Home Remodeling Tools

Everyone wants a house with a fireplace, but that yawning hole in the wall can look a tad boring when its not being used. Try a decorative fireplace screen to spruce up the hearth.

There are lots of designs out there, and you can spend a little or a fortune. This unique geode-and-agate screen is sure to catch your guests eyes.

The Pietra Santa Fire Screen is from Philip Nimmo Ironworks. Available in custom sizes, finishes, and styles, the designer piece is sure to dress up any hearth.

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Tags: Fireplace Screen, Screen

Call it marbling; call it painting on water. Either way the outcome makes for some very interesting art. Some examples remind me of the sky in Van Gogh’s Starry Night. The unnamed artist in the video below makes the process look rather easy. (The video is rather lengthy, so I’d let it buffer and fast forward through the ‘slow’ parts.)

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Unique Furniture for Decorative Living Room Created By Christian Lacroix

Check out this unique furniture collection by an Italian company Sicis and Christian Lacroix. Jewel-like bright colors, perfect shapes and inspiration of the mosaics. It is so unique and beautiful. This furniture has a touch of luxury. Upholstery in silk velvet, brocade and other luxury fabrics are the forms of a Turkish style, which is particularly evident in the companion chair and lounge Jeanne and Belisaire. Some are equipped with massive tassels, underneath the sofa and chairs Large Animal Julien Maximian, and several cutting-headed nails decorated.

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Tags: Christian Lacroix, Lacroix, Living Room Created, Room Created

British designer Toby Howes has created furniture rocking chair that is Wishbone. This is a new design using rocking chair with a different material, the rocker is shorter than usual. Form an attractive design with perfect workmanship by Toby Howes, using materials Maple and Walnut, 900mm 550mm length 1100mm width and height dimensions.

Description by Toby Howes:

I like to use different materials when designing new pieces, to give me an alternate view on shapes & textures, & this one started life as a couple of pipecleaners!

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Celebrate and illuminate the night with your wonderful Christmas lights, but do it safely. Here are some tips that you can use to help make your annual hanging of the outdoor lights a mark of delight and not a trip to to the emergency room.

First things first. Let us start with the electricity and how all of those lights are going to be powered. You want to make sure that the point where you are plugging the lights is in grounded (a ground fault) that also contains a circuit interrupter. This way, if there is too much current, the circuit will be shut down.

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Tags: Lights, Outdoor Lights