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20+ Eye-catching Mid Century modern living room ideas for Your Inspiration

Contemporary living room designers love to pick cool stuff from other styles or eras to make their design even cooler. One of the styles which inspire them most is Mid Century style. With its unique, retro, and strong modern characters, this style (coined by Cara Greenberg in early 1980s) still has much power to the contemporary minds. If you’re interested in this style, here are 25 Mid Century modern living room ideas for you.

1. Mid Century Modern Living Room with High Metal Window

A good Mid Century modern living room helps you to bring back old memories effortlessly and nicely. In a glance you have your mind teleported to the nice memories where TV sets were still in tubes and black/white, your set of Eames chairs, the geometric furniture, the big the brown windows.

This example is a suitable example, though adapted and imbued with modern features (Flat TV or the contemporary shelves, for example). But you can still thickly feel the Mid Century mood here, mainly with its decor and the characteristic high glass-metal windows

2. Mid Century Modern Living Room with Fireplace

Bringing back the Mid Century modern living room style into the contemporary era will not complete without its stylish fireplace, the iconic freestanding Malm fireplace. Since its conception at the height of Mid Century era (1960) by Malm Fireplaces, Inc., the fireplace has become one of its iconic features.

The freestanding fireplace looked futuristic at the time, and even now it still is. Just like the example, this Mid Century modern living room looks extra cool with the fireplace.

3. Iconic Wood & White Mid Century Modern Living Room

Being minimalist in its characters, a Mid Century modern living room always looks good in its neutral colors like white, black, brown (or wood colors), and else. The colors also help you create a kind of mood booster, just like the color combination of this Mid Century modern living room.

The colors ideas revolves around the neutral color pallets. Here you have the iconic combination of wood and white. It’s effective to build a warm and cozy atmosphere to the room. The black beams adds strong character into it.

4. Elegant Brown Leather Couch for Mid Century Modern Living Room

A Mid Century style is picky about the materials for its furniture and decor. A Mid Century modern living room only includes well-chosen chairs, tables, rug, or other decorating elements.

This simple Mid Century modern living room only has several items, with the brown couch as its center piece. Accompany the leather couch are contemporary log table, Swedish arm chair, a grey geometric rug and a Mid Century reading chair.

5. A Mid Century Modern Living Room in Light Wood and Grey

Want to relive the unique living room atmosphere of the 50s? You need to redo your living room into a Mid Century modern living room style. And how to get it the effects quicker? Then you should fix light wood panels on the high walls and splash grey color to the rest.

The combination of wood and grey colors, like the picture, instantly recognizable as important features which build the Mid Century air of the room. Coupled with green and grey couches, the effects are complete.

6. Brown and Teal for a Classic Mid Century Modern Living Room

There are certain colors which, in the right furniture or decor, will bring you back to the Mid Century era instantly. You have already met the brown one, now you meet another color: teal.

If some of you still in the dark of teal, the color is the color of medium to deep/dark blue-green color. In this Mid Century modern living room idea, teal color adds accent to the room. The color goes well with the white sofa as throw pillows’ color. The color further accent this room on the brighter teal color of the arm chair.

7. An Industrial Mid Century Modern Living Room

Industrial style can go well with Mid Century modern living room. You only needs to add its naked features with things from Mid Century: Eames chairs, minimalist desk and table, and plush couches.

Let the flat ceiling naked, with its unfinished beams complement well with the white wall. It combines well with the black H-shaped iron structures of the room. Meanwhile, natural light are abundant in the room through its high metal-glass wall and door.

8. Pleasant Mid Century Modern Living Room with Wood Paneling

You cannot leave wood panels from a Mid Century modern living room design idea. It’s one of the most important features in the style. You almost always see the wood panels in every Mid Century living room.

The panels, like in the picture, are staple of Mid Century home. It’s made of wood panel or plywood (for the affordable options). As about the picture in this example, this living room belongs to the house of famous architect Paul Hayden Kirk.

9. White Brick Wall Mid Century Modern Living Room in Calming Color

If you feel clueless in furnishing or decorating your room, try to paint your wall white all over. Just like a clean sheet of paper, then you can fill it with any of your favorite furniture or decor. And if you want it to be your Mid Century modern living room, this example is a good starting point.

This white brick wall living room looks warm and cozy with Mid Century stuff, such as a grey couch with its skinny legs, abstract and geometric paintings, or Swedish arm chair. The colorful throw pillows, rug, and paintings complete the coziness.

10. Orange and Grey Mid Century Modern Living Room

This Mid Century modern living room invites you into a colorful minimalist world of Mid Century era. If previously you always see pictures of big Mid Century living room, here you have one which suits well for small spaces.

This living room has simple design ideas. It only involves 2 orange and soft pink arm chairs, a medium grey couch, and two coffee tables. All are in thick Mid Century styles. To add the charms are minimalist racks with accessories, and a floral painting as accent wall.

11. Mid Century Modern Living Room with Stone Wall

You have already know some of excellent Mid Century wood paneling in this list. Now we move to also another excellent wall accent of the style, Natural stone wall. This example is a good example.

Instead of wood paneling, this Mid Century modern living room have stone wall accent. The stones is set roughly as a wall, to highlight its natural color and patterns. The result is an excellent complement to the wood flat ceiling and white wall, enhance the overall Mid Century look.

12. Vanity Mirror for Excellent Mid Century Modern Living Room

Mid Century living room probably has one of the most unforgettable wall accent so far, the sun wall art. But, along with the wall art, there also several other wall accents to adore your Mid Century modern living room.

One of them is this Wilde Vanity Mirror. The mirrors, as you can see in the picture, consist of three mirrors, with the form of each is a reflection of the other mirror next to it. Each of them has frame of brass. And they make this Mid Century room shines in its exclusive atmosphere.

13. Fresh Floral Arm Chairs for a Cozy Mid Century Modern Living Room

Floral patterns are okay in a Mid Century modern living room. They give positive vibes to the room. In this Mid Century modern living room, floral pattern are set on the arm chairs’ paddings.

The red-white floral colors light up this white and dark grey Mid Century living room. Not only red color, with this room neutral colors you can experiment with any colors you like. And the result is still always stand out.

14. Simple and Compact Mid Century Modern Living Room

Some of us want a simple but warm living room as a perfect haven after hours of hectic working hours. No fancy living room set up, just a nice and warm living room. And this one is yours, if you’re among the ‘some of us.

This Mid Century modern living room meets your needs. It has simple design idea, involving a couple of soft blue seating, long open shelves, and a big bright minimalist room. You have the air of rustic 50s cottage in this living room. Nice.

15. Urban Colorful Modern Mid Century Living Room

Here’s another colorful Mid Century modern living room. This room also suits well for small spaces like you often see in urban small houses or apartments. You have various strong colors. All stand out, without each too loud than the others in their strong and almost bohemian colors.

16. Bright and Sunny Modern Mid Century Living Room

If you feel a Mid Century living room heavy and gloomy, then try this living room design idea. This Mid Century modern living room offers one of the brightest and airiest living room so far.

The Living room sits in an industrial style room, with naked iron structures and flat ceiling. The wall is of glasses, ensuring the natural light to fill the room abundantly. The simple setup of the Mid Century furniture, rug and accent brick wall (function simultaneously as the fireplace structure) is charming and efficient.

17. Peaceful Mid Century Modern Living Room

A living room without its coziness and peaceful air isn’t an ideal living room. As one of social hub in the house (the kitchen being the other one, right?) you need to make this space as comfy as possible.

In this picture, you see one; a Mid Century modern living room full of pleasant stuff. Here a white and wood colored living room containing some of elegant Swedish chairs, a sisal rug, and greenery in a glass pot. The modern nook seating area add modern tones to this living room.

18. Cozy Coastal Mid Century Modern Living Room

Having a cottage by the sea is a thing of beauty, furnishing it with your taste is happiness. Now if you want to have a comfortable living room in your coastal home, this picture helps you to make a start.

This cozy Mid Century modern living room idea has you to open all the wall by replacing it with glass wall. The slim and white wall structures combine well with wooden ceiling. The warm stuff inside, its Mid Century furniture, are even warmer with the thick carpeting.

19. Vibrant White Mid Century Modern Living Room with Bright Yellow Arm Chairs

Sometimes you just need a splash of color to make your living room fresh and vibrant. Here how you turn a black and white Mid Century modern living room into a fresh and cheerful room. All you need is by injecting vibrant colors into the room. In this case, you put a pair of bright yellow Mid Century chairs in the room. And you can feel the vibe instantly.

20. Minimalist Modern Mid Century Living Room

Here is your wood cabin style Mid Century modern living room. It’s minimalist, no frills included. Only the basic furniture, but of the best to ensure your comfort in this solitary place.

This modern wood cabin style living room has an open layout idea. As a modern living room, it has no firm boundaries between kitchen and it, enable you to enjoy your time with easy grab of snacks or sandwiches.

21. Modern Mid Century Living Room with Chaise Lounge

A chaise lounge may remind you of a shrink or some soul-related expert place. But, it’s not always the case. In its history, a chaise lounge is a most comfortable seating place in the living room (especially in French). Now it’s still being used as an alternative seating in a living room, including this Mid Century modern living room, where you can sit or lay as you wish –just like with a shrink.

22. Warm and Snug Mid Century Modern Living Room with Curtains

Along the lists you meet no window dressings. So far, all of the living room ideas in this list has nothing on their wall. Not that window dressing is not good with Mid Century modern living room, but you just haven’t met it yet.

And now, this is your modern Mid Century living room with curtains. To complement the light and gay atmosphere of this living room, the designer only use light, white, and translucent materials to the windows.

23. A Mid Century Modern Living Room with Black Couch

All the Mid Century couches here are grey or white, until bow you meet this one. A Mid Century modern living room with black couch is also a great idea. Coupled with charming coffee table and geometric chair, this couch make a cozy Mid Century style living room. And it also a great accent to the white-wood living room.

24. A Pleasant All Wood Mid Century Modern Living Room

A contemporary minimalist wood house needs a contemporary solution in furnishing its living room area. Here, the contemporary solution is a retro modern minimalist living room in a Mid Century style.

The overall surrounding of the living room, being all wood, is already warm and welcoming. To add other warming touches, you need only add in it a couple moss green arm chairs, a long grey couches, and a contemporary coffee table. To complete the warmness, add grey-white rug on the floor.

25. Mid Century Modern Living Room in Chartreuse and White Style

Chartreuse? Yes, if you want a green sofa idea in your Mid Century modern living room, use chartreuse. For the still uninformed one, in short chartreuse is moss green color. And this color blends well with the style, like the picture below.

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That’s all the Mid Century modern living room ideas for you here. Some may invite you back to the golden era of 50s, while the other want you to keep on the contemporary mode with all their contemporary features. So, like one or even some of the ideas? We do hope so. Anyway, have a good day.

20++ Coolest White Kitchen Ideas for Big and Small Spaces

Kitchen is essential feature in a home or apartment. The problem is that sometimes you just can get the right kitchen for your home due to the size of the rooms. Some are too big, while the other are too small. If you have the problem, we have compiled more than 20 white kitchen ideas that suit well for your needs. Let’s check them out.

1. Modern White Kitchen with White Cabinets

Galley kitchen is your right choice when you want a kitchen in a limited space. The preparation tables lay parallel to each other (for this reason, this kitchen is also known as parallel kitchen) with working space or walkway in between.

This modern white kitchen is an example of a galley kitchen. The neat arrangements makes it looks clean and fresh, for large or small kitchens. Especially for a small kitchen, a combination of a galley type kitchens with white paints also makes it even feels roomier.

2. Small Antique-modern Southern White Galley Kitchen

Now, thanks to the Internet, you can see almost all of kitchen models in the world. And your chances to widen your tastes on the models will also improve, from the antique styles to the contemporary one.

If you have the love for antique kitchen style, this example is yours. Here you have an antique white kitchen in Southern style. No, you don’t have to worry about the lack of modern appliances and conveniences here. This old galley kitchen also can be equipped with the modern amenities. A good news for the lovers of Ikea or Hutch products, right?

3. Small Minimalist Scandinavian White Kitchen

Scandinavian minimalism is getting popular this last decade. Propelled by charming knockdown products from Scandinavian names like Ikea, this style gets warm reception globally. Partly because the efficient designs, other by its warm look.

If you’re into this style and looking to build a kitchen, here is your Scandinavian style white kitchen. It fits well into a small room. The galley style ensures you to always have room to move around freely. Its wooden ceiling and floor, guarantees you a warm and comfortable space to do your cooking activities.

4. Modern White Kitchen with Granite Countertops

A kitchen will always better with slabs of granite. Granite offers natural touches to the kitchen. It’s durable and strong. It also has the smooth appearance unmatched by any industrial materials. Granite also offers elegance and, even, a touch of class.

Here slabs of grey granite are used as countertop. Another large slab sits on kitchen island top as nice complement of the modern sink and faucet.

5. Small One Wall Kitchen with Subway Tiles Backsplash

For an apartment or small house, one wall kitchen (or single wall kitchen) is a better alternative. It only occupies a single wall of a room. And if the layout is right, you get a charming kitchen as well.

This particular single one wall white kitchen is good starter point if you want to build a one wall kitchen. It’s small, yet contains all the basic stuff you need in a kitchen. As refreshing accents, you have the black board cabinet doors. They also serves as your old school menu list board.

6. Small White Kitchen with Seating and Splashes of Colors

All white kitchen may be enough for some. For some other, they want a touch of color on their kitchen. A dab of color, no more. But, if you want a more colorful kitchen, here is a sample for you.

This small single wall kitchen offers a cheerful atmosphere with its some bright colors over the neutral white. The hexagonal shelves and its geometric backsplash complement the white-themed kitchen. This kitchen also comes with modern breakfast table with seating.

7. Cozy Modern White Kitchen with Grey Cabinets

You may want another color for your white kitchen, but not too powerful color. Here’s your nice option: add grey to it. Grey, being a neutral color like white, complements well with the color.

This attic one wall kitchen has light grey (almost metallic) cabinets. Apart as a nice complement to white color, it also gives a contemporary minimalist look to the kitchen. A splash of black countertop (another neutral color) gives balance to them. The yellow one, above and on the planter boxes, add a refreshing accent.

8. Roomy Single Wall Kitchen with Classic Chequered Floor

Contemporary kitchen designs never set rigid rules about how it should look. It may blends a special feature from an era with something else from yet another era. Now if you want this almost eclectic tastes, here is one of the best example.

This white kitchen has Scandinavian open beam roofing, the 50’s windows on the furthest side, and the antique Victorian chequered floor. The single wall kitchen layout makes all the combination fall into it right places, not a single one overwhelms the others. The result is a charming eclectic contemporary kitchen.

9. Minimalist One Wall Kitchen with Large Island Table

Being minimalist doesn’t means that you have to live in a survival mode. It’s a state of mind. If you’re a minimalist, you love to have only what you need most and what you love most. If there’re others, then they’ll be a redundancy.

A minimalist kitchen also has the same frame of mind. All are in their simple forms and deadly efficient. The materials also of the best for the shake of maintenance and durability, like this white kitchen with marble large island table.

10. Small White U-shaped Kitchen with Solid Wood Countertops

A cooking enthusiast should have this U-shaped kitchen (also known as horseshoe kitchen). The kitchen has three working areas, each hugging three kitchen walls and providing the working triangle (preparing, cooking, and storing food stuff).

Though this kitchen style will be most effective for large room, it also serves well for a small kitchen. This white kitchen gives you an effective cooking area in a small space, without making you feel cramped. The open shelving helps to make the room looks bigger. Its solid wood countertop charms the overall kitchen appearances.

11. Classic Modern U-shaped White Kitchen with Large Kitchen Island

One of the most sought after kitchen styles so far is a classic kitchen. For the owner, it gives an elegant air to the house –and, of course, a touch of pride. Here is a big U-shaped white kitchen full of classic and modern touches.

The cabinets are of classic, old school style. Meanwhile you have modern touches on the appliances sides. The treat here is a big kitchen island on the center. It comes with gorgeous slab of granite countertop, complete with seating and sink.

12. White Modern Kitchen with Dark Gray Cabinets

Having an empty corner and want to use it as a kitchen? This white kitchen can help you as a starting point. This kitchen sits in a medium room, and comes with a peninsula table. But you can apply the design for a small corner –with some modifications, like eliminating the peninsula and changing the closed container into an open shelving system.

The kitchen is dominated with white. To add warmness, wooden floor is added. And so with the naked wood beam above. The necessary accent of this white kitchen is added via grey color of the kitchen cabinets.

13. Small Kitchen with Warming Wooden Floor

Contemporary house with open floor layout often gives you lots opportunities to experiment with the room allocations. This Kitchen, as example, is put on the rear end of the room, in line with other rooms.

As the ‘border’ or transition region between it and the living room is a peninsula table, which also serves as a preparation and breakfast table. Coupled with the wooden floor, the arrangements of this white kitchen feel so warm and pleasant.

14. Small White Kitchen in L-shaped Style with Breakfast Table Set

Still with small kitchen. Here an L-shaped white kitchen for you. You don’t have an island table here, due to the room’s size. Instead, you have a table set and chairs for breakfast or dining table.

L-shaped kitchen (or corner kitchen) is perfect for small room which open to another room. It offers simple and efficient designs.

15. Mid-Century L-shaped Kitchen with Geometric Backsplash

Part of modern styles, Mid-century still is on the rise again. It’s geometric and simple lines are simply irresistible to the contemporary minds who want something different for their dwelling.

This revived 50’s style white kitchen gives you both contemporary and old timey feels at once, particularly on the wall and backsplash parts. Its hexagonal patterns and shocking blue color are awesome.

16. Small White Kitchen with Fresh Accent Colors

Sometimes you just don’t want all white kitchen too white. And then comes the colors. The cabinets, window rims, shelves, are some of potential spots where you can splash your favorite colors.

But here you meet a different coloring approach. Instead of coloring those stuff, you put colorful cooking items (as you see on the shelves and countertop). Meanwhile, as an accent, the designer paint half of the window and a section of the cabinet doors with stark yellow color.

17. Small Efficient Gray and White Kitchen

Gray is not a gloomy color anymore. This color has become one of the main today’s interior colors, mainly the gray with light and metallic shades. It also one of neutral colors commonly used in contemporary style.

A small white kitchen may looks neat and cozy if you combine it with light gray color. This example shows you how a balanced mixture of white-gray colors can make a small kitchen feels cozy and pleasant.

18. Cozy Corner Kitchen with Green Tile Backsplashes

Once backsplash has only functional purpose: to keep the wall behind stoves free of splashing cooking oil, smoke, or any dirt resulted during cooking. Now you see that backsplashes are also being used as kitchen accents as well.

Here a white kitchen as green industrial subway tiles as backsplash. Not only on the part under the kitchen cabinet like regular backsplash, but the tiles spread all over the wall. Making it a fresh accent to the kitchen.

19. Antique White Kitchen with Modern Tones

If you have enough room for a large classic kitchen, here’s another antique white kitchen for you. Unlike a flexible modern kitchen which suits well for small or large kitchen, an old style kitchen needs ample room to stand out.
But, once it’s done, you have a masterpiece you can boast in the house. For your cooking convenience, you may add modern appliances like the example.

20. Compact and Small Peninsula Kitchen with Chairs

Adding a table set with chairs to small kitchen only makes the space looks crowded and inefficient. As alternative a small peninsula table may be added.

This small galley kitchen add a small peninsula on its preparation table’ end. Completing the setup, you also have chairs for quick breakfast or else. This peninsula also serves as a charming border between the kitchen area and the living room of the house.

21. Classic Kitchen with Marble Countertop and Backsplash

When you want elegance and taste, pick marble. As kitchen material, marble is still incomparable in giving you those two characters. And this applies for your modern or classic kitchen.

As you see here, marble dominates the white kitchen materials. The material nicely covers the countertop and backsplash, giving elegance to this classic-modern kitchen.

22. Rustic Small White Kitchen in an Efficient Layout

One popular word in today’s home interior is rustic. The definition of this word is varied. But, in short, a rustic object is something that always makes you feel cozy and reminds you to a cottage living.

A rustic kitchen may have minimalist or antique look, but it always gives you a laidback feeling. This white kitchen is a perfect example. You have a modern appliances along with old-fashioned kitchen cabinet (see the screened cabinet door?), light curtains, and the iconic rustic flowers in the vase.

23. Grey and White Kitchen with Marble Herringbone Backsplash

Herringbone patterns are old. These patterns are usually found in old cloth or fabrics. Now you can see the wavy patterns on the kitchen, on the wall, as a backsplash. This white kitchen, as you can see here, uses the patterns to accent the wall. And you see the fresh look it gives to the room. To complete the scheme, the modern wooden stools warms it all.

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24. Small peninsula Kitchen with Modern Chairs

Blending old and new features is no new approaches in interior design, including in the kitchen area. Here is an example, an antique kitchen combines well with modern stuff and appliances.

This white kitchen has classic cabinets and detailing. That’s the background. On the foreground are a kitchen island with modern chairs. Meanwhile, as functional accents, you can see minimalist floating selves (next to the cabinets).

25. Simple Antique Off-white Kitchen with Modern Black Countertop

A combination of white, gray, and black is a staple of minimalist home interior and exterior, including the kitchen. Those neutral color won’t makes your nerves jumpy. Instead, they gives you calming air.

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But the color schemes is not only for the minimalist enthusiasts. You can use the colors for any of your kitchen style. Here you have a classic-modern white kitchen with the same color schemes. Topping the dominating off-white background are gray wall and black countertop. And all those scheme offer the same calming effects.

White kitchen are gorgeous. They always look neat and clean. Love the list here? We hope. We have covered almost all type of white kitchen up till now. So it’s your time to decide which white kitchen you’d like to have.

Need Inexpensive Privacy Fence Ideas? These will be Your 25 Coolest Privacy Fence Inspirations

A feature never forgotten of an urban home is its privacy fence. The tight housing plans making the homeowners get creative in building their own personal spaces. From here you can see lots privacy fence ideas pop up. Some of them are cool, some other easy enough to build –even for one who know nothing about fence crafting before.

If you who want to find privacy fence ideas, here we offer are some 20++ of, we hope, the most awesome.

1. Contemporary Patio Fence with Natural Cedar Slats

To enjoy the evening, surely a patio an ideal spot around the house. Being an outside space, a patio needs enough privacy for you to have your leisure time. So, now it’s time to add it with fences. Need inspirations? Try this wooden privacy fence idea.

This fence is made of cedar slats. The natural character of its grains are too good to be layered with paint, so it’s better to let it naked in clear finishes. If you want a contemporary look, the horizontal lay outing serves you better.

2. An Unique and Natural Gabion Fence

Want something natural for the house’ fence? This privacy fence idea is one of the best. You need to try this gabion privacy fence idea. If you want to DIY this fence, it offers many eases. All you need is gravels or small stones and the gabions itself.

Just make sure that you have the suitable gravels’ size for the gabions, so they won’t ‘leak’ out of the gabions’ holes. Also, be sure to pick the right stones, be sure with their strength and their resistance to frost (if you live in cold regions).

3. DIY Cheap Tall Cacti Fence

If, for some reasons, you want something unique and inexpensive for backyard’s fencing, this DIY fence idea can help you. All you need is to find tall cacti and plant them around your garden, or even around your patio for a more privacy fence. For the last reason, you may put the cacti in a planter boxes for neater and prettier appearance.

4. DIY Natural Living Fence for Backyard

This is another cheap and cool DIY privacy fence idea for you, a natural fence for backyard or your front yard. This time you’ll make a hedge fence. For this project, all you need is a suitable hedge plants.

There are several hedge types you can choose, like Leylandi, English Laurel, Portugal Laurel, Pacific Red Cedar, or some other types. With fertile soil and easy water, these hedge plants are practically maintenance-free. But don’t forget to prune them regularly for neater appearance.

5. A Minimalist Painted Wood Panel Fence

Be attention to small spaces around your house. One of them may hid potentials for a lounging space, like patio. This privacy fence idea shows you how to make a limited spaces into a minimalist small patio that feels so neat and roomy.

One you the key is the fencing. If you’re into a minimalist style, small slats, horizontally and evenly-spaced, lends an air of contemporary minimalisme of this small patio. The neutral paint also gives the fence a calming atmosphere to it.

6. Cool Plaited Bamboo Fence

Charm your friends with this outdoor creative privacy idea. This will be an all-organic bamboo fence. You’ll have no ordinary bamboo fence here, but you have the plaited one. Small bamboo canes are plaited together into one cool fence for your backyard.

In this particular example, you have black bamboo fence. But, if you want a more natural finish, try to let the bamboo as it is. Give it just a layer of clear finish. But, it’s up to you whether you like it naked or the painted one.

7. Poolside Bamboo Fence with Greenery

An area outside the house which needs more privacy is the pool, mainly if you build the pool just next to the neighbor’s fences. This pool side bamboo privacy fence idea is the one you should try. It’s natural and also is inexpensive to build.

You may put up this bamboo fence in combination with vertical garden, to add a more natural touches.

8. Cool Front Yard Classic Metal Fence

You should consider metal when you want flexible materials for your privacy fence. You can have metal fence in almost any imaginable privacy fence ideas, from the modern styles to the contemporary. Here you have an iron classic fence for the front yard.

This metal fence suits well with your classic house. And the fence even adds modern tones with its sleek-rectangular metal columns.

9. DIY Cheap Chain Wire Mesh Fence

Need a strong and reliable fence for the backyard? Oh, and need it quickly and affordably? This cheap chain wire mesh fence privacy fence idea should be yours. If you have time and the tools, you even can do it yourself.

All you need is a roll of reliable chain wire mesh with several metal pipes for the supports. And there it is, your cheap and reliable privacy fence is ready.

10. Wooden Lattice Privacy Wall for Backyard

We’ve talk about metal as flexible materials for fences. Another material with the same flexibility is wood. Here you have the excellent example, a wooden lattice fence for backyard. So far we offer you horizontal minimalist wooden fences, whether in painted or in clear models.

Now we offer here wood fences with lattices. If makes your backyard patio looks unique, apart from further adding your sense of privacy. You may ad potted plants or flowers for a more rustic look.

11. DIY Cheap Modern Privacy Fence from Corrugated Metal

Corrugated metal, the roofing materials, also does great as fences. This privacy fence idea comes from the realization that the materials are easily available in the market and cheap. The materials are also strong, weather-proof, and you can even build it yourself.

You may try a combination of corrugated metals with solid woods. In this example, the woods serve as the support poles, while the metals sheets (set horizontally) are the fence boards. The results is a cool fence, full of privacy, in contemporary tones.

12. Cool Outdoor Deck Wire Fence

This privacy fence idea is for you with contemporary minds. Along with the rising popularity of minimalist look, this contemporary wire fence also has amassed lots of fans. It has simple designs. It combines well with simple wood frames and stretched wired as kind of fence’s panels.

You may also combine the wire with metals for industrial look. Put it around your deck or patio, or for backyard stuff. You may even put it inside the house as stair’s railing.

13. DIY Cheap Wattle Fencing for Privacy

Some sources said that this wattle fencing is almost as old human race, since the Stone Age. This privacy fence idea is still popular today. And the styles or methods are still the same. They include the several posts and lots saplings (the weavers).

You may utilize several types of plants for weavers like plum, hazel, forsythia willow, sweet chestnut. But you the lists will not end on those plants. You can make this unique fence using any long flexible saplings.

14. Fence for Above Ground Pool

Having an above ground is fun. But you need to pay attention to the safety of the swimmers. Being rather high above the ground, the pool needs fence around it. This privacy fence idea gives you one of the suitable fences, a wooden fence. If you have a wooden deck on the pool, this fence gets along well with it. Apart of giving protection and privacy, this wooden fence also great to make the pool atmosphere warmer.

15. DIY Cheap Privacy Fence From Wooden Pallets

For now on don’t throw away the unused wooden pallets containers. You can turn it into an inexpensive cool fence for backyard (or even front yard). If you have time and tools, gut down all the wooden pallet containers. Now with the wood planks available, start doing the fencing job.

You may build a tall fence like the example. But a shorter fence is also possible, it depends on your purposes.

16. Cool and Lush Vertical Garden for Privacy Fence

A trend popular among the landscaping enthusiast is vertical garden. At first, this type of garden is an efficient approach for one who wants to have greenery but having not enough lands or spaces. But now, with this natural privacy fence idea, you can make use of this vertical garden as a fence for backyard.

There are lots of plants for the vertical garden. Not only flowers, you may also plant vegetables. If you want the ready-to-use vertical garden frames or planter boxes without some DIY projects, now they are available online.

17. Vertical Wood Slats for Patio Privacy

It’s time to come back to wooden fence again. This time you’ll protect your patio and garden with vertical wooden slats fence. Unlike the modern horizontal one, this privacy fence idea gives you an air of country and classic era.

The fence construction is simple, it consists of rows of tight vertical slats hold by two horizontal wooden planks. If you like to do some DIY project, you can build it alone in your spare time.

18. Traditional White Picket Fence for Classic Privacy

A picket fence is also good for a privacy fence. The front yard of your stucco house suits better with this type fence. This type of fence often comes with shorter wooden columns. But with this privacy fence idea you have a taller picket fence for more privacy and protection.

As all with the simple good old says, you need to paint the fence with white color. In its simplicity, the color can bring back all the old and pleasant old memories in the stucco house.

19. Cheap DIY Privacy Fence with Reed

When you need a tropical atmosphere in your house, try this reed privacy idea. This fence serves well as a temporary fence around your garden, backyard, or your patio. The reed itself is inexpensive.

Buy the high quality fresh water reeds for durability. You buy it in rolls. And when you want to build a fence in a DIY project, all the other thing you need are several wood logs as the supports and iron wires to attach the reeds onto the supports.

20. Patio Fencing with Horizontal Wooden Planks

This privacy fence idea includes wooden planks. The idea here is to have a minimalist fence which also serves as backyard or front yard accents with its texture. The key to achieve it is by playing with the planks arrangements.

Some fence panels arranged in solid panels, the others in a kind of open hit & miss panels. The result is a calm minimalist fence suited for a minimalist garden or even a Zen garden.

21. DIY Bamboo Tree Fence for Patio

A chance to fully go green with your fence is in this privacy fence idea. Here you deal not with dead or inorganic materials, but with the living one. Bamboo trees for fence. It provides natural shades, privacy, and also fresh air all the time.

You may plant the bamboo to fully fence the backyard and patio. This bamboo also great as accents for the pergolas. For neater appearance (and also to reign their invasive natures) you may plant them in planter boxes.

22. Vinyl Patio Fence in Jalousie Blind Style

Once in 50’s and 70’s, before the advent of electric home air conditioning, jalousie windows had their days. Now can find the remains in the form of jalousie blinds. Inpsired by the designs, this privacy fence idea offers you a jealousy-like privacy fence.

This vinyl fence provides real privacy for your leisure time in the patio or backyard. In this example you see here, the fence is tall and solid enough to protect you from curious eyes or even from the harsh wind.

23. DIY Cheap Tall Greenery Wall with Horsetail Reed

In the previous list we have talked about living fence, the living bamboo fence. Here’s another option of the plants, if you want the lighter and easy-to-grow one. This privacy fence idea ask you to plant horsetail reeds.

The contemporary landscapers often use horsetail reeds as living fences. Its tall and straight features suits well for the purposes. Unlike bamboo, this plants grow faster and you don’t have to bother with falling leaves. Plant them in planter boxes for more contemporary look.

24. Rustic Privacy Fence for Outdoor Hot Tub

Old weathered wooden planks may spark inventive minds, like turn them into this privacy fence idea: a rustic fence for the outdoor hot tub. You see here, the setup is so simple. The fence covers only a half of the open space around the bathtub.

But, as it serves as a secondary fence (apart from the main fence you see in the background), this setup is okay. It serves as windbreaker and rustic accents for the hot tub.

25. DIY Cheap and Natural Cypress Tree Fencing

In the last lists of privacy fence idea, we offer you one more natural and living privacy fence idea. And this will be your another DIY inexpensive project. You’ll build a privacy fence from rows of cypress trees. Once fully grown, these cypress can protect you from wandering eyes or from naughty winds. They also look pleasing to the eyes.

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So far you have met some of the coolest privacy fence ideas. Some suits well for backyards, front yards or patios. Some other are easy enough for your DIY projects. You have various material options, from the cool industrial stuff to the natural and organic materials. In short, we hope you enjoy this little article and can find the most suitable fence for your purposes.

25 Awesome Spice Rack Ideas for Your Kitchen

When you feel the kitchen looks always messy, then you probably need to have a reliable spice rack. If you want to pinpoint the cause of the cluttered table, oftentimes the spice jars are the most likely culprits. As you cook, you grab the jars for some spices and mostly forgot to put them back in the proper places. This is due to the difficult-to-reach or inefficient way to store the jars which will result in a messy kitchen. If you feel that way, here are some most awesome spice rack ideas which will keep your kitchen neat and clutter-free.

1. Large and Satisfying Spice Rack Ideas

Lovers of spicy food need a large rack for their big jars of spices. This spice rack idea will satisfy your needs. It’s big and yet simple in design, you even can do it yourself in your own unique DIY style. Because they are made out of wood, the materials are easy to find.

You can attach this rack on a small or large kitchen wall. Just place it on an area next to your cooking activities, for easy reaching or returning it later.

2. Large Spice Rack for Small Kitchens

You can have a cool large spice rack in a small kitchen and still feel roomy. The key is in choosing the materials for the rack. In this case, you need to find a steel or metal rod spice racks like this example. It has a slim design and enables you to put many of your spice jars on it.

It’s also easy to mount. You can even fix it on the side of your kitchen cabinet or the pantry door.

3. DIY Cheap Countertop Test Tubes Rack

Don’t want to reach further on the wall for spices? Then you need this countertop spice rack. This rack will be one of the easiest DIY spice rack ideas on this list. See the rack? It consists of a box full of test tubes. The spices are in the tubes. You don’t have to make the tubes.

You can get these tubes easily in some thrift stores as well as the corks. All you have to do is make the wood box, which is easy to do. Lastly, don’t forget to mark the corks to identify the spices, making them easier to find.

4. DIY Old Coke Container Spice Rack

Inspiration is everywhere. This includes finding an arty spice rack idea for your rustic kitchen. If you have some old unused Coke bottle boxes in your attic, this will be the perfect time to turn them into a spice rack. When finished, you don’t have to paint the rack.
Keep the old and vintage paint, it will add a rustic look to the kitchen. It also has lots of slots for your spice collection jars.

5. Simple DIY Towel Racks for Small Kitchen

Need a quick spice rack solution for your small kitchen? Grab some towel racks and turn them into a minimalist rack. Put it under the cabinet, right in front of your cooking area. It’s adjustable, depending on the racks’ length.

For this DIY spice rack idea, you need 2 towel racks. Screw the racks on the wall tightly and then find the suitable spice jars for it.

6. Tiered Wire Rack for Easy-to-Grab Spices

For minimalist minds who love uncluttered countertops and clean walls, you need this spice rack idea. The rack itself lies hidden in the kitchen cabinet when not in use. In cooking time, you can reach it easily. Open the cabinet and pull out the spice rack and you get your spices easy to reach.

For even more convenience, this spice rack comes in a tiered model. You can easily add as many spice jars as you wish. The wire material will ensure the rack’s reliability. It also offers a light and neat minimalist look.

7. A Handy Spice Rack from Repurposed Old Trays

Even old abandoned trays can be cool. Try this spice rack idea and find out. Dust off the trays, grab your tools and turn the idea into your most beautiful DIY project of this week. All you need to do is remove its base plates. You do need the rims, just like in the picture.

Put wood planks in the middle of the tray rims and sturdy ropes to hang them. Lastly, add the spice jars. A lover of symmetry will love the same jars arrangements, for others, it’s up to you.

8. Chicken Wire Rack for a Small Minimalist Kitchen

A Minimalist kitchen works well for small spaces. It’s space-saving and yet gives you all you want in the kitchen, though in the most basic terms. If you want to find a suitable spice rack for small your minimalist kitchen, try this chicken wire rack.

It’s light and has a simple design which will blend well with your kitchen. You don’t have to worry about its capacity, it can hold almost all your spice collections with its layer of racks.

9. DIY Wall-Mounted Test Tube Spice Rack

Use the test tubes idea again. This time it’s a more complicated DIY spice rack idea using these tubes. Previously, you created a countertop test tubes spice rack. Now the tubes will attach to the wall with the help of a perforated wood plank.

This wooden design serves as a stand for the tubes. To assure they are fixed in place, wrap rubber bands around each tube. The bands help to lock the tubes in their holes.

10. DIY Spice Rack from Pallets

Need another easy spice rack idea? This DIY project you only need to prepare some wood planks, wood glue, and screws. You don’t need fancy or expensive wood either. You don’t even need freshly prepared wood planks. All you need are some wood pallets from unused container boxes.

Sand them smooth then get your deft hands going, making this unique rack. Once finished, hang it on the kitchen wall. You may want it to remain raw and unpainted, as in the illustration for rustic touches. Do you prefer to paint it? Go ahead and pick your favorite colors.

11. Neat And Easy to Reach Spice racks with Glass Jars

If your days full of kitchen activities and you need an easy-to-reach spice jars, a vast array of wall racks like the following examples are all of you need. They are made from a combination of woods and glasses.

Then if you follow the design layout, as addition to this spice rack idea, you also have extra storage for food stuff like flour, lentils, fruits and else. And all are within your reach in your busy cooking time.

12. Minimalist Wall Spice rack

This stylish space saving spice rack idea suits well for a small kitchen. And if you’re into a minimalist-contemporary style, this also serves you well. Its clean lines and finishes offers you a light and fresh atmosphere, making the small kitchens look bigger and, of course, contemporary.

13. Spice Rack Mounted on a Kitchen Cabinet

Optimize the kitchen cabinet with this simple spice rack idea. Here you use the empty spot on a kitchen cabinet door for support of the additional spice rack. This rack has simple design if you want to build yourself.

To make this spice rack, you need some woods and acrylic glass. The glass serves as railing for the rack, so the glass jars won’t fall down when you open the cabinet.

14. A Revolving Wood Spice Rack

This countertop spice rack idea helps you to tidy up your kitchen and helps you find the spices faster. Put this cool rack in a corner of the kitchen and enjoy your cooking time. One of the pluses of this round rack design is that you can turn it for easy access. The tiered layout also serves well if you want to put many of your spice jars.

15. An Elegant & Clutter-free Pull-out Spice rack

Now you want to put the spice jars neatly. But you also want them out of sight. In short, you don’t want then cluttering your kitchen counters or walls. Then here is a unique pull-out spice rack idea for you. It hides nicely under the countertop, snugly inserted among the kitchen cabinets. Need some ground pepper for the steak? Just pull the rack out. That simple.

16. An Industrial Hanging Spice Racks

This list is not complete without a simple industrial spice rack idea. And this one is simple enough for small spaces. So, if you feel your kitchen is too small for regular racks, this rack is your option. This rack is of a hanging type. If you purchase one, it comes with the railing where you can hang the rack on it. It is also painted in an industrial black and suitable for a small minimalist or industrial kitchen.

17. A DIY Magnetic Spice rack

Now it’s time to have a DIY project again. Still with a spice rack idea, only now you have the cooler rack idea. Here you are to make a magnetic spice rack. Your spice jars will hang on the magnetic power placed on each its metal covers. The hanging place is a piece of unused metal tray, as you can see from the following illustration. Easy, isn’t it?

18. A Metal Spice Rack with Stands

Your little kitchen will be happy with this minimalist spice rack idea. It’s a cute rack with stands and a handle. So you can move it to any suitable places in your kitchen. It’s light and easy to carry, as it made from a combination of lightweight wire metal and wood.

19. A DIY Unique Wood Spice Rack

Need an arty spice rack idea? Find a piece of dry branch and make some holes on it. Hang it on your kitchen wall. There it is, you have a cool spice rack. All you need now is finding the suitable spice jars, just like in the example.

20. Stainless Steel Hanging Spice rack

Need another spice rack idea for a small kitchen? This hanging spice rack is one of the best option around. The racks hang on a long railing which will not only support the rack, but also some other kitchen utensils.

This hanging spice rack is made of stainless steel, so you won’t have to worry in putting it on humid areas like, as the example here, above the sink.

21. DIY Cool Corner Spice rack with Raw Wood Planks

A spot in the kitchen (or other areas) which often overlooked are the corners. Now it’s time to reconsider those spots. If you happen to have a corner kitchen and the corner still is empty, put spice racks on it.

No fancy corner racks here, it’s just stacks of unfinished wood planks. You even can build these racks easily, even with minimum tools.

22. DIY Pegboard Spice Rack with Hooks

You often see pegboards in the garage or workshop walls. They help to organize the tools, so they won’t clutter around the spaces. In this DIY spice rack idea, you will use a piece of pegboard as part of this unique spice rack. Put hooks on the board and use them to support the spice jars. To even cooler appearance, you may frame the pegboard spice rack.

23. A Light and Space-saving Glass Spice rack

If your kitchen still feels cramped with the existing regular spice racks in your kitchen, try this simple glass spice rack idea. Put one on your splashboard (or any convenient places in the kitchen), and you have a spice rack with contemporary-minimalist look. It also makes your spice jars look floating, adding a unique atmosphere to the kitchen.

24. A Contemporary Countertop Spice rack

A contemporary kitchen needs contemporary stuff. A minimalist kitchen needs a minimalist items. And if your contemporary minimalist kitchen wants a spice rack idea, try this cool countertop spice rack.

You’ll have a tower-like spice rack. It’s made of stainless steel. With its form, it also is easy to put anywhere in the kitchen. You also can load as many spice jars you have.

25. A DIY Wooden under Cabinet Spice rack

Use the empty space under kitchen cabinet as a new spot for this awesome wooden cabinet spice rack idea. If you remember the pallet spice rack above in the lists, you also can use pallets to make this spice rack.

To put or take the spice, this rack doesn’t use drawer system. For more practical putting or taking spice jars, you just need to tilt it down. Simple and easy.

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So far you have met some 25 unique spice rack ideas. Some of them are so easy that you can make them at home. You can find the materials easily. Some even are made of recycled or unused materials.

All you need is your free time and your deft hands. Finally, don’t forget to inform us when you succeed in making one of this cool spice rack ideas.