Ideas and Trends
Flashes of light
Gold signifies: Elegance, glamor, luxury, class, ostentation, sophistication, power, triumph…
Silver transmits: Style, modernity, functionality, fashion, design, sobriety…
…Or could it be the other way around?…
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Spring has come, and nobody knows how its been….
Decorating small spaces (II)
Trying to store all our belongings in our homes becomes a problem as time goes on. Furniture design plays a key role in organizing the order of each item. Clothing for different seasons, books, travel souvenirs, gifts..they all need a place of their own.
Decorating small spaces (I)
Decorating spaces in which we only have to think on the aesthetics is a privilege only at the reach of very few. In most cases, we as designers feel the need to “make things fit” to be able to cover all the needs o a home, with small spaces, without losing the aesthetic function.
Sensitive to the problems caused by lack of space, here at madeindeco we offer you some tricks to gain space or at least make it seem that way.
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Violet, a spiritual color
Easter is almost here, and not much for devotion but more as tradition, major cities in Spain begin their parades, full of brotherhoods, penitents, worshipers..every city celebrates these processions in a different way and with different thoughts, but certainly there is an element that unites them all and gives them the same spiritual perfume. Color.
Violet dresses Holy Week from head to toe, the majority of the hood covered men who take part of theses parades with heavy dance steps, do it dressed in this color.
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The importance of the sofa
Lifestyles change with the passage of time, it is inevitable, the secret of a great decoration doesn’t lie only in appearance, but more in how it is adapted to our needs and how it has the chameleon capacity to change when our life “style” changes.
Even-though all the rooms of a house have gone through different moments and therefore styles, we will be focusing our attention in the living room, concretely on the sofa.
Colonial Style
Colonial furniture is the result of an explosive cocktail of two ancient cultures, East and West.
Two styles that merge into one single piece culminating one, in a unique and spectacular way. The sobriety, the innovation in the design, the purity of the lines and the modernity brought by the Western culture, alloyed with the materials, craftsmanship techniques and exotic finishes, proper of the East. A blending of cultures that come to us with exquisite furniture aesthetics.
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Attics
When it comes to buying a new home, as with so many other occasions, our hearts take over our heads, and in many instances a certain impulse leads us in the decision of a certain house instead of another, the color of a wall, the design of a staircase, the smell of a kitchen…but certainly there is something that makes you fall in love with a house and this certain something is what causes some homes to be purchased much faster than the rest: The attic.
King Size
Sleeping is a pleasure isn’t? Who doesn’t dream about stepping right into the nocturnal pleasure of sleep without having to set the alarm clock? Walking up without rushing, when the first morning rays peek through the cracks of the blinds, caressing the soft cotton sheets, before facing a new day.
As I write this I could almost feel those sheets…
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Red, red!!
Throughout history, few things have been able to prevail in so many and such varied fields, among which, of course, is decorating, politics, society, sports, love, history, personal relationships, fashion..red has stood its own among the rest of the colors, on its own merits.
