90 Ideas For Making Beautiful Furniture From Upcycled Pallets

Updated on Jun 12, 2013 by Style Estate

As wood is getting scarcer, wooden furniture is becoming more expensive, sought after and valuable.

At the same time there is a trend towards a simpler lifestyle and bringing natural materials like wood back into the home. Alot of people salvage these materials from shipyards, buildings, barns and factories and “upcycle” it (another buzz word) into beautiful furniture. 

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You’ve Decorated, What’s Next?

Last year I saw the house of my dreams. It was a small cottage out in the countryside with a rolling garden that backed onto a canal. From the outside it was stunner, a total knock out. And inside? Well inside I could see the potential but it was stuck in a seventies time warp with brown carpets throughout and a range of rather hideous orange floral wallpapers. At least the wallpaper distracted your attention away from the aubergine bathroom.

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Little Home Improvements that Make a Big Difference

If you’ve been spending a lot of time browsing the interior design boards on Pinterest, you may have an overwhelming urge to makeover your home. However, if your budget won’t stretch to this, you can still improve your home on a smaller scale.

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Stylish Foyer and Entryway Ideas

 Design Pictures to Help Inspire Your Entryway Ideas

Sure the front entryway or foyer is always the star, grabbing all of the attention and more of the interior design budget. After all, that’s the first space guests see when they arrive and it sets the tone for your entire house. However, for most families, it’s the other entryway that gets used constantly, day in and day out. The space just inside the backdoor may be one of the most important and most neglected areas in your home—in both design and function.

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Rough and Smooth Collection By Tom Dixon

“This year we’ve been exploring all new materials and have found ourselves fascinated by honest production as well as futuristic processes. Focusing on texture, finishes and materiality we introduce our new collection: Rough and Smooth.”

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Give Your Home A Face Lift With Bright And Airy Vertical Blinds

If you’ve been looking around your home recently and thinking it could do with a little brightening up, a great place to start is with the windows.

Thick curtains are great for keeping the heat in and do look nice and cosy in the winter time, but they can make the room seem a lot smaller, particularly if they’re made from heavyweight material. If you’re trying to achieve a brighter, more spacious feel, blinds are perfect and with so many styles and colours available they work well with pretty much every style of decor.

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Making A New Home Your Own

It doesn’t matter whether you’re quite literally royalty, or just a pauper – we all like to live in homes that feel like true extensions of ourselves.

Moving into a new home for the first time may be exciting, but sooner or later, you’ll want to decorate those sterile walls and functional spaces with some suitably unique and homely items. From hanging up eye-catching artwork to installing kitchen units built to last, here are some of our suggestions of exactly what you can do to make your new home your own.

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Dressing Your Window for SS13

Dressing your window shouldn’t be a snap decision.

You need to consider lots of factors including choosing a window dressing that will optimise the amount of light let into the room in question and deciding on the most appropriate window covering to suit your tastes (do you want a curtain? How about a blind? Or perhaps a shutter would work best?).

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