Q. I am having a difficult time embellishing our primary bedroom. The headboard wall is papered in a subtle silver as well as white pattern, as well as the furniture is dark brown oak. I just recently installed drapery hardware however I have no concept what colour or pattern of drapery to hang. I would …
In The Spotlight: Canadian-Born artist Agnes Martin
executive editor Kimberley brown shares why Canadian-born artist Agnes Martin should be on your radar. Inspiration can come from anywhere, but when designers turn to artists, things tend to get gorgeous fast. Take Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrain-inspired dresses in 1965, Salvador Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli’s lobster dress in 1937 and Takashi Murakami’s smiling flowers for Louis …
Video: very amazing Touch switch coming to Iridium Mobile?
Here’a fab looking touch switch posted to Twitter by Nikolay Rusanov. From what we can make out from the short video the unit supports PoE (although there’s a mains adaptor plugged into it). There’s a micro USB port on the rear, presumably for programming. The UI borrows heavily from Windows Mobile and looks fast and responsive. We asked Nikolay what …
Video Review: Amazon Echo Your smart home Assistant?
The new Echo is a 9 inch high tube shaped Bluetooth and Wi-Fi speaker coupled to Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, their version of Apple’s Siri or Google Now. Amazon Echo is developed around your voice. It’s always on—just ask for information, music, news, weather, and more. Echo begins working as soon as it detects the …
Rowhouse Reno: 1 Month To Go!
We are lastly in the house stretch of our rowhouse renovation. (Click right here if you missed my previous posts.) The floors have been installed, tile chosen out, appliances delivered, the primer is going up as well as the cupboards are being made. We are lastly seeing it come together. I believed I would provide …
Christmas Wrapping concepts
It’s not truly looking or feeling like Christmas yet, however there’s no escaping the building excitement. Of course, lots of have been preparing as well as buying as well as embellishing for weeks. Not me. I like the rush as well as enjoyment of last-minute everything. So the truth that I have already believed up …
Desert Nomad home
Unless you have a penchant for heat, snakes as well as cactus pruning, living in a desert may seem like a daunting idea. however this $875,000 two-bedroom, 1,500-square-foot abode makes moving to the desert seem desirable. For starters, it’s just on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona — not in a remote part of the Sahara. …
Lithe Audio All-In-One 6.5″ Bluetooth Ceiling speaker is ideal for Retrofits
The men over at TECH4 sent us this Lithe Audio Bluetooth ceiling speaker to inspect out. We’ve got a ceiling for it in mind, however won’t be able to set up it for a while yet, so we set it up on the bench in the meantime to total our evaluation of this fascinating device. …
DVD player with Ethernet Wireless as well as difficult Drive
Kiss have introduced one more new design in their series of house media server type devices… The two DVD players, KiSS DP-1504 as well as KiSS DP-1508 are based on the Slim Line DivX® Compatible DVD player KiSS DP-1500 with its built-in Ethernet Port as well as its PC Card Slot. These features allow these …
Automated home 2.0 – #21 wall mounting Our Loxone iPad with PoE Texas Adaptor – part 1
All building work stopped on the 24th March, due to the Covid-19 lockdown, but there’s still some things we can be getting on with, especially around plans for the electrical 2nd fix. Wall Mounted iPad I don’t think wall mounted touch screens are the way many of us would really choose to control our homes …