The perfect foundation for your new Keetsa Mattress.

Simple & Sturdy To Protect Your Investment In Sleep.
The Bed Frame raises your new mattress 14” off the floor and provides ample storage space underneath. Lay your mattress on this foundation, which provides a flat, rigid surface to protect your mattress and maintain your warranty. This foundation has 12-points of contact to the floor and supports up to 2400 pounds.

How This Works: The Bed Frame comes folded in single shipping box. No tools required to set up, which takes at most, about 20 minutes. If you ever need to move your mattress, the Bed Frame is easily disassembled.

Other Key Facts: We suggest to put a bed skirt over the frame to finish the look. The Bed Frame was made with recycled steel and can be recycled, again, after use.

When it comes to renovating the home, most homeowners often have difficulty describing the style that they want. With the amount of jargon it takes and the subtle difference between the styles, you’d have to be an architecture historian to tell them apart. The following are brief descriptions of the most popular interior design styles meant to give you an edge in choosing and talking about the styles you like.

Modern

Modernist designs are known for their purist sensibilities including clean lines, spaciousness, and efficiency. It is a very popular style in Europe and North American condo living due to the spaciousness that it emphasizes. You see few historical architectural elements in a modern home and none in an ultra-modern style. There are no moldings, no corbels, very subtle textures, and nothing that creates a busy look. Style is reflected through technological materials such as stainless steel, glass, plastic, smooth wood veneers and other sleek materials. Since there are fewer details, colour and texture plays a very important role. In modern kitchens for example, cabinet doors that are simpler in design such as the slab door. With fewer elements to distract your eyes, when compared to traditional styles, modern design quality is reflected by the details of craftsmanship and intrinsic beauty in materials used. High-gloss lacquer finishes, exotic wood veneers, and stainless steel accents create a high-tech look.

Contemporary

Contemporary kitchens have some of the high-tech look and functionality of a modern space, but are not purist in style and design vocabulary. Often different styles are mixed together to give this style of space a unique emotional connection to its occupants. In a contemporary space, it’s common to find a juxtaposition of styles such as an antique rug or historic wood table used with an ultra-modern sofa in a streamlined and technologically advanced space.

Classic (Traditional)

The advantage of having a traditional design is that it may never go out of style. Ornamental elements such as moldings and posts are commonly used in a traditional design to reflect timeless elegance and sophistication. The classical style is most obvious when looking at the kitchen – crown moldings, light valences, raised panel doors, columns with ornaments, hardwood flooring, and rich materials such as tumbled marble.

Cabinets in cherry wood or off white finishes topped with granite countertops are a popular direction for most homeowners. This would be a good choice of style if you are the type of person who likes to redecorate often without spending a lot of money, because wood finishes and white cabinetry match nearly any fabric and trend. A traditional space also makes clutter not as noticeable compared to a modern style. This is due to the abundance of textures and variation within different elements.

Modern Classic

The modern classic style is a streamlined version of the traditional style. It has modernist sensibilities with its clean lines and spacious feel. Classic elements that are presented in a modern classic design is often more subtle, such as like moldings without extra ornamentations for example. The overall impression that you would get by looking at a classic modern space is that the room would appear to be cleaner as all classic elements are reduced to form only or totally removed.

In a modern classic kitchen, you would still be able to find elements that are presented in a traditional kitchen such as crown moldings, light valences, and raised panel cabinet doors but you would find these elements to have less details in them or streamlined to be more technological in style. Instead of tumbled marble flooring, a honed and cross cut travertine would be used to purify the style. A common feature of the classic modern style is extra-wide drawer cabinets that you’d see in ultra-modern designs, turned into a timeless piece of furniture for all times.

Country

The country style is a casual version of the traditional style. Materials that are hand made or have a hand made look are preferred and have more variation. Worn and weathered items are celebrated and remove formality for a space. It’s all about comfort.

Old World

The old world style perhaps may be the most ornamented and sophisticated of the styles outlined here. Inspired by history, they are Baroque, Neo-classical, Tuscan, Renaissance, and English style interiors that conjure up imagery of castles in Europe. Elements such as corbels, appliques, crown moldings, spindle columns, canopies, and complex hand-made architectural features are common. Antiqued or hand-made iron work and hand-dragged finishes, elaborate chandelier in the dinning room and the foyer, and grand scales distinguish an old world interior.

These are six of the most common styles that we see in homes nowadays. Knowing these styles will give you an advantage in coordinating the elements that you need to create an exquisite interior that reflects your tastes. It is also useful in helping you to discuss elements and styles that you like with your designer, a part of a healthy two-way design process which is the key to making your dream space a reality.

As consumers, we are consistently obligated to make choices. We look for products which are pleasing to the eye, well made and not too expensive. More and more, we ask to know where products are manufactured and seek assurance that manufacturing processes are not wreaking havoc on the fragile equilibrium of our planet.

Until very recently, seeking out products which were both eco friendly and aesthetically pleasing was no easy feat. Fortunately, designers everywhere are increasingly committed to sustainable development and have begun to consider greener alternatives. This had led to the spawning of extraordinarily creative solutions to any number of environment-related challenges. Growing quantities of goods are being produced from recycled or renewable materials such as bamboo. Others are being designed to take up as little shipping space as possible, thereby reducing the amount of fuel required to transport them. What is more, many of these same goods—manufactured in locations around the world—now qualify as eco-aesthetic. And that’s a good thing! Companies closer to home have also begun to market decidedly greener products. For example, Laurentide Inc., a leader in the paint recovery and recycling sector, is one of only a handful of companies in the world to produce paint from unused portions of recycled paint materials. Boomerang brand paints ( http://www.boomerangpaint.com ) offer quality paint in a rich palette of trendy colours inspired by nature, designed to suit your style and to be consistent with greener values.

So if your sense of ethics is keeping you from realizing the décor of your dreams, the new trend towards sustainable decorating products will help you update your interior with a clear conscience. Simple steps like choosing recycled, sustainable products and ore ethical consumer goods are easy ways to do our part for the environment.

When someone describes a home as “sexy”, what would be the first impression that comes to your mind? Elegance and grace have a lot to do with design and it’s a matter of a good composition with harmony and totality of the many elements that make up a home’s architecture, furnishings, and interior. The concept of a home being sexy is related to a composition of elements that are highly appealing, streamlined and graceful – making them attractive. Combining volumes, textures and colours that you would not usually see in a normal home makes a sexy home unique.

To better understand it let’s look at some examples of different areas that contribute to a sexy home such as the kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom.

Kitchen

As we may all know, the kitchen is considered to be the heart of a home. It is a social space, where you, your family and your friends often spend time cooking, snacking, and chatting, but it is also a space that gives people a strong impression of who you are.

Most often the look of the kitchen depends on the detailing. A sleek and streamlined kitchen has unique cabinets and finishing that tie in with all of the other elements of the room such as the countertop profile, backsplash pattern and texture, as well as knobs and pulls. It’s important that the layout of your kitchen also has to be harmonious with its style, so a European kitchen needs to pay particular attention to the composition of the elements in symmetry or asymmetry.

Some trendy design directions for sexy and sleek kitchens are:

1. Contemporary slab door cabinets in vivid high gloss finishing or matte wood vaneer with horizontal grain, with aluminum door edges,
2. Stainless steel appliances and countertops to reflect the high-tech and modern,
3. Low-voltage halogen pot lights, strategically placed to create a colour-wash on the cabinet doors when lights are dimmed,
4. Hardware such as soft-close drawer system to make the kitchen operate as gracefully as it looks.

Bathroom

Same as the kitchen, bathroom design has come a long way. Current trend is to create a spa-like bathroom, with fixtures that are poetic and hi-tech. Design tends to be more clean-lined and emphasis is put on the overall ambiance to create a relaxing space. Types of materials used are usually subtle and natural: imported river stone tiles, lightly honed marbles, and rich woods. It’s important to keep in mind that the style that you choose and the materials used should be consistent with the overall theme of your house interior and its architecture.

Besides the aesthetic elements, it is also important to consider the comfort factor that fixtures bring into a bathroom. There are different types of bathtub: pedestal, slipper, whirlpool, and more. To complement the spa theme, a tub with heated air jets would definitely provide relaxation and comfort of a spa; under-mounting the tub with a perimeter of marble or granite adds to the look we love. Besides the shape, bathtubs are also offered in different materials and colours, but it is suggested to choose something that would not only complement the overall design of the room, but as well as easy to clean and to maintain. And of course, wherever you can, hang or integrate a LCD TV in front of the soaker tub to up the cool factor to the bathroom and make taking long relaxing baths more enjoyable and practical.

Bedroom

After enjoying a delicious meal in the kitchen and taking a relaxing bath in your soaker tub, your typical day would end in your bedroom. Getting the right bed and bedding for your bedroom is the key because it not only is the focal point of the bedroom, but it is also the first thing that you would most likely see when you walk in, not to mention comfort and practicality. It is not, however, enough to make a bedroom sexy by just having the right bed. A sexy bedroom would also need elements such as lighting, wall colours, bed linens, and some furniture to bring out a romantic and relaxing atmosphere that would make you forget all your stresses and anxieties from the very first step into the room.

1. Choose a bed that works with the scale of the room. If you love modern design, a low platform bed always looks good.
2. Comfort is very important; therefore get the best mattress you can afford!
3. Use sheets and pillowcases that are made with silk or satin, or something that you would know immediately if it feels comfortable against your skin by just looking at it.
4. Use lighting that is soft, subtle, and localized. It would help in creating a relaxing atmosphere.
5. Walls with vivid hues are also the key in making the bedroom sexy, and it is very economical. If you don’t like strong colours, then use an earthy material palate with softer, neutral wall colours and use furniture’s colours and design to support that look.
6. Use curtains that would complement the bedding materials and colours. It’s important to choose curtains that hang or operate gracefully.
7. Use decorative elements such as flowers and candles, to appeal to all 5 senses.

A sexy home is about a combination of elements that are highly appealing, streamlined and graceful to create a relaxed ambiance. Volumes, textures and colours all come together in a well designed home to portray an image of who you are and how you want to live. Formal or informal, sophisticated or casual there are materials, textures, and designer furniture that are out there and a professional designer can help you bring it all together, giving you the home of your dreams.

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