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Dare decor with Castorama

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Castorama, it tells you something good?

Not content to excel in the world of DIY giant yellow and blue which decidedly more than one string to its bow today unveils a brand new catalog, which succeeds the bet to propose a design attractive, affordable without brushing against the low end. It navigates with pleasure at the option of seven worlds that are not far from covering the spectrum of decorating trends the most obvious.

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By clicking this little link , you will have access to a wealth of ideas, information and practical tips for (re) make a beauty to your home ...

Brush stroke

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Voilààààààà is finiiiiii ...

Back in the office, I spent my day complete demotivation return to work to clean as it should be all that my computer contained useless things, starting with 153 of my spam mail, a real treat ...

With this start up, I got off to repeat the operation in version slightly messy once back in my sweet home, which had the good taste to remind me that I had inappropriately failed to release the refrigerator of food a week of rest in the fridge had turned into joyful culture broth.

I will spare you the details of the most sordid horror film that food played in my kitchen, which allowed me once again thank the sky Brabantia for the quality of their garbage, I never get tired of mine ...

In Paris, I suppose, in many cities, the throwing its waste is a brainstorming session to itself alone, especially when one considers the question of whether such packaging has its place in the yellow bin (recyclables, trash to give a boost!) in the container or green (containing vulgar foul-run) ...

Le tri sélectif à Paris ou l'imbroglio au quotidien

Let's face it though, this practice also play a citizen has a significant collateral damage: the propensity to multiply the trash or what can take its place. (I'm a big fan of paper bags for packaging, despite their total lack of glamor).

Fortunately, the sorting bins to grow more and more, even though I continue to wonder why they usually have only two compartments while no less than four would be needed:

1 for alkalines (the mire of our waste),
2 for recyclable waste (those we proudly lay as we had better think about their outrageous expansion),
3 for the glass (HIPS),
4 for compost (to suggest to your condo / caretaker as a natural fertilizer for plants in the subdivision, you tell me the news).

Suppose they disregard it, yet not very common in urban public habitats, there are only a few FotoDesk practicing three-in-one:

The American Rubbermaid , with its plastic model that should probably do some cosmetic work but is still rather with its original shape corole opening, by foot, three-colored compartments and removable, all for a capacity total of 40 liters Hon.

The German Hailo with his model Trento öko trio available in several versions. Geometrically perfect, this does not trash Teutonic jealous and reveals, again by pressing the pedal, three rectangular buckets, too always removable and colorful, each containing 11 liters.


Obviously, if your space allows, you can also join several large garbage "classic" and differentiate them by color!

"In my room where it is cold ....

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A ... five feet by three "(or thereabouts)

Quebec reader, you should know to whom I borrowed this description to say the least fair and leads to my bedroom ... Having always regretted too faint echo of John Leloup Leclerc lands in my hex, allow me to declare here and aside my boundless admiration.

My comforter as well as reduced bedroom allows me to experience daily the true meaning of the optimization of space ... and the challenge, I assure you, is sized for the person still poorly organized and less orderly than I am.

To join the intellectual with pleasure, and because a book is not just an earthly food but a beautiful object, which deserves to be exposed, Lemon Press has invented a series of shelves framed like the portraits of our ancestors I really like. He had to think: why on earth allowing only the monopoly of a picture frame pierced? Several models and colors are being set cube to highlight your most disreputable readings, it'll just choose the design you siera best ...

Girl friend, you who love jewelry of all shapes and sizes, do not you have enough you argue with your treasure chest and find chains and bracelets tangled with excess, preferably those mornings where you have seen fit not to hear you wake up at dawn for a important meeting, an interview? Menu , never short of pretty initiatives, thought of you and offers to replace your real multiple boxes jewelry tree on which you can suspend all your favorite decorations ...

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Fun and functional accessory storage, the equation is almost full, it only remains to add to this set astutely and lovingly arranged the highlight of any self-respecting decoration: a rewarding lighting ... In a narrow room, find a suitable location for the bedside lamp can meet the challenge ... so you can not renounce the pleasures of reading in bed, Catherine Grandidier , light designer brand Dix Heures Dix , imagined light boards white, red or multicolored walls that transform into skylight and artwork ... A feast for the eyes to just by itself ...

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The (small) corner!

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There you will probably have noticed that the smallest and the most indispensable of our interior is recently a subject of choice for every design enthusiast. I am of course talking about our toilet, which, in the print media to broadcast media through dedicated shops are invariably put under the spotlight - a nice irony that I like given the inherently intimate of challenge.

    If you believe the experts, this craze for decoration of the piece is that it is one of the last areas that had hitherto only moderately inspired designers ... Which is catch a hundredfold, whether the toilet themselves or accessories to complement the look of this ritual space for many chokepoints.

      The decor tips for this nerve center of domestic equilibrium abound on the web, and I personally would like me a challenge against a serious mistake widespread view that the toilet is not well suited to dark shades.

        coordinated a paper for the ultimate in chic

        My toilet has been recently fully dressed in black - including floor and ceiling - and the result exceeds by far my expectations: embellished with chrome accessories - that are black that the anemone is bernard -the hermit: a very essential companion - from simple toilets are transformed into a delightful postmodern setting that has nothing to envy the most gleaming industrial lofts restyled by a renowned designer. To complete this achievement, it remains for me to coordinate my toilet paper at the option of a short jaunt from the side of Renova!

        If I pushed the temptation to want to absolutely sublimate my 1.5 square feet of space toilet, it goes without saying that I would seriously consider investing in a Japanese toilet - because everyone knows that the Japanese manufacturers are probably toilets the most inventive and most uninhibited world ... Note however that this delay has largely tended to be overtaken by Europe today, particularly in its southern fringe.

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        This is the other side of the Pyrenees that are in fact born the toilet Khroma , which despite its Germanic-sounding, are a pure Spanish product, manufactured by the Prince's health, I named Roca. What I particularly like in this model are not so much the colors - nevertheless very elegant and varied - that the vast research that has been made in terms of texture - a foam lining warms the surface of the bowl and transforms into a comfortable seat - and seat (if I may consider a rather trivial ... but it is indeed a toilet after all).

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            The transalpine area of the Union is not left her either, with Il Bagno , a very attractive model ovoid designed by Stefano Giovannoni for Alessi and marketed by the Swiss specialist Laufen sanitary. Everything designed ceramics, it is provided with flaps with integrated retarders, it has a patented special coating for easy maintenance.

            And if you dream for your toilet, a fun and / or offset, you will not be left out: to transform your boudoir into urinal, go for the kit Toilet Spirit , consisting of a printed roll of wallpaper, representing a stack of paper rolls molletonneux pink trompe l'oeil doors and two chrome-steel rollers on which you can adjust two - real this time - rolls of toilet paper ad hoc.

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            assistant delivered without Deco

            If the next carton of this fanciful creation of very creative Christophe Koziel is a little too syrupy for your taste, you can always turn to a safe value (I will not say more because their success is rising too confirmed this) design French, by adopting the recreational wallpapers of 5.5 Designers . Crabs, Mixed Words or Labyrinth, you're spoiled for choice and the ability to customize your walls and you engage in your hobby facade multiplying types of pencils and colors ... and unpublished personal effect guaranteed!

            Forbidden Games

            The followers of a minimalist design that makes a great emphasis on raw materials and creativity of your family and your visitors, I propose to complete this fun and easy decoration idea: spend roughly an undercoat clear, have a pot colored pencils on the tank of your toilet ... and to you and offer guests a book size.

            The final countdown: only 34 days before Christmas

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            What I like most during the holidays, it's Advent (and also the front ...), these generous first 4 weeks of Christmas well known for our little chocolate calendars bearing his name. Our cousins ​​- and some of our compatriots in the East - which are definitely very nice people celebrate Advent in a way that has always welcomed me and I always imposes a tradition to everyone around me Paris region: they concoct cupcakes (the Plätzchen) offered and eaten with family, friends or office. And when I say concoct I weigh my words, this tradition is a virtual institution that can address the whole weekend and mobilize the whole family. You may say that all this is far removed from considerations decorative, well think again ... All of my mouth too soon to indulge in the simple joys, I propose today an exclusive selection of utensils and culinary equipment that will allow you to detonate even in the kitchen, and why not glean here and there a few gift ideas "useful" and yet pleasing.

            The brilliant designers Joseph Joseph have imagined and, with Nest8 , a set consisting of a bowl, a beaker, a strainer and spoons of different measures that fit into each other.

            mastrioschka de cuisine

            mastrioschka kitchen

            Here's a clever and stylish all-in-one that will fit in most kitchens cramped and you will have on hand all the basics needed for everyday meals.

            Cooking rhymes with bake, and I have often learned to my cost that it was difficult to reconcile aesthetics and functionality with regard to rags, and other cooking gloves. Anyone who like me have one day burned his hands trying to get out with cloths or pot holder fabric made during the sixth and technology which is part of our first bunch of grown-up, share my enthusiasm for this oven mitt Hotheads Americans inventive Fred shaped frog, designed to withstand heat and facilitate the handling of all your small and large dishes.

            Though not able to sublimate the erotic fiber lying dormant within us, the apron is indispensable to guard against all projections ups. Some years ago, I received a gift of a linen apron matches this model Stonehenge home Libeco which has since ceased to satisfy me. Home cooks or clumsy unrepentant, this message to you: flax is resistant, easy care - it does not require to be ironed and washed at high temperature - and is the fabric of choice for all haute sewing of extra time ... little advice: if you like you definitely stain, prefer strong covering dark colors ...

            But let us return to the heart of the matter of our culinary preparations: I would like to pay tribute to two fundamentally dispensable accessories, but we can not yet too boast ... provided they fulfill their primary function: to shine and brighten our interiors, be they an ordinary work plan.

            LA balance qu'il vous (me) faut

            THE balance that you (me) must

            I am among those who each year promise to finally buy a kitchen scale that will supplement my measuring cup and I do not have to slash my pat of butter in me indulging in scholarly subtractions during the preparation of my pastries. And like every year I tell myself that there is finally a real poetry to customize a recipe according to my memories of elementary school. Nevertheless, the electronic scale chrome metal Uma here that could make me change my mind: first, by its very original design, very characteristic of Casa Bugatti , with its large curved and removable bowl, then, for its technology including its sprinkler system, ideal for all distracted and scattered my mothers ...

            In a similar way, I'm still breaking walnuts and hazelnuts with a hammer, which allows me to indulge in long games of hide and seek with the shells or and kernels, which never fail to take the moment of impact their flight to the most unlikely corners of the kitchen. If I should no longer enjoy these little amusements, I'd certainly for Drosselmeyer nutcracker , who inherited his Swedish-born strength, functionality and sophistication. It is so perfect that it should be almost the sole purpose of decoration, but it would be silly to give up one of its strengths: it was specifically designed to fit all shapes and all sizes of nuts.

            I hope this quick overview of commercial kitchen design will awake your fiber as well as your culinary inspiration ... See you soon for a new Christmas special appointment.

            Between Heaven and Earth

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            Something new in the field of adhesive ... I know, this is typically the kind of hackneyed phrase by dint of being repeated, which is more respect for the ultimate decorative accessory of the moment *. (You have not guessed? Go down quickly at the bottom of this post for the answer Connaire)

            Although I'm not, far from it, amateur of the genre, however I do not balk at recognizing a smart idea and interesting ... this is the case with two new models very nice:

            a hopscotch adhesive to spend despite the rain

            a hopscotch adhesive to spend despite the rain

            Notice to the souls of children - which is not lulled by the comforting nostalgia of primary school ...? - Here is a real find, the sticker hopscotch, simple, elegant, discreet, because devoid of frills inevitable that the trend turns more and more likely to overload ...

            This is Alaro fertile and talent of its creator Bérangère - who may succeed to reconcile myself with the stickers - that we owe this hopscotch and innocent as if she had just chalked ... It is in some a kind gift idea all found to be more credit for small and large detach from the console to get them, casually, to outdoor games indoor ...


            le plastique c'est fantastique

            plastic is fantastic

            And if like me you become a Doctor of spots to force me to fix your missteps, or if you're tired of asking you whether or not to put salt on red wine (the answer is no), why no coating change and opt for carpet sticker designed by Ephemeral Invasions , led by the abundant and beautiful Sofia Antonovich?

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            remove the blind spot

            Its floral arabesques give it a little side Laura Ashley very much in the cocooning trend of the moment. Composed of four triangular panels that can be associated with the center of the room, it is also very stylish as ornamental corner, why not in a kitchen or under the umbrella of the entrance.

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            A real bargain, anyway, that this carpet, Pierre Richard for all budding or in the flesh: it cleans with sponge, resists scratches as the blows of heels, and not likely to become a nursery to dust.

            * The answer is: the adhesive vinyls, more commonly known under the term Anglo-Saxon stickers. Etymological brief aside, note also that the noun adhesive is from the Latin adherare: be firmly attached to something, and that the verb to be stick from a proto-Indo-European term referring to what is left permanently in place ... interesting nuance, is it not?

            Ménagons Us

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            des poubelles qui inspirent

            bins that inspire

            What is frustrating to be with the everyday world of design is to detect quickly enough that without enough available stock, place or just need real, the thousand and one inventions frisky fashion objects remain largely elusive. For example, I recently took the full measure of functional beauty bins Brabantia , especially models Touch Bin from which are constantly making me look with profound contempt my ridiculous plastic trash. Unfortunately for me, it is still in perfect condition, and I'm not so violent that I come a deadly drive for it. But what a fright when I see it, with its lid to grow naturally permeable to all odors and waste tights. And to think I was so happy when it was acquired, for the first time, I had the feeling of being in possession of a suitable receptacle, large (30 liters!) Cylindrical, finally sober, which made me go in the course of the great offering me to indulge in endless considerations on different brands of trash bags and not to keep me abreast of plastic bags which I try also to make use of smaller , false good environmental conscience requires.

            So it is with unconcealed joy that I can now fill this gap by measuring all the necessity to have a bathroom trash can . As this is an accessory which is still lacking, I did not hesitate any longer.

            This light note, however, conceals a real inner torment for amateur interior maintenance I am. Do not get me wrong, I obviously more projects in life than living in the household and detergents, but like many, I have a little tendency to fussiness for matters relating to cleanliness, although I claim to be blameless in this regard. Going back to my torments household - joining some difficulties in my rational storage of all my store - I would dream of renewing all that can fully participate in household hygiene

            Same cause and same effects with regard to the laundry ... I did not complain since I recently acquired a laundry basket quite lovely wood and fabric that would be perfect if the quality of fabrication for fantastical did relax the seams to make it look like its contents: a pile of clothes in despair. I have an idea of doubling the basic basket of a second, stronger probably - it's not just Brabantia in life, aim a little model Vipp minimalist design perfect ...

            ceci n'est pas un thermos

            this is not a thermos

            And ... to propose a new destiny by turning it into basket for ironing clothes ... because it's nice to be able to hide its dirty laundry, it is still necessary to do the same once the clean, dry cloth, everyone not lucky enough to have a cleaning lady.

            Despite a sometimes inadequate equipment, I try to keep my home free of dirt. I give you some bonus tips for effective cleaning without being too aggressive for the environment: white vinegar (a classic) to polish the chrome and remove limestone, and baking soda to whiten the enamel. All the subtlety lies in the fact of depositing the powder in a thick layer and leave on for fifteen minutes before scrubbing and rinsing. Miraculous results guaranteed! And dust, adopt glycerin: soak the cloth with a few drops of this liquid slightly viscous, the dust is captured by the cloth and your furniture will shine brightly. If you have any cleaning tips or suggestions for essential maintenance, please leave them in comments!