Refresh Your Walls With DIY Stencil Art

Jul 4, 2011 Posted Under: Home Design Tips  

We previously mentioned stencils as a great way to add an innovative appearance to your wood stairs. The DIY tools are also a fun, creative way to add embellishments to your walls and furniture.

Thanks to an increasing awareness of street art, stencils are becoming a more popular tool for creating a wide array of designs. Now you, too, can channel your inner Banksy and use your home as your canvas.

When you create a stencil, you’ll want to decide a few things first to help identify what material you should use. The size and frequency of use are two of the major factors.

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Steam Tower: Nutritional Power

Jul 4, 2011 Posted Under: Home Improvement News  

Modern cooking is slowly re-discovering the power of steam. Although the steaming method is well known for centuries, we had to go through fried-roasted-soaked fiasco first. Well, here we are again, and this time were equipped with this ever practical Steam Tower.

This is a brilliant cooking tool: A modern version of the traditional Asian steamer. The porcelain bowls can be stacked in the oven, enabling the preparation of several dishes at once. And the result is healthy, moist and fantastic. The Steam Tower maintains vitamins and minerals and adds a wonderful taste to your food. Nutritional power in this steam tower.

Modern life is about trends. Nowadays, it seems like theres a new trend popping out everyday. One thing, though, stands out from all the others – healthy living. S

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Test Out New Wall Color With Small Wall

Jul 4, 2011 Posted Under: Home Design Tips  

We’ve all been through the same process — you want to change the color of a room, but you’re not sure which shade to pick, or how it will look in daylight versus at night. You don’t want to paint giant swatches on the wall, and those little tiny paint chips aren’t going to cut it.

Enter a little product that may help you out: Small Wall.

This product was designed by a woman whose family moved often. She needed something lightweight that could hold paint to put on her home’s walls to determine colors for each room. She wanted a product she could easily mount on a wall, then move for different perspective, without marring the wall. She didn’t want to have to prime anything — just add a couple quick brush strokes and be done.

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‘Fruit Template’ by 1%

Jul 3, 2011 Posted Under: Home Design Tips  

1% Products produces only 100 pieces of each of their works, making them less than mass-produced but more than often unattainable one-of-a-kind pieces. The Fruit Template is one of them. Make your fruit into graphic objects by displaying them instead of dropping them in the average fruit bowl.

Their Fruit Template looks like an intended surface, not like a three-dimensional object. The idea is the fill its holes with fruits, rather than to pile fruit in the center.

LG home appliances get smarter with THINQ

Jul 2, 2011 Posted Under: Home Improvement News  

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You still have to do your own laundry and cooking, but LG promises its new THINQ technology will make it easier and more economical to manage your home appliances. LG is showing off its latest smart refrigerators, stoves, and washers at CES 2011 and the appliances are loaded with energy-saving, diagnostic and customization features, including the ability to monitor and control your appliances using your smartphone or tablet.

The LG THINQ features include Smart Grid, Smart Diagnosis, Smart Access, Smart Adapt, and Food Management.

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