal Touch: Interior Design Ideas

Wall Stickers That Lend a Personal Touch: Interior Design Ideas

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Wall Stickers That Lend a Personal Touch

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:21 AM PDT

There’s always a corner in everyone’s living room that looks a bit empty, or a wall above a bathroom tub that just looks lonely. If you think wallpapers are a little too ‘old-fashioned’, consider getting stickers from Not On The High Street which are a fabulous way to make a space pop. If your kids are a little too enthusiastic about scribbling personalizing their walls, we recommend you to check out the chalkboard stickers which could be a good way to channel their creativity. Also name stickers are another good way to customize the spaces for them, and selecting stickers in the extreme opposite color of the wall will make the room come alive. We hope our Home-Designing audience finds these as useful and funky as we do!

wall sticker black on white swirls wall sticker world map wall stickers flower wall sticker white branches bathrooom wall stickers floral motif Wall stickers robots Wall stickers graphic rose and snowflake wall stickers birds and cage wall sticker stars kids room wall sticker purple and pink birds wall sticker names wall sticker flock of birds wall stick chalkboards in dining wall stickers chalkboards wall stickers chalk boards This is not a sticker but a beautiful typographic print of the co-ordinates of someplace memorable. Looks great on walls!

Recommended Reading:

10 ways to fill that empty space on the wall
Wall Decoration Ideas: Spice up that wall!

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Creative Recreations of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water: Interior Design Ideas

Creative Recreations of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water: Interior Design Ideas

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Creative Recreations of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 09:30 AM PDT

Frank Lloyd Wright, an early pioneer of organic architecture and the Prairie School architecture movement, is probably best known for his Falling Water house, a mountainside retreat built over a waterfall for the Kaufmann family in 1936.

The house impressed architects and the general public alike, because it didn’t seem to stand on solid ground, but rather float over a 30-foot waterfall. It was the first time the concept of designing and building structures that promoted harmony between the natural world and human habitats, emerged. Wright’s innovative ideas continue to intrigue architects and designers alike and have inspired them to replicate his famous structures in a variety of media.

Below is designer Andrew van der Westhuyzen’s replica of a 1950′s-era Falling Water party-house which he created for an ad campaign…

Even the bloggers of today are inspired by Lloyd. Melodie from Garden Melodies took on the challenge of creating a gingerbread version of the house for a 2010 Gingerbread Festival in Orem, Utah.

Some quick facts:

•It took over 12 hours to design
•It took Brenton and [Melodie] around 40 hours to build and decorate
•There are around 164 different pieces of gingerbread
•It took roughly 12 square feet of gingerbread dough (that's four large batches) to make all the walls, floors and roof
•Over 8 bags of powdered sugar were used to make all the frosting
•It took over 40 sleeves of large Smarties which are used to simulate dry stack stone on the building exterior
•The river and water fall are made up of three batches of hard candy

Melodie graciously provides the recipe on her blog:

2 C light corn syrup
1 1/2 C packed brown sugar
1 1/4 C margarine
1 tsp salt
9 C flower

Melt together the corn syrup, brown sugar, and margarine. Mix till smooth then add in flour and salt.
Bake for 15 to 20 min at 350
*If the pieces get warped throw them in the microwave for 15 seconds and they will flatten out.

Do check out her blog if you are interested in the making and the subsequent destruction of this piece.

Construction toy maker LEGO has even included The Falling Water house in their lego architecture set for recreation at home.

You can buy the above model here.

The company has also released a set for FLW’s another famous creation: The Guggenheim Museum. It was one of those structures that stunned the public with modern, winding architecture never before seen on a building.

Guggenheim Museum model is also available on Amazon.

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