CREATE YOUR COMFORT ZONE

The bedroom is where you can relax, lounge and find inner peace. There’s nothing like curling up in bed with a good book, watching your favorite TV show or movie or simply catching up on your sleep.

Create your perfect comfort zone with beautiful frames, luxurious linens and plush pillows.


BED SCENE. Choosing the right bed frame will anchor the look in your room.
Selection of bed frames includes wengue or bleached-wood bed frames with unexpected detailing in the headboard or footboard, or try a little adventure with a leather bed.


Luxe Linen. Linen is the heart and soul of the bedroom and seals the whole bedroom experience. Linen selection ranges, country style floral patterns and opulent velvety designs. Explore your options with an inviting mix of prints, patterns and hues. Plump your bed up with pillows of all sizes that are not only decorative, but also comforting.


Bedside matters. Enhance the feel of your room with accent pieces like vases, lamps, photo frames that give a personal touch to your bedroom.

Steps of Greening Your House

Let us work together and make our surroundings green. It really is easy being green, especially at home. Here are simple steps to green your house while greening your wallet, your energy, and your earth.

1. Change your bulbs and recycle them.
According to GE, incandescent bulbs use heat to produce light, while a fluorescent bulb (CFL) creates light that is four-to-six times more energy efficient. When replacing your bulbs, use the chart below to compare wattages between the standard bulb and CFLs.

• Standard Bulb/CFL Bulb wattage
• 60w/13w–15w
• 75w/20w
• 100w/26w–29w

• 150w/38w–42w

Just don’t stop there, because whenever your bulbs blow, you can safely recycle them to protect the environment from unnecessary mercury contamination.

2. Compost your food and use biodegradable bags for pet waste.
Composting your food puts it back into the soil where it belongs and lessens the production of methane and leachate formulation, which forms from waste materials liquefying into an acid water solution. If you have a garden, find out how to start your own compost file by using, like for example BioBags to line my compost bin, and they even make some for pet waste, though you should not compost your pet waste. Or like some people are doing, switching to biodegradable kitty litter and poop bags in the meantime until pet waste is used as an alternate form of energy!

3. Buy green cleaning supplies or make your own.
Choose cleaning supplies that keep your nose hairs away from chemicals that will fry them. Other householders like to make their own using what is already in their cabinets or under their sink. Use other green cleaning supplies that has natural scents in your home and on your clothes.

4. Put on a sweater and turn down your heat.
In an apartment with a heating unit on the wall, Turn it on first thing in the morning for fifteen minutes to heat up your apartment, making sure to close all bedroom doors, and do the same in the evening. Then turn it off. With adequate insulation, your home can hold the heat while you grab your grandmother’s Afghan or that hand-knit sweater that makes you feel cozy inside

5. Move the three R’s in as an extra guest.
Reduce, recycle, and reuse should be your mantra for 2008. Repairing items is reusing them. Donating your old clothes to charities or thrift stores also reduces what goes into the landfill. Reusing an item is even better than recycling so that it doesn’t have to be reprocessed and then reintroduced into the chain of production. When you purchase long-term, durable goods, you reduce waste. The same goes for buying products with less packaging. According to the EPA, by 2006, curbside recycling programs served almost half of the American population and moved 82 million tons of material away from landfills.

6. Buy a laptop and let it sleep when you sleep.
Laptops use less energy than desktops and shut it down every night. If you’re the type that wakes up in the middle of the night to use your computer, then just put your computer in standby mode, which on a PC you can do by going into your Control Panel>Power Options.

7. Wash in cold and dry clothes part-time on a line.
We’re lucky to have an Energy Star washer and dryer, but I change the temperature of each wash cycle from hot/warm to cold. Save the hot water for filthy laundry, and make sure it’s a full load. The same goes for your dryer; switch it from high/medium to low and choose to line dry all of your intimate items and clothing that could use a break from fading and shrinking in the dryer.

8. Save some water.
Run the dishwasher only when it’s full. Take shorter showers instead of baths. Keep the temperature down in that shower. When you are waiting for the water to heat up, put a bucket in your shower to collect that water and use it on your houseplants. Think about installing low-flow faucets and showerheads.

9. Let your oven be your sous chef.
A clean oven is more energy efficient. Don’t preheat your oven unless your dish needs to cook for more than an hour. When cooking, use the broiler whenever possible since preheating uses more energy. Use the leftover heat from your oven for warming food and plates.

10. Cool your food so your refrigerator doesn’t have to.
See if your refrigerator has a tight fit and shuts on its own; if not, the gasket might need replacing. The best way to save energy is to turn the freezer temperature down and raise the fridge temperature.

Dust and Grease Speed Cleaning Tips

Here are some tips or strategic methods to speed cleaning dust and grease that we dealt with around every corner of our house.

· Open the shades and windows to let in the sunshine and air; then light a scented candle and let its aroma take over the house.

· Free up your kitchen counters from piles of papers and mail for the space you need for cooking, and keep table open and clear.

· Use dustpan and garbage bag to catch the bunnies in each room before they hop away.

· Take two rags and take a natural cleaner when cleaning around the house. Dust wooden surfaces with one and spray clean the kitchen counters.

· Clean every door, cabinet, and sink handle in the house, removing whatever dust and grease

· After sweeping away the dust bunnies, it’s time to degrease the oven and soak the sink. using sponges. They scrub off caked-on grease from the stove. Use another sponge for the kitchen, one for the bathroom, and another one for the toilet.

· Always require a regular touch-up of your bathroom, say once or twice a week. Sprinkle the sink and bathtub with Bon Ami, and then wash them clean with hot water.

· Fluff the pillows. Bring outside couch and bed pillows and do a little shake to take away dust and pet hair that it accumulates..

· Go through the fridge and see which vegetables are ready to go to the bin.

· A quick sweep of kitchen and wood floors will catch the rest of the dust bunnies and dirt, sprinkle in the carpet and on my rugs a mix of essential oil and baking, for quick deodorizing before the vacuuming. Sweep and mop the rooms in your house that requires some mopping like, kitchen and bathroom, and take a rag and use the natural cleaner to spray the floor, then finish up the speed-cleaning and move across the floor.