making home inspirations achievable
If over the years you’ve outgrown your initial Chiminea and the little outdoor space that you called home every evening during the summer, then maybe you’re ready for an upgrade. Here’s an option that is sure to enhance your fireside chats as well as draw in a few added guests. Longer burns, more leg room, and you’ll be the envy of your chiminea neighbors.
And hey, you can pass along all those little twigs for them to burn.
Home Professional:
Merkle’s Landscape
Allentown, PA
610.360-5968
The 2012 SOTA Designer Showhouse & Gardens will be held April 28-May 20, at a beautiful Victorian farmhouse on picturesque Three Chimneys Farm near Coopersburg, PA. Refurbished by 22 local interior designers and landscapers, you can tour the house and gardens, shop in the boutique, and enjoy lunch catered by Sagra Catering in the café. Don’t miss it!
For information call 610-432-4333, ext. 145, or visit our Facebook page.
Friday, 6pm – 10pm
Saturday, 10am – 9pm
Sunday, 11am – 5pm
Admission:
$6.00 per person Children under 12 are free.
Learn & see more HERE.
Traditional shapes and materials often dictate the outcome of design in many homes. But that does not have to be the case for you and your home. Consider the kitchen island as a prime example. Often rectangle in design, faced with a cabinetry style and material, and topped with the popular counter top of the moment, it’s a standout home feature that can readily accept creative new directions in design and materials.
Interested? Talk with your builder or remodeler, and they should send you to talk with their cabinetry shop. If you’re just thinking kitchen update, visit a kitchen showroom and talk with one of their designers. And if you feel your not finding the creative result that you’re looking for, feel free to discuss your vision with another designer, as some are more comfortable with outside-the-box thinking.
Bending the design rules in many other parts of the home, both inside and out, can provide the personal distinction that makes your home yours. It’s just takes that first step to explore something new.
Tell us your insights and experiences where have you bent the design rules in your home. Did it work? Would you do it yourself? Would you do it again?
[photograph provided by studio 26 homes | Orefield, PA]
Bending the Design Rules is one of the design points featured in Design Expressions, a collection of ideas and insights on home design from theDESIGNguide, a Lehigh Valley resource to local champions of home design.
The purpose of most garages are to provide cover for cars, boats, yard tools, and people. But who says you can’t create your own design based on your use needs and budget?
This re-defined solution fits both shelter and style details to be a perfect complement to an old farm house home.
Home Professionals:
Johnson Remodeling
Lehigh Valley Builders Association
1504 Linden Street
Allentown, PA
Sometimes you just need to consider alternative options to turn a home detail, improvement, or repair into an eye catching enhancement. Often the best and most pleasing discoveries are found in the smallest of ideas. Here, what could of easily been an everyday, traditional wooden stairway, really shines and looks up-to-date with the installation of metal balusters.
So when your home calls, or begs for attention, take a mental walk down your alternative options aisle. You may end up wondering why you did not think of it sooner.
Home Professional:
Ruhmel Contracting, Inc.
9905 Old Route 22
Breinigsville, PA
610.366.0910
Most of us realize that the Lehigh Valley is a nice mid-point between New York and Philadelphia. This goes for not only in distance and travel time, but in home styles and design as well. For us this means that there is a great mix of professionals who can not only excel in the style and design of a traditional Pennsylvania home, but can equally rise to the needs of urbanites who have more metro tastes and lifestyles.
Whether your interests are in new construction, an update, or an addition to adsorb your lifestyle demands, look for professionals in the Lehigh Valley to fulfill your home dreams. This professional and the Lehigh Valley Builders Association are great places to start.
Home Professional:
S&D Renovations, Inc.
Breiningsville, PA
610.366.8828
[photography: Chuck Hamilton]
reThink is a refreshing consumer event that “rethinks” elements of design throughout the home in a fun, thought provoking, participative, and discussion worthy experience. Attendees will see and find inspiration in ideas, products, and applications that stimulate fresh perspectives and thinking on design in and around the home.
Ideal for those who appreciate all levels of design or are seeking alternatives to everyday choices. Featured reThink inspirations include:
• Unbounded Designs in Furniture
• Outdoor Social & Experiential Design
• Design Sensations in Remodeling
• Home Media: So Much | Made Simple
• Textures in Exotic Wood
• Multimedia: A Day Made of Glass
• Activity: Design Warm up
• The Classic/Modern Window
When: Friday, April 29, 5:00-9:30 PM, Saturday, April 30, 9:00 AM -4:00 PM
Where: The Banana Factory | Crayola Gallery | Bethlehem, PA
Tickets: Available at the door. $3 & $5 admission.
For those of you seeking a formulated base for energy efficient building and remodeling, there is a demonstration home that will give you direction to what you were look for, and a whole lot more. Encompassing innovative building, energy, and design technologies throughout the entire space, you can see, touch, and experience building science in what it offers for responsive home living now and into the future.
HoudenHall | Pennsylvania’s first experiential home center
Home Professional:
Ruhmel Contracting
9905 Old 22
Breinigsville PA 18031
610.366.0910
So you’ve always wanted a fireplace for added warmth and ambiance, but struggled with where it would fit within your home. Here’s an option that is sure to give you reason to reconsider once ignored spaces.
Today’s fireplaces come in such a wide range of styles, sizes, and designs, that fitting one where you’d like is almost always possible.
Now where did you leave that tape measure?
Home Professional:
Sorensen Construction
New Tripoli, PA
610.298.8098
Organized, practical spaces, no mater the size, are a worthy consideration that enhances both personal and home values.
Home Professional:
Creative Closets, Ltd
Allentown, PA
610.433.0933
Friday, March 25, 2011: 6pm – 10pm
Saturday, March 26, 2011: 10am – 9pm
Sunday, March 27, 2011: 11am – 5pm
$6.00 per person Children under 12 are free
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