The by-word today is conserve and save as much as you can. And for homes, saving means trying to cut down on energy consumption, something that we can often trace to our usual home appliances that we just plug in and turn on.

Today however, new energy conserving devices are available in the market. They boast of various eco-friendly compliance standards, helping consumers through using energy-conserving appliances based on remodeled appliances that should save consumers a buck or two.

“If you can save money on your energy bill and receive a government subsidy at the same time, why not [buy energy-saving electrical appliances]?” she said, adding that an energy-saving refrigerator can save up to 40 percent on electricity costs compared with a traditional one.

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With everything going up these days, the best buy of furniture pieces and bed ensembles seems to be beyond reach of an aspiring home builder. But thanks to breaks such as tax free weekends and additional special discounts, consumers can now troop to the nearest furniture store and try to pick out the furniture or home furnishing that they want to have.

For retailers, not all will be as accommodating as the ones who have set base in the various stores today. But just the same, you are bound to get something simple to elegant that will certainly be a welcome addition to beautifying your home.

Some stores see their foot traffic increase by almost a third during the sales tax holiday.

“Because you have so many consumers out in the market this weekend, this three-day period, the first question you’re going to receive is, ‘So are you guys doing tax-free this weekend?’ ” Anterio Kittrell, of Heavner Furniture Market, said.

Even national chains, like Oreck Vacuums, are offering a 7 percent discount throughout the state. But that will cost them.

(Source) News 14

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By being environmentally responsible and using bio-based foams has been the two things that Englander is banking on as it sets to offer its organic mattress line to consumers who want something eco-friendly as far as bed requirements are concerned.

Englander joins the ranks of many companies trying to go eco-friendly and with resources available in its native land, it all boils down to a matter of using them that include wool, cotton, natural rubber latex and sustainable wood parts.

Besides, it’s all about sleeping soundly. With organic mattresses, this can be done with the right choice of eco-friendly materials.

“We can show our customers these products are certified,” Warshaver said. “The consumer who wants organic products doesn’t want games. This is not a price issue, it’s an integrity issue.”

The four beds in Englander’s Nature’s Finest Organic Sleep Systems line incorporate varying amounts of latex. An innerspring bed with two inches of latex retails at $1,999, while an innerspring model with four inches of latex retails at $2,499. A latex core bed with six inches of latex retails at $2,999, while the top model has eight inches of latex and retails at $3,499.

(Source) Furniture Today

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It is not only private homes these days that are turning towards contemporary wood furniture. Even offices are looking at these fine warm wood finishes as their designs are pretty much ideal and perfect for certain office settings.

You can just imagine how good warm wood finishes would change the ambiance of a room once they are placed. Small room offices can become great places to work in, spicing up the usual boring atmosphere with extravagant designs made to change the aura of the offices in an instant.

For starters you can check out these two office furniture design lines.

1. Creative Elegance’s Cove office

2. South Shore Industries Ltd.’s Element Collection of contemporary home office furniture

Honey and midtone brown finishes are getting the nod from consumers purchasing contemporary home office furniture. Besides accentuating the clean lines of contemporary furniture and transitional furniture groups, these warm wood finishes brighten up a small room.

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Declaring bankruptcy may save you from further legal mitigations as far as payables are concerned but for large bed companies such as Dormia, it does not stop there. Acting apparently on their claim of bankruptcy, Dormia has been ordered to liquidate all its assets and products before it closes its doors.

For Dormia, this means additional work prior to closing the books. But for the consumers like us, it means lucrative discounts towards bed products such as mattresses, pillows and bed covers.

After the sales, Dormia will close all of its store locations, though it will continue to manufacture bedding products to be sold by other retailers.

Bankrupt mattress retailer Dormia has been ordered by a bankruptcy court to sell off all the merchandise at its retail locations - including its two stores in the Triangle.

(Source) Triangle Business Journal

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Technology has changed our lives today and apparently we can see them in the appliances that we buy. One thing that we consider a good buy would be the added features in most appliances, making life entirely easier for us to do.

Among the normal appliances we have at home would be the usual washing machines. For most, it helps ease the pain of laundry and with modern technology each year, you can see that features such as the identification and eradication of unwanted bacteria in clothing you can just imagine the best to come in the years that will follow in advanced technology in appliances we see in the market.

‘Silver Nano’ wash system from Samsung combines the disinfectant and antibiotic properties of electrolytic silver nano-particles while washing. The silver ions created while washing not only leave clothes bacteria-free but are energy efficient too.

“Our endeavor is to introduce more and more health friendly products for consumers. To make life easy for consumers we are continuously investing in R&D for developing new technology and invest around 8% of our global sales turnover in R&D every year,” says R Zutshi, Deputy MD, Samsung India.

(Source) The Economic Times

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Here’s a real simple furniture that can be built without any tools.  I hope giant furniture supplier IKEA start selling this kinda furniture instead of handing the consumers tideous and time-consuming disposable wrenches.

Jaap sez, “This furniture looks rather run-off-the-mill until you watch the assembly animations. There are no fasteners. No screws, no nails, no dowels, no fiddly bits of IKEA hardware that dare not speak their Swedish names. Just cleverly cut wooden boards that fit together like a 3D puzzle.”

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For beds, Murphy beds are a class of their own making them stand out among the standard beds we see in the market today. However, this niche also holds true for other key areas of a home and this includes computer tables and desktops which seem to be outdoing themselves as far as providing the ideal computer desktop setup is concerned.

The Sync Desktop is considered at the top of the possible computer desktop line and apparently something any person who spends most of his time on the computer wanting to have this one.

The desk features a hideaway display and keyboard, as well as built-in peripherals and storage compartments, according to BornRich. Just a concept at present, it exists only in the mind of U.K. designer Gareth Battensby so far. Which is a shame, because the closest thing we’ve seen in reality is a desk with trap doors.

(Source) Crave

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Uhuru designs has been known to come up with crazy ideas on how to conceptualized furniture from used materials and it seems that their recycled Bourbon furniture is one of them. The Bourbon Barrel Furniture can really amaze and mislead most furniture buying consumers and the art and concept that they place in their work is something that many will really like to check out and purchase for their homes today.

Uhuru will be launching a brand new line of furniture at BKLYN Designs 2008, featuring a chair, bench, table and stool, all made from reclaimed bourbon barrels.

The lines of each piece are simple and minimal, and it is the patina of the reclaimed bourbon barrel wood which gives these pieces a warmth and personality that they wouldn’t have if they were just regular virgin wood. But it isn’t just the wood which is eco-friendly in this collection. The metal frames are made from salvaged leaf springs from old trucks, and all finishes and varnishes are low VOC as well.

(Source) Inhabitat

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