Want to know what family togetherness looks like in 2011?

Husband surfs the internet while wife sorts through files and pays bills. Middle schooler does homework on the computer while Mom helps. Dad and son review an online college application together.

Cherry Creek Partner's Desk

Based on your input in Hooker Furniture’s recent “Dream Home Office” contest and iPad giveaway, you are looking for home office furnishings to accommodate more than one person computing or working. You also asked for home office furniture desks, hutches and bookcases to organize supplies, cords & books and for PLENTY of places to store and charge multiple portable electronics.

“Partner’s desks are a huge trend right now,” said Stephanie Gee, who is the winner of our iPad giveaway. “People are looking for home office solutions for families to go in family rooms or bonus [...]

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With the winter weather we’ve had throughout the country in the last month, most of us have spent a lot more time indoors. That has made me more aware than ever that electronics, video games, DVDs and other high tech toys can take over our home if we’re not careful.  That’s why we need to turn to home entertainment center furniture for clever display and storage solutions.
Continuing from my most recent blog on taming high-tech headaches, here are some other ideas for fun but organized home entertainment.

Menlo Park Entertainment Console and Piers

Look up!

Some of the best advice for adding storage solutions is to look UP! Vertical space is often under-utilized in the home, and a home theater wall unit is one of the best ways to use it. Buy furniture that makes full use of the height in your room — [...]

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Do you feel like your electronics, video games, CDs, DVDs, and other tech toys are taking over your home? The heap of various systems, power cords, controllers, disks and the peripherals that come with them can turn your big screen entertainment center  into an unsightly mess. Certainly, the need for attractive and versatile storage options has never been greater. These options are available now until January 31 during Hooker Furniture’s national Home Entertainment Furniture Sale. With some of the clever display and storage solutions in Hooker’s line of TV consoles, entertainment centers and wall units, you can streamline your home entertainment center furniture and turn your entertainment chaos into a manageable mix.

To display or hide away?

Since the rise of large flat-panel televisions, many people like to display their TVs out in the open, but want to keep all the other equipment tucked out [...]

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As we look to furniture design trends for 2011, it is fascinating to connect home styles with what is happening in our economy, culture, values and personal lives. Everything is connected, and nothing happens in a vacuum…especially design!

Melange Flowered Drum Table

Here’s a look at two megatrends for 2011 and the cultural influences that are driving them:

• ARTISAN QUALTY AND CRAFT-INSPIRED FURNITURE. Today’s shoppers are beginning to crave decorative accessories and furnishings with a handmade artisan quality or a craftsman feel. Often, these pieces use natural materials. “Craft connotes value,” says Nancy Lindemeyer, former editor of Victoria & Better Homes & Gardens and current author of My First Best Friend. “Americans are starting to realize how much our heritage might be lost if we don’t commit to celebrating that heritage,” she said. That heritage –whether expressed in the craft of a potter, metal [...]

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As the Chinese philosophy of yin and yang suggests, opposites not only attract—they make the world far more interesting. The same can be said of our “personal worlds” that are most intimate to us – our homes. Your room can come alive in a whole new way when you contrast design elements in your furniture pieces, decorative accessories and color combinations.

The juxtaposition of contemporary and traditional, modern and rustic, elegant and casual, industrial and luxurious and country and urban is an emerging design trend for 2011, according to our friends at Design NJ magazine in their January issue.

Contemporary is getting more traditional and traditional is getting more contemporary. “We are seeing traditional silhouettes re-created or mixed with contemporary motifs,” says Paul Watson, ASID, spokesperson for the Las Vegas Design Center. Hooker Furniture’s newest collection introduction, Trilogy, embodies the same idea but [...]

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