Kitchen Tiles Design

Kitchen is the most essential part of house, as the most important activity of cooking is carried out over there. Good food is the one, which everyone desires to eat, which is dependent on the cook. A cook can prepare a delicious dish, if he or she is cooking with a cool and fresh mind; which again depend on the environment of the kitchen. So, it is very important to take care of the atmosphere of the kitchen by applying beautiful Kitchen Tiles.


Tiles are very much a key focus point in the design and layout of a kitchen, and can be the difference between a very inviting or very ordinary kitchen . Tiles are available in a range of shapes, colors materials and sizes, which allows your creativity to run a mock.

Beautiful Kitchen Tiles With Flower Design

Elegant Kitchen Tiles Design

Mosaic Kitchen Tiles Design

Kitchen backsplashes catch the ills and spills of cooking in the modern home, so you need to consider how you use your kitchen when choosing whether you need tiles that are easy to clean and live with. With floor tiles, they will also take a lot of spillages or mess, and drop glasses, bottles and kids now and again. They generally need to be durable. One thing often forgotten is that they need to be comfortable. If your family is used to walking around in bare feet, hard natural stone tiles and not going to be great as they have no give.

Exotic Kitchen Tiles Design Looks Fresh To Rooms

If you are thinking about creating and designing a new kitchen or if you are just deciding to redecorate your existing kitchen then I think that I you should definitely consider using kitchen tiles to make your kitchen look nice and maybe even stand out a lot.

Classical House

Elegant Classical House With Little Garden


Luxury Classical House


Big Classical House With Old Design


Beautiful Outdoor Swimming Pool


Amazing Bedroom


Elegant Living Room


Exotic Dining Room With Modern Design


Modern Bathroom Looks Exotic

Portfolios

One of the biggest tools an interior designer has in attracting new clients is his or her porfolio.  From Day 1, I've made it my goal to flush mine out as best I can.  My very first portfolio started out with photos of only one project and I had glossy 8x10s printed out at a photo store and put them in a pretty ring folder.  It wasn't much to look at it but it did help me get some new clients.  Each time I had a new project to add, I'd comb through the portfolio, removing older projects and inserting new ones. 

 Nowadays, there are so many great tools & programs available for creating cool photo books & portfolios that I decided to break out of the printed 8x10s.  When submitting for the DC Design House, I was required to produce a portfolio of my work and so I made a new one on blurb.com  (photo above of my portfolio.)  I put my logo on the front cover and filled it with photos of recent projects:

I was really happy with how it came out.  The one thing I did notice was that there was a little bit of a strange yellow tinge to some of the photos and it made some of my greens a bit off.  Also, I didn't upload high-res images (which I should have) and many of them came out a little blurry, so, next time I'll be sure to do high-res images. 

I included a "press" section and also a section at the end showing some of my current in-progress projects with notes. 

For my family photo books I use snapfish.com, but it doesn't have the flexibility blurb.com has.  I loved being able to make a pretty dust jacket for the book too.

Most of the time, it's my online portfolio that attracts new non-referral clients.  Having a web presence has been my company's biggest asset.  If you don't have a website, there are even sites out there that you can use to showcase your work.  I recently went to a talk by Michael Boodro, Editor-in-Chief of Elle Decor- about Elle Decor's new online Designer Registry.  which can do just that.  It's a listing of designer portfolios that prospective clients can browse through by location to find a designer whose work they like.  I've done a designer registry with them but desperately need to update it. 

I know many of you have successful design businesses & I'd love to hear how you do your portfolio!



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Moroccan Bedroom Design

Elegant Moroccan Bedroom Design


Glamor Moroccan Bedroom Design


Exotic Moroccan Bedroom Design


Luxury Moroccan Bedroom Design


Contemporary Moroccan Bedroom Design


Minimalist Moroccan Bedroom Design


Traditional Moroccan Bedroom Design

Morocco Living Room Design

Moroccan interior design makes use of vibrant oranges and reds paired with refreshing cool colors such as deep blues and sparkling greens of the sea. It is not uncommon to see deep blue painted walls in Morocco.


Amazing Morocco Living Room Design


Beautiful Morocco Living Room Design


Blue Morocco Living Room Design


Exotic Morocco Living Room Design

The Moroccan style is not at all difficult to achieve. Each piece evokes a work of art. The Moroccan people highlights the friendliness and hospitality. Having a show is a way for them to realize that etiquette. Thus, one can say he has a particular function. The living room is strictly reserved for guests. It is a place where discussion happens, where business exchange, and is even a place where we take a coffee break. This, in Morocco, the lounge is a room in the house in which we do sharing. Thus, to attract guests, he must be very colorful, while keeping the modesty using simple materials like wood. The old-fashioned style and covered with shiny gold plating is also the Moroccan style.


Purple Morocco Living Room Design


Traditional Morocco Living Room Design

There’s a new Moroccan living room at VitaSims. Morocco is such a loveable country, I wish I’ll visit it one day. The way they decorate is also amazing, so if you’re a fan of Moroccan design.

Summer House in California

I had seen some of these photographs around in blogland before. I especially remember the one of the dining room with the word beach on the wall and thinking how I'd love to see the rest of the house... and by chance I found it, so here it is!
This 1904 summer house is in Venice, California. Susan Chevalier, a costume designer for TV commercials, renovated it mixing modern and country styles, creating a relaxing atmosphere.


Turquoise green items collected in Susan's travels add colour to the living room with dark oak floors and white denim slipcovers.


This is the photograph I had seen a couple of times before. A solid piece of butcher block from a supermarket propped on two sawhorses to form a dining table, unfinished and unlacquered. Plain water glasses serve as simple vases for flowers.


Susan's collection of Bauer and Pacific pottery.


Mostly matte McCoy sits behind glass in the living room, where a bench from a German beer hall serves as a coffee table. Its lines are echoed in the paddleboard resting on the beams. Five children's chairs from the Rose Bowl and Santa Monica swap were left the original green.


A tortoise shell given to her by a fisherman on Mustique rests on an antique director's chair outside the sunroom. Vintage cigarette ads from London complete the picture.


White subway tiles in the bathroom are bordered in a soft green 1930s reeded-tile trim.


Unusual decorating idea in Susan's bedroom. An old carnival sign hangs in above cubbyholes in a wire shelf she uses to display her Keds footwear.


In the kitchen, glass-fronted cabinets display colorful pottery. A great idea for someone who cooks a lot is the pot-filler faucet that swings out above the stove.


Peeling paint distinguishes a kitchen cupboard that Susan found. She gave it a back and then turned it into a repository for her research books. It takes up an entire bedroom wall.


Quilts on and behind a bed, and other soft textiles such as mosquito netting add layers of interest.


Susan's upstairs office is a room with a view — and a deck.

Photographs by John Coolidge.
All images and information from here.

Dream Home at La Dolce Vita

Today I'm guest blogging over at Paloma's La Dolce Vita about my dream home.  I've shared photos & magazine pages that I've saved for years and my ideas about what our dream house would be like. 

I used to dwell on it so much (when we lived in our small townhome and then in my parents' basement) that it honestly made my heart ache.  I literally yearned for my dream house.  (Living in a parent's basement and trying to save up for a house can do that to you.)  ... But I don't think of it as much these days. 
...I  do have to admit that taking a little stroll through my dream house file (errr binder.. it's kind of thick :) got my mind wandering there again.  But this time, it's a bit more fondly and with a little more patience.  Not very much aching at all ;) ;) 

{Design by Pheobe Howard...  this dining room could be in my dream home!!!}

But back to Paloma!  She's the editor-in-chief of the newest online magazine, High Gloss Magazine!  It came out yesterday and you will love it.  I'm so excited for Paloma & the High Gloss team and know it will be a huge success!!  I cannot believe the awesome things that this world of blogging has led to.  Check out the first issue here 

To read my "dream home" post at La Dolce Vita, click here.



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