Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Bedroom Designs

Bedroom Designs 200 Plus more Bedroom Designs Most parents are at a loss for ideas when it comes to a problem like how to decorate a bedroom for their child, especially because the interests and choices of the kid is going to change as fast as the changes in seasons. Every phase in the child's life is going to bring with it a demand for change in the interiors of the rooms, so while as a young boy or girl, they would have been more than pleased with a Sponge Bob Square Pants theme or a Barbie theme, as they move into their teenage phase, there are probably going to want black walls and death metal bands posters all over the room. 



Kids Bedroom

Kids Bedroom Modern Kids Bedroom design  first consider the nature of your child before embarking upon any new ventures for your kids’ bedroom decor. Your tween would probably have the best solution for this. The decor has to be fun giving a flow to his creativity. 
For a kid who loves sports, you can use some equipment within his bedroom in a creative way. 

Bedroom Design

Modern Bedroom Design and Pictures One of the most important features of a bedroom is that it should make you feel completely at home. The warmth and peaceful atmosphere within the bedroom should be reflected in the colors that you use to decorate the bedroom. In this section, we'll guide you towards what are the best warm colors that you can use in your bedroom.
 Remember, warm colors are members of the gold, red and yellow family. So, you'll have varying hues and combinations of these colors to give your bedroom a welcoming look and feel. 

Virtual Room Decorating

Virtual Room Decorating Virtual interior painting is done with the help of websites that allow you to upload the photographs of your interior or you can use a photograph available on the website and choose the colors for the same. There are a number of websites available on Internet that help you decide the colors for your interior.


Virtual Room Decorating

Online Room Design

Online Room Design Better Homes and Gardens has a free online Virtual interior designing software is a boon to all the homeowners who are planning a major home improvement project in near future. The main purpose of this software is to demonstrate the effects of various interior aspects on your room, when you actually implement them.



Online Room Design Moreover, if you wish to combine certain colors, then you cannot preview the actual combination. Thus, you largely have to depend upon your imagination. Same goes for other interior decorating aspects such as flooring, furniture, lighting and accessories. 

Monday, August 10, 2009

A Day at the Cottage

On Saturday Wayne & Marcia Visbeen graciously invited all of the Visbeen Associates employees and families over to their beautiful cottage and we had a wonderful time. We boated, played volleyball and ate a ton!
Angela Mulder and her family (Jonathan; Isaac & Charlotte)

David Lorenz's wife & daughter (Emily; Elena)

Megan TerVeen and her husband (Chris)

Wayne Visbeen, the grill master

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Tutorial Thursday: What is a quoin?

Welcome to Tutorial Thursday! Today we're learning about quoins (pronounced "coins.") Below are some of Visbeen Associates homes which feature quoins. (Please excuse the construction mess. Falcon Custom Homes is doing a fantastic job!)

"Stone [or brick] quoins dress and frame the corners of buildings." Cole, Emily. The Grammar of Architecture. East Sussex, UK: The Ivy Press Limited, 2002.


"Quoins are rusticated blocks of stone [or brick] alternating in size, which run in strips up the corners of a building..." Cole, Emily. The Grammar of Architecture. East Sussex, UK: The Ivy Press Limited, 2002.

And, here are some homes with quoins designed in: