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How I create living rooms that showcase your unique style |

22/01/2026 Kartika

The living room is arguably the most important room in the house. It is where we spend most of our time with family and friends. It is public-facing and often receives the lion’s share of the soft furnishing and decoration budget.

I recommend taking an artistic approach when designing living rooms. It’s a fun and exciting way to express yourself and showcase your unique style. The objective is to immerse yourself in a space that you love surrounded by objects that are meaningful. I can think of nothing better than to be enveloped by what you love. It is an equal privilege to be invited to share in someone else’s living space when it reflects who they are.

Here’s how you can get started on your very home personal living space.

1. Choose a color scheme that you like

… and apply the tones that are

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JT Collective’s First Tiny House Design Lets You Simplify Your Life, Yet Live Comfortably

24/12/2025 Kartika

House Design

Owning a tiny home on wheels opens up lots of opportunities for adventure if you are keen on the nomad lifestyle. Besides that, a compact dwelling can also serve as a guest house on your property or even help you earn some extra cash if you set it up as an attractive Airbnb. Regardless of the reason behind investing in a tiny house, these pocket-size residences have proved a godsend to many who could only dream of house ownership before.

Countless high-quality tiny houses are scattered all over the world, with builders coming up with thoughtful and functional designs that allow inhabitants to simplify their lives yet live large in tiny dwellings. Today, we introduce you to a brand new beautiful tiny home on wheels designed and built by JT Collective.

If you are not familiar with the name, it’s because JT Collective is a new player on the tiny

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Quiet Luxury Is the Interior Trend

05/11/2025 Kartika

House Design

“Money talks, wealth whispers.” That aphorism could now be considered the manifesto of the quiet luxury aesthetic. Whether it started to build after we all binge-watched succession or grew from the runway shows of Loro Piana, Bottega Veneta, and Gabriela Hearst, the buzz around quiet luxury is getting louder and louder. While the concept of quiet luxury can’t be categorized as a new design trend (the desire to celebrate the finer things in life, with no logos in sight, has been around for ages), it’s all anyone can talk about. But what does it mean for the home? And more importantly, how can it be achieved (trust fund or not)?

Shea McGee of Studio McGee explains, “Quiet luxury is about subtleties and elevated materials, letting the quality be the defining element of the room versus a particular style or aesthetic.”

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Kate Markers of Kate Marker Interiors and Kate

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An Interior Design Expert Clarifies The One Spot You Shouldn’t Put A Laundry Room

27/10/2025 Kartika

House Design

Basements are also typically far from the main area, which can make it inconvenient to access the laundry room. You won’t be able to just pop in to check the progress, and laundry becomes more energy-consuming than it needs to be when you have to carry full laundry baskets up and down the house. This inconvenience especially poses problems for people with mobility issues — older family members in the household who want to do laundry may not be able to do it safely.

Space allocation is another thing to consider. Basements often serve as multi-purpose areas, such as storage, recreational spaces, or home offices. Using it as a laundry room may take up valuable space that could be better utilized for other purposes. Another problem you can face when you put your laundry room in the basement is if you ever need to take out or bring in a

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Rethinking Lighting in Your Kitchen Design

13/10/2025 Kartika

House Design

Factors to Consider When Lighting Your Kitchen

When choosing kitchen lighting, appearance and style are very important. Your lighting should complement the overall kitchen design. Your lighting should also work for tasks like cooking and cleaning. After all, who wants to chop vegetables in the dark?

Consider for a moment, the commercial equivalent of kitchen lighting – there are codes and regulations around lighting areas where food is stored and prepared. The idea is to have brightness, light quality, and coverage standards that increase safety. Better visibility = better decisions and functionality in terms of food safety and occupational safety. Yes, many Michelin-starred restaurants have moody lighting around the dining table, but you can bet with 100% certainty that the food preparation and storage areas in the kitchen are brightly lit and up to code.

Foodie-level chefs tend to have the same expectations for residential kitchen preparation and storage areas.

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Biden is planning White House events marking the January 6 attacks

28/08/2025 Kartika

House Design

By Trevor Hunnicutt

(Reuters) – US President Joe Biden plans to mark the second anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol with a White House ceremony, according to a timetable released by his office on Monday.

Friday’s event will mark a rare moment for Biden to address immediate issues sparked by deadly riots by supporters of his Republican predecessor Donald Trump. Their actions interfered with the Democrats’ 2020 victory certification.

Biden condemned the unrest as a threat to democracy and the rule of law, but he has rarely discussed his predecessor’s name publicly and has framed his presidency to unify and heal the country’s partisan divisions.

Entering his third year in office, Biden said he intends to seek another four-year term but has not formally nominated him.

Trump, who has never conceded defeat in the 2020 election, has announced that he will seek re-election in his party

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The Pasadena Showcase House of Design 2023: Tour the Most Inspiring Interiors

11/08/2025 Kartika

House Design

The Pasadena Showcase House of Design 2023, now open and on view through May 21, celebrates several full-circle moments. The 11,000-square-foot Stewart House, within which 32 design firms have reimagined the interiors, also hosted the 19th annual Showcase House some four decades ago. As it turns out, the Marston & Maybury–designed residence has been in possession of the same family ever since.

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Much like the designer showcase, which was founded in 1965 and is considered one of the country’s oldest home and garden tours, the estate has a Pasadena legacy of its own. Two-plus acres from mining magnate Lucky Baldwin’s Rancho Santa Anita land holdings were carved out when WL Stewart, then president of Union Oil Company, bought the former citrus orchard as a wedding gift for his son, Arthur, and his wife, Ruth Nicholson Stewart .

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Spread the Bet | Learn about this type of bet in NZ

21/07/2024 Kartika

House Design

Spread Betting is a tool that gives you the opportunity to speculate on the possible movement of a particular asset. This means you can speculate on the movement of a company’s stock, a particular currency, or even a diversified index without buying any of these assets.

Spread betting is a means used to predict the growth of an asset and the degree to which you are wrong or right will then affect the profit you make or the loss you suffer on the bets you place.

When looking at financial Spread Betting, you will usually be speculating on the direction that you think a financial instrument will go. If your prediction is correct and the instrument moves in the direction you predicted, your profit will grow accordingly.

You should remember that the reverse is also true for Spread Betting. If the financial instrument moves in the opposite direction than you

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Fashionable furniture: The hotels in Europe put design center stage

23/07/2023 Kartika

House Design

When selecting furnishing, “hotels are normally looking for something a bit more wow in terms of installation and maybe larger in scale,” designer Alexander Lamont says.

One of the latest hotel openings in Istanbul is VAKKO Hotel & Residence, located in the upmarket Nişantaşı neighborhood.

It feels like staying in a design showroom – the corridors are paneled with sleek black marble, the rooms have contemporary sculptures on display and the restaurant captures the style of a chic Parisian bistro.

This is the first hospitality venture of Turkish fashion house VAKKO and joins a growing trend of design-led hotels where stylish furniture and stand-alone interior pieces take center stage.

How is furniture designed for hotels?

Alexander Lamont is a Bangkok-based, British designer known for his furniture, lighting collections, art and accessories.

Some of his best work has been used in prestigious hotels such as The Connaught, The Mandarin Oriental Doha,

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Are shutters outdated? Interior designers weigh in

22/07/2023 Kartika

House Design

Often reserved for older homes with more traditional schemes, shutters might not be your first port of call when you’re deciding on a new window treatment. After all, with so many other options on offer – including some, like slubby linen curtains, that are dominating interior design trends at the moment – these classic finishes are getting less of a look-in than they used to.

So does that mean shutters are outdated? Well, no, not necessarily. They can still be an incredibly practical way to increase privacy and

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