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Kitchen Design Question? Where can I find websites of kitchen designs? I have a sort-of L-shaped kitchen, I want pictures of modern kitchens that are L-shaped or at least L shaped. Note: I need answers quick!

Where is a good site with pictures of "modern retro" rooms? Where everythings sleek., funky, curvy, bright, colorful. There are no designs, just simple but the shapes are funky and colors are bright, sort of like this: http://www.hawkfield.be/squidoo/images/Modern_Retro_Kitchen_01.jpg

what are some website that have a LOT of Home design Pictures? I am a foodie/Design addict and have been looking for a website sort of like foodporndaily.com where there is just like picture after picture of kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, etc. Not like articles or magazine websites like Architectural Digest, but where it features pics of different homes designs from modern to antique-esque. Thanks 10 points to best answer!

Free wesites where i can get pictures, information and design for restoring a 1920s farmhouse? Hello, recently bought a 1920's charming farmhouse style house. I would like to restore it to keep it's charm but still have modern conveniences in bathroom and kitchen. I would like to get ideas, pictures and designs. I would like info on how to restore the wood trim and floors, replace hardware.... colors that would keep the charm. Kitchen and bath designs... etc.

Decorating my kitchen - in modern "ethnic" theme. Using green and red, we have black appliances. Any help?. ? We'd like to celebrate our Latino heritage by using vibrant colors - mainly red/green but love yellow/orange. Anyway - with our kids we have black appliances (they dont show smudgey fingerprints like stainless steel does!) So I am looking for pictures, website, clippings with similar colors for our decorating-design inspiration? Thanks! Of course its not Christmas - it's not kelly green or emerald green.... And being proud of being Latino is not un-American. How lame are you, if you think that? Why is it so American to be proud of being Irish or Italian but not Latino?

Interior design ideas? Working with modern furniture in small condo!? I'm moving into a new condo. Long story short, it's owned by my boyfriend's uncle.... so he's giving me all of the furniture that's in there. It's a very small one-bedroom. I wish I had a picture, but I don't. It's got white walls, white carpet, white ceilings, and black furniture. Black leather sofa, black tv stand, black dining room chairs, black stools, black oriental-inspired dresser, and a black bedframe with a semi-circle headboard. The coffee table is a rectangular piece of glass over a really awesome panther-sculpture. The panther's shoulders and hips hold up the table. The only splash of color is the cabinets in the kitchen that have been painted a bright turquoise. The condo is much more modern than my tastes, but I'm willing to work with it. The only problem is.... I'm not completely satisfied with the way it looks just yet. I hate having so much white and black in a small space. I like the contrast, but it's too overwhelming. Another issue is my furniture I'm bringing with me is mostly earth colors like brown and beige. Any ideas how I could make this work? Suggestions for painting the wall another color? Or possibly the cabinets? I'm fine with turquoise but if there's another color that works better I'm willing to give it a try. Thanks!

Where can I find the funky looking posable multi arm/bulb lamp used in Design On A Dime Ep. 1310 (15 Sept 09)? This lamp was used in the "Sports Themed Bedroom" on Design on a Dime episode 1310 which re-ran on 15 Sept 09. You can see it here: http://www.hgtv.com/decorating/sports-themed-bedroom/pictures/page-3.html and a similar looking one was also used in Colorsplash "High End Modern Italian Kitchen On A Budget" episode which re-ran on 16 Sept 09. Any information anyone is willing to share will be greatly appreciated! Edit to add: I did extensive web-searching (including Target) before I started this enquiry. Again, any information (including what one might call the lamp to aid in searching) will be appreciated!

editing assistance? ~My Condo I lived in a modernization two-bedroom apartment for two years. In the family room, I had a big aquarium. I had a wall unit that included book shelves. There was a comfortable sofa, a plasma television, under television table was a Sony DVD player, to west word wall was the computer, and other different items. There were pictures and a big map of the world on the wall of my bedroom. The kitchen in my apartment had a TV, a dinette table to the north-west wall, a microwave oven was hung below the top of the drawers , a blender, a toaster, and a juicer. Each room in my apartment was well lay-out, Also, from the family room windows, you were able to see our gorgeous swimming pool. It was 60 meters long and filled with blue water. As you can see from the above condo description I lived in a modern, well designed, and organized home. fix any possible errors you see. thank you.

For all the designers? I have white tile floors a black sofa and I want to start making over the house fresh my walls are white and I want to do mabie 3 or 4 different colors threwout the house for each room I was thinking that I want something very different I like the oranges, reds, greens, I have black sofa's with chrome legs When you first walk in my house you can see the entire house dining living and kitchen I want to go modern so give me some ideas or send me some pictures of some good colors that go together and some cool designs that I could do with them and where I would put them. My kitchen cabinets are light wood if you want pictures to really go out of your way and help me out emil me at nikkidavis26@yahoo.com and I have pics of the 3 rooms I would really appriciate it Hope to see and hear some cool idea's

I need help designing my house? My husband and I will be moving into our first, new home on May 15th. I need help with how to pick a colors for the room! We will get a tan couch for the living room. The Kitchen and Living room are attached and small. So I want the colors to blend. The bathroom I want maybe black and white. Our bedroom I want modern and "homey" I like greens, browns, red, black and white. Any help would be great. Pictures of your ideas or colors would be AWESOME!!! Thanks!

can you write a descriptive paragraph about "your dream house"? ok, i did mine, but it needs some editting, could somebody help me? MY DREAM HOUSE: When you first enter the enormous house from the front door, which was yellow-colored with gilded flowery designs, you will get in an impressive spacious living room with large glass windows, surrounded by pretty large curtains making the scene uniquely nice. A small purple sofa is put facing the window. A huge modern TV was placed by the wall, and you can find speakers in every corner of the room. There’s another purple sofa with pillows stitched “home sweet home” in front of the TV. A beautiful fireplace is put in the room to make it look warm. There are monumental picture frames, very vivid to be seen, all were placed beside each other nicely. The kitchen is a picturesque, a beautiful eating table made of glass is placed in the center, and chairs covered with white leather. As you go upstairs you will find the bedroom made in a white-pink combination. The walls and the floor are white, and the bed and curtains, as well as some decorations are pink, which gives the room a special touch. There’s a door which leads to the dressing room, a room that’s filled with different types of clothes and shoes, there’s also a big mirror with lights which made the room look like a fashion show stage.

interior design help!!!? I'm now shopping for window treatments in the living room, but don't know what color to shop for that will enhances the room. our living room and the kitchen is one room separated by an island and the flooring. the living room area is a beige color carpet and the kitchen is tile in the color of different shade of beige. the wood cabinet in the kitchen is a cross between an oak/walnut stain. with granite countertop. also some shade of beige with black dots and gray. We have a leather corner sectional in the color cream. I know it's kind of confusing without pictures, but i kinda feel that the window treatment should not be another color of beige or cream. what color should I get for the roller shade that will end up behind one corner of the sectional? our wall is eggshell white. btw, I was aiming for a modern contemporary look for the room, but kind of sophisticated.

wht do u think bout this ppl? From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we in the West take for granted. Here are 20 of their most influential innovations: (1) The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Makkah and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London. The Arabic “qahwa” became the Turkish “kahve” then the Italian “caffé” and then English “coffee”. (2) The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word “qamara” for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one. (3) A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From there it spread westward to Europe — where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century — and eastward as far as Japan. The word “rook” comes from the Persian “rukh”, which means chariot. (4) A thousand years before the Wright brothers, a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn’t. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles’ feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing — concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him. (5) Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders’ most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed’s Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. (6) Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam’s foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today — liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry. (7) The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206) shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock. (8) Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China. However, it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders’ metal armour and was an effective form of insulation — so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland. (9) The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe’s Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe’s castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world’s — with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. The architect of Henry V’s castle was a Muslim. (10) Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon. It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it. Muslim doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today. (11) The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe. (12) The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it. (13) The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action. (14) The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi around 825. Algebra was named after al-Khwarizmi’ s book, Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah, much of whose contents are still in use. The work of Muslim maths scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Algorithms and much of the theory of trigonometry came from the Muslim world. And Al-Kindi’s discovery of frequency analysis rendered all the codes of the ancient world soluble and created the basis of modern cryptology. (15) Ali ibn Nafi, known by his nickname of Ziryab (Blackbird) came from Iraq to Cordoba in the 9th century and brought with him the concept of the three-course meal — soup, followed by fish or meat, then fruit and nuts. He also introduced crystal glasses (which had been invented after experiments with rock crystal by Abbas ibn Firnas). (16) Carpets were regarded as part of paradise by mediaeval Muslims, thanks to their advanced weaving techniques, new tinctures from Islamic chemistry and highly developed sense of pattern and arabesque which were the basis of Islam’s non-representationa l art. In contrast, Europe’s floors were distinctly earthly, not to say earthy, until Arabian and Persian carpets were introduced. In England, as Erasmus recorded, floors were “covered in rushes, occasionally renewed, but so imperfectly that the bottom layer is left undisturbed, sometimes for 20 years, harbouring expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale droppings, scraps of fish, and other abominations not fit to be mentioned”. Carpets, unsurprisingly, caught on quickly. (17) The modern cheque comes from the Arabic “saqq”, a written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered, to avoid money having to be transported across dangerous terrain. In the 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China drawn on his bank in Baghdad. (18) By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, “is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth”. It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth’s circumference to be 40, 253.4km — less than 200km out. Al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139. (19) Though the Chinese invented saltpetre gunpowder, and used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it could be purified using potassium nitrate for military use. Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders. By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they called a “self-moving and combusting egg”, and a torpedo — a self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up. (20) Mediaeval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip