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How to Decorate Your Kitchen in the Futuristic Style

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A kitchen that is decorated in the futuristic style is usually white, metallic and glossy. Sometimes there are some wood elements but they are unstained. If things are colored make sure they are in a pure primary color. For instance choose a pure fire engine red rather than a pastel rose or your kitchen will start looking rustic rather than futuristic. Bright tangerine orange looks better than pumpkin, or your futuristic walls start to look more seventies. Keep the colors as pure and basic and as glossy as possible.

Big, heavy stainless steel appliances have that air of modernism around them and they are very minimalist-looking. You can also get counters, steel cupboards and tables in brushed metal to help your kitchen look even more space age.

Pairing brushed metal details with grey or white Carrera model or white formica like surfaces is also very futuristic looking. For an added touch of Kubrick-like retro-future modernism add a clear Lucite table or chopping block or buy chairs that look Victorian but that are actually molded out of white or clear hard plastic.

Color play and neon lighting can also do a lot for making a kitchen look like it is from the future. One idea is to make a kitchen all white and then make the counter and back splash a bright blue and light it with neon. The effect is very tidy and space age.

Another way to make a kitchen look futuristic is to keep everything white and then paint exposed walls a deep blue or black or even a pumpkin orange.

Fridges with glass doors or smokey colored glass doors can also be space-age looking. Another interesting effect is to add shelves made out of clear, orange, yellow or light blue plexiglass. Lighting can do a lot to enhance the space age glow of glass shelves as well. The hotter and more pin-pointed the lighting is, the more glamorous and showcased it will seem.

Making displays of things that are shiny and keeping it functional also makes your kitchen more futuristic. If you have state-of-the-art gadgets it does not hurt to display them as well.

Futuristic kitchens also have very clean straight lines or geometric shapes to them in general. That is why it is so difficult to make a futuristic kitchen look good in a crooked old Victorian. You are better to try this look in a condo.

How to Decorate Your Home with Harley Davidson Decor

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Harley Davidson suits a lot of different decorating eras including the fifties, sixties, seventies and nineties. The style suits all steam punk, Goth and biker themed rooms as well as ones from the fifties and sixties.

The company Harley Davidson makes a lot of different completely interesting knick knacks that can give any room that biker feel.

Not many people are aware of this but you can actually buy Harley Davidson furniture. They make handsome fifties style metal and leather seats that are embossed with images like skulls or the Harley Davidson oil can logo. You can also get pub tables and shield bar style stools. Unique to the Harley Davidson product line are their solo saddle bar stools which have beautiful saddle seats with stitching and studs just like on a motorcycle.

The company also makes a beautiful rolling cooler for storing beer and wine and a unique old-fashioned folding chair plus step stool where the metal and rubber stairs fold inwards into the chair structure.

Harley Davidson is also known for its clocks, mirrors and lighting including its famous fifties style round clock that lights up in neon blue. They also make quite a few clocks that feature Marilyn Monroe and Betty Page look-a-likes perched on their face. They also have reproductions of the genuine motor oil logo done up a big fifties and thirties style clocks as well.

The company also makes lovely door mats, many of them in rubber. They are black cut out mats that look a lot like wrought iron.

Another nice accessory made by the Harley Davidson company are hooks for hanging things that look like the famous Harley Davidson belt buckles.

Even your kitchen can be tricked out in Harley Davidson gear. The company makes a very beautiful cutting board that has the classic logo on it in black. It is made out of tempered glass and has brushed aluminum handles. Of course the Harley Davidson crowd can be quite hard drinkin’ so the company also sells all kinds of beer steins, beer coasters, pilsener beer glasses and beer openers with the company logo on it. You can also get Margarita glasses and drink glasses with the tribal Harley Davidson logo on it. The company also makes an ice bucket and plenty of metal and plastic signs that would look handsome hanging in any retro fifties or nineties style biker style bar or goth style bar.