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The bedroom is a place in your home where they expect to find the best form of relaxation and comfort possible. This is where you can get all important sleep and needed some rest after a long day of tedious work. Whenever you feel being alone and away from all forms of noise and distraction, always thinking about staying in your modern bedroom. There is no denying that this is the bedroom design of the home you love most.Seeking for furniture for your bed to make it look appealing and pleasing to your eyes? Of course, in picking contemporary furniture for your modern bed, your taste should reflect into it, this is when modern bed comes into the picture.

If you are looking for quality bedroom furniture then you should go for contemporary brown bedroom furniture. By choosing such furniture can add luster and shine to your bedroom that will make really attractive. We all know that there are many modern styles available in the market. All you have to do is to do a little research for your contemporary bedroom furniture and make a choice about it.

Candice's signature style is one she describes as "a fusion of traditional form, scale and proportions, with the clean, crisp, simplistic beauty of modern design.”

Candice Olson, a leading designer in the United States and Canada, began her career in commercial and residential design after graduating from the School of Interior Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Candice received accolades and media attention for her distinctive and exceptional work before moving her design career to television. In fact, earlier in her career, the New York Times identified her as “one to watch.”

Candice’s foray into TV began when a Canadian station profiled one of her award-winning design projects. Her unique approach to residential design and engaging personality led to a weekly stint as a design contributor to the show. Today, Candice can be seen as the host and designer on HGTV’s Divine Design and as a judge on HGTV Design Star. She has been featured on the Today show, Live! With Regis and Kelly, The View and The Oprah Winfrey Show. In addition, Candice writes a syndicated biweekly newspaper column that runs in more than 400 U.S. newspapers.

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Haiku Designs dining set must reflect the Japanese sense of simplicity and created to be in harmony with nature through the use of warm and soothing earth tone colors, straight and simple lines, and the minimal use of decorative designs. Each piece should be attractive enough to stand on its own but also able to appeal and compliment the entire set. The entire set will look greater than each individual piece and will function as whole. When placed in a room the Dining room furniture should create a look of beauty that is relaxing and pleasing to the senses.

The Dining Room Furniture must be true to the spirit of traditional Japanese society offering plenty of room to gather together after the toils of the day (or before the toils of the day), and share in food and nourishment. The table and chair should be comfortable and functional, while at the same time creating a sense of ease, and relaxation whatever the number, whether it is for you and your special friend and family and all of your neighborhood villagers.

This Dining Room Furniture Set is the perfect combination of European elegance and old world style, all offered at an affordable price. Modern lines and dramatic color create an appealing, inviting and pleasing dining experience in your home. The Madrid is a perfect setting for opening that bottle of Spanish Sherry and serving a selection of delicious tapas for your friends.



This beautiful Dining Room Set reflects the unique style and history of Lisbon, the capital and largest city in Portugal. The Lisbon Dining Room Set has the minimalist theme and natural design ideal so prevalent in Japanese furniture. The Lisbon is a modern, contemporary dining room set offering a great blend of simplicity and elegance and is a classic addtion to any home.

by Bob Brooke

Do you sometimes get confused with furniture names? If you’re a collector of antiques, you probably have found that the same name can often refer to several different kinds of furniture. If you’re just starting to collect antiques, you’re probably just downright confused. Furniture was named in two ways: After its use or after its maker or manufacturer. Knowing that will help you in purchasing older pieces that may have names that seem strange to you today, for over time many furniture names have changed through use and have become part of the vernacular of English.
For instance, Lambert Hitchcock of Hitchcocksville, Connecticut, created the first mass-produced chair which today bears his name. The Boston rocker originated in a cabinetmaker’s shop in Boston. The davenport, a small desk with a hinged lid that opens out for writing, was originally made by William Davenport. Later, a large sofa which sometimes converted into a bed also became known as a davenport.
In colonial days, a bed meant a featherbed or mattress. The frame was known as a bedstead. Mirrors were known as looking glasses. A chest with four or more drawers was known as a high-daddy.
One of the oddest pieces of furniture is the commode. Initially a French chest of drawers on legs, later called a chiffonier and moved to refer to a movable washstand, with basin, waste pipe, etc. to a piece of furniture containing a chamber pot. Finally, the name became a pseudo-intellectual name for the common toilet.
Sofa, couch, love seat, or divan–all refer to the same type of seating. Or do they? A couch was actually a bed, from coucher, the French word meaning to lie down. A settee was an elongated armchair that accommodated two or more people. Developed in the 17th century, it was often upholstered.
A love seat was and still is a long seat consisting of two seating cushions and intended to accommodate two people. Anything with more than two cushions was called a sofa.
The sofa’s origins appear to stem from the French day-bed, referring to any type of elongated seating, including the chaise longue, or “long chair,” designed for resting rather than sleeping. It usually had a raised end. While most early sofas were upholstered, springs weren’t used in them until the early 19th century.
An ottoman was an upholstered footstool or low bench without arms or back, named after the Turkish influence of the early 18th century.
Case furniture, that is furniture used for storage, came in all sorts of forms. The trendy armoire was originally a large mobile cupboard or wardrobe featuring doors and shelves for clothes storage. A German variation was known as a kas. A more modern version, also containing drawers, came to be called a wardrobe.
Chests also came in many varieties. Originally a piece of squared furniture with drawers, it became known as a commode to the French. A variation used a desk, featuring a fall-front, a cylinder front or a tambour (roll-top) was called a bureau. A low English chest of drawers on long legs was known as a lowboy and later as a dressing table. By mounting a chest of drawers on top of it, it became a highboy, from the French haut bois which means "high wood."
Dining rooms had a sideboard, a table with a wide drawer at the center flanked by drawers or cupboards on the sides and made to be used against a dining room wall for storing and serving food. Sideboards began as credenzas, a serving table with a cupboard below the surface, in the 15th Century. In the 16th Century, an upper, recessed tier was added. This was also known as a “dresser,” where dishes were dressed before serving. Today, this piece of furniture is commonly called a buffet, based on its use as a vehicle for self-serve dinners.
Today’s china closet was originally called a vitrine, a cabinet with a glass door. The sides and top were often also of glass, and it was designed to store and display china and curios.
Lastly, to keep milk and freshly-baked pies protected from flies, simple cupboards, known as pie and milk safes, with doors fitted with decorative, pierced tin panels to let the air circulate through them, were popular from the 1820's to after the Civil War.