We’ve reached another ‘End of an Era’ this week as Crag Chadwick has announced that his HomeVision home automation controller business is winding up. It’s testament to Craig’s design that the 8-bit hardware has survived well into a 64-bit world and indeed still powers many homes today. Its legendary reliability, expandability, flexibility and elegant macro …
Marmitek BabyView 725: Wireless monitoring for your digital home
While numerous baby monitors have moved to work with mobile apps, Marmitek’s newest creation has opted to use it’s own touch screen monitor. The Marmitek BabyView 725 uses digital transmission to offer a protected and interference totally free audio and video link. The video camera is mains powered while the monitor uses a rechargeable battery do …
Design Quote: Susanna Salk On Symmetry
In her newest book, It’s The bit Things, stylist as well as author Susanna Salk looks at the details that add style to every room, like the significance of symmetry when embellishing with color. This strong bedroom employs the utilize of pairs, seen in the symmetrically stacked pillows as well as night tables that mirror the look …
Interview: Jonathan Adler
One suspects designer Jonathan Adler has a great sense of humour just by looking at his cheeky designs. reading the not-so-fine print on his website confirms it. Take this bio entry: “Tapped to design a real-life Malibu dream house to celebrate Barbie’s 50th. Can finally make amends for decapitating sister’s Barbie in 1974.” It’s the …
Stone Mansion In Chicago
There are a great deal of sprawling mega-mansions out there. even at 10,000 square feet, though, this limestone-clad estate just north of Chicago isn’t one of them. The light-filled interior is definitely grand as well as expansive, however from the exterior, it’s much more Petit Trianon than palace of Versailles. Let’s take a peek. Architecturally, …
Easy DIY: Nautical Lampshade
exhausted of your table lamps? update them by recovering the shades in statement wallpaper remnants. simply apply a layer of wallpaper paste to the existing shade then affix the paper, eliminating wrinkles as you go using a wallpaper smoother and overlapping by about a 1⁄2″ at the seam. Editor’s tip: striped wallpaper looks best on a …
Designer Tips: exactly how To get A Sofa, part two
assistant style editor Jennifer Koper shares professional recommendations on buying for sofas. Now that you’ve made a decision what style of sofa you want, it’s time to believe about quality. exactly how a sofa is made directly effects its longevity. If you’re seeking to invest in a sofa that has staying power, here are some crucial …
Deals: Our picks of the Black Friday wise house tech Bargains
Black Friday may be our favourite American import these days. however there are so numerous tech bargains to selected from it can be difficult to see the wood for the trees. So right here are a few of our favourites, whatever from a £11 stocking filler to some great HD projectors as well as 4K tellies. as well …