I posted about Iksel wallpaper, the Paris based company whose designs are influenced by Iznik and global design, a few years ago. Dimonah and Mehmet Iksel, the founders and owners, have “a unique and avant-garde digital image bank” of glorious and beautiful wallpapers and panels. Miles Redd used Iksel’s Eastern Eden wallpaper in this beautiful Brooklyn townhouse in his signature color, blue. Iksel wallpaper is not for the weakest of heart, is for those who want their homes to create an impact and leave an impression on those who visit. The aesthetic is in general global chic…
A very romantic space featured in House Beautiful and designed by Miles Redd. Chinoiserie inspired chair painted in white contrast and blends at the same time with the blue ikzel wallpaper.
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It’s easy to recognize a warm and cozy home. Is that feeling of familiarity and honesty that invites you to stay longer, put up your feet while asking for more hot coco and praying you don’t have to leave ever again. That’s the feeling we all want in our homes notably because our homes are the best reflections of our real selves. Hence it would be practically impossible to have a warm heart and not have a warm home or vice-versa as it’s equally impossible to create fake characters of our home. The great news is that the process to make a house feel cozy and inviting may be even easier to tackle than we all think. Here are five elements to make a cozy home and to create the most inviting of spaces.
ADD COLORS
While all-white interiors can be very relaxing, color makes homes cozy. By colorful interiors I mean spaces with either warm tones or full colorful ones. Colors have a special magic to bring out the soul in the room and it’s also the easiest way to change things around. Usually warm and dark colors provide a better result at accomplishing coziness. Painting a wall, upholstering a sofa or adding a colorful rug are only a few of the ways to bring color inside a home.
At some point in our life we all need a work space at home, a home office. From teenagers to do their home work to adults who need to do more office-related work. At the moment I’m dusting off our home office in an attempt to combine the business side with my jewelry studio. Luckily I have an entire room to work with which offers me a decent amount of space and more room to be creative. But home offices don’t necessarily require a separate room, all it needs is a space for a computer desk and a space for storage. As these images show there is really no limit to what a home office can be.
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It’s interesting how searching for something can lead you to something completely irrelevant. I came across this London townhouse and thought that a living room this beautiful where neoclassical details intermingle with more classic modern furniture deserves a sharing post. This home belongs to Angela Dunn and her husband. If you didn’t know, then you should know how much I love sculptural furniture and this pair by Ico Parisi club chairs paired with the marble coffee table by Angelo Mangiarotti is pretty perfect to me. Yes, because classicism is beautiful but it is way more beautiful when combined with classic modern pieces that can give a room a fully personalized look. Enjoy!
Jib doors have nothing to do with mystery anymore. They no longer are meant for secret passages, high power secret operations and/or certainly not for hiding the ugly side of a freakish double life. So, if you were planing to partake in one of the above activities then you’ll have to find another way of keeping it to yourself. Now a days Jib doors are too popular to disguise what’s behind. It is more for aesthetic purposes than anything else and that’s ok, you should not panic! Jib doors have just decided to catch up with the 21st century and it’s doing the right thing now. Mostly used in European estates for centuries, it has slowly come to take part in American design. Actually the oval office has a jib/hidden door. Jib door is a concealed door that is meant to blend with it’s surrounding wall. It’s usually frame-less and it carries on the design of the walls around it. It grants everybody the freedom to camouflage a kitchen that happens to be in the wrong place. It also gives homeowners and designers the flexibility of keeping their wallpaper intact without any door frame disturbing the view. So as you can see Jib doors, also known as hidden doors and mystery doors are the coolest thing now a days and it provides a seamless design. Enjoy!
