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....finally done wrapping gifts.......

...all materials recycled from previous Christmases.....

Wishing you Merry Christmas & No Assembly Required ;-))

Siena Blue & Valentino


Nala, Thatcher & Reagan Mendoza

Ideas for Holiday Decorating

Christmas is most definitely my favourite Holiday, not least because of the opportunity for beautiful decorations.

There are naturally so many different ways to make your home ready for the holidays, and there is no such thing as a “wrong way”. The key is to make it your own and have fun with the project.

I wanted to share some tips and ideas with you:

I personally prefer the “less is more approach”. I aim to avoid clutter and keep it simple and subtle.

The decor colour should complement the colour scheme of your home. If it is neutral you’ll have more freedom in choosing colours for your holiday decorations but if you have brighter colours on walls you don’t want your holiday décor in colour that clashes or competes with the room.

For me, Christmas is all about candles (just remember not to leave them unattended!) and decorative lighting. Pick candles in one colour throughout the home, and group various sizes together. Holiday lighting can really warm up any home interior.

Use what you already have. Switch those fall flowers in the vase you had for Halloween for instance for some branches of red berries.

Replace the towels in your bathroom for something that has Christmas colours, same goes for the placemats, tablecloths, pillows etc.

1.
-Place holiday ornaments in a glass bowl or vase …so easy, yet so festive!
-Make a floral arrangement of seasonal flowers (in this picture, hydrangea blooms)
add holiday ornaments on wire
-Use ornaments as a flower container. Here the ornament is glued to a small,round mirror. It allows the round ornament to stand up, but also adds a nice reflecting effect.
-Make a simple flower arrangement and place it in the round container. Then wrap candy canes around it and tie together with a ribbon.


2.
-Fill a silver bowl with shining silver beads, ornaments and pilar candles
-Set a wreath down on the table and place various candlesticks in and around it.


3.
-Beautifully wrapped gift boxes make an eye-catching centerpiece as well as a candleholders


4.
-Creative gift wrapping adds a nice touch under the Christmas Tree


5.
-Eco friendly décor from Amenity Home collection.





...and here are some Holiday decor from my house this year....

What I'm working on.....

I have been so busy, that my Blog has been severely neglected. My apologies.
Why have I been so busy?
I'm in a process of launching 2 businesses (and working on a third one)

1. Creative CoLab+

- A group of designers coming together....WE ARE: 3 Interior Designers, 1 Interior Architect, 1 Industrial Designer...and we are hoping to add a Graphic Designer/Illustrator/Artist to complement our already very fabulous group ;-)

Our UNOFFICIAL Postcard (still an ongoing process)


...Our Design Team is looking for a Graphic designer/ Illustrator/ Artist to join us as a partner. Someone who is imaginative with his/her skills and would be interested and able to explore textiles, tiles, walls, wood, metal and other surfaces as his/hers “canvas”, instead of making artworks on paper. If you are such artist or know one, have them contact me at mendozaheidim@gmail.com

2. Douglas County Divas


- Networking group for fabulous women


Find us on facebook
or shoot me an e-mail at mendozaheidim@gmail.com to get on our Invitation List

3. *Girls * Gone *Green

Girls Gone Green is committed to enhancing lives by helping our neighborhoods become green! We achieve this by partnering with a prestigious Inc. 500 company! We show you how to convert your homes from toxic brands that you might be currently using to environmentally friendly products all done without using any new money from our budgets.

Find us on Facebook
We are available for in-house seminars as well as one-on-one educational sessions.

Contact us:

Heidi: mendozaheidim@gmail.com
Theresa: theresa1@iglide.net
Pam: girlsgonegreen@comcast.net
www. girls-gone-green.blogsp

Product Runaway

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1. Lily Creep - table by Susan Bradley

2. Passe- Murailles – Life size trophy sculpture covered with Vintage found needlework by Frederique Morrel

3. Panel F08009 by d360

4. Planet fixture by SLAMP

5. Intrecci collection by Carlo Colombo

6. 3D wooden bird- wall stickers by Taschide boutique

Housing With Animal Style

Japanese architecture firm Fauna+DeSign designed this fantastic house for the owners 16 cats. This is a Feline Heaven with it's floor-to-ceiling sisal-wrapped scratching and climbing posts,"Catwalks", shelves and tunnels, not forgetting the safety...see the rounded corners on the climbing shelves!






I love the very sleek modern interior. These cats definitely live in style.

This amazing house was recently filmed for an upcoming show on Animal Planet. There are many more photos at The Cat's House as well as some videos of the cats enjoying their home.

Ameba pendant

AMEBA is a new pendant concept adaptable to every space. It is formed by 5 different shapes that can be put together and combined easily, to offer an infinite range of compositions........ from one single 12˝ x 20˝ pendant to a composition of over 100 sqft.



Only your imagination sets the limit.

Design by Pete Sans for vibialight

screw and learn with furniture

Now how fun is this!!



I found this wonderfull set of childrens furniture at Design Spotter

Designer: Maria Vång (Sweden)
Manufacturer: seeking producer
Inspired By: My childhoodmemories...
Material: Birch
Colours: Birch with white, turqoise, orange, green, pink blocks
Dimension: Dimension table:1200 x 700 Legs:800-1200 Ø25 Dimension chair:280 x 280 Legs:270

Care for some ice?

Aspen Vail Ice produces world-class ice sculptures for the Aspen and Vail areas here in CO. Firms founder Scott Rella is an internationally regognized ice sculptor as well as founder and president of Fear No Ice, the world's first and only performance ice show.

Their work is exquisite. Wonderfull centerpieses and installation to move your event to a whole another level.

Dieter Rams' Ten Commandments of Good Design

Dieter Rams’ Ten Commandments of Good Design

...Amen :)

Garden Path - Flowers with a European Touch

Garden Path is a full service floral design company located in The Village at Castle Pines (at highway 85 and Happy Canyon Road), created and owned by Karen Novotny since l982.

Just this past Saturday I went to Garden Paths Open House to celebrate its new home.
New location is close to the old one, just across the street from Castle Creek Bakery & Coffee Shop.

I love this location, because the large and high windows bring more natural light into this beautiful store and better view for the people admiring Karen’s wonderful creations from the outside.


Karen specializes in Custom European floral design. She travels in Europe frequently to find inspiration as well as new materials and products.
Besides beautiful custom flower arrangements for every occasion, Garden Path also offers complete event planning services from sites, catering, wedding and reception design and full wedding coordinating assistance, to personalized services for corporate events.

Karen also offers workshops in floral design to groups and small private classes, as well as consulting for interior floral design projects in client’s homes.
The shop has an impressive selection of accessories, linens and gift items from around the world.




One of my favorite things about this store is that there is no ”secret workroom” where all the magic happens, instead Karen and her team design all these beautiful arrangements right in front of your eyes.

What is new at Garden Path, besides the location, is that the store is featuring beautiful art work from a local artist.

Garden Path
872 W Happy Canyon Rd # 105
Castle Rock, CO 80108-3911
(303) 688-8019
http://www.gardenpathco.com

Office Complex by J. Mayer H. Architecture

I love the unusual oval shapes in this Office Complex. The exterior and simple white interior perfectly communicate with each other, as does the surrounding landscape.






Also check out their other wonderful projects here:

Climb The Frames

Nope, this is not an Art Wall in a Gallery, but a rock climbing wall in a fitness center in Ebisu, called Illoiha
Illoiha Ebisu in Tokyo provides a full range of facilities for women, including yoga, a lava bath and an variety of fitness programs.

STORY Hotel - Stockholm

First of all, I love their website!!

...and then it just gets better....

“The philosophy of Story Hotel is to combine design and innovation with an attractive location in downtown Stockholm. Our mission is to offer a smart, stylish and new kind of hotel for today's traveler."

...and they do...

The Story hotel is situated right in the city center, in the "posh" neighbourhood called Östermalm,close to Stureplan.
Guests book rooms online and check themselves in.Guests pay for their rooms in advance and receive booking confirmation via email or text message, containing a five digit key-code that give access to their room.



Hotel is filled with modern art, due to a collaboration with Wonderwall, a Swedish company specializing in affordable art prints from cool artists.

The hotel is a conversion of an existing building, which has been stripped back to a bare shell of raw concrete walls.


Original doors from the building have been reused as headboards for the beds


The hotel has been shortlisted for the European Hotel Design Awards 2009, the winner of which will be announced on 2 November.

Designed by Koncept
http://www.koncept.se/

Story Hotel
Riddargatan 6, 114 35 Stockholm, Sweden,

St. George Lycabettus Boutique Hotel - Athens

This Hotel of clean, sleek, modern lines is located in Kolonaki (="Little Column"),Athens.The view from the Acropolis is breathtaking and and the rooftop restaurant is simply beautiful. Angelos Angelopoulos is the Designer






FRAME BAR is the main bar of the Hotel Put together by architects from Tsigos Design

The main aim of the design was to recreate the usual typologies of chairs, benches, bars stands, tables and coffee tables using forms that morph from one geometry to the other, thus denying determined typology – activity associations. The main materials used are heat-formed starron (corrian equivalent) and the Spanish marble known as emperador.
This was achieved by using advanced parametric design techniques which led to the specification of a series of poly – surfaces, ultimately constructed out of thermo – formed staron. The geometrical continuity is retained throughout the design, ultimately offering a continuous interior topography that assumes different geometrical specifications in relation to specific programmatic intentions. ( via Best house Design)

Black and White Two Pavilions House Design by Johannsen + Associate

Not only visually gorgeous house but eco-conscious as well, this Northbridge house is designed by Johannsen + Associates and located near the Spit Bridge in North Sydney. Black and white house design has two pavilions joined by the entry stairwell.
The house’s design uses plenty of eco-friendly techologies like passive heating and cooling, natural ventilation, solar pool heating and rainwater tanks. With a protected central courtyard, shady terraces and a sunny pool loggia, the outdoor spaces open to different parts of the site and garden. The entertaining level is one large fluid space, indoor and outdoor seamlessly melting together, that takes in a panoramic vista over Middle Harbour.( via Johannsen + Associates)

Design Concepts by Heidi

Though I would share some design concepts I've been working on lately

PRIVATE RESIDENCE - Grand Room
(you can see these images larger by clicking on the image)

The beauty and challenge of this room is it's height, which requires larger scale furniture and art work. I also incorporated custom made panel curtains for the windows. There are two different kind of fabric panels layered to give some depth. They can be slide around easily on the rod. I incorporated a photo wallpaper of a flying bird in the big niche / on a second concept a Cole and son birch wallpaper - white cardboard deer head coming through a black baroque frame.White circle shape space divider, gives a sense of separate areas of seating and dining, yet not blocking the view between those two areas.






Family Room

An awkward small corner of a Family room is transferred to a showcase of some family photos, with a narrow credenza and underneath it some additional seating.

I also designed a built-in cabinetry to fit into that small niche between fireplace and shelving. What was the architect thinking?! This hole was obviously made for a Media center, but will only fit a very small TV and there really is no media storage in the market that fits into that tiny space! ...so I designed a built in shelving with doors that will hide all the electronics, DVDs and ugly cords. TV is placed on the adjacent wall.






Teenagers Room

A Small room, where everything happens....from sleeping to homework to listening and playing music and video games.
The fun and very light cardboard divider (from 2modern.com) separates the sleeping area, makes it more mercifull in the mornings when there is "no time" to make the bed ;o)
There is a pretty good size closet in the room, but additional storage was added as a doubly duty with the little guest chairs/ ottomans. Map of Finland- vinyl wall decal reminds of the heritage of this teenage boy as well as the framed photos of some familiar places there.



more concepts and actual work here http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_details.asp?individual_id=210620

Interiors Inspired by Miss Audrey Hepburn

Some lovely Interiors graced by Miss Audrey's pretty face :)







as well as some cool artwork

Blame It on The Boogie

Very Cool Wall Decall. I WISH I knew where you can get it, I just stumbled on the image while researching on the web.