Essential Guide to Lightning

Essential Guide to Lightning

Lightning can define the mood and focus of a room, creating atmosphere and adding depth. The lighting arrangements can set the tone of a room and of your entire home. It should be considered how the lighting will be used, for what purpose, and how you want it to make you feel when enter a room. Lighting is threefold- task orientation, comfort, and security, therefore when planning for lighting in your home, first think about the activities taking place in that space and the look and style you want to achieve.

Photography: Sune Jonsson

Photography: Sune Jonsson

Sune Jonsson was one of Sweden’s most celebrated photographers. The snapper, who died in 2009 aged 78, spent his life combining his skills as a field ethnologist with photographic portraiture – a pairing that resulted in extraordinary documentary images of people in rural Sweden.

A Few Tips for Sewing Knitted Fabrics

A Few Tips for Sewing Knitted Fabrics

You may never have attempted to sew anything for yourself since your schooldays — or again, you may have abandoned the whole idea after one or two disappointing failures. It is the time to bring your knowledge back and start create a nice things for your family, firends and youself.

Quick Ideas for Children’s Room Decoration

Quick Ideas for Children’s Room Decoration

It is really important to teach your children from earliest age to preciate and love to live in nice and organized space. The good way to do this is to introduce them in crafting, of course on the level appropriate to their age.

Handmade Handbags – Play with Shapes!

Handmade Handbags – Play with Shapes!

Small one large one (why so big??? some will say), elegant or grunge, sophisticated or shabby, colourful or discreet…. the bags could be all of that. And you can make it with a bit of skill, idea and time. Here are some ideas for handmade handbags you can make of your own.

Tim Burtons Short Films

Tim Burtons Short Films

Tim Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland. Since he graduated from CalArts in 1979, he was create a short films which we will present here. He worked as an animator, storyboard artist and concept artist in numerous short films.

Paul Young’s Pottery

Paul Young’s Pottery

Over the three decades since graduating, Paul Young has been developing his own distinctive style, fuelled by English and European folkloric traditions. Simultaneously, he has built up an impressive collecton of ceramics spanning 4,000 years. “Eating everything and spitting out the pips” is how he describes his journey of discovery.

Find an Antique Chandelier or Make your Own

Find an Antique Chandelier or Make your Own

Chandeliers generate visions of royalty, magnificence and opulence. Though some new versions have evolved, there’s still an aura of antiquity that surrounds a chandelier. So if you want an antique look for your home, you must look for turn-of-the-century furniture, a old-fashioned fireplace and a chandelier.

Bryony Burn’s Ceramics

Bryony Burn’s Ceramics

Bryony Burn’s distinctive ceramics are available in a wide selection of sizes, shapes and colourways.
A unique collection can be created as all pieces complement each other and also make an individual impact.

Make An Art Out Of Quilt

Make An Art Out Of Quilt

We are all familiar with quilts, and it is very difficult to say something new about them. However, the quilt as an art form might be new for some people. The art quilts designs evolute quickly, sometimes they are very unexpectable in ideas and execution.