By Holly Peterson
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By Holly Peterson
Happy Holidays From Design Diva Interiors http://bat.ly/Trmio
By Holly Peterson
Interior PaintGraham & Brown are now offering a range of
paint colors inspired by the icons and culture that made Britain Great! From colorful characters through history to contemporary pop culture, they've drawn inspiration from all aspects of British life.
Co-ordination is a key trend and the British Colours palette has been developed to fit with wallpapers and wall art from the Graham & Brown range to give you an extensive choice of design and color for your home.
All 30 colors in the paint range are available in a contemporary flat matt finish. With a water-based formulation that has a minimal level of VOC, the range has been developed with an environmentally responsible approach.
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Design Diva Interiors on what Graham & Brown
paint colors are best for your home!
By Holly Peterson
Much has changed since wind-up and plug-in clocks. Few of today's timepieces need winding, and even the most retro models have sophisticated LED lighting and do more than issue a screeching "brrrrring." With today's systems, you choose what wakes you - from your favorite playlist to a recording of your mother's cheery good morning.
(More colors available)Meet
Clocky's tech saavy brother,
Tocky. Just like
Clocky,
Tocky will jump from your nightstand and roll away to get you out of bed. With
Tocky, there's never a dull morning. He's outfited with a microphone so that you can record your own sounds. Wake-up to your mom's voice calling you to get up even when you're 3000 miles away.
Tocky can also upload MP3s. Listen to your favorite tracks as they roll around your room!
Tocky's a breeze to use with his touch sensitive interface. Just spin your finger around the dial to change the time or the track.
By Holly Peterson
"Mesmerizing. A KOHLER invention. Strikingly different."
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Design Diva Interiors for "mesmerizing" ways
that you can invite these faucets into
your home!
By Holly Peterson
Enkeboll Designs has released its Hearst Castle Collection of architectural wood carvings.
The collection is adapted from the artisan details of architect Julia Morgan's
original renderings and includes mouldings, rosettes corbels, and panels.
By Holly Peterson
RES Exotic Wood-Look Tiles
PLI Distressed Wood-Look Tiles
RAB Series Stained Wood-Look TilesHastings Tile & Bath's Exclusive PLI Wood-Look Series tiles, manufactured in Italy by Provenza, look and feel so much like distressed wood flooring that your eyes (and your feet) won't believe they're actually made of porcelain. These nonslip, low maintenance tiles measure 6" x 24"and get their rough-hewn appearance from a unique manufacturing process that employs ink-jet printing to reproduce the grain of reclaimed wood planks.
Pretty clever, right?!
Each tile is evenly glazed, deeply textured, and strong enough for heavily trafficked areas.
A great solution for everything from outdoor decks to kitchen floors, the PLI Wood-Look Series is available in white, black, and brown.
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By Holly Peterson
Article from:
TRADITIONAL HOMEWritten By:
Krissa RossbundPhotos By:
Greg ScheidemannThis season, blue velvet tops the charts again. Trendsetters Oscar de la Renta and Lela Rose introduced dresses made of the luxe textile for their fall collections during fashion week. Dolce & Gabbana extended the fabric to footwear with an embroidered and quilted velvet flat. And on the furniture runway at High Point, North Carolina, manufacturers debuted new shapes in the magnificent material that’s fit for royalty.
Is blue velvet making a comeback?
A first appearance, maybe?
Read entire article, from
TRADITIONAL HOME...
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Design Diva Interiors for design advice on bringing blue velvet into your home!
By Holly Peterson
How cool are these?
Not available just yet, but they're coming SOON!
(currently available in Europe)
Read article from
INTERIOR DESIGN here
By Holly Peterson
Yes - That time of year is approaching!
Do you have children, grandchildren, nieces/nephews, friend's children?!
SHARE THIS....
www.potterybarnkids.com
Potterybarn Kids just came out with the most AMAZING costumes I have ever seen!
Classy, original, and affordable!
Even if you don't celebrate this particular holiday,
it's always nice to add to the "be whatever you want/costume" bin!
SO MUCH FUN, I can hardly stand it!
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Design Diva Interiors
By Holly Peterson
Meet the smartest window air conditioning solution ever designed. Everything about Kühl has been engineered to lead the category — conditioning more air with more intelligence and more efficiency.
Kühl is the first window air conditioner to provide the programmability and convenience of a central air conditioning system. An advanced 7-day programmable thermostat lets you program up to four settings daily, allowing each day of the week to have its own schedule. Easily adjust the temperature by using the arrow buttons on the unit’s LCD panel or the wireless remote from across the room. Or choose to wire one or more units to a wall thermostat for simple, centralized control. Kühl can raise the room temperature while you’re out and still have it back to a perfect 72° before you return. Save energy, money and maintain total control of your environment every day. Kühl control is also evident in the product’s design. Kühl’s engineers developed the unit’s 8 directional louvers to be deeper and more robust to optimize airflow placement within a space. And Kühl features both a fresh-air intake vent and an exhaust vent that give you additional comfort options.
By Holly Peterson
Having spent a month living in Oslo, Norway (Aker Brygge to be exact) in the
Summer of 2009, I had to share this most recent article from the writers @
dwell...
“You won’t get to heaven without skiing,” observed Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn. If the Pritzker Prize–winning master, who died in 2009, made it to the great slope in the sky, he’s undoubtedly looking down with pleasure on the Holmenkollen ski jump. The Oslo icon has been upgraded 18 times since it was built in 1892. The latest iteration, by the design-forward Copenhagen-based firm Julien de Smedt Architects, is a glass-and-steel cantilevered structure that projects a slash of light into the night sky—–a sweeping gesture that mimics the kinetic thrill of the event. It’s a double triumph of aesthetics and sport, and, as the Norwegian tourist board’s website puts it, “one of the first designer ski jumps.”
That’s appropriate for a city that is starting to take contemporary architecture seriously. Other than the 14th-century Akershus fortress, the adjacent Kvadraturen, and other remnants of the Renaissance city built by Denmark’s King Christian IV in the 17th century, Oslo’s architecture is rooted in the 19th century. In March 2008, however, King Harald V presided over the opening of the exhibition hall at the National Museum—Architecture, Fehn’s renovation and expansion of an 1830 bank designed by the nation’s great 19th-century architect, Christian Grosch. A new opera house—–the first in Norway’s history, and step one in the redevelopment of Bjørvika, the city’s harbor district—–debuted in April of the same year. Just on its heels arrived Grims Grenka, Oslo’s first design hotel—–all of which suggests a capital committed to new design and culture.
The fjord overbrims with boats in warm weather, and cross-country trails and downhill slopes enliven the hills located to the north. Museums featuring impeccably preserved Viking ships and Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki raft and venues such as architect David Adjaye’s Nobel Peace Center present provocative cultural experiences. Oslo’s music scene is internationally famous—–it’s home to the Norwegian Wood rock festival—–and the Grünerløkka district offers the rarest of distillates: hipness without attitude.
And, as demonstrated by Aker Brygge, Oslo is undergoing a familiar port-city transformation. The 19th-century shipyard was updated in the 1980s and 1990s into a development combining residential, office, and retail venues—–plus countless restaurants and bars—–in a mix of maritime and contemporary architecture. Fjordside, Aker Brygge’s popularity heralds Oslo’s shift from a centuries-old emphasis on the port to a 21st-century economy abetted by North Sea oil revenues and an expanding population—–resulting, says Tarald Lundevall, “in what is the liveliest, most rapidly changing capital in Scandinavia.” Lundevall—–a former professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and advisor to the Minister of Cultural Affairs, presently a partner and architect with Snøhetta, the firm responsible for the nearly $700 million opera house—–ought to know: He’s lived in the capital for most of his 62 years.
Why is Oslo flourishing now?
Three factors. First, compared to the rest of Europe, Norway was late to urbanize. We are still in a process where people from the fishing areas in the north and west are searching for possibilities in the city. The next factor is that with huge global migration directed at Europe and Scandinavia, our population has really changed. This has given us a richer, livelier set of cultures. And third, you have a shift in the waterfront. Here we have had a broad discussion about what’s called the Fjord City project, which was started by the Oslo Kommune, the local authority. It has convened an organization of planners and given them freedom to investigate how to resolve the functional mix among commercial buildings, dwellings, and green areas.
With an emphasis on the commercial, no?
Correct. In Norway, there has been a tradition in which the government had wide responsibility to make decisions about land use, and it was expected that it should invest in commonly owned areas. This has been transformed in the last 50 years by the shift from the social democratic Norwegian Workers’ Party taking care of everything to power increasingly being in the hands of private investors. With Aker Brygge, nearly the only thing the Kommune did was to devise design guidelines. Private investors put up the money and actually did the thing. In such a situation, the pressure for increased height and fewer common areas is there all the time. You still have a professional bureau that comes up with solutions based on solid planning, but the bad thing is that it doesn’t discuss the consequences of this shift in power between the public and private sectors.
Are people pleased with Aker Brygge?
Aker Brygge, in most respects, is a good project. But after World War II, when the social democratic planners had the power and set priorities, they built a huge project called Groruddalen, which today has some 123,000 inhabitants, where people were given the opportunity to live in cheap, good housing. The older project demonstrates how the local authorities took care to develop housing, schools, and parks for the young and poor, for the workers. Today, as we know, the priorities flow from “How do we attract the rich buyers, how do we earn money?”
Yet the arts remain quite lively—–the opposite of institutional.
Oh, yes. We have an extremely wide, differently shaded music scene. When it comes to art, you can see a lot of things here that are rawer and younger than you see in the rest of Scandinavia. What people find interesting is that we are not well polished. Our society is more informal and therefore offers a richer opportunity for bright persons of all ages to come up with really rude things—–of which there are many.
Building is booming now, but is there a modernist tradition in Oslo?
From the 1920s until World War II, Norway had some very good functionalist architects who were inspired by Germany and France at that time and who built mainly villas and smaller buildings. One is the Ekebergrestauranten by Lars Backer, which was built in 1929. It has been restored rather nicely, and it’s a very good restaurant and a fantastic place to view Oslo. If you are interested in architecture from that period, I would give priority to visiting the villas, such as Arne Korsmo’s Villa Stenersen. In contemporary architecture today you have two schools. You have the pupils of Sverre Fehn, who taught many of the best young architects in Norway—–Jan Olav Jensen, Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk, the firm Jarmund/Vignæs, and five or so others—–who have done beautiful, experimental villas and bigger projects outside of Oslo. The other segment—–firms that have been influenced by Rem Koolhaas—–is working with urbanistic questions as its core preoccupation. Space Group and a firm called MMW both work in a tradition where the setting and program reflect broader discussions about a building’s task in the urban fabric. And as they tend to be politically more knowledgeable and go into all aspects of transforming cities, I’m optimistic that they can introduce a broader discussion into the process, which so far has been a closed thing between capitalists and bureaucrats.
I highly recommend a visit to Oslo, Norway - as well as the countryside of Norway!
By Holly Peterson
Wall Words offer over 3,000 standard quotes. They can produce a custom quote for you as well! You can preview your standard or custom quote on their website,
wallwords.com, so make sure it’s just what you want. They offer not only quotes, but trees, animals, clouds, flowers, silhouettes, and much more! They have fancy initials, monograms, and can create your quote in an arched layout as well.
Wall Words can also create your logo in vinyl or in a digital format.
Wall Words are also great for your company vehicle, to display your company name or domain name.
Wall Words' customer service is amazing! Just use the Help Desk option from the home page of
wallwords.com, located in the upper right hand corner. You will receive a prompt and personal answer to your questions.
Welcome to the world of words and more!
By Holly Peterson
West Elm and Pratt Collaborate on Green Collection
By: dailyfixfrom the editor's of Interior Design Magazine
A furniture line is growing in Brooklyn. Two of the Brooklyn borough’s biggest names, contemporary furniture retailer
West Elm and art and design school
Pratt Institute, have come together to create a new eco-friendly line of office furniture.
Debuting this month, the Pratt Home Office Collection features a chair, file, unit, wall shelf and accessories set, table lamp, and its pièce de résistance, a clean-lined desk made of Forest Stewardship Council-certified wood.
The collaboration came about when students in the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation, including Alex Binsted, Gregory Buntain, Sally Ann Corn, Evan Dublin, Sara Ebert, Rachel Feeser, Zachary Feltoon, Joseph Kent, Brian Persico, Jason Pfaeffle, Vanessa Robinson, Grace Souky, and David Wright, were tasked with creating furniture using sustainably grown, harvested, and/or recycled materials. They would also need to incorporate FSC-certified woods, steel that was powder-coated rather than painted (making it less toxic), non-toxic glues, water-based stains, and energy-efficient LED lighting rather than traditional bulbs for a light.
“The students had literally just taken off their caps and gowns,” said Debera Johnson, director of the incubator. “We brought them together to work on the West Elm project as they were making the transition from student to professional. It was a remarkable collaboration and the results really show how Pratt has prepared them for their careers.”
“We couldn’t be more thrilled to introduce the Pratt Home Office collection as our latest west elm collaboration,” adds Paulo Kos, director of furniture design at West Elm and lead designer for the Pratt collaboration. “As a Pratt graduate myself, I am especially exited to see that the Pratt designers were innovative in their process and design, and the final result truly embodies our brand principles. The collection is well-designed, affordable, and sustainable.”
By Holly Peterson
A breakthrough!
The first ever Power & Data Grommet that features a
rubber collar to prevent water from getting into it when closed.
Update any kitchen - bring power and data to the
countertop and add a modern touch to your kitchen!
The
PCS34 (as shown) goes into a 3 1/8" hole.
Comes with three 110 volt outlets, a 6' power cord, and a lighted reset button.
And they offer a version that can be hard-wired. UL Listed.
Satin Aluminum sides with Matte Black face. Polished Chrome handles.
www.mockett.com
By Holly Peterson
Design Diva Interiors' New Addition!!!
Kingston Bentley
DOB: 05/02/2010
Yours Truly,
Design Diva
By Holly Peterson
Dear Friends,
If you own an iPhone or any other type of "smart phone", back it up!!!
I was visiting Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for the last few days, attending a friend's wedding, and had my iPhone stolen the morning we were leaving. As you can imagine, I feel lost and a little violated...
Don't let this happen to you!!!
Luckily, I do have my iPhone backed up on my Mac, but cannot access any contacts until the new iPhone4 gets here in mid-July. In the meantime, I will be using a salvaged phone with no contacts stored, from 2006 (a Motorola Razor of all things)... Don't be jealous!
Just thought I would share and welcome you to my pity party!!!
Looking forward to mid-July!!!
~Design Diva
By Holly Peterson
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