Category Archives: Additional space

Redefining Dining Areas

Redefining Dining Areas – As we venture into the design landscape of the future, new trends make culinary delights even tastier in tasteful interiors. It’s time to dust off the dining room and venture into the dining room trends of 2024! From contemporary dining table designs that redefine elegance to chairs that epitomize style, we take a look at the refreshing inspirations.

Selected dining rooms in 2024 are poised to usher in a new era of design ideas. The main focus is sustainability, a fusion of styles, a new emphasis on soft shapes and a new take on classic designs. In addition, the trends are set to achieve a harmonious balance between style and function. The world of design is embracing ecological awareness, tranquility and creativity in a shift from traditional norms. In return, the dining rooms of 2024 will not only be visually stunning, but also in tune with … Read the rest

Innovating With Indoor Gardens

Innovating With Indoor Gardens – While growing organic herbs and vegetables in your home is a good idea, all those trays and overhead lights can take up a lot of space. That’s where OGarden comes in. The result of a successful Kickstarter campaign, it houses the plants in what is essentially a mini ferris wheel with a grow light in the middle.

Users start by planting seeds in included peat pellets, outside the OGarden. Once those seeds have sprouted, they are moved into the device (together with their peat pellets). There they slowly rotate around the light, while they receive water and a supplied biological growth supplement. They are mounted in holes in the rim, which prevent them from falling out when standing.

Innovating With Indoor Gardens

The main selling point of the system is that it takes up less floor space than a traditional indoor grow setup. That said, … Read the rest

Maximizing Mudroom Functionality

Maximizing Mudroom Functionality – We don’t have a proper mudroom in our house and our garage door, which we use as our primary entrance, throws us directly into our kitchen. So, you may remember that we imposed one’s function on our large kitchen remodel by placing large cabinets with doors—kind of like lockers, but nicer—right next to the door that leads to our garage. If you’ve got a small space but still want some mudroom storage, we recommend cabinetry with doors like these! But now that we’ve been living with our mudroom lockers for more than two years since our kitchen renovation, we’ve realized that a few simple changes will make these hidden cubbies work a lot more for us.

To help you get oriented, here’s the area of ​​our kitchen we’re talking about. That garage door is our main entrance, and if you look at the floor plan options … Read the rest

Revamping Entryway Spaces

Revamping Entryway Spaces – One of the design challenges I faced when moving into our new home was a difficult entryway. It’s a soft wall between the hallway and Skyler’s office, so you can’t have a large piece of furniture like a console. We also keep our keys in a bowl in the entry way so we always know where they are, but we needed something high enough for Jett to reach. We had furniture that was long and dense enough, but the problem was that Mr. Jones we both hated. I came up with a few ideas for this space, but in the end I decided to remodel a piece we already had to save money. In today’s post I’m sharing how I fixed up this space with very little money and some ideas I had for the wrong entryway!

The furniture we had came from Homegoods years ago … Read the rest

Crafting Relaxing Meditation Spaces

Crafting Relaxing Meditation Spaces – Our new home My husband and I have been working on together for the past two years. With only two bedrooms and limited space in our small house, the second bedroom was the obvious choice for my rest room. Thankfully, the place feels nice and is not a high traffic area so it doesn’t disturb my relaxing time.

Your rest room, however, can be anywhere in the house you feel most comfortable. My resting place is a spare bedroom converted into my home office. My friend’s room has her resting place. Your space can be big or small. The only requirement is that it is not a highly trafficked and relaxed place.

Crafting Relaxing Meditation Spaces

I love earth tones. Browns, blues and greens are my favorite combinations of colors to put in a room. Colors are very soothing to me and help me relax.… Read the rest

Designing Pet-friendly Areas

Designing Pet-friendly Areas – The final design proposal for Fred Anderson Park was presented at a public meeting on November 20. Below is a brief description of the proposed dog-friendly area, comparing it to other dog parks in Chicago and highlighting some interesting design features.

St. between Wabash Avenue and East Street. Right now, the lot is just an empty lot with a small asphalt parking lot on the north side.

Designing Pet-friendly Areas

The park covers an area of ​​1.1 acres.  Now, Chicago’s “dog-friendly” areas are small, and this park will be no exception.  Frisbee Dog, Dog Free Run –

Pet Friendly Interior Design: Pet Proofing Tips & Tricks

The proposed small dog area is approximately 67′ x 94′ oval in shape and is primarily (80%) paved with concrete.  About 18 percent of the surface will be an “artificial turf” feature, a central raised planting, and a water channel … Read the rest

Sustainable Home Improvement Projects

Sustainable Home Improvement Projects – As the green initiative continues to grow, more and more homeowners are starting to implement measures to make their homes more environmentally friendly. There are many ways to join the fight for a more sustainable and environmentally friendly future; You can do some of these in the comfort of your own home. Even seemingly small changes play a big role in creating a more environmentally friendly society. This guide explores a variety of eco-friendly home improvement projects that can help you join the initiative towards a greener future.

One of the bigger and more impactful changes you can make towards a more environmentally friendly lifestyle is to install metal roofing on your home. Metal roofing is one of the most sustainable roofing options for several reasons. First of all, it is very energy efficient. Metal roofs are coated with Kynar 500 resin coating, which helps … Read the rest

Modernizing Laundry Room Designs

Modernizing Laundry Room Designs – Greetings from midweek! I’ve been away from the blog for a few days, working on a few things behind the scenes. Just this morning, I had a meeting with my contact at the Committee on the Sheltered (COTS), a local nonprofit I work with every year (see all previous space conversions for COTS here ).

I learned that there are two other homes they use as transitional housing that need to be remodeled, and I will be working on them this fall. These houses excite me very much; There are two more kitchens to be renovated and at least two more bathrooms to be renovated. I’ll be sure to document space transformations here on the blog as I always do!

Modernizing Laundry Room Designs

Flip house in Las Vegas under construction, popcorn ceilings removed, walls redesigned. You know how I feel about the smooth texture; … Read the rest

Customizing Craft And Hobby Spaces

Customizing Craft And Hobby Spaces – From hidden storage to cubbies that tuck away supplies and tools to handy open storage, custom craft and hobby rooms are designed around your crafting needs.

Crafts and toys galore! Kids and crafts require lots of storage and organization. Tall custom cabinets and shelving keep project supplies out of reach of little hands.

Customizing Craft And Hobby Spaces

And slide-out baskets and drawers under the bench provide the perfect place for kids to grab (and put away!) things like stuffed animals, books and toys.

Ultimate Guide To Kids Playroom Design

An organized space frees your mind so you can focus on creativity! When you are not looking for items, you can spend your efforts on your projects.

This custom craft room has plenty of open storage to keep tools and materials within reach, as well as a large work surface.

Your hobby is unique, … Read the rest

Planning Playrooms For Kids

Planning Playrooms For Kids – Hi friends, I’m so glad you stopped by Postbox Designs! I’m a Mom of 3, a Graphic Designer, and I eat Oreos for lunch. 🙂 And if you’ve been hanging around here long enough, you know I’m a HUGE talker

And that’s especially true when I work at a children’s place. We recently launched Postbox Designs for KIDS – a custom Interior E-Designer just for kids! So when this mother of three came to me, she was looking for a centerpiece that would also reflect her love of all things Mid Century Modern. So what does Mid Century Modern design look like? Let me show you around these fun, fun, and fun playrooms for this family of 5!

Planning Playrooms For Kids

This Makeroom game is needed to combine many great activities in one space. In this 13′-x18′ space we fit in:

Playroom Storage For

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