Almost every women, and a few men, have dreamed, at a certain point, about the idea of having a dressing room. And the thing it that it´s impossible not to do it when so many television programs show us these days all those beautiful and spacious closets inside which, apart of storing all our clothes, we could get lost. It may be for the same reason that we often think a dressing should occupy half of a house and that our house is too small ti have one, but the reality is different and there are dressing rooms of all sizes and for all tastes.

Before we start planning how how are we going to store our clothes in our new dressing we should decide which is the best place to build it. The ideal dressing is placed in the bedroom, like a smaller room full of cabinets inside our room. Despite this, it could also be great one that uses extra space of a bathroom that turned out to be too big and seems to be always empty, one next to our bedroom using the space of a  corridor that is too large or any other place where building it would be comfortable. As we see, a dressing does not necessarily have to be inside our bedroom or next to it, it could even use a room that we reserved for the office and we never got to use.

The dressing room is where we store our own clothes or the whole family. It allows us to keep everything organized. The shelves and drawers can be used to store, in addition to clothing, beauty products, and it can also have a corner for a dressing table stopping us from having to run in the morning from one place to another trying to find the perfect mirror or the right light to put our make up on. We could also have a place for the shoes and it might even be used for the ironing.

There are endless possibilities for a dressing, different sizes, different shapes and colours. We will paint and decorate a small closet with light colours making it look bigger and with dark colours if it is a man´s dressing. Cabinets and drawers can be placed on one wall, on two walls in “L” shape or in parallel, or “U” shaped. It should be warm and cozy and we recommend the use of straight lines and smooth colours, that prevent it from being tiresome.

Lighting is also key because it allows us to find easier our favourite outfits or small objects from a drawer. A mirror will help us when it comes to get dressed, and a large one would be ideal. And finally, a puff or chair will be very useful when having to put our shoes on.

If our kids clothing is stored in a dressing room, putting it vertically, on hangers, will make them decide easily what to wear; it also works for those undecided adults and the ones always in a hurry. And to make it even easier, many stores offer us accessories for our wardrobes, such as bars, hangers with different uses, boxes or crates.

But if, even after knowing that a dressing room doesn´t need all the space we initially though, your house doesn´t allow you to have one, you might be interested in a built-in closet that can also give us great ideas and choices for keeping the clothing. A built-in closet may be placed along one wall or more, and it could even result more suitable and confortable than a dressing room.

With your ideas, our hands will use the extra space of your house to build a wonderful dressing… or a built-in closet.

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Starting from today, the different types of decoration will be the topics of every Friday. Today it´s the turn of the Industrial Design, which has been famous among the decorative styles since the 50´s, when it become popular between the young New York artists that were seeking for affordable houses, far from the city centre, and that found their inspiration and homes, as the name of this type of design says itself, in factories located at the periphery. The Industrial Design takes us back to the factories and the large industrial spaces, to spacious rooms and to areas that are not over-loaded.

It is a style that doesn´t match easily with conventional houses, or conventional people, it´s a style made for the nonconformists, the bohemians, the modern and the artists, an unique style made for houses or even old factories that may become homes, that have considerable dimensions. The Industrial leaves the structure and the pipes of the house uncovered, transforming them into part of the decoration, and its walls don´t need painting because naked bricks and concrete have more than enough character for this kind of houses.

They are functional, open concept houses, where the division of spaces is done by decorative elements and furniture. Iron and wood come together to create an incomparable style, one where the lights also have an important role. The huge windows, typical of this houses, with no curtains, let all the necessary light pass through during the day and at night, giant spotlights, reading lamps and retro lights illuminate the key corners.

This kind of decoration is linked to the lofts and certain items with a touch of antique hit in perfectly with it. Recycling is already a habit and industrial houses come alive when an used wooden box or workbench become are used to make a table and a restaurant´s old chairs are updated and put around it. An old sewing machine can be ideal for the entry of our house and painted lockers can become perfect wardrobes.

Industrial style decorated houses won´t be very colourful, as it claims brown, white, black or grey to be the main colours for those houses. Vintage signs and armchairs, desks, stools and any other item rescued from an office of factory will give them a touch of vitality.

Are you too a free spirit or are you more curious about the shabby chic design, or vintage, steam punk, retro, Provence architecture, hippie, sailor…? If you want to discover which one is the style that suits you, we will be waiting for you here and on our Pinterest page every Friday.

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Maybe you too have noticed that walking through the streets at certain time of the year, brings you joy, and it is because some of the store´s windows are decorated with pastel tones and with summery colours, like the coral. At Reformas Vistahermosa we thought it would be a great idea to give more life to our houses and paint them with this colours.

We are going to talk today about the coral colour, an intermediate between the passionate red and the fragile pink. It is a feminine tone that, combined with the right colours, can reach the heart of every man. Children have fun with it for its vitality and teenagers love the warmth, tenderness and passion it triggers.

Coral creates welcoming spaces and brings freshness to our houses. It just brings back memories of the holidays, relax and comfort.

It´s a colour that blends perfectly with the mint and prevents its monotony. And, despite of being mint´s eternal lover, it is also a good friend of white and gray, other pastels and even black colours. Together, they create magnificent spaces and will remain printed in the minds of our guests.

This colour will make your home stand out for its sympathy and for being warm and inviting. To achieve this you won´t have to paint the entire house in coral because in excess it can overload the environment; coral may just be the main colour of one or various walls, it can be a brush-stroke that adds the final touch, including it in the decorations, using small items, combining it always with the other existing colours and making your house detach all those feelings you expect it to detach.

Coral- coloured curtains will give life to gray- painted walls and heat to the navy blue ones. A wall painted in a deep tone of this colour will create animation, another one, painted in a soft tone, will relax us, and a coral decorative item or piece of furniture will stand out over all the rest of the elements around it.

Coral can be one of the colours or the main one for your pillows, your bed linen, a piece of furniture, a vase or even your dishes. So, if you also dare to be more cheerful and adventurous, we invite you to imagine the house of your dreams and to let us transform your house into a dream.

We would like to introduce you today a good friend of us: Pinterest. We are talking about the website developed and founded in 2009 by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra y Evan Sharp, that opened its doors to everyone in the 2012, supplying us, since then, with pictures connected to information and permitting us to create boards with our hobbies, interests and ideas.

I have to say that I am very curious and ever since I discovered it I was so intrigued about all that information, that I could spend an entire day surfing through its pages, looking for cooking ideas, beauty, fashion and, what concerns us here, home designs, decoration and new house trends ideas.

Pinterest, that also has an application for the mobile or the tablet, will make you come to our office with clear ideas about the colours you want us to paint your house, about how you want the skirting boards to be like in the living room or about what aspect you want your garden to have once we have finished our job.

You will be inspired by the ideas of others and you will let, this way, your own ideas flow. You will learn hacks about how to visually enlarge a small room or a window. Your living room will become the most welcoming place to receive your guests, and your bedroom will become the room of the total relax.

You will learn that the term “open concept” allows you to join the kitchen and the living together, making your friends consider you the main authority of the today trends. With all you can find out and put into practice, the garden or a terrace will be transformed into chill out areas perfect to take a coffee in the morning or where to become one with the nature after work.

Pinterest can also show you the importance of the curtains in a house and that the way they are placed can play with our perception of a window and, if your house is spacious enough, it will give you clues about how to make, from a simple empty corner, a cozy reading nook, one of those reading corners that have the power to transport you to the world described in your books.

You will see designs that will make you want stars in your sky, or what comes to be the same, dozens of led lights in the ceiling of your bedroom so, at night, you will seem to be sleeping under a starry sky. And, once you will have the house you desire, Pinterest will show you hacks about taking a good care of it and how to give it character.

If you don´t “Pin” yet, we invite you to visit our boards and inspire freely, to come and share your plans and to let us make them a reality.