Bathroom Interior Decorating Ideas

Bathroom Interior Decorating Ideas

Here are some useful ideas for decorating a beautiful bathroom.

* Use tiles with designs, and install them on the 4 walls covering ¼ of each wall, and the rest with plain colored tiles, paint the same patterned designs a bit on the sink and bathtub.
* Try a complete white bathroom design with white tiles, white toilet, sink, bathtub and accompany with steel metal accessories like shower and taps. Place 4 paintings which are in a sequence, on the 4 walls to add an interesting accent.
* Go for a lavender and black colored theme. Go for light lavender colored walls, with black metal accessories and black bathtub, sink and toilet. Place a potpourri bowl with lavender and other color ingredients and sprinkle some lavender essential oil for a bathroom which even smells like lavender!
* Create soothing and natural looking bathroom decorations with off-white colored tiles, place a bamboo mat and bamboo shelves and a small bamboo houseplant.
* Use full patterned tiles for all the floor and all walls, and go for off-white bathtub, sink and toilet. Place some off-white colored mats on the floor and other off-white colored accessories on the walls to tone the place down.
* Go for a theme like an open bathroom and paint the ceiling with a sky mural. Add more bathroom lighting or consider installing a skylight and use tiles which give a feel of outdoors. Or hang paintings which display outdoors on white tiled walls.
* Create your own private beach theme in your bathroom. Hang a sign on the door saying private beach, then add accessories like shells, crabs, starfish on the walls. Go for aqua green shade of tiles and floor, and use metal accessories with bronze color and white bathtub, sink and toilet. Add a shower curtain with shell designs on it, and go for bathroom vanities like a mirror with a coral frame.
* Try out a stunning and modern looking bathroom, with bold and clean lines and colors like black and silver. Use black colored walls, and steel accessories. Sober it down a bit by going for white sink, toilet and bathtub. Place 2 abstract paintings, one on the opposite wall to the toilet and one on the opposite wall to the shower stall for you to contemplate.
* For a soft and beautiful light reflecting bathroom, go for wooden bathroom flooring of medium shade. Then place some rocks and house plants which can live in low light on the ground. Go for white bathtub, sink and toilet; and place soft translucent fabric curtains with the same colors of the walls, which can be blue, orange or green.
* Go for a plain white colored bathroom with white walls and floor, and bathtub, sink and toilet. Then add light fixtures of great designs which give out different colors. Pick an assortment of such colored lights and hang them on the four corners and enjoy the blending of beautiful colors in your bathroom. Use little accessories like wooden shelves and other small wooden decorative items, and place a vase with flowers on the sink counter.

REVEALED: this year's Green Room at the Oscars

Each year, AD selects a noted designer to transform a raw space into a backstage oasis for presenters and winners alike on Hollywood’s biggest night. This year, interior designer Michael S. Smith—who was appointed in 2010 by President Obama to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House—is the man for the job. His vision for the room is inspired by luxe, tailored 1940s Hollywood style, complete with a sophisticated color palette and furnishings that reflect the era.



82nd Annual Academy Awards®

Roger Thomas designed the 2010 greenroom around a custom paint-splattered floor. He says he imagined that this “would have been how the floor looked when they were painting the sets of my favorite movies.”

Photo: Mary E. Nichols

Read more: http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architects/features/2011/03/oscar_greenroom_slideshow#ixzz1F0IzJVD3

What About the Football School?

Escuela de Balompié de San Juan

San Juan Football School and Training Center

Challenge

How to incorporate the most popular sport in the world to a curriculum of high academic demand? How to create the ideal conditions for the development of student-athletes? How to forge an institution that fosters athletic discipline while de­veloping the necessary tools for the formation of profession­als for Puerto Rico’s future? How to create a building based on the archetypical principle of Anima Sana in Corpore Sano (Sound Mind in a Sound Body)?

Link

The San Juan Football School and Training Center is an ex­perimental hybrid between educational institution and sports facility. The School tackles simultaneously a problematic public education system and a languid sports development organism. The building uses sports as a motivational tool for the education and development of talented students and as a link between athletic facility and pedagogical center. The courses of the school are designed to integrate technical education, with a regular academic curriculum and a training methodology for the development of student-athletes.

Program

The Architecture of the building is designed to stimulate the relationship between education and sports; between peda­gogy and training; between discipline and execution. The building is an amalgamation of spatial operations that en­hance the execution of specific requirements for educational and training purposes.

The school consists of a continuous plane that starts from a ramp that goes from the football pitch and gives direct ac­cess to a lobby on the third level. This reception space dis­tributes the students to the classrooms in a U-shape wing that encircles a private garden and that provides shelter for a seating area of the football pitch by floating over it. This wing is connected to a volume that contains the faculty offices and the rooms that serve as dormitories for students during the academic semester and athletes during the school holidays. The wing of the dormitories is projected as a slender volume that overlooks the football pitch.

The building integrates in an effortless flow of continuous spac­es the four main areas of activities: study, practice,rest, and recreation.

The Study area includes classrooms, technical room, labora­tories, workshops, lecture rooms and a library, alongside the faculty offices.

The Practice area is composed of a football pitch, gym, med­ical room, changing rooms and showers, and video room. The training facilities can be used at the same time as the study area without interfering with each other.

The Rest area contains an array of 28 rooms, laundry and cleaning rooms, and a cafeteria, that can use by students and athletes with different schedules.

The Recreation Area is composed of a wide arrange of spac­es that create points of exchange through the building.

Paradigm

The new San Juan Football School and Training Center aims at being a paradigm of civic enterprise, educational building and high-level training facility. The school intends to create a space where sport and education become indivisible.

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Blue Bathroom Inspiration Interior Decorate For Small Home

Home trends today blue bathroom interior design

Very simple but i think blue bathroom design ideas. Please enjoy this bathroom inspiration to build your own house decorate.

Southern Living LOVE

velvet slipcovers, seagrass, chandelier, wood floors, french doors, fluffy puppy... I love everything about this room.

from the recent Southern Living

the latest from Williams-Sonoma

My catalog arrived yesterday full of Easter goodies.  How cute is this Easter Egg Hunt kit $12?

And these cupcake toppers for $12?  Of course I'd love to be able to make these better.

Paper mache Easter Egg.  Nestled inside are goodies galore for $26. 

Oh, how I can't wait for Easter this year. With an almost-six-year old in the house, it's high time for the Easter Bunny's visit. But wait, it's still February....!


Filled with several delicious recipes, I'm going to try this one:  Spinach Gratin

Spinach Gratin Ingredients:


3 Tbs. unsalted butter, plus more for greasing

1 cup fresh bread crumbs

1/3 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

2 tsp. vegetable oil

2 lb. baby spinach

2/3 cup heavy cream

2/3 cup half-and-half

1/4 cup diced yellow onion

1 Tbs. plus 1 tsp. all-purpose flour

1 clove

Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg

1 bay leaf

1 fresh thyme sprig, plus leaves from 1 thyme sprig

1/2 cup grated Emmentaler cheese

Kosher salt and freshly ground white pepper, to taste

Directions:

Preheat an oven to 400°F. Butter a 9 1/2-by-7-inch oval gratin dish.

In a fry pan over medium heat, melt 2 Tbs. of the butter. Add the bread crumbs and cook, stirring, until lightly toasted, about 6 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the Parmigiano-Reggiano. Let cool to room temperature.

In a Dutch oven over medium-high heat, warm 1 tsp. of the oil. Add half the spinach and cook, stirring occasionally, until just wilted, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a colander and drain, pressing out any excess water with the back of a spoon. Transfer to a large bowl. Repeat with the remaining 1 tsp. oil and the spinach.

In a small saucepan over medium heat, warm the cream and half-and-half; do not allow the mixture to boil.

In a large saucepan over medium heat, melt the remaining 1 Tbs. butter. Add the onion and cook, stirring, until translucent but not brown, 5 to 6 minutes. Add the flour and cook, stirring constantly, until nutty and just golden, about 1 minute. Slowly whisk in the cream mixture. Add the clove, nutmeg, bay leaf and thyme sprig and simmer, whisking constantly, until thickened, about 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand for 5 minutes, then strain into a bowl. Return the mixture to the saucepan, set over medium heat and stir in the Emmentaler until melted.

Fold the sauce into the spinach and season with salt and white pepper. Transfer to the prepared gratin dish and top with the toasted bread crumbs. Bake until the gratin is golden brown on top, about 10 minutes. Sprinkle with the thyme leaves. Serves 4.
Recipe courtesy of Craftsteak.  Images:  Williams-Sonoma

house lust

 seagrass in the bedroom.  love!

 the market bag collection!

 a cork fridge...

no uppers...

 this must look so pretty at dusk with the candles lit...

 LOVE!  do salad gardens work in Central Texas?

Home tour via Martha Stewart.

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