Calvin Klein’s $25 million Los Angeles mansion

Hello, Happy New Year dear friends!
It’s my hope that you began the year well and you are now on a high note to achieve what you have set out for 2016. This year the interior pulse is promising to be a partner in your design world, we will strive to give you best in the industry from African, Contemporary, Classical and many more from local and international sphere. To kick start this year, we explorer new Calvin Klein’s $25 million Los Angeles mansion, with a breathtaking aesthetic.
 Calvin Klein is an American modern fashion icon, as designer! We all have to guess the design of the mansion have to be great.
While Klein's Miami Beach house featured a rustic, yet elegant, vibe and warm, neutral colors, his new Hollywood Hills abode is characterized by far more modern details.

The 9,300-square-foot manse is dripping with contemporary design touches, including several glass walls, a 65-foot infinity pool, and an entryway that features a bridge sitting atop a waterfall.

According to Curbed, the five-bedroom, seven-bathroom wonder was designed by Paul McClean, a designer skilled in all things contemporary.

 

Take a tour of Klein's new space in the photos below. Next week we face our own king maker in the industry, Planning Interiors the design firm feted for bringing out the best of Kenya in JKIA.

THE INTERIOR DESIGNER

These days any object be it building structures, packaging, communication gadgets and everything calls out for excellent designs. An excellent design means a good product or an object of convenient function and beauty. Large scale expos and exhibitions devote to design have been booming in recent years. From Ideal Interiors Expo, Kenya Homes Expo to Kuona Trust design related events, also we have world renowned designs shops ranging from furniture, fashions and more opening in the city in the sun. This set denotation that we have a new sense of design and thus why more international designs brands are running to open shops, restaurant and offices. If you are unaware of design, you are estranged from the main stream. Wow! Most of us think old fashioned design should vanish! Nope, quality and technology can’t stand by its own we need art and elegance from old fashioned design. From a wide point of view, design is a tool, not a goal. Seriously we want that I phone 6, Samsung galaxy phones for what they do. Design is a process of innovation to solve current problems combined with art and elegance and not really object just to exist.

  A true designer faces up to a current problem, solves it and imparts elegance and is able to draw out the heart of the solution needed with extras. An excellent designer makes something beyond what users and clients required. A great designer is able to read others people minds, because he or she works for those people.

  Who is an excellent designer? What makes an excellent mind of a designer? Ha! This is especially to my friends who think Interior Architecture or rather Interior Design is that job you just color coordinate and that all! " IYO KAZI YA RANGI NA DRAPERIES" Seriously being an interior architecture is not that simple as people passive it. A true interior designers or designers in general they are educational width, cultural depth, communication capability, listening attitude, wide discrimination, humble care, continuous passion, sense of humor etc. Not only is it hard to learn all these factors, but a designer need to make a lot of effort to maintain them continuously. Interior design is not a walk in the park, I thought that too even architectural student think that too, but that not true. Imagine being given a brief with one word "HOPE" to design a space. Where do you start? Let think differently, this is a field that demands a lot. Interior design is one of the most challeging fields and should be tackled with care, think of making a room airy as a brief given to you and the room is at the base no natural light!......................... To continue...............

INTERIOR NETWORKING FORUM OCT- 16

Dear Sir/Madam,

Following the success of our 3rd Interiors Networking Forum dubbed “Building Synergy in Innovation & Design”, we would like to extend an invitation to you to attend the 4 Interiors Networking Forum.

The Forum is themed “The Role/Place/Impact of Interior Design in Our Economy”.

The session which is organized by Ideal Interiors East Africa in conjunction with Interiors Design Association of Kenya (IDAK) is slated for 16th October 2015 – 6.00pm at Southern Sun Mayfair Hotel Westlands.

Owing to the enormous potential in your organization, you have a chance to secure your delegate seat at the forum whose participants will range from Interior Designers, Property Developers, Architects, High-end Contractors, Home Owners, Building & Construction companies among other players.

We are confident that your participation in the networking forum will enable the broad community of consumers to benefit from your line of products and services. Your timely confirmation will be highly appreciated owing to the great interest that this special engagement has already generated among the industry players.

Follow this link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interiors-networking-forum-oct-2015-tickets-18862260529?ref=ecount  in order to get your invitation ticket, which you will print out and bring with you to the venue.

We look forward to your positive response.

Regards,

Zilpha O. Musembi

Customer Relations Executive

Tel No: +254 704 580 320 | +254 700 333 888

Location: Land Vale No. 30, Westlands Rd

Email: zilpha@interiors.co.ke

Website: www.interiors.co.ke

African Prints

“I love to be black, black makes me the wow factor in my class, am the darkest tone, now it’s true our brother I mean our fellow black Guy will be jetting soon to his home. Home, away from 1st and 2nd world fancy interiors, mmm can we accommodate the Guy. The answer is definitely big yes! Our interiors are far the best in this world. Obama’s Interiors when he comes I thought was a good tittle for our first  July post, but I will think about it or I call it African Interiors for Obama’s home coming?

It is time to put the vivacious African interiors and its captivating prints, artifacts and designs under the spotlight when Obama comes home. Hoping, hoping, just hoping to be President Obama’s interiors stylist when he comes, this is just a preview of what I can offer to make him feel at home.” 

This was our July post, as we explore our self as Africans we have a rich and  notable interior stuff to offer to world, our consumable traditional interiors includes from Prints,  Yes African Prints have exploded all over the world. Also known as Ankara in Nigeria, and Kitenge in East Africa, it's been introduced more and more into interior design and now found it's own firm footing.

The African look dwells a lot on earth and nature color schemes, fixtures and accents made of metal, and some tribal accents such as Prints. This kind of home interior theme is gaining popularity mainly because it retains a cozy yet at the same time contemporary touch on home spaces, which can be adapted by both big and small homes.

African prints are very versatile. They easily give a pop of color and pattern to any furniture without looking stodgy or out of place. They can be overwhelming to the eyes though, thus they are best used on pillow cases and small rugs as they provide accent and not actual schematic designs.

Eva Sonaike and House of Arike  are two designs houses famed for the use of African prints.

Eva Sonaike.

To all aspiring Interior Designers and those who have Achieved to be one

The interiors design industry is geared to witness an explosion of new ways of doing business with dedicated product suppliers as a result of the Design Bill queued for tabling in Kenya’s National Assembly in about 60 days.

As like minds who would be guided by the forthcoming law, the interiors design sector players comprising; Product Manufacturers and Suppliers, Architects and Interior Designers, Developers and Real Estate Managers, have a chance to hasten the pace of creating interfaces that are business-safe, business-friendly and intuitive to keep customer satisfaction levels high.

In the foregoing, you have a chance to better the interiors marketplace by personally availing yourself to a must attend interiors business networking forum themed: Building Synergy in Innovation & Design.

The session organized by Ideal Interiors East Africa in conjunction with Interiors Design Association of Kenya (IDAK) and the Kenya Bureau of Standards is slated for 31st July, 2015 – 6.00pm at Southern Sun Hotel Westlands. The networking session is lined to host legislators who’ll front the above Design Bill in Parliament.

Owing to the enormous potential in your organization, you have a chance to secure your delegate seat at the forum whose participants will range from Interior Designers, Property Developers, Architects, High-end Contractors, Home Owners, Building & Construction companies among other players

We are confident that your participation in the networking forum will enable the broad community of consumers benefit from your line of products and services. Your timely confirmation will be of great necessity considering the interest that this special engagement has already generated among the industry players.

We look forward to your positive response.

Kind Regards,

Zilpha O. Musembi

Customer Relations Executive

Tel No: +254 704 580 320 | +254 700 333 888

Location: Land Vale No. 30, Westlands Rd

Email: zilpha@interiors.co.ke

Obama's Home Visit Suite Interiors (may be) (vivacious African interiors )

    I love  being black, black makes me the wow factor in my class, am the darkest tone, now it’s true our brother I mean our fellow black Guy will be jetting soon to his home. Home, away from 1^st and 2^nd world fancy interiors, mmm can we accommodate the Guy. The answer is definitely big yes! Our interiors are far the best in this world. Obama’s Interiors when he comes I thought was a good tittle for our first  July post, but I will think about it or I call it African Interiors for Obama’s home coming?

    It is time to put the vivacious African interiors and its captivating prints, artifacts and designs under the spotlight when Obama comes home. Hoping, hoping, just hoping to be President Obama’s interiors stylist when he comes, this is just a preview of what I can offer to make him feel at home.

Going for an African style is all about reconnecting with nature and its unadulterated magic. Unlike many other themes, trying to add an African flavor to the room without using organic and sustainable materials is next to impossible. Wood in its various forms is an important constituent of the African design scheme. You have plenty of choices here with cedar, ebony or African mahogany from Congo rain forest or many other popular local wood types. If you are opting for a full-fledged African look, then artifacts and earthenware are also a great way of expressing the theme in its truest form.

    Vivid colors combined with earth tones are the basis of this modern African interior style. Details such as animal prints further emphasize the splendor of the black continent. Virtual masks and wooden figures giving to the space mystical note. The recipe for this decorating style is simple – in the house you should enter the warmth of the sun and sand, but also the wealth of flora and fauna.

    Kenyans believe interior design is expensive and thus this is for you. The simplest version of the African interior can be done with minimal cost to your budget, all you need to do is set the wall wallpaper African native, rural or animal themes. Another option for editing home in African style is to enter rough and simply wicker furniture with low quality of the surface finish.

    Nothing else makes this interior special and unique such as masks from clay and wood made ​​by local craftsmen, which are so simple made and possess great aesthetic properties. Similar pleasing effect is achieved by using natural leather from zebra in the interior and wallpapers with landscapes of sunsets and sunrises in Africa.

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Bringing Nature to your living spaces by Interiorscaping and Painting It Green

The living space such as lounges, kitchen, bedrooms and bathrooms is the spaces where we spend precious part of our days when we are at home, these spaces should be comforting and relaxing spaces where you should feel re- energized, and this is the true meaning of being at home. Bringing nature to your spaces is one way of making your spaces cozy and feels thrilled, this can be achieved by installing interior plants and painting it green.

Painting green is one of the ways you could make your living room more enjoyable by implementing the color green in the decoration. You can do it in various ways, for example with some details such as curtains, pillows, or rugs. Especially if you are feeling skeptical, this way you can give it a try and change it easily if you don’t like it. Or, if you do like it, then you can do something more permanent, such as buying furniture in this color or painting the walls.

Why decorate your living room in green? Green is the color of life and energy, and it symbolizes renewal, freshness, harmony and safety. Just by looking at this color, our minds rest and relax, and this color’s soothing effect is well-known. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that this is the most frequent color in nature, so when we see this color, we feel as if we are surrounded by nature, and that makes us feel peaceful and calm. It is also said that this color helps enhance vision, as well as alleviate depression and anxiety. Green makes us feel hopeful, calm, energized and relaxed. It increases optimism and it looks youthful and lively.

Installation of interior plants is another way of bring nature into our living spaces. Most of us know instinctively that being close to greenery makes us feel more at ease with our surroundings. We experience less stress when there are plants around us. Buildings are quieter and more relaxed but, at the same time, more stimulating and interesting. A substantial body of academic research has shown conclusively that interior landscaping has dramatic effects on the wellbeing of building occupants and thus play big role of making any space cozy.

Particular benefits of interior plants include:

v  Reducing carbon dioxide levels

v  Increasing humidity

v  Reducing levels of certain pollutants, such as benzene and nitrogen dioxide

v  Reducing airborne dust levels

v  Keeping air temperatures down