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Decorating Ideas to make your Living Room more Livable
Above all else, the furniture in the living-room should make it livable. It should be grouped so that it offers centers of interest, convenience and comfort. Look for upholstered seating with homespun-type fabric, or toss a pieced quilt over plain...
Home Decorating and Style Guide
To benefit from a home spruce or make over you need to set a good financial budget that will help set the tone for how much can be spend in each area of the home. If you prefer to do only a few rooms at a time, choose rooms that are used frequently...
Professional Decorating Tips for Fireplace Mantels
Although fireplace mantels were originally used for cooking and
heating, contemporary mantels have become the key focal point
for setting the decorative style and atmosphere of a room. You
can utilize simple accessories to enhance the room, or...
The Ultimate Strategy for Decorating a Child's Room!
When it comes to decorating a child's room, your approach should be different from decorating an adult bedroom. That's because a child's bedroom should reflect his or her personality and not yours.
For kids, their bedroom is where they play...
Using Candles in Feng Shui Decorating
The basic belief behind Feng Shui is that there are five elements, some combinations of which create a productive cycle, and some a destructive cycle. When one of these five elements – water, wood, fire, earth, and metal, respectively for the...
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Schreiber, Johansson Build A 'Bridge' To A Classic
Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson are starring in a widely praised revival of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge. They tell reporter Jeff Lunden that as in all great tragedies, this one's clashes and catastrophes have something of the inevitable about them.
Stargazing At The Opera
The Hayden Planetarium in New York takes opera to the moon with a new production of <em>Il Mondo Della Luna.</em> Diane Paulus and Philip Bussmann talk about merging cosmos footage with music, how science can enhance the arts and the future of technology and theater.
Furnishing and decorating your own home
Asking yourself furnishing and decorating questions
Whether you're decorating a room or a house, a dorm or a castle, the same principle in furnishing and interior decoration applies. You will need to identify and find your own personal preference....
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Decorating with antique maps
Decorating your home is about creating a space that is pleasant
to the eye, and that says something personal about you, the
decorator. But more than that, homes are places where memories
are formed. Antique maps, by virtue of the history contained in
them, make the perfect symbols of remembrance and nostalgia fit
for a home in which memories will be created.
Antique maps as interactive works of art
Antique maps, no longer serving their original practical role as
records and guides to places and geographies, are now stunning
works of collectible art filled with the historical memory of
place and geography, of flora and fauna, of people and their
journeys.
Antique maps are more than just good-looking works of art framed
and hung on a wall. Antique maps are a living piece of history
that attract family members, friends and guests to talk and
discover. A map draws people to it. A common scene around an
antique map is a huddle of guests pointing to it, tracing its
coastlines, borders, and names, and talking about how things
have changed.
When choosing an antique map for your home décor consider the
following three ideas.
Choose an antique map to match your decorating theme
Genuine antique maps or prints can add another layer to the
theme (traditional, rustic, country, Tuscan, Aegean) you've
chosen for your home. If you've filled your rooms with Old-World
furniture reminiscent of the eighteenth-century then a unique
world map dating back to the 1700's is the perfect addition.
Nicolas De Fer's double-hemisphere world map, a copper-engraved
map in which California appears as an island and Australia is
only half-drawn, is a stunning acquisition for a traditional
decor. (Maps and prints
Stroke Victims Think, Robotic Arm Acts
Reporting in <em>Nature,</em> researchers write that two individuals, both paralyzed by stroke, made reach-and-grasp movements using a thought-controlled robotic arm. One participant was even able to a sip a drink by herself. Neuroengineer Dr. Leigh Hochberg discusses the paper and the ongoing trial.
Decorating with Authentic Zebra Decor....
Written by Tonie Konig Editor: Deco Zebra - www.ZebraCraft.com We all take a certain pride in the interior of our homes. We all try to create a beautiful extention of our personalities. You will find that while reading this article you will see...
mentioned here can be seen at VintageMaps.com, an antique
maps and prints website).
Match your antique map to your city of residence
An antique map can add to a person's knowledge of their current
residential district or state. For a New York apartment, Matthew
Dripps's 1880 pocket map of the city is remarkable for its
detail. Place it in a bright room or have it well lit so that
you and your guests can locate hotels, churches, theaters,
railroads and much more.
Choose an antique map to match your hobby or holiday dream
If you are a wine lover and regularly entertain other wine
lovers then the perfect map to hang near the dining table is one
of Victor Levasseur's maps representing the wine regions of
France in 1854.
If you're an avid traveler with a dream of traveling around the
coastline of Australia, then Aaron Arrowsmith's 1820 map of "New
Holland" (as it was known back then) is the perfect addition to
your study or home office. You can study the coastline as it
appeared to cartographers of the era and keep your travel dream
alive.
Antique maps are records of how places have changed over time
and are symbolic of how our homes change over time (children
grow up and leave, new rooms are added or joined). Antique maps
are the ideal addition to a home and, if chosen well, soon
become part of your family's own history.
About the author:
Neil Street is the owner of VintageMaps.com, which has
been selling antique maps
and prints on the internet since 1997. Email: Neil Street or call
him at 203.856.1755
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