House Design

City-grown fruit is a community resource for the city of Seattle. Since most residential tree owners can’t—or don’t—use all the fruit grown on their properties, much of it falls to the ground and rots. In addition, much of the fruit grown in urban landscapes is infested with preventable pests.
City Fruit works neighborhood by neighborhood to help residential tree owners grow healthy fruit, to harvest and use what they can, and to share what they don’t need. City Fruit collaborates with others involved in local food production, climate protection, horticulture, food security and community-building to protect and optimize urban fruit trees.

Designers will always have their own rendition of furnishings and by all means, these are some cool end products from Krisztian Griz. While wooden couches are nothing new, the lightweight and modular make of these couches which can be stacked on top of one another offers not only new ways of resting but form new pieces of furniture. This includes shelves and tables aside from the usual sofa.

With the flexibility of these pieces, you will agree that you practically have a multi-functional solution that should keep home owners thinking. Move them or re-assemble them, any person will surely be kept busy trying to figure out the best layout and functionality that these pieces can offer.

The hot trend for locavores and foodies around the country is dinner at the farm where the food was grown. All across the country one or two day temporary “restaurants” are being set up in a country setting. Here in Oregon, there are several different groups offering the experience several times during the summer at different farms.

If you are looking for more storage using uniquely designed containers, the Peekaboo Dresser should be something to check out. The dresser shies away from the usual cabinets that are pulled out to place your clothes and stuff. Rather, the Peekaboo Dresser comes with a set of storing units in an odd but different shape and can be easily swiveled out whenever you need to place something for safekeeping.

The dresser features laminated drawers made from bamboo materials to offer a neat presentation of sort for people who want something queer in their home or their room. The design makes it a great fit for any modern to contemporary home design, storing away the clutter while perking up the place with its different make.

Over the years, plenty of consumers have been getting into the memory foam craze. They have been investing in one, believing that it is the softest and most comfortable mattress that has been invented. While its true that its core does a lot for back pain and pressure points, and while it does help relieve someone suffering from chronic body aches and pains in the joints, some sleepers may actually find that a memory foam mattress is more of an uncomfortable sleep surface, than anything.

Who doesnt been benefit from using a memory foam mattress? It is actually those who are considered hot sleepers the men and women who suffer from hot flashes or wake up with sweat in the middle of their sleep.

These type of sleepers wont find the memory foam mattress pleasurable to sleep on, as the bed tends to retain body heat, keeping one warm all through the night. Read more…