Beautiful Gifts for Beautiful Homes

 The biggest holiday is right around the corner – Christmas. I think that a beautiful gift for the festive table is welcome from anyone with attitude to design. Here are some suggestions:
A great gift for the cheese lover in your life! White Porcelain Cheese Buttons - Set of 3 Goat, Cow, Sheep by RSVP International

Rosanna™ Olive Oil Dipping Dishes - Set of 4

A connoisseur collection of olive oil accessories printed with interesting olive oil facts from 4 different regions.

















Iron and recycled glass coat rack, 'Bloom in Blue'

Recycled - Etch Blue - 20 oz. Water Glass(Pack of 36)

Good design for your children

makes life easier for us, parents, and more fun for them. Do you need help with with children’s bath time clean-up?

Boon Frog Pod Bath Toy Storage can be very useful: providing a drainable scoop for collecting and rinsing toys and a wall-mounted base for storing bath products, it attaches semi-permanently to virtually any bathtub wall with adhesive strips that can be removed without harming tile or wall surfaces or can be screw-mounted to any wall. The fingers and toes can be used to hang accessories. There is a hidden shelf providing a convenient space for shampoo and other bath products. .

 

This functional

Chalk Table and Bench Set

with a reversible table top so that you can quickly hide the chalky mess and use the table for homework drawing or snacking .

The Graco Pack N Play Playard in Safari Sun provides everything you need to create a comfortable, caring environment for your baby.

Boon Flo Bathtime Water Deflector and Protective Faucet Cover

combines multiple functions in a single device: diverts the flow of water creating a gentle waterfall and your child won’t mind leaning back into this soft spray water. The rubbery material acts as guard against bump injury.

The Wood Trend: wooden Vespa!

I like wood as a material for furniture and I like also the fact that wood is everywhere these days in most unusual applications like Bathroom wood mozaics, Wooden bicycles, Wood Carpets That Can Roll Up, even wood iPod was created and a Wooden Supercar!

Now we can see this marvelous wooden Vespa, “Vespa Daniela”by a Portuguese carpenter, Carlos Alberto - have a look at the masterful craftsman  ship of the details. 

Read the whole story at Yatzer.

A garden to dream for!

It is not only the strong pink color that makes this garden so spectacular - it is the whole design! Congratulations for garden designer Stuart Craine - probably this is the best possible makeover of a tricky plot. But this work is also a great answer to a question often asked by owners - why to use a designer?

"The garden is east-facing and surrounded by three-storey terraced houses. When Craine was called in, it was dark and damp, with shallow, dilapidated brick steps, slimy with growth, that spanned the width of the space in an unrelenting climb to 2m above base. The view from inside must have been grim.
"The key was in making the garden relate to the interior, maximising the space, while managing the level change so it didn't eat up half the garden," Craine says. The house was in the process of being renovated, so he was able to liaise with the builders,..."

This is an excerpt  from the article in Guardian and it shows the advantages that a professional designer service can provide, both in garden design and in interior design. Enjoy!

Trendoffice is ranked as one of the top 100 interior design blogs - again!

I am happy to let you know that Trendoffice has been chosen again* as one of the top 100 interior design blogs:

"Trends come and go, but one site which really keeps on top of the latest in the design world is Trend Office. Experience the newest in design innovations. TrendOffice captures the design conscious amongst us and takes them through an inspirational look of trends to whisk them away into paradise."

Thank you, TheaterSeatStore, for the recognition and for this beautiful description!

*Trendoffice is listed also in “Top 100 Interior Design Blogs” by Graphic Design Degrees

Interior Design Ideas from Best Hotels

Luxurious bedroom with a bath tub in the center - the idea is from Soho House Berlin, one of the latest openings of the chic members' club group. It is in a late-Bauhaus building that has housed both a department store and the East German Communist Party.

Soho House Berlin.

A calm and relaxing room for a vacation house - the  picture is  from Boca Chica, Acapulco.

Le Gray, Beirut.

I like very much this cozy, elegant and very modern dining corner - I great idea to borrow for your home.
Another inspiring source is the new luxury hotel with interior design by Patricia Urquiola - Mandarin Oriental Barcelona, furnished mostly with her own design furniture, accessories and lighting.
Style-conscious travelers  are may be already aware about the new trend - fashion houses branch out into the hotel business. Their boutique hotels are a great example of stylish fusion between fashion and interior design.
There are numerous other examples and if you check regularly, you will be able to see many of them here soon.  

A new trend - special wine-tasting spaces

is becoming very popular: instead of shivering in the cool wine-cellar, now owners and their guests prefer to taste collector's wines in specially dedicated area with inviting atmosphere and stylish design. Above, cellar designer Ben Benoit suggested that his Bel Air client install his 1,200 bottles in the living room. The two flanking armoires hold 350 bottles each. Hidden venting and wires govern the temperature behind the insulated glass.

Designer Marie Aiello created a special wine-tasting lounge area, warmed by a fireplace.

source:  ElleDECOR