Saturday 9 April 2016

Country Style Kitchen Decor Ideas

Some kitchens are so formally designed that it feels like a sin cooking in them. Country kitchens, on the other hand, invite you to cook and eat in them as they bring back pleasant memories of your favourite family holiday meals in your grandma’s kitchen. Country Style Kitchen Decorating exudes an old world charm and cosiness that is sure to make it the favourite hang out spot for you and your family.
Wooden floors, pine furniture, and antique accessories go in to create the casual atmosphere that is typical of a country lifestyle.  Additionally, say it with painted stained finishes and open shelving, which are hallmarks of country kitchen decorating. Simply refurbish an old wooden table to serve as an island in the kitchen. Apply a coat of stain over the Table Furniture, and you have created the perfect country look. If you do not have the space for an island, look for a few accent pieces that can define your country style kitchen. For instance, an antique butter churn, or even a canned jar converted into a pendant light, can add a delightful mix of old world charm to your kitchen. Open shelves with decorated china bring back memories of old English kitchens and invite visitors in for a welcoming cup of tea.
It is also possible to achieve country style décor using a mix of rustic and modern pieces. Country style kitchens do not adhere to any particular pattern- rather, they aim to create an eclectic and inviting atmosphere by mixing and matching furniture, accessories and decorative pieces from different eras. For instance, a deep farmhouse sink can be coupled with modern tile backsplash for kitchen decorating and make for both easy working and aesthetic appeal.
For more Kitchen Decor Ideas log on to our website and get ready to be spoilt for choice.

Thursday 7 April 2016

Sofa Design Ideas for Living Room

If you are looking forward to kicking off your high heels and sinking into the luxurious depths of your living room sofa, then you need a sofa that combines beauty and comfort. Choosing a comfortable sofa for your living room does not mean that you need to compromise on the style and décor of your living room. Even a plain looking sofa can be made to look chic and modern with the use of bright and beautiful accessories.
The choice of your Living Room Sofa should be based both on the size and shape of the room as well as the kind of seating intimacy that you want to create. If you prefer a cosy seating arrangement with people seated close to each other, being able to carry out a conversation without having to shout across the length of the room, sectional sofas are a good fit. The notion that small living rooms cannot accommodate sectionals is a myth. Modular designs make sectionals especially suited for small living rooms with closed seating arrangements, as they can be arranged to take advantage of the corners, to align with the shape of the walls.
On the other hand, if you prefer a scattered seating arrangement which allows private conversations, couches and love seats, and even single recliners fit the bill. They allow people to enjoy quiet moments of reflection alone or in the company of a few without feeling squashed in. Powered Leather Sofas and chaise loungers can lend a living room modern chic if you are looking for contemporary accents to spice up your décor.

Modern sofas are as much about texture and quality as they are about comfort. Create a warm and Relaxing Sofa Decor by adding plenty of cushions and throw pillows that invite family members and guests to enjoy their luxurious depths. The vast variety available online, spoils you for choice!

Best Ways to Organize a Closet

If there is one place in the house that has you baffled, it is likely to be the closet. No matter how much you try, organizing the wardrobe closet in a way that makes it easy to find things seems an almost impossible task. When it comes to organising your closet, the same design principles that you would normally use to decorate a room, namely making the best use of available space, comes in handy. Even a small closet can be made to work efficiently with the help of a few simple design ideas.
Closet Design Ideas are all about finding smart solutions- such as mounting a pegboard inside the closet door that makes it easy to reach out for accessories while dressing up. Another way to organize the relatively smaller things, as they tend to be the most difficult to locate within a wardrobe closet, is to use cubbies and trays to organize and group them neatly. Hanging belt hooks on the inside of the closet door can also provide convenient storage for items that can easily be hung up. 
Storing items not in daily use in transparent boxes makes it easy to locate them from outside, while Open Shelves can provide easy storage to folded clothes, handbags and many other items. Grouping them by colour or by form can create a unifying décor, while also making it easy to locate stuff within a wardrobe closet. Good lighting is essential to ensure you are not left to search for items in the dark within a small closet.  Hang a pendant light, install recessed lighting or even wall scones to make it easy. 

When bedroom space is limited, a closet has to many times to double up as a dressing area. Install a large mirror inside the closet to make dressing up easy, as well as to create an optical illusion of more space. Curved dressing benches or Foldable Stools can be great space saving closet design ideas. 

Friday 1 April 2016

Help Me Build – This social commerce platform helps you build your dream home

Helpmebuild has been covered by EverythingStartup! Take a look at the article below!

An insight at social commerce platform Help Me Build


After a seemingly rapid growth of e-commerce industry and India’s move towards digitisation, social commerce is what is trending in the startup ecosystem. In this sector the buying and selling of products online is assisted by users themselves with social interactions as the major tool.
HelpMeBuild is one such startup that is harnessing the power of social media to educate and motivate people to plan the interiors on their own.



Helpmebuild.com is an online based, content driven social commerce platform for Interior and Architecture related ideas and inspirations catering to the residential, commercial, hospitality and landscape space.
The platform enables users to draw inspiration through visual, video and written content, thereby creating an engagement model in an area that is relatively untouched within the Indian market. With their teams of specialists, HelpMeBuild aim to provide their ever-growing community of users with the right set of tools- both written and visual- to help empower them to actively participate in the process of decision making when creating their dream spaces.
Help Me Build is set apart by their constant strive towards spreading knowledge and creating awareness. Through detailed product recommendations, thought provoking articles, inspiring stories and honest reviews, they successfully enable their users to make informed decisions with regard to their own space.
Through their Design+Build division, HelpMeBuild go the extra mile and offer their users, as well as their offline clientele, the ability to not only execute the ideas and inspirations available on the platform, but to also take advantage of full-stacked solutions in conceptualizing, designing and executing their very own dream homes, offices, hotels and beyond. Having strategically partnered with industry leaders in the interior design and architectural space, both within India and overseas, HelpMeBuild ensures efficient and effective integrated project solutions across an array of industry verticals, making it one of the first movers in the online space to offer such streamlined services within India.
With their verified and quality controlled managed multivendor marketplace – HelpMeBuild provides their users with more than 30,000 products to choose from in the home and interior space, creating a truly rounded experience for any project – small or large – all under one roof.                                       
                                                Prasoon Shrivastava HelpMeBuild Founder
With the term ‘social’ being so widely used across the Internet today, HelpMeBuild dove into analyzing what the term would mean for them – resulting in the creation of a platform with social utilities that encompass all the functions that the website has to offer. This led to the creation of a truly engaging experience across all happenings on the site. Users are able to share, like, comment, follow, and even create their own idea based content, along with much more. The social commerce aspect of HelpMeBuild therefore, wraps itself around the platform in complete totality, taking user engagement to a whole new level.
Technology playing a vital role in today’s world has been a defining factor for HelpMeBuild. From a completely homegrown website developed upon a strong framework, to custom built analytics in collaboration with IIT Kanpur- HelpMeBuild have not compromised on the use of technology to enable them as an online based venture, as well as in offering their users an experience designed around their interactions on the platform, ensuring the Helpmebuild experience to be unparalleled.
Helpmebuild has come a long way in the past year. The company has not only evolved their business model to where it stands today, but continue to tweak and refine themselves to most effectively cater to their users and customers. What’s more impressive? Helpmebuild have pushed their limits and have created their platform along with all its bells and whistles, all whilst being bootstrapped. They do aim to one day seek funding, however have remained very clear that this will not hinder the long-term vision that they work towards. The company remains driven, passionate and focused towards staying true to their name by continuing to ‘build’ upon the interior and architectural revolution they have already set into motion.

Help Me Build Interview

At EverythingStartup we interviewed the HelpMeBuild team to get more insights about this startup for our community.
ES: When was Helpmebuild founded?
HMB Team:  Helpmebuild was founded in May, 2015, the company initially began as a listing platform and has evolved into the content driven social platform we see today.
ES: What is Helpmebuild?
HMB Team: Helpmebuild is a technology centric – online based, content driven,social commerce platform with a managed multi-vendor marketplace focusing on Interior design and Architecture related ideas, inspirations, and integrated project solutions.
ES: Who are Helpmebuild’s promoters?
HMB Team: Helpmebuild’s Founder and CEO is Prasoon Shrivastava, a vetted architect, project execution specialist and entrepreneur. He has put together a team of passionate, focused and driven individuals to help drive forward this vision.
ES: What problem is Helpmebuild solving?
HMB Team: Upon his return to India, having spent quite a few years overseas, Prasoon Shrivastava found that inefficiencies within project Design and execution in india were on the pinnacle of reaching an all time high. This sprouted the idea Helpmebuild, a one-stop-solution, from the creating of knowledge, to the streamlined execution of a project and beyond. Helpmebuild has since evolved, and continues to do so as per the needs of the market.
ES: Is Helpmebuild Funded?
HMB Team: Helpmebuild is a bootstrapped startup, and has created value through its user database, vast selection of content, thousands of furniture and home décor products and integrated project solutions business. We may consider funding in the future for growth, however their business model having shown its strength, currently supports their requirements.
ES: What makes Helpmebuild Unique?
HMB Team: We aim to provide our users with the right set of tools through their content, commerce, community and Integrated project solutions to enable them to be informed and to actively participate in the process of decision making when designing and building their spaces.
ES: What are Helpmebuild’s revenue streams?
HMB Team: Through our multi-vendor marketplace and full-stacked solutions we have created a strong revenue model.
ES: Where does Helpmebuild see itself 3 years from now?
HMB Team: The next 3 years will see the company expand into overseas markets. In addition to this, we aims to surpass 1 million signed up users, as well as have a sizeable number of articles and products available on platform.
Source of This Article : http://www.everythingstartup.in/articles/social-commerce-platform-helpmebuild