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5 Tips when designing a real luxury kitchen

If you are a homeowner who loves to cook and prepare food, you might want to have a very nice luxury kitchen with all the storage and amenities you need. If you are designing, building, or remodeling a luxury kitchen here are some suggestions you may want to consider:

Know the difference between cabinets with overlay door and insert door

The higher end option for a luxury kitchen are framed cabinets with inset doors while the more common cabinets seen on the market are the ones with overlay doors. A lot of homeowners are not familiar with the difference.

Get a high-end refrigeration unit

A lot of luxury homeowners want to conceal the refrigerator behind cabinet panels to look just like an armoire or a luxury furniture.

Conceal counter top appliances

High end kitchens do not allow the possibility of clutter. You may want to ask your designer to have space so you can conceal appliances like toasters, coffee makers, and blenders. You can have a walk in pantry or have a big cabinet with pocket doors with internal tops which may have electric outlets. So concealment comes well with easy access.

Mixed counter top materials

Luxury kitchens will have a good amount of space so counter tops just using a single slab of granite or marble will look cold. You can use the best stone you want for the counters on the side while using a good wood for the island. This approach breaks the coldness of the area.

Do not use stainless panel for your dishwasher

Designers will agree that the dishwasher is not a pretty item in the kitchen so if even if you want all appliances to have that stainless steel touch, the dishwasher will not get any value out of it. The better approach will be to get a dishwasher which is fully integrated.

Luxury sofas: Classy style and hefty tag prices

Polished-steel-sofaI was looking for a sofa for my new place when I bumped into these luxury sofas on the internet. Not exactly that I want to purchase them (Since they cost a fortune, a big fortune!), but they look really good and will fit my living room. But my bank account is just refusing to agree.

Philippe Nigro’s Confluences

I guess these sofas by Philippe Nigro are perfect for couples or families with kids. The colorful sofas are eye candies and snug fit together.

Bubble Sofa by Versace

This one looks unique, quirky, and really comfy. We have here the colorful version but Versace Home can customize the piece if you want it done in leather or fabric.

Steel Sofa

This is a set of steel sofa polished so it will have a reflection like that of a mirror. It looks like a sofa and art rolled into one. This is a famous and pricey work of designer Ron Arad that had a whopping tag price of $300,000.

Agent Provocateur with a new Milan Boutique

Got this on my facebook wall just a few minutes ago:

Our new boutique launched Saturday 26th March in La Rinascente, Milan. Featuring our exclusive couture collection Soiree, the boutique will also house our main fashion, Classics, Bridal and Beauty collections.

Being a fashion freak and an Agent Provocateur fan, that’s just awesome news to me. I’ll be heading to Milan next year for Fashion week, and I can guarantee you I’ll be visiting the AP-store… :)

Agent Provocateur Milan
Agent Provocateur Milan Store Detail

Red-Hot Diamond — It’s Here For Auction!

red-hot-diamond-sothebys-1_ead8r_65Believe it or not, this particular ring – this one right here is actually going to be up for auction later this month.  It is one of those rings that you do not see any longer and it is one ring that for sure is rare and definitely worth a heck of a lot of money.

Sotheby’s Australia’s newest auction that is selling off quite a few of the best antiques and unique jewelry pieces is going to have this particular ring on sale as well in Australia’s very public auction.

The purplish color of the center diamond mixed with the lighter colors on the sides and the colorless diamonds is one mixture you are not going to want to miss!

HKMT Home Theatre = Watch Movies In Style!

HKMT When it comes to luxury, you know that you want yourself a fantastic home theatre – I mean, I know that whenever I am in my house, I wish that I had an awesome home theatre.  You want a theatre in your home that just reeks of elegance and of course of class and glamour too and that is what HKMT can do for you.

HKMT is actually a company that can come in and create a custom home theatre just for your.  They actually recently entered the scene but already, they have made a name for themselves and I can tell you from just this picture that this company is going to be huge.

You want something different and unique?  That is what HKMT can provide for you!

iPad Leather Case — Breathtakingly Beautiful!

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Now that we have explored the beautiful sparkly iPad, let’s move onto the more sophisticated one that is actually leather.  Since the iPad was released, I can tell you for sure that so many people are looking for the latest and greatest way to store their particular iPad.
That is how this particular leather iPad case came into play.  This is one of those cases that is not just a case but actually a beautiful thing.  It’s hand-stitched and can be used as both a case and a stand – either portrait or landscape.

Now, it’s just under seven hundred dollars, so make sure that you keep that in mind whenever you are looking for this beauty!

Crystallized iPad — These Look Awesome!

crystalroc-apple-ipad_afyfe_52Whether we like it or not, I can tell you for sure that Apple is exploding everywhere and they are coming out with so many different products for the rich and famous, it is very hard to keep up.  For those of you that are in the highest society and are looking for the latest and greatest technology, this is it.

This is CrystalRoc’s crystallized iPad that is actually attracting a hell of a lot of attention.  You want to have the latest technology packed in with quite a bit of bling?  That is what this diamond iPad is all about.

There is actually over six thousand individual Swarovski crystals on this particular iPad and it certainly is awesome!

Luxury Bathrooms — The Trends: 2

453e839a-0036d-02c46-400cb8e1Now that we have touched on fireplaces, let’s move onto another trend that is becoming huge and that is having the shower separated from the bathtub.  Most people utilize the bathtub as their shower, but when it comes to the trends in luxury bathrooms that is not the case.

People are constantly looking for the latest and greatest and that is the separate shower from the bathtub.  Personally, I think that this is an ingenious idea.  I love showering in a shower that is just that, not a bathtub and I love taking a bath in a tub that is not a shower.

If you have not tried it, you definitely should – it is totally worth it to make the switch!