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5 Interior Decorating Tips by Roderick Reed

By Roderick Reed

interior design trends

1. Color – The color of the year is Emerald Green. Pantone Company spear headed this by called Emerald Green the new trending color. Use it for paint, accessories and upholstery.

Rodericks Tip – Emerald Green is a very rich color so use it smartly. Use it in more subtle ways. For instance as an accent color for one wall rather than all the walls

2. Style – The 1920’s are making a comeback. Popular shows like Boardwalk Empire are fueling    resurgence in the Art Deco Style. Use it for walls ,accessories, furniture and lighting.

3. Feathers – Feathers will be the hot new motif this year. You will see the pattern on pillows and other accessories; peacock feathers especially

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Feather Sculpture, Sold by Target

 

 

 Roderick’s Tip – Go to your local petting zoo and grab a few Peacock feathers put them in a flower vase on your dining table!

4. Furniture– Deep seats with well-proportioned arms and heights are vital. Strong solid colors for the body of the upholstery. Accessorize with strong, over-scaled exotic pillows.

5. Color Combination– Black and White were trending at the High Point Furniture Market for 2013. This color combo has timeless style.

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Antiques – Blue John, Eye Candy to Antique Collectors

By Joanna Jana Laznicka

antiquesBlue John Stone is found nowhere in the world but amongst the rocks of Treak Cliff Hill, Castleton and exists in only two caverns: Treak Cliff Cavern and Blue John Cavern.

This mineral, a colour banded form of fluorspar, has been prized for many hundreds of years. Vases found amongst the ruins of Pompeii are thought to be made from Blue John stone. The mineral was much in demand in the 18th century for ornamental vases and columns in some of the finest houses in Britain, most notably Chatsworth, home of the Duchess of Devonshire.

The most substantial veins were worked out so that larger pieces are no longer made. The origin of the name ‘Blue John’ is thought to have come from the French ‘bleu et jaune’, meaning ‘blue and yellow’.

Treak Cliff Cavern is one of only two working Blue John Stone mines in the world and extracts approximately 0.25 tons per year. The stone is now used for small decorative objects and jewellery, and can be purchased from jewellers and craft shops in Castleton and selected other outlets around the Peak District.

Blue John is the rarest natural formation in the British Isles and the only known deposit is found near Castleton in Derbyshire. This mineral only occurs in small masses lining ancient caves or in voids in the limestone and boulder bed of Treak Cliff. Each piece of Blue John has to be extracted carefully by hand as blasting with explosives would open the cleavages effectively shattering the semi-precious stone and rendering it useless. Instead, the usual mining practice is to extract the limestone around the Blue John and so release the latter from its enclosing rock.

 

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