Make Designer Sectionals Company Policy

Congratulations! Your company went public, and so it’s time get to the store and buy some designer sectionals for your spacious new home. These products offered offer contemporary design and modern accessories for any room. This luxury Glide Italian leather sectional, for example, lends international flavor and works against the wall or in the center of the room. The tables are conveniently located on each end for easy living and dining; you no longer have to hunt for that extra chair when entertaining guests for business and pleasure. It’s so convenient; I’d contact the store to see if there are similar pieces available for the bedroom.
You might want to consider innovative decor from a similar European designer. A coffee table or bookcase will be a perfect addition to your collection. You could travel to Italy, but it might be best to look through any furniture magazine as a source for decorating solutions.

Red Rooms for Designer Bedrooms

Though not referring to designer bedrooms, “Red Room” was the best line shouted by little Danny Torrance in one of the best movies of all time. The phrase also applies here in this new designer youth collection for the spring season.  As far as kids bedroom sets apply, the above is built for style and function. 

In the photo, a Prince sleigh bed accompanies a miniature night table and nearby lamp for extra convenience.  Wood shelves on the far wall could hold all those books you wish they’d read, or works for family pictures too.  The dresser, while being attractive, contains a cabinet to hold extra toys and games.  The right floor pillows and bedding similarly provide both comfort and support.  Contrasting red and white colors pull this room together, so there’s room to work with seasonal themes and tastes.   

A Coffee Table That Works Wonders

Blocks of wood need not be restricted to kitchens in the case of this designer coffee table. I guess you could chop celery or apples here, but tables like these seem strictly for the living room. The unique natural design and steel frame would be great for any new home, and likely come assembled from any contemporary furniture store or online outlet. You can find this collection in the upcoming catalog every summer.

Room arrangement is also a snap as the size and shape eliminate the need for additional end tables. We can do away with chairs or the nearby sofa as floor pillows would provide seating for entertainment of multiple guests. Any way you slice it, this table will make any furniture seeker happy.

A Dining Room to Die For

Woah. Sometimes you find one of those clips on the internet that just blows you away—when I first saw this, my jaw dropped. Talk about my dream home! First of all, to be surrounded by this much natural light in a dining room is pretty unusual to say the least, but to have such amazing views while you eat—that’s true luxury.

This setting might be a “show” house meant to sell you high end furniture but if so, it’s working! I love the interesting wood grain on the simple dining table and bench with the lighting in this space. Notice how it matches the outdoor furniture (the wood bench) ? Genius. The chairs are probably the least interesting part--- they look like cheap molded plastic deals. But they could easily be replaced making this the perfect place to spend long Summer nights dining with friends.

Dining Tables That Wow the Senses

So often we’re scouring the net for the best new furniture products and we come up virtually empty-handed. We’re looking for new dining room furniture, and we either see the same old design classics, or knock-offs of the same, and never anything that really catches our eye.

Well, not today! Here’s an awesome dining table that any one of our loyal readers would love to have in their dining room set. What’s not to like about this great design? The amazing base with its super sleek steel legs is intriguing, both in its apparent lack of symmetry and its geometric shapes. The rounded glass top really accentuate the base’s style by allowing you to see it from all angles. It might cost a bit, but it’s probably our new favorite table out there. See, all this surfing of online furniture stores is worth it after all!

A Sofa Bed You Won’t Hide From Your Friends

We’ve talked a lot about sofas on this blog—designer sectional sofas, outdoor wicker sofas for the Summertime, and all kinds of leather sofas. We’ve skipped over a pretty important sofa topic though and you might be wondering why.
Well, the sofa bed is sort of the red-headed stepchild of the sofa family. After all, it’s neither quite a sofa or a bed in many cases… always failing to pull off the functionality of one or the other in any particularly convincing way. Sofa beds are often better sofas than beds, especially since most comfortable beds today are spring mattresses, which don’t really lend themselves to being folded up. This sofa bed is probably no different—the indifferent metal frame certainly doesn’t suggest that the designer tried to go out of the box on this one. We hope someday someone out there will come up with a practical sofa bed that’s just as good a bed as it is a sofa.

Furniture Designer Jean-Marie Massaud’s Vision of Neo-Bauhaus

Bauhaus is a tremendously important and pervasive influence on all design that followed its 1930’s and 1940’s heyday. In particular it influenced the design of countless skyscrapes and modern corporate culture environments and seemed to want to teach the world to be more practical and functional.

Many modern designers have struggled both to break free from the omnipresence of Bauhaus influence and to find a way to incorporate the best elements of the Bauhaus ethic in modern design work. Jean-Marie Massaud is one designer who seems to accomplished this astonishing feat. Just look at the amazing cabinet in this image, which reminds us a little of Bauhaus’s interesting pattern design (in the circular holes in the panels. The cabinet is obviously multi-functional and seems to be holding sculpture but could as well sit in an office and hold books or other practical things. The chair is an amazing piece as well, which is smooth dip, it looks surprisingly inviting for this space.

Bedroom Sets Both Personal and Practical

Shopping for a bedroom set is a pretty hard thing to do. You have to find a set where you like all the pieces individually and as a set. Frequently you come across a set where you like one or two items, like say the night stands or just the bed, but the rest doesn’t really float your boat.

If this sounds like the kind of problem you have when shopping for furniture, consider making your own designer bedroom set. The set pictured here is obviously a product of this special way of doing things. Admittedly, this set has a slight retro feel to it—the nightstands for example seem to have gilt edges that look kind of French antique in background; the lampshades are a little old-fashioned for our tastes, but you’ve got to admit it’s a pretty bed room set. What we like about it is the injection of someone’s personality into their style. Beyond that, the backboard above the bed, while kind of midcentury, is still a pretty practical item. We’re not sure why backboards like this have lost favor, because it’s a really practical part of a bed set: you lean your head against it when reading or watching TV. Much better than a hard wooden backboard.

Leather Sofas to Add Wow To Your Living Room

Is your living room in need of a little pizzazz? The living room shown above looks like it was. Considering that it looks like a one room condo, with its all white, standard hotel furniture, it’s a wonder that the owner doesn’t replace everything in it.

But they decided to go a different route and buy one piece to accent the room. And boy, does it ever do the job—with its sterling blue presentation, it really draws the eye away from the super boring kitchen cabinetry and coffee table. You have to wonder though if this was the right decision. After all, if it was our designer living room, we’d just have to replace everything else in order to make this sofa stick out in a better way. Right now it’s like an island in a sea of disappointment.

Wall Units for Your Designer Living Room

‘Wall Unit’ might not be the first words out of your mouth when you’re thinking of new furniture items for your designer living room. But don’t discount these handy items when you’re redecorating. They are at the forefront of storage accessories on the market, and today’s modern apartment dweller needs more and more clean and effective storage.

The wall units in this picture I found are a good example of practical and clean design. The open shelves can be for display or items that you use frequently, while the cabinet can ‘hide’ items that aren’t as attractive on constant public display. Or the cabinet can help you make your living room a little more minimal by literally minimizing the number of items out and about. Notice how the wall units closely match the low table, console or side table below it—this is also really important. You need to match your wall units to the rest of the furniture in your living room to make sure it’s totally clean.

Home Theater Living Room To Die For?

Here’s an increasingly popular new living room setup: a home theater-centric design. All the hallmarks of a new style home theater are there—the circular sectional sofa positioned close to the huge plasma screen; the pool table; the wall sconces; and yes, the Rock Band drum set.

How do you feel about this living room set? There’s something a little too bachelor-like about it for us. For one, our living room is not all about television. We like to entertain in our living space and it doesn’t seem like you could do that very well given how close the sofa is to the television. Besides, it might be bad for your eyes! What we’d prefer to see if the sofa placed a little farther from the plasma screen with a nice designer coffee table in front of it. In fact, we’d like to see a different sofa design. I realize it might not be the perfect home theater sofa, but maybe a more rectangular sofa would accentuate this space better.

Italian Furniture That Makes You Laugh

You’ve got to hand it to Italy.  There’s always coming up with some of the wackiest furniture designs.  It seems like every day someone emails me some crazy thing they saw and sure enough, it’s another Italian designer.

This piece is no exception.  It’s a sofa alright, maybe a futon given the long sitting surface, but there’s something funny about it the more you look at it.  Yes, somehow it looks like a tongue.  You can almost imagine this sofa in Keith Richards’ living room, except maybe it would be a leather sectional instead.  Still, it’s a cool piece and was probably a really hard one to design and produce.  Maybe we’ll be seeing it in a boutique hotel for rock’n’rollers someday soon!

Leather Sofas - Plush or Firm?

When you're selecting a sofa for your living room, there's a lot of factors to consider.  Do you want a sectional sofa or a loveseat?  Do you want a fabric sofa or a leather sofa?  Do you want a black sofa or a red sofa?

Perhaps the best starting point in choosing a sofa is determining how you're going to use it.  After all, picking a good piece of designer furniture often comes down to the practicality of that furniture for a particular space or use.  If you're looking for a sofa to watch hours of TV on, it's obviously important that it be very comfortable.  If it's a entry-way sofa in your office, the looks might be more important than comfort.

But we're all about comfort, so the sofa pictured above isn't going to work for us.  Surprised? Well you might be shocked to learn that plush cushions don't always translate to a comfortable sitting.  In fact, firm cushions offer more back support and therefore are more comfortable for most people.

Bar Stools to Set You Apart

Bar stools are just for bars anymore—in fact, they never were. We’ve had barstools in our homes for many years, even if we don’t think of them that way. The barstool can have a back (for support) or not—it can be pulled up to a real bar, or just a counter. It’s an extremely functional piece of furniture which has found its way into both the kitchen and the living room.

Here’s a barstool that at first seems kind of interesting. The way the legs bow out in the back is a fun play on the concept of the usual barstool and the black and steel color palette is pretty neat too. But this stool is made by one of the big box furniture makers (guess which one) and honestly, the quality is low. We’d love to see a better designer tackle design furniture like this so we could get one that’s a bit better quality in the end.

USA Furniture Designers Live Up To Expectations

We spend a lot of time of the web looking for inspiration for our designer furniture-outfitted home, and we see a whole lot of Scandinavian and Italian furniture pieces out there, looking super cool and sophisticated. It’s not often that we run into American furniture that really lights our fire, but this piece jumped out and grabbed us the other day.

What a cool coffee table idea—the three pieces of wood are bent in a really interesting shape and glued together, to make one seamless, clean design that really catches the eye. It almost tricks you into thinking this isn’t a hard piece of furniture to make, but we know otherwise. The fact that it was made in the USA is the icing on the cake—who knew you could get such great design from American furniture designers? Wow.

Pillows – Comforting or Choking?

Everyone loves a good comfy pillow.  Pillows almost become friends over time—you break them in, and then you use them for many years.  But how many pillows are enough?  How do you incorporate pillows into a modern bedroom with designer furnishings?

This video should be a wake-up call to many out there.  Comfort is great, and everyone loves to relax, but sometimes the things we use to relax can end up causing us stress.  The modern designer bedroom should really be minimal, in that it limits itself to only the furniture that you need—a great bed, a dresser, a nightstand and maybe a media console for the TV.  So it would really not make much sense to cover your bed with tons of pillows.  It’s kind of like your grandma’s place.  So next time, think about getting form-fitting pillows with memory foam:  two of them—no more than that.  Try it—you’ll thank us!

Cool Designer Furniture You Can Stand On

File this piece under “Super Cool” – we love it!  Modern storage solutions are one of those things that urban apartment dwellers like us crave.  We’ve got a limited amount of space, and a lot of stuff to fit into that space comfortably.  So we always come back to multi-purpose solutions like the one pictured.

What’s cool about this design is that the storage is “lofted” in a sense—it sticks up and uses the vertical space that we (or at least most of us) aren’t actually using.  At the same time, it provides a way for us to reach the higher spaces of the storage without a ladder or step stool.  The integrated steps in the design are dual purpose since they allow us to get the rollerskates off the top shelf while at the same time also serving as storage space for more items.  Someone needs to get on this design and get it out to the wider world pronto!