Choosing the Right Childrens Furniture

It’s a common dilemma: decorating a toddler nursery with the right Child Furniture. Your child’s outgrown teddy bears and pastel ribbons, and is ready for a motif that looks more “grown up” but still retains that sense of innocence. You also want child furniture that’s as practical as it is pretty. After all, your child’s grown more active and curious. He loves to play, read, and occasionally subject his toys to the loud banging and

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Great Looking Mission Furniture from Stickley

If you like your furniture built solid and built to last with no frills or needless embellishment, then Mission Style furniture is what you’re looking for. The Mission or Arts and Crafts Movement was a backlash against the extravagant, over-the-top designs of the Victorian era and also against the mass produced furniture emerging after the industrial revolution. In the late 1890s, craftsmen such as Gustav Stickley led the charge to incorporate clean, geometric lines and

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Furniture that’s Outside the Indoors

Double chaises and other comforts bring the inside out.The furniture business is happy to accommodate cuddlers.Oversize chairs, double beds and love seats are cases in point; you have to get close to make the most of them. But until recently, outdoor togetherness was largely the purview of campers who can throw down tents, mats and sleeping bags when the mood strikes. No more.

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WHAT’S HOT OUTDOORS

I saw these ideas from the Houston Chronicle today and wanted to pass them along. Hopefully, we have great weather this summer and can enjoy our time outside. CUSHIONS: Consumers want indoor comforts outside. Many companies sell furniture and umbrellas made with Sunbrella brand fabrics, which are “pretty much indestructible,” says Chair King’s Judy Evans. Water beads up and rolls off. Sunbrella also offers different grades of protection with one-, three- and five-year no-fade warranties.

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Italy’s biggest bedding producer open New York store

Magniflex, with a $24K mattress, hopes 2,000-sq.-ft. Soho unit will herald more NEW YORK — Magniflex, Italy’s largest mattress producer, takes a big step here next week when it opens its first U.S. store in Manhattan’s trendy Soho district. If it does well, more could follow here and in key markets across the country. The company’s unique assortment of mattresses, some of which are covered with exotic ticking fashioned from gold and silver fibers, brings

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