With home still the place to be in early 2021, many consumers are investing in ways to make their living environments more comfortable, convenient, healthy and even a little bit more stylish. So much in fact that high-end home categories including premium household appliances, premium furniture and designer interiors are seeing across the board growth this year.

In a recent survey conducted by the Luxury Institute’s Global Luxury Expert Network (GLEN), 56 per cent of respondents agreed that high-end home appliances will see a jump in sales throughout 2021, while 68 per cent felt the same about the home furnishings market and 96 per cent expressed confidence in the continuing growth of the health and wellness sector.

With more time spent at home, consumers are fueling a boom in the home furnishings market as they find more time to curate their own living spaces. It might be argued that this trend is long overdue since who wouldn’t agree that homes should be designed by the people who are going to spend the most time in them? And premium furniture brands seem more than happy to embrace innovation while still adhering to their brand heritage and design identity.

Pairing timeless beauty with exclusive technical and design innovations, Italian luxury furniture maker Molteni provides the customization options – and style – that discerning consumers demand. A great example of this is Molteni’s tailored wardrobe system which offers a range of material and design choices, including doors with 180-degree hinges, exposed aluminium frames inlaid with four-millimetre-thick crystals and handles made from pewter or clad in eco skin.

Interior design can reflect current aesthetic trends and technology as well as the individual tastes and lifestyles of a home’s occupants. Since the arrival of the pandemic, many people are choosing materials, fixtures and products for the home not only for reasons of lifestyle-fit but because they create a more sanitary environment.

Several brands, including Kohler and Marazzi, have introduced a healthier, more hygienic living space to meet growing consumer demand. Kohler introduced a collection of touchless and voice-activated kitchen faucets compatible with Alexa and Google and toilets with hands-free flushing, to reduce the chances of spreading germs. Italian tile manufacturer Marazzi introduced antibacterial Carácter tiles with antibacterial properties.

LG is also seeing strong interest in its luxury lifestyle products under the LG SIGNATURE brand. A perfect example is LG SIGNATURE Wine Cellar with InstaViewTM technology. With wine sales up during the pandemic, this might just be the perfect home furnishing for vino lovers to store different wine varieties in precisely controlled, customizable climate zones for their viewing pleasure without opening the door – which would disturb the consistent temperature – with a simple knock.

LG SIGNATURE honours the essence of each product it makes, elevating both functionality and aesthetics with state-of-the-art technology and distinctive, minimalist design. Cue LG SIGNATURE OLED R, the world’s first rollable TV that movie lovers will want to choose over the cinema.

The TV’s 65-inch flexible OLED display delivers supreme picture quality and creates new design possibilities and spatial freedom by disappearing from view when not in use. LG’s revolutionary TV offers three compelling modes – Full View, Line View and Zero View – where visible screen changes suit the context or the situation.

Empowered with advanced technology, stylish design, and hygiene-promoting features, today’s luxury products represent innovation at its finest. The new wave of home-living solutions, like those from LG SIGNATURE, are making life infinitely more comfortable and elegant in the stay-at-home era.

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A report in AP states that for a preview of the future of office work, watch how the biggest tech companies are preparing for a post-pandemic world.

Silicon Valley and Seattle giants — Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter — were the first to send their employees home as the virus spread to the U.S. Now they’re among the last to return them to the office. Some of their employees might never go back.

The companies are studying what their highly-paid, highly-valued employees want, using their own technology to make remote work easier and looking to hire new workers outside of big city hubs. It’s a potentially huge turnaround after years in which companies like Amazon and Google chased scarce tech talent by opening or expanding offices in hip urban locations such as San Francisco and New York.

Such a shift might also amount to a repudiation of the notion that creative work demands corporate campuses reminiscent of college, with free food, ping pong tables and open office plans designed to encourage unplanned interactions.

The result could re-imagine not just Silicon Valley but other cities as the companies expand hiring in places like Atlanta, Dallas and Denver, where Facebook plans to open new “hubs” for its new, mostly remote hires.

Change won’t happen quickly, though. “We want to make sure we move forward in a measured way,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during an employee town hall Thursday that was broadcast live on his Facebook page.

Facebook, which has nearly 45,000 employees, is looking five to 10 years down the line as it plans for more remote work, even when COVID-19 is no longer a threat that requires most of its employees to work from home. Since the coronavirus has upended work and office life, even companies with fewer resources and slower-moving cultures are likely to follow.

“Many companies are learning that their workers are just as or even more productive working from home,” said Andy Challenger, senior vice president of staffing firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Zuckerberg said a Facebook employee survey found that about 20% of workers were “extremely or very interested” in moving to full-time remote work after virus-related restrictions are lifted. Another 20% were “somewhat” interested and the largest group wanted flexibility, with some remote and some in-office work. Eventually, Zuckerberg said, as many as half of Facebook’s workers could be working remotely. But he cautioned that this is years, perhaps even a decade, away.

Twitter went even further, announcing last week that it will allow some employees to work from home on a permanent basis, a plan CEO Jack Dorsey hatched before the coronavirus. His other company, Square, which like Twitter is based in San Francisco, is doing the same. Some new U.S.-based job listings for Twitter give the option for hires to work in cities like San Francisco, New York and Washington D.C. but also remotely full time anywhere in the country.

It’s too early to know whether remote work options will mean an exodus of highly-paid tech workers from San Francisco and Silicon Valley, where they’ve contributed to skyrocketing rents and housing prices. But Facebook’s employee survey suggests that at least some of its employees would leave the San Francisco Bay Area if given the option.

For companies that have built their empires on letting people communicate with far-flung friends and colleagues, moving toward remote work is not too hard of a sell. But there are many challenges. Collaboration, spontaneity, face-to-face interactions that aren’t on a scheduled call — all look different when people are working alone from their homes.

There are also some jobs — in Facebook’s case, the toughest content reviewing that deals with suicides, child abuse and other traumatizing material; sales; building, upgrading and maintaining data centers; lawyers who have to be in court and so on — that can’t be done remotely.

Newer employees, especially recent college grads or those with little experience and lower performers might also fall into this group, Zuckerberg said. At Facebook, the CEO said employees will have to meet certain criteria to be considered for permanent remote work. This includes a level of seniority, strong performance and, naturally, being part of a team that supports remote work.

For now, workers at Facebook, Google, Twitter and elsewhere can work remotely through 2020. At Microsoft, employees can work from home until October. But the company’s work-from-home flexibility has fit with the software giant’s broader effort to capitalize on what CEO Satya Nadella calls a shift to “remote everything.”

“Every organization will increasingly need the ability at a moment’s notice to remote everything from manufacturing to sales, to customer support,” Nadella said this week at the company’s Build developer conference.

The company’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, had already been working a lot from home, in part because he is based in Silicon Valley and most of the rest of the leadership team is in Redmond, Washington.

“We are all on this accelerated timeline figuring out how to work from home.... It’s learning the culture and the rhythms of interacting with your colleagues by video conference and doing your work remotely,” he said, speaking not just of Microsoft but workplaces in general. “That is getting so much better so quickly that I don’t think I’m going to be commuting nearly as frequently as I was before.”

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Furniture adds beauty to your room and eases your life. With appropriate and sufficient furniture in your bedroom, you won't have a problem with managing your stuff and finding them. Normally bedrooms don't have much furniture in need other than bed mattresses and wardrobe, but the requirement differs from person's usage and choice of decor. 

Bed and mattress

In the bedroom, having a bed is obvious. The history of bed and mattress starting from a thin carpet has now evolved to the thick springy mattress with a bed made up of wood or steels. Especially the bed made up of stainless lasts for a longer period of time, but the bed made up of wood is relatively cheaper. As for the wood-based bed, there are different shapes, sizes, and designs. There are 4 legged beds and box beds famous and widely used in almost every household. Talking about the mattresses, there are air mattresses, foam mattresses, springy ones, and many more. Depending upon your need and requirement, you can get the mattress of your desire.

Wardrobe

A wardrobe for managing and organizing your clothes and other belongingness is essential for your room. Many people, nowadays, are following the modern western trends and have a separate furnished room with shelves and compartments for storing their clothes, shoes, and other belongings. However, not all can relish the luxury, so there are several wardrobes made up of steels and wood. From single doored wardrobes to multiple doored wardrobes, one can choose one relying upon their requirement and the room capacity. There are wardrobes decorated with cartoons and animes for your kids as well.

Dresser

Dressers can be of several usages than most people realize. There are varieties of dressers in the market. From small heightened to tall and huge dressers, one can purchase the dresser of their choice. Some dressers are specially designed with beautiful mirrors, some even with bulbs, for women to store and apply their makeup. Some dressers are made completely for extra storage with lots of drawers and cabinets. Likewise, there are elegant dresser with less storage capacity but are a pleasant sight for the eyes. Dressers are the best options to go for if you want to add extra storage to your room. Moreover, you can organize the drawers by yourself using organizers.

Nightstand or night table

If you are a person who wears glasses or has to take off your watches before sleeping, then a nightstand can do wonders for you as you won't have to panic about breaking your glasses as soon as you wake up. Not just for such purpose, the nightstand can be the best accessory for your room and your bed. You can keep a lamp on it and can read books and novels on the bed without having to rotate your book in search of proper lighting. You can also store your medicines in the drawers of the nightstand. It also helps with extra storage.

 

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Who doesn’t want their living space to be more comfortable and beautiful, right? Be it a small room or a huge house, the items you own and the way you decorate your room or house matters the most. Let’s talk about some essential items that one can add to a small apartment to make it more comfortable for both eyes and life.

Large mirror

Mirrors visually expand the space, making it spacious and bright. The only rule is to not forget about the appropriate size. An oversized mirror is a perfect accent, even if the room is very small in its size. The widening effect will be more powerful if you place the mirror facing the window. 

Storage drawers/ boxes

The bottom of the bed or sofa always has a lot of free space. So why not utilize it? Storage drawers and boxes are one of the best options for storing and saving valuable space in the apartment. They serve as a versatile organizer to store linens, seasonal clothes, documents, magazines, jewelry, and more.

Folding chairs

Due to state-of-the-art technology, folding chairs almost have the same convenience as conventional chairs do. Folding chairs are ideal for everyday use, but also a comfortable and original solution if guests arrived unexpectedly.

Floating shelves

Floating shelves are an excellent solution if storage space on the floor or in the closet isn’t enough. Most often, they are compact, lightweight, and fit into any interior. Space-saving and practical, the floating organizers provide space for media equipment, books, and other essentials.

Floor to ceiling cabinets

Small spaces force us to utilize all of the available heights. So, all the cabinets and shelves must reach the ceiling to accommodate a maximum of things. Ideally, cupboards and cabinets should be lightweight and airy in their appearance, compact but spacious. 

Transformer table

In a small apartment, the versatility of furniture can be a great help. A great solution is folding tables of different sizes. Tables are categorized into multilevel and transformable. They can be used as coffee tables and side chests. Transformable tables can be folded, they may have lifting lids and shelves/compartments for storage of books, magazines, remote controls, and other small things.

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