En Rosario, Santa Fé - Argentina

Ciudad modelo
Recorriendo la ciudad de Rosario en Santa Fé, Argentina, encontré una variada muestra de arquitectura de una época en la que el país crecía y se desarrollaba. La urbanización del primer tercio del Siglo XX dejó una planta que hoy la ciudad hace lucir para sus habitantes y quienes la visitan. "Rosario capital" es la forma en que muchísima gente busca a esta ciudad en Google, aunque nunca fue una capital, durante muchos años se la consideró la segunda ciudad de Argentina. No tiene la traza casi perfecta de La Plata, capital de la Pcia. de Bs. As. pero si un planteo urbanístico de mérito, involucrado con la cultura. El espacio público en Rosario tiene un valor real.

Chalet Rosario
Rosario enamora porque tiene un tamaño grande para ciudad ideal pero una configuración balanceada y con especial cuidado de las perspectivas. Se puede andar por Rosario y verla en perspectiva desde muchos puntos, porque cuidadosamente se ha atendido ese aspecto y en áreas clave. En la ciudad de Rosario hay varios parques y boulevares que permiten paseos agradables. los edificios de valor arquitectónico se protegen y muchas fachadas de estilo están conservadas o restauradas.
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Mesa de diseño

Muebles
Esta mesa de diseño con la forma de un piano de cola, combina su funcionalidad con una forma icónica, decorativa y casi escultural. Los muebles pueden ser muy funcionales y a la vez decorar los ambientes con significados adicionales.

Mesa de diseño forma de piano
Esta mesa cumple el sueño de tener un piano de cola blanco brillante en su vivienda. Un fino diseño que responde a deseos o anhelos de película.
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Before and After Party! (A TV cabinet redo.)

Well hello! I am posting this party early this evening because I hope to spend the night finishing up loose ends on my home show presentations and spending quality time with my boys. :)

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I hope you had a great weekend! Since hubs was out of town, the Bubs and I were busy tearing up the house so my husband would come home and wonder what in the heck I was up to again working on the family room.

There is a major, serious thorn in my side when it comes our family room. You see, in the model, the fireplace was on the back wall, between two windows and the TV was in the corner. Somewhere along the line we both decided a corner fireplace would be super cool!! (Dripping with sarcasm.) So moving the fireplace then gave us the option to put the two windows together, which we did.

So that left exactly one five foot wall we could do anything with as far as the placement of the TV. FIVE FEET. Our TV cabinet fits in the space great, but the blasted subwoofer for our sound system is like three feet by four feet so it totally cramps that area. OK, it’s about 12 inches by 14 inches, but it has to go on the floor next to the cabinet, which makes everything tight. It has always really, really driven me nuts. Here’s an old pic that gives you an idea of how close the TV and cabinet were to the fireplace:

That doesn’t really do it justice – I mean, I was afraid they would burst into flames, they were so close to the fireplace. Really. I’ll have you know I even called our electronics store to see if they have any updated subwoofers (ours is six years old) that are smaller. Yes, they did! Yes, they are only ten by ten inches! And YES, they are only $700!!

OK, moving on. Dealing with the mongo speaker. So the other day, I decided to ignore the speaker and center the cabinet on the wall. The mongo speaker would just have to jut out the other way a bit. Fine!:

(Yes, I love Y&R. Sue me. Can you even believe Adam? And can you believe the woman who plays Ashley is 50-something? OMG!)

I decided a while ago that hanging the TV may help the cramped feeling of this area. A friend of ours told me how to hide the wires (yessssss) so I went for it. I got the right sized TV mount for only $50 at Target and it was surprisingly easy to hang. Just hang the mount into the stud, using a socket wrench (Dad is that what this kind is called?):

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Easy! Next step is to take it down and hang it again because you forgot to put the washers on the screws. Next step after that is to take it all down and hang it again because you hung it too low. Easy!!

Then you just attach the brackets to the back of the TV:

back of TVNow for the FUN part! Hiding the cords!!!! Glorious! You just find a spot in between the studs and drill a hole into the wall. There are large drill bits just for this type of project:

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I placed mine where the cords came out of the TV, but it didn’t really matter where they were, as long as the hole was covered by the TV. Then I drilled another hole straight down the wall, put the cords down through the wall and reattached them to the TV. Then I hung the TV on the mount. It was so intimidating at first, but ended up being insanely easy to do.

(The next few pics are fuzzy because I took them at night, so bear with me.)

I looooved the TV hanging on the wall! It immediately felt like a breath of fresh air. But the TV cabinet was feeling so dark! It’s always been a dark hole of sorts. You couldn’t even see my lovely $3 Goodwill baskets! I decided to paint just the back of it so they would show up just a bit more:

Didn’t that work GREAT?

Uhhhh. Notsomuch. I realized the problem hasn’t been the dark cabinet, it’s been the doors on the cabinet. I love them, but you can’t see a darn thing inside. I mean, why have $3 Goodwill baskets if you can’t see them? And the picture frames look like they’re in jail. So I just took the doors and the hardware off!:

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Getting there!

I wasn’t crazy with how the accessories were working out, so I moved some things around. I used an apothecary jar instead of the flowers and covered some styrofoam balls with jute for some additional filler:

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Love them! They weren’t exactly fast to make – but good mindless project while watching TV. And they were free. Score!

I moved the baskets down below so they didn’t block the back quite so much:

(The back is painted the same Sisal color I used on the wainscoting squares from last week.)

I couldn’t be more pleased with the result!:

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Well, maybe I’d be more pleased with a 10 x 10 speaker. But saving the $700 meant I only spent $50 on this entire project – and that was for the TV mount. We watched about eleventy billion videos this weekend because the Bub can now access his DVDs (in the baskets) so easily! Those doors were hard to open, even for me. :)

So this month’s before and after…drum roll please…

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Love it! For those that are interested, the cabinet was a find at the Pier 1 outlet store about seven years ago. I found it on a lunch break and my girlfriend helped me drag it up the stairs of our old apartment. It was a long lunch break. ;) (Thanks Cheryl!!)

Can’t wait to see what you have worked on! Any project will do – we just need a before picture. Remember to copy and paste the url from your post into the linky, not your blog address. (I have to delete those!)

Have fun and let’s party!



Vidrio decorativo iluminado - Canadá

Mesadas con luz.
El vidrio llevado a niveles superiores para la arquitectura. Mesadas de vidrio iluminadas con LEDs, puertas de vidrio interiores decoradas exquisitamente, mesas de comedor de vidrio grueso, paredes de vidrio con texturas originales, artefactos de iluminación sofisticados y más. En la siguiente imagen unas muestras de las instalaciones en la Residencia Lachapelle (Canadá)

Vidrio arquitectónico
Un mundo nuevo en vidrio arquitectónico que puede verse en www.thinkglass.com
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RIP Squishy (and come see me!)

fishWell, Squishy croaked. Or choked. Can a fish choke? I don’t know, but hubby checked on him the other night (he did every night, isn’t that adorable?) and all I heard was “Uhhh…honey? Did you feed the fish?”

Poor Squish was a floatin’. I almost cried. I couldn’t believe it! He was fine when I fed him the night before, and I saw him eating his food. But the food was still floating too. So sad! Squishy the Second will join us soon I’m sure.

If you’d like to see how I made his home, go here.

I know I promised the coffee table today, but I got caught up on another project and lost the good light to take pictures. :) Hate when that happens. I realized I forgot to remind you all about the Indy Home Show next week anyway:

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I’ll be speaking two times a day on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday:

Monday, 2/1 -- 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
Tuesday, 2/2 -- 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Wednesday, 2/3 -- 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Monday the topic is molding and woodwork, Tuesday is using fabric and Wednesday is transforming Goodwill finds. Most of the presentations you all have probably seen on this blog at some point but I don’t care, come put your butt in some seats!!!!!!!!

Sheesh, sorry. Can you tell I’m afraid I will hear crickets? :)

I would love to meet you!

Have a great weekend, and I hope you will link up on Monday (probably late Sunday night) at the next Before and After Party!

Baños información

Diseño & Decoración
El cuarto de baño como la cocina representa una proporción muy importante de la inversión en cualquier casa nueva o a reformar.
Cuando se diseña el baño o los baños de una vivienda se toman decisiones para el largo plazo que contemplan tanto lo funcional como el estilo y la decoraciòn del ambiente. Cuanto más información recabe para diseñar, equipar y decorar, mejores ventajas obtendrá de su nuevo baño. Revise esta lista y deje su opinión personal en un comentario al pie.

Baño de lujo
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Nuevos edificios en China

Ecología y sustentabilidad.
Esta es la imagen de uno de los edificios ecológicos del complejo Ninetree Village en China, obra de David Chipperfield. El enorme crecimiento chino lleva a contratar a grandes firmas de arquitectura que dan modelo para futuros desarrollos por parte de los nuevos profesionales del gigante asiático. Casa y ecológico se asocian también en China para reducir el calentamiento global y el diseño aporta funcionalidad sin descuidar la elegancia de los nuevos estilos de vida en un país que se desarrolla a pasos veloces.

Edificio China
Los nuevos edificios de este conjunto urbanístico están basados en conceptos de sustentabilidad, tienen techos vegetales y optimizan la luz natural y el flujo de aire del ambiente. Un edificio en varios pisos pero de baja altura y en un complejo residencial.
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Sayonara swirls!

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Well, it was time for them to go. I put the wainscoting on our family room walls a few years ago. Three years exactly really – the Bub was asleep in his bouncy seat while I installed all of them.  :) After being on bed rest for so long I was itchin’ for a project! I think he was less than two months old when I decided to attack this one.

I love stencils, I’m not gonna lie. You can see how I’ve used them on these posts. I think many times they can be the perfect finishing touch to a room or project. When I did these squares, I felt like they still need something. So for the past three years that something has been the swirl stencil I painted inside. (It is a large Stencil Ease stencil from Hob Lob.)

I only used my loverly iridescent glaze that I love love love LOVE. Love. This American Tradition stuff has lasted me years and I’m not even half way through it:

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I thought the swirls would be a little more subtle because the glaze was all I used. I was surprised they actually showed up so well.

With the mini family room redo came a desire for simplifying the space, and that meant it was time to say goodbye to the swirls. I loved you swirls…I did. But last weekend I had to banish you. I am loving the simplicity of just the molding:

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This little update cost zippo cause I used the paint from the basement staircase. It was the same Sisal color from Ralph Lauren, just darkened about 20 percent. Now the insides are just a teeny bit darker, which I love:

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While I was at it, I added another wainscoting box to the space under the window, which I’ve been meaning to do foreva. Seriously, since the day I did these three years ago, foreva:

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I’m not sure why I didn’t do it then. I think I ran out of molding? But this project was also fareeee because I took this molding off of our bay windows in the kitchen. I’m using a different type of molding to finish off the casing around all our windows in the house, so I popped those right off.

I was on a roll peeps! Remember when I complained about our bright white surround sound speakers back on this post? Well, one of you commented that you simply used a foam roller with just a scosh of paint (yes, I just said “scosh”) on them, and it worked like a charm:

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Whoohoo! I didn’t even take them off the wall. Double whoo! I can’t tell you how much I LOVE not having these glaring at me every day. It’s the little things for me, really.

Finally, the hall table in this room was a purchase at a furniture outlet years ago and it was a steal! It was a steal because it swayed and wobbled like the dickens. (Yes, I just said “dickens.”)

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I figured there had to be a way to tighten it up, so I took everything off, turned the whole thing over and adjusted all the screws. Voila! It’s perfect now. It only took me six years to fix.  ;)

Simple changes and they didn’t cost me a cent! The room is really coming together! One more project to complete and I’ll be finished. I think. I hope to show you the new Goodwill coffee table tomorrow –- it’s pretty much done. I think. Gah.

So what do you think -- do you miss the swirls? Or do you like the simple look? That’s the beauty of paint – it’s so easy to change up!!

Oh yeah – the carpet is almost all off the stairs!! The landing is still covered with nasty carpet but that will be the last part I attempt. I hope to start painting the risers tomorrow and then I will decide if I want to sand the heck out of the treads so I can stain them. Right now painting is looking real good, but I need a night off and then I’ll decide. :)

I sincerely, desperately hope that I will never see another staple for as long as I live. Ever.

Cocinas información

Diseño y decoración
El cuarto de cocina es para muchos un lugar central, como si fuera el corazón de la casa. La tecnología permite ahora dotar a las cocinas de pisos y recubrimientos variados y equipamiento de alta tecnología. El lugar de cocinar está hoy integrado con el comedor diario en las nuevas casas y en las reformadas modernizadas.

Cocina Moderna
Revise los posteos sobre cocinas. encontrará una variedad de propuestas, ideas y novedades.
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Bañera de madera

Baño
Es una bañera de madera y confección artesanal, original, hecha de partes de madera agregadas y con una terminación muy fina, propia de una escultura para el baño. Modelo Silene de Stolis Instalación que viste a su baño como un spa y realmente lo hace invitante, como para pasarse horas en el y por supuesto dentro de la tina de madera. Para ampliar información sobre baño siga este vínculo.

Bañera de madera
Estimulante para los sentidos. Bañera de madera de roble en medida 180mm x 90mm teñida de oscuro. Su precio en el mercado europeo es de casi nueve mil euros.
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Decoraciones de paredes

Imágenes
Más allá de los límites de las telas y los marcos, el arte pasas a desplegarse sobre las paredes como irreverente pero el resultado es digno.

Para ampliar información y mirar fotos de ambientes decorados siga este vínculo, hay una lista de posteos relevantes para consultar odenadamente.

Mural pop
Una tendencia para emular. En Europa hay un hotel en donde cada habitación despliega un tema y la decoración artística de las paredes juega un papel mayor.
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Decrapification: The pantry

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OK, this is super weird, but when I just went to go find the post I did about our pantry last year, I realized it was almost exactly a year ago that I reorganized our pantry last time.

I showed you here in January of last year how I used a smokin’ deal at the discount store to reorganize this space. Well, a year later, I still don’t have the new door with seedy glass and a light installed inside making it glow and the angels sing and all that…but it is clean and organized again.

Just like with everything else in our house, it stays fairly together till the holidays hit…and then it all goes to you-know-where. The pantry included:

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Good God. Help. Bubbles? Check. Half eaten donut? Check. Christmas choo choo gingerbread kit? Check.

People, I couldn’t see where the Doritos were. This was serious.

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Today, when I went to find the mac and cheese for our lunch and it took five minutes to find the box, I decided it had to end, STAT.

I cleared the farm animals and Christmas decor off the table:

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(Anyone still finding pieces of Christmas everywhere?!)

I poured myself a glass of cold Pepsi:

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Shrek glass please, no ice.

And I went to work. Because everything was still on it’s “home” shelf (they are split up into baking goods, lunch/dinner, breakfast/other, snacks and extras) I just pulled off every single item from each shelf and worked on one at a time.

The fab large glass containers hold baking goods and drink mixes:

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I also have smaller glass containers for sugar, chocolate chips, marshmallows, etc.

All crackers and cookies fit into the dollar containers from the same store:018

I also use these containers for lunch and breakfast items that come individually wrapped. This creates SO much more space – boxes and bags take up a ton of space in the pantry, in my opinion. And it’s so easy for the little guy to grab a container when he wants a snack.

I use the tiered jobbers from Target for all the canned goods:

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The bottom shelf is only for extra items. When it’s not organized, I buy more of what we already have. Hence the ten cans of cream of mushroom soup. (Tuna noodle casserole tonight baby!):

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I have to tell you, taking these pictures hit me hard for a minute – how fortunate are we to have a pantry full of food? Seriously, it is a bit humbling to get it organized and to see how much we have.

I hang things inside closets often – there is usually so much unused space! The broom, plastic bag holder, etc., all hangs up out of the way:

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We can close the door again!! Whoohoo!!

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And you can see the floor! Awww yeah. A blissful, organized space for FAREEEE!

Guess what we’re making tonight?:

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Yes, yes we are.

Can you find the mac and cheese in your pantry? :)

 
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