Home Decoration Ideas

the interior decorating of the national stadium in Beijing–”bird’s nest” is a secret until recent days.  Let’s have a quick view of it.

It is still alertness until now and gaurded by policeman.

VIP path.

washroom

lobby

 Beijing prepared reveiving all the guests from all around the world!

I have introduced the Chinese TV programm “Space exchange” before. The rule is:

Use RMB￥8,000 to redecorate the other one’s room in 48 hours.

This time, two Olympic family are candidates. Olymic family means free to receive foreigners during olympic game. So they are looking forward a chinese style new guest room for their receiption work.

During 48 hard work, two excellet guest room are shine our eyes! let’s watch below:

Red Team home.   Theme: Chinese heart

After

the wall paper mix east and west feeling.

Chinese style lamp, tea table, TV cabinet

BEFORE

 It’s old house about 15 years old.

AFTER

modern sofa+chinese bamboo curtain.

Chiness style goldern painting on the floor.

Blue Team       Theme: Chinese feeling

Chinese style chairs and decal.

BEFORE

AFTER

Chinese butterfly decal on the door.

bright and chinese feeling living room.

Chinese pattern on the balk.

the water lily drawn on the wall of TV background.

OK, how do you like these two families? if you’ll come to Beijing in this August, you can applicate to live in these Olympic families free! 

A villa in south China,very special by it’s chinese classic element. Decorated by Xiao’s Design.

 Dinning room

 Guest room

Living room

chinese style decorating

Bedroom

Reading Room

Bathroom

 SUNSEA   USD 25.00/set

DAICY   USD 23.00/set

SLIM    USD 23.00/set

steak set   USD 12.00/pair

salad set    USD 16.00/pair

crab set   USD  28.00/set

bread plate     USD 27.00/pc

warm pot   USD 65.00/pc

ICE BOWL  USD 85.00/pc

other housewares coming soon….

send your inquiry to : meierbaby@hotmail.com

The owner of the house is a US couple,both are lawyers,they live in china over 15 years. lived in “siheyuan”(Beijing classic architecture) before, but finally,they choose Shanghai to stay.

石库门shikumen means “stone door”, the symbol of old Shanghai,like the symbol of old Beijing is “siheyuan”. the solo house very interested the couple, but after checking around,they found there not enough bright in the rooms. While their friend introduce the designer Raefer and Sacha Silva to them, they found it’s perfectly suit them.

the guest room full fill with old Shanghai elements and classic chinese elements.

 The project makes the house into “3 layer and 3 floors”, mostly reserve the old house frame and plants, only insert large and bright windows.

pool and trees make the room cool even in summer.

the couple collected the door from Beijing.

the corner of hallway, highlight the collections from south asia.

layers connected by dooryard.

western long dinning table with chinese material and decoration.

kitchen is one of most important place for a family.

a guest room on top floor, bed can lean on and hide in the wall.

comfortable bathroom on 2 floor.

out the glass bedroom, terrace prepared for party and BBQ.

Till now, it’s almost 90 hours past from 5.12 14:28. it’s a terrible moment, all chinese won’t forget!

i was doing my job on internet that moment, suddenly, a QQ news message jumped out: 7.8 (degree) earthquake accurd in Wenchuan Sichuan!  i was really afraid and suprise and worried, because my hometown is Leshan, Sichuan! my parents and all family are in Sichuan! i was checking the map while i calling home, my mom’s sellphone, my dad’s sellphone, but all no receive. after i found it’s more than 400 KM from Wenchuan to my home, i got first breath. but my young sisters were in Chengdu, some in college and some just having their first job. i didn’t know if they could take care of themself.  i can only pray…

after 10 minutes my father call back to me. he said they were ok, just scared by the 5 minutes terrible shake, he hold my mom and hidden in the corner.  luckily, after 5 minuts, it stopped, they have change run to the open street! And they tell me all the family men are all no injured.   Thank godness!

but the people live in more northen area are not so lucky. till now, more than 19000 lives lost, it said, there are about 50000 people will die in this terrible disaster.

except this, everything after the quake is warm us. The center government action at first time, only 1 hour and half after the quake, are prime minister started flying to disaster area, be with all the people! then, CCTV-1 start speacial living broadcasting 24 hours* 3 days, tracing the progress of all disater area. whole country people can watch TV and get the latest news from Sichuan.

Although my family and friends are all right, but i can stop myself turn off my TV and not to think about Sichuan. because in disaster, Chinese are all in one!

many move scence from locale, click here you can see.

http://news.cctv.com/special/C21344/06/index.shtml

Now, for the typing technology improving, we can DIY a lot of wall stiker. the stikers are easy to make, easy to stike, and easy to change.

first, choose your favourate photograph or pattern, AI file is better, they can be enlarge as you want.  then type them on PVC stickers,  an advertise shop or type shop may help you.

after getting them, do as follow:

1. clean the wall.

2. cut the pattern to smaller parts which are easier to stike.

3. Tears up the backpage carefully and stike the pattern to the wall.

4. scrape the stiker several time until you think it’s fixed.

5.  Tears up the former page.

now your wall is much better than before!

the TV programme SPACE EXCHANGE is very popular in China. Two team will remold the old house with an professional desighner, time is 48 hours, decorating amount is RMB8000. through these picturse, you can see the modern China interior desigh level and people’s living condition.

 20070907  Living room exchange

Blue Team

before

after

Red team

before

how do you think?

It’s only 170 days before olympic game start. Let’s forsee the new venues in Beijing.

Venue: National Stadium;

Location: Olympic Green;

Total land surface: 258,000 sq m;

Seats: 91,000;

Competitions: Athletics, Football;

Post-Games use: The Stadium is to stage sports events at national and international levels, as well as cultural and entertaining activities;

Groundbreaking date: Dec. 2003;

Designer: Herzog & DeMeuron (Swiss) and China Architecture Design Institute;

The “Water Cube”

Venue: National Aquatics Center;

Location: Olympic Green;

Total land surface: 79,532 sq m;

Seats: 6,000 permanent and 11,000 temporary;

Competitions: Swimming, Diving, Synchronized Swimming;

Groundbreaking date: December 24, 2003;

Completion date: January 28, 2007;

Venue: National Indoor Stadium

Location: Olympic Green

Total land surface: 80,900 sq m

Competitions: Artistic Gymnastics, Trampolines, and Handball;

Post-Games use: The venue, one of the best sports facilities in Beijing, can be used for sports competition, cultural and entertaining purposes, and will serve as a multi-functional exercise center for local residents.

Groundbreaking date: May 28, 2005

Tonal scheme

A tonal scheme or monochromatic scheme means you use just one colour but in varying tones. If you choose everything in the same tone and colour your scheme will look bland.

The key with this look is to use texture and pattern to alleviate the potential boredom of using one colour.

Some Suggestions

On the wheel, look at the segment showing just one colour. On the outside are the pale tones, which graduate into the middling tones and on into the deeper tones in the centre.
Choose three tints and shades of the same colour and use it throughout the room set.
Use the deepest nearest the floor and the lightest on the ceiling, this gives the illusion of space. If you try it the other way round the room seems to shrink.

Harmonious scheme

A harmonious colour is one that sits next to another on the colour wheel or very close to it for example, red is near rust, which is near terracotta.

It’s very easy to create a balanced, unified scheme that is pleasing to the eye using harmonious colours.

Some Suggestions

Choose colours of similar densities for a balanced look so one doesn’t overpower another.
Pick three or four colours that all stem from the same primary colour.
Make the scheme bolder by going for a deeper more intense shade.
If one of your harmonious colours happens also to be a primary colour the effect will be more striking, for example, red and hot pink or red and orange.

Complementary colour scheme

Complementary colours are ones that are opposite to one another on the colour wheel. These colours are naturally made to ‘go’ with one another - think of the red and green of an apple, or the purple and yellow of an iris.

They tend to be bolder and more dramatic than harmonious schemes.

Some Suggestions

Choose your first colour and look directly at the colour opposite. That is your second colour.
Decide which of the two colours you want to feature more. If you use them both in equal amounts, they will fight for attention and cancel each other out.
If you’re nervous about using dramatic colours in reality, try introducing a complementary scheme in the form of a throw or accessory before you go ahead with an actual paint colour.
You can use a third colour - preferably in a different tone from the other two but don’t have more than three colours.
Balance the scheme by introducing some neutral colours as well such as cream or white.
Pairing one dark and one light tone of each of your two colours can work well. Experiment with it in both combinations, for example, try a light soft grey with a vibrant deep pink. Then try it the other way around - put together a deep slate charcoal grey with a sugared almond pink.