Decorating and Design

Water fountains are one of the best ways to add style to almost any decor.  There is a water fountain that can fit your interior best including:  wall fountains, tabletop fountains, copper fountains and indoor fountains.  Besides being beautiful they also offer a variet Read Full Story

It’s hardly a secret that Germany has long been at the forefront of energy-saving design. Even back in the early Modern days, its health-oriented obsession with getting natural light and cross ventilation into living quarters paved the way for later passive-energy-saving strategies. In the 1920s, “zeilenbau” planning principles, calling for long, narrow housing blocks to be placed in parallel rows on a north-south axis, allowed sun and air to easily penetrate interior spaces. Although the... Read Full Story

Few elements of art, architecture and interior design as if masterfully blended in this renovated house Boulder, a direct reflection of the consistency of the design team met and interacted from the outset. All decisions were considered by the multiple views of architects, interior designers and homeowners. The result is perfectly merged and intertwining streams of space and design, with every aspect geared to the needs artful taste and lifestyle of the owners. Located on a pine-studded hill... Read Full Story

by Adam Peters How to create the Tuscan style of decorating in your kitchen by using accessories and colors in imaginative ways. The newest rage in decorating schemes is actually an old idea. Many people are now decorating their kitchens in the old Italian styles, such as from Tuscany and Umbria. The earthy colors used in this type of decorating are becoming very popular and when mixed with some of the interesting reproductions of old world art and architectural features they really create a... Read Full Story

There were two broad classes of Tuscan water fountains known in the fifteenth century: the freestanding or “isolated” type, designed for the center of a piazza, court, or garden; and the “engaged” or wall foun¬tain, placed against a wall at the end of a square or courtyard. The only example of a Florentine wall fountain from this period is the handsome structure of pietra serena in the court of the Palazzo Orlandini, now the property of the Banca del Monte dei Paschi. This consists of a... Read Full Story