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Archive for March, 2010

Have you ever wanted that great home bar in your house, but never thought it was affordable? Maybe you didn’t know where to get one or if you needed to build one yourself or where you’d put it. If so, you have come to the right place. Many people are starting to put home bar furniture in their homes these days. Whether you want it in your finished basement or in your game room I’ve got the answers.

You probably thought only people with a lot of time and money can have a home bar. This is not true and I’ll show you what I mean.

Reasons why you would want home bar furniture:

1 – First, it is a great way to entertain guests and family members while they’re visiting your home. It can be a great social hangout in your own home with people telling stories and relaxing with a drink. Imagine enjoying all the fun and excitement of a night out at the bar in your own home.

2 – Believe it or not, you’ll actually save money by owning a home bar. You’ll never need to pay for over-priced drinks at your own bar. You don’t need to worry about paying a taxi to take you home at the end of the night. Your home bar furniture will practically pay for itself within the first year of owning it!

3 – I find home bars to be a wonderfully relaxing and stress free environment. Come home from work and fix yourself a drink at the bar and forget about all the stresses of life for a while. I personally have noticed a dramatic reduction of the stress and anxiety in my life since purchasing bar furniture. Benefits like these are priceless.

4 – Bar furniture can add a touch of class to your home as well. The elegant beauty of this furniture style creates a rich, sophisticated look in whatever room you decide to use. Home bar furniture usually comes as a full set with matching barstools or chairs, the main bar unit, and sometimes an optional wall unit for storing glasses, bottles of wine and liquor, and accessories. It will also have storage compartments and cupboards in the back as well as a sink for cleaning dishes and glasses.

Now that you’ve seen just a small number of ways that home bars can benefit your life you may be wondering, “where do I get it?”. The best place to find these home bar furniture sets is online. You may have visited a local furniture retailer and been turned away by pricey, expensive home bars. Well, I’m here to let you know these same incredible furnishings can be found at a super discount online due to the competition between rival websites. Turn your home into the relaxing, enjoyable, and entertaining family gathering you’ve always wanted it to be. Happy shopping!

Apartments in New York are famous for being ridiculously tiny. Studio apartments are sometimes barely able to contain a twin bed, never mind any other sort of furniture or appliances. Apartments in New York are also famous for being ridiculously expensive! Some New Yorkers have to work two jobs: one job to pay for their rent, the second to pay for everything else.

Thankfully, with a little creativity you can decorate your New York apartment very cheaply. With a little bit more creativity you can fit a whole house worth of furniture and decorations into an apartment the size of a toddler’s shoe box.

Anybody can go to IKEA and copy one of their floor plan designs. Anybody can copy the decorating page out of a magazine or the style section. These are not tips that you will find on any “fancy” website but they will save you space and money.

1. Get a loft bed. Loft beds can usually be purchased relatively cheaply in New York. You can also construct a loft bed from some tall and sturdy bookcases and an old door. Bolt the bookcases to the floor and then bolt the door over the top of the bookcases. Place your mattress on top of the door. Instant loft bed with plenty of room underneath! If you construct your own loft bed make sure that everything is steady enough to remain standing in the event that you toss and turn in your sleep.

2. Shelving can be constructed by finding old industrial strength milk crates behind New York restaurants and shops and stacking them on top of each other. Purchase some pretty colored spray paint and use the paint to make the otherwise ugly milk crates pretty. These “shelving units” can be used for books, knick knacks, clothing, whatever.

3. You know those huge wooden spools that cable gets rolled onto? If you can find one of those, you have a great table. It’s a little on the short side, but if you stack it on a couple of risers, you should be able to elevate it to a normal table height without problems. Again, you can paint it or, if you don’t feel like painting, simply cover it in a nice piece of fabric and it will look fine!

4. Use a trunk as a coffee table and use it to house blankets and pillows or old books and magazines.

5. To save space in the kitchen use pretty hooks (can be found for pennies in New York’s second hand shops) to hang your pots and pans on the wall. This will free up your cabinets for food or whatever else you need to store. Plus, hanging the pots and pans gives your kitchen wall a great, three dimensional arty look!

6. Use an old dresser as a television stand and then store your DVDs in the drawers! Put the DVD player, video game consoles, VCR, etc. on a small bookshelf that sits next to the television set.

You’ll be surprised at all of the ideas you get as you get into decorating your New York home!

For more information on home decorating ideas, visit http://www.nycmicroblog.com and http://www.microblognewyork.com.

Trying to accommodate children, personal relics and long-time furniture in your apartment can be a paramount challenge.

 

Here are some tips to create space in a busy apartment.

Lighting is everything! Flat overhead lighting makes your apartment seem smaller.  Accessorize your apartment with separate light sources and lamps.  Not only will this ‘stretch’ the corners of your room, it will give you control over your atmosphere, allowing you to conceal cluttered areas and highlight others to get the best and most flexible use out of your space.

Strategically place mirrors in your apartment to capitalize on natural light.  This also creates the impression of extra space by tricking the eye into believing there is a twin room.

Pale furniture will open up the room.  You should also look for furniture that serves more than one purpose and will free up space in your busy apartment.  Find a coffee table with built-in drawers, tables with enclosed cabinets, a couch with drawers underneath.  Note that cabinets with sliding doors will save space because they do not encroach on the room when opened.

Position your couch facing the living room entrance to increase the sense of space and give your apartment a welcoming feel.

Choose lightweight, versatile furniture that can be moved around easily.  Floor lamps and tables can be moved between studying and socializing areas as needed in your apartment.

Double up on apartment space by using a futon instead of a couch in your living room.  This will come in handy for extra guests.  Use bunk beds if you have multiple children sleeping in a single room, to create more floor space.

Making these easy changes will help you expand your apartment space.