Do you want to have the very great look of the home? Do you want to make the very wonderful look of the home? Well, if you want to have the very wonderful look for your home, you should make sure to choose the best decoration for the home. There are many ways that you can do. One of them is by using the living room storage ideas. In this case, you will be provided some information about it.
Here are some examples of the living room storage ideas that you can use for your home. The first example is the brookstone tangerine safavieh Amelia tufted storage ottoman. Do you want to have it for your home? You should pay for \$140.00 for this stuff. The second example is the wicker brown storage ottoman bench. Do you want to have it for your home? If yes, you should pay for \$234.04! The last example is the Courbe storage ottoman-Ballard designs. Do you want to have it for your home? You should pay for \$299.00!
So far, do you want to use the living room storage ideas for your home? If yes, you should make sure to choose the best look of the style. Second, you also should make sure to choose the best quality and the best price of the storage. If you want to buy the storage, you should consider your budget to in order to get the proper storage based on your own budget. Good luck for it!
*This post is sponsored by the Home Depot Foundation.
I’ve partnered with the Home Depot Foundation and their Celebration of Service campaign before (see this post) and I’ve been a fan of their philanthropic efforts for veterans ever since. In the two months between 9/11 and Veterans Day, Team Depot’s volunteers pool their talents to transform up to 1,000 homes for veterans. I like to call these kinds of efforts “meaningful makeovers” – the kind that matter to real people who are in need and in this case, the veterans who have served our country.
Giving back to veterans is important to The Home Depot since over 30,000 of their associates are veterans. This particular project took place in San Francisco at a home that is part of the independent living transitional housing program. It has served over 240 residents to date and is a place where clean and sober veterans can stay up to a year until they are positioned to find full-time employment.
On a sunny fall day, the team took over the house and began a series of projects, outdoors they repainted the entry staircase railing and replaced the nonslip strips on the stair treads.
Out in the backyard, they upgraded all of the rear yard landscaping with weed blocker fabric, drip lines, low maintenance plants, and ground cover.
Inside, they assembled new dressers and beds for all of the veterans’ bedrooms.
A few weeks before the team installed new kitchen cabinets, countertops, and appliances.
That day the team updated the community TV room’s furniture with new leather seating and a coffee table and the dining room with a new table and chairs.
New vanities replaced old ones in the shared bathrooms.
New blinds were installed on many of the windows.
Even the weathered Happy dwarf (the house mascot of 20 years) got a makeover.
Downstairs in the basement and laundry room, I observed the step by step on installing a TrafficMaster Allure vinyl plank floor which I was excited to see in person since we will be doing it o urselves in a few short weeks in Grandma’s kitchen.
Thanks so much to Team Depot for inviting me to come to participate in this event and document these meaningful makeovers, it was great to see a group of volunteers transform a house in just one day!
Bravo Team Depot for all of your philanthropic efforts that serve our veterans housing needs, read about all of this year’s projects at Team Depot!
*The Home Depot Foundation partnered with bloggers such as me for their Celebration of Service program. As part of this program, I received compensation for my time, all opinions are my own. The Home Depot Foundation believes consumers and bloggers are free to form their own opinions and share them in their own words. The Home Depot Foundation’s policies align with WOMMA Ethics Code, FTC guidelines and social media engagement recommendations.
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with US print studio 08 Left to give readers the chance to win one of five graphic posters influenced by travel, transport and airports from around the world.
Founded in 2014, 08 Left takes its name from an instruction a pilot would be given on an airstrip – a theme that is reflected in the studio’s artwork, t-shirts and household accessories, which are based on airports, military bases and air traffic control towers.
This image: LAX airport, USA. Main image: Frankfurt Airport, Germany
The studio has put together over 350 designs, including graphic images of airports in Los Angeles, Barcelona and Rio di Janeiro. Posters can also be customised by selecting different colour palettes through the company’s website.
“The prints are for the lovers of flight, travel, and exploration,” 08 Left co-founder Ryan Miller told Dezeen. “Airports are bold in their size, their scope and their sheer power. There is nothing like a jet engine, let alone hundreds of them in one spot.”
Chicago O’Hare International Airport, USA
Competition winners will receive an unframed 24 by 36-inch airport print of their choice. Each poster is designed at 08 Left’s studio in Washington state and hand-printed in California with high-quality ink on enhanced matte paper.
Competition closes on 25 November 2014. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. The winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeen Mail newsletter and at the top of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
Here is more information from 08 Left:
Each poster is hand-printed and handled, to make sure that only the highest quality is offered and sent out.
Arlanda Airport control tower, Stockholm, Sweden
The matte paper and high quality of inks make for a vibrant image which looks great both framed, and au-natural.
Heathrow Airport control tower, London, UK
» Over 350 designs related to airport all over the world. » Fully customisable. » Themed around travel, airports, air traffic control and seeing the world. » Specialising in art and metal prints and offer coasters, pillows, and t-shirts as well. » We love to travel, love people who travel, and think the experience is worth remembering in art form. » We also love aviation and all things related.
News: craft skills contribute £3.4 billion to the economy, according to research that for the first time measures the economic impact of thousands of small craft businesses in the UK.
The figure is larger than expected and includes the value that craftspeople bring to industries including science and technology.
Related story:UK to drop crafts from list of creative industries
“It’s far bigger than we thought,” said Rosy Greenlees, executive director of the Crafts Council, which carried out the research. “This is emphatic proof of the impact craft skills have on the economy.”
The Crafts Council’s Jill Read told Dezeen that the research, contained in a report called Measuring the Craft Economy, showed that craft skills had a far wider impact on the economy that previously realised.
She said the report marked a change in the way the crafts were perceived, with people who trained as makers now bringing their skills to other parts of the economy.
“It’s people who use crafts skills, techniques and materials but not necessarily to make objects,” she said. “The crafts are having impact in science and medicine, for example”.
Examples include the glass artist Matt Durran’s work at the Royal Free Hospital to develop glass moulds for growing bio-engineered organs such as noses; and jeweller Lynne Murray’s pioneering work in augmented reality through her company Holition, which develops interfaces through which customers can virtually try on jewellery.
The Crafts Council will explore the emerging relationship between the crafts and technology at Make:Shift, a conference taking place in London on 21-22 November.
“The conference is an opportunity for us to think about the wider applications of crafts across industries,” said Reid.
The Craft Council’s report follows controversy last year when the UK government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) proposed dropping crafts from its list of recognised creative industries.
This triggered a backlash from the craft sector and led to discussions between the Crafts Council and the DCMS about how best to measure the impact of the crafts on the economy.
“The DCMS wasn’t suggesting that the crafts weren’t important,” said Read. “The problem was that they couldn’t get the data.”
The Crafts Council estimates there are around 23,000 “micro-businesses” in the crafts sector, mostly consisting of sole practitioners whose small turnover places them below the threshold at which the DCMS can measure their economic impact.
The latest report is based on new criteria agreed between the Crafts Council and the DCMS that takes these small businesses into account for the first time. “We now have a much better way of looking at it,” said Read.
The report shows that most of the cash the crafts generate for the economy come from craftspeople who are active in high-tech industries such as bio-medicine, science and engineering, contributing an estimated £2.4 billion.
The rest of the £3.4 billion comes through the crafts sector itself (£745 million) and creative industries such as fashion, film and architecture (£243 million).
“The UK’s Creative Industries are a veritable powerhouse and contribute more than £8 million an hour to the national economy,” said Ed Vaizey, the UK’s minister of state for culture and the digital economy. “This report highlights the key role that craft plays in this remarkable success story, and demonstrates the huge range of occupations through which craft skills are contributing to the phenomenal growth of the creative industries.”
“This research gives us, for the first time, evidence of how vital craft skills are to the UK’s economy,” said Greenlees. “They contribute to a wide range of industries – many of which the UK leads the world in. We look forward to continuing our work with the government to ensure that craft’s value is reflected in official economic statistics.”
The Measuring the Craft Economy report can be downloaded here.
This image: LAX airport, USA. Main image: Frankfurt Airport, Germany
Chicago O’Hare International Airport, USA
Arlanda Airport control tower, Stockholm, Sweden
Heathrow Airport control tower, London, UK
