Bev & Mike
Landfair Furniture + Design Gallery
(She is) a busy designer for discriminating clients, she also designs furniture for Hickory Chair and fabrics for Kravet.In the interview she was asked, "When do you think a room needs updating?"
A. Rooms that are done in the heat of a trend tend to need redoing five to seven years later. Rooms that are designed with a more personal or timeless approach usually last for a minimum of 12 to 15 years. At that point, I find that fabrics often poop out, depending upon the wear that they receive.While she designs for the Florida market, she is a trend setter and there are some clues as to what will get picked up nationally.
The building activity in the area is breathtaking. Just up the street, Safeway is building a new store and cranes are a fixture on the skyline. If you are in our area, stop by and introduce yourself. Mike's favorite food at the party was the Mexican Wedding Cookie.
We still have some cookies in addition to my favorite, fat-free animal crackers.
Bev & Mike
Landfair Furniture + Design Gallery
The Top 100 company will close all five of its Minnesota stores and its Brooklyn Center, Minn., distribution center and “part of the company’s continuing strategy to focus its resources in high-growth markets including California, Chicago, Portland (Ore.) and Las Vegas,” Wickes said in a release.I counted 10 Cranes in the downtown Portland area this weekend, and might have missed a couple.[...]
The company said it is opening 10 new showrooms in those markets this year.
While few people would say they go to Target or Costco for pleasure, these retailers have gained an edge in luring people in for everyday products, and then enticing them to fill their carts with much more.What can a small retail business learn from the big box stores? Your retail customers may walk in and say, I didn't know you were here and then on impulse walk out with a purchase because they derived pleasure from buying it.
Welcome to the $80 tube of toothpaste, where a receipt ends up being far longer than the shopping list.
In our store we have some items that look like a spilled wine glass. It always brings a chuckle and then the thought that this item would be great as a joke for that friend with light carpet or the white sofa.
Impulse items, the bubbles in the glass of good retailers.
Bev & Mike
Landfair Furniture & Design Gallery
During the past few years, a new material called Hularo has become the staple of high-end contemporary design for exterior furnishings. Hularo is a man-made, totally weatherproof fiber, but unlike other plastic fibers it contains no PVC, will not crack or fade and does not give off toxic fumes.Here are some examples of outdoor furniture using Hularo
You might see decorative metal wall art pieces and grills outdoors, but they're now making decor statements inside the home.These often-ornate pieces can be made of iron, other metals or even faux iron with the look of the real thing.
Pictured are some examples from Global Views:
Louis Iron Wall Panel 24"W x 36"H
Maresca Iron Wall Shelf 7"L x 37"H
CBK also offers metal art:
Queen Headboard Bed with Oval Design, Iron Cast Top, Medallion Accents and Antique Rust Finish, 60"L x 2"W x 60"H
Wine Label Design 9-Bottle Wine Table with Distressed Red, Gold, and Antique Black Finish, 31"L x 11"W x 30.25"H
In many ways, iron wall grills work like any other piece of art you might put on a wall. But because they don't have an array of colors like you might find in paints or tapestries, they are less busy and blend in easily...Both Global Views and CBK are carried at Landfair Furniture + Design Gallery, now located in The Pearl.
There are basically nine different aspects each of which has specific colors and materials associated with it that the Chinese believed were important and influenced by your surroundings.Home Decorating Reviews continually comes up with articles of interest to Interior designers and DIYs.
Those aspects included:
- Prosperity which relies on the color purple and uses wood or water as its primary textures.
- Reputation or how successful you are which has the color red and the elements of fire and wood.
- Love and Relationships which is reflected by the color pink and has the earth and fire as elements.
- Family which relies on the colors green, black, and blue and trusts only in the ever changing form of water.
- Health which features shades of yellow, brown or orange and has both earth and fire at its heart.
- Creativity and children or offspring tones of yellow and subtle earth tones are used here with the element of metal to add strength.
- Knowledge and Skill colors of black and green with the earth to balance them.
- Travel and Friendly assistance stark whites and blacks with materials of either metal or water are used here.
- Career aspects of career use the colors blue and white and rely on the strength of metal to reinforce them.
The die is cast, the expert judging panel is back and 11 finalists have been selected to compete during the second season of the original interior design competition, "HGTV Design Star." It's anyone's guess which finalist will walk away with the coveted prize - his or her own show on HGTV... (emphasis added)Does this have the appeal of American Idol? Probably not, but I can see a lot of designers tuning in to gauge the competition and measure themselves.[...]
As with the series' first hit season, fans can expect captivating challenges that stretch the creativity, ingenuity and skills of the designers, artists, stylists, architects and craftsmen who aspire to host a television show.
Outdoor lighting has evolved over the past five years, resulting in the creation of more elegant, sophisticated tabletop lamps for outdoor. Weatherproof shades, cords and bases combine to round out the outdoor living experience.One Company singled out is this lamp from Frederick Cooper, a vendor supplying Landfair Furniture + Design Gallery.
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The Thatcher teak lamp from Frederick Cooper stands with a square baluster shape complemented by black marble accents and a beeswax round stretch shade.
* The store is an extension of yourself.The last thing we did that night shopping was to stop back in to The Mercantile. The special sweater was waiting and my husband added it to his Christmas presents for me.
* Know your customer by spending a lot of time on the floor.
* Listen to what your customer wants.
* Believe in what you are selling.
* Be able to wear every hat that business requires.
* Build good relationships with your vendors.
* Learn how to sell.
* You must be able to invest the hours to make it a success.
* Remember, it's not a museum; the clothes have to go out the door.
Lightweight trench coatBev & Mike
The new "little" dress (Hint: It's not black)
Dolman-sleeve tunic top
Straight-leg jean, white for sure
Extra-long tanks and T-shirts
At-the-knee shorts
Lacoste polo shirt, the new fit (longer, more buttons)
Flirty skirt
Multistrand bracelets and hoop earrings
Extra-wide belt
Missoni anything, for the color -- Victoria Taylor (as translated by fashion apprentice Erin Hoover Barnett
Mary and Peter Osterberg lived with their functional but oh-so-'50s kitchen for four years before they felt ready to remodel. Then, it seemed, everything just fell into place; their prized Art Deco table and chairs, for instance, which they discovered at a local vintage store. Photo by Marv Bondarowicz THE OREGONIANBev & Mike
Ann Laman of Soderberg Laman Designers came to them asking for a sliding barnlike door that would make a bedroom area private...Bev & Mike[...]
(Lee and Messick) found that making the sliders out of frosted glass allowed light to pass through without compromising privacy. By not using a floor track, they avoided any sign of a retracted door, save for the frame it hangs from.
SCREENPLAY: Sliding doors close off a bedroom from the living space in Ed Tonkin's loft in the Eliot Tower. The design of the door echoes the glass-and-metal design of the loft's expansive windows. Marv Bondarowicz THE OREGONIAN[...]
The two men, both native Oregonians, seem half shocked by the demand for their sliding doors and how it has led them to develop other loft furnishings that emphasize efficient use of space.
David Hyser and Nancy Werner sought a lifestyle change and "engineered" a move to Portland from Chicago in 2004.Their realtor was "horrified" at their choice of house to purchase due to its "issues":
There was no flow between the kitchen and the living/dining room. Homemade built-in shelving crowded the living area. Flooring changed from tile at the entry to carpet in the living/dining room to laminate in the kitchen. A dropped ceiling and poor use of space made the kitchen uninviting. Poor-quality window casings detracted from the windows in the living/dining room.The couple interviewed a number of interior designers and found that Julie DeJardin fit them the best "because they felt confident she would listen to them."
"This whole space now is contemporary and minimalist and engaging," says DeJardin. "It is now more simple and more beautiful."And that's the goal of a good designer.
Hyser and Werner agree.
"We're thrilled," Werner says.
Talking of beds, there are times we all crave for more space to store everyday bedroom articles. You know, those heavy blankets, matching curtains, cushions and the like.We found a storage bed at BermanFALK, the Sonoma storage bed. It is solid birch with dove-tailed self closing drawers. It also comes in a variety of finishes and in three sizes.
Storage beds fit the practical ideals of viability and functionality and serve the purpose of small spaces to near perfection. ...a neat and tidy bedroom is the dream of almost every home.
Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure.
That's no cow pie-in-the-sky dream, according to researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
They say fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves.
And the resulting product smells just fine.
This month marks the first early start for the High Point Market, held March 26-April 1 in High Point, N.C. The change doesn't have any effect on the variety of outdoor products featured at the show. From outdoor lighting to full-scale casual furniture collections, there will be plenty to see in the Furniture Capital.Several vendors whose furniture is carried at Landfair Furniture + Design Gallery are singled out:
Part of the Outdoorables line of outdoor lighting, Frederick Cooper's The Golden Stalk lamp is crafted from unique porcelain with hand-painted Tuscan leaves over black marble, topped with a sesame fabric round stretch shade.
Palecek's Al Fresco Marina Collection features a unique variegated gray and brown finish over an all-weather weave.
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