Room for summer (II)
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Two exercises in pure clean white, the incomparable summer cooler. Multifunctional room designed by James Harland in white on white to form a frame for a great view, and using chrome yellow for accents. The white slim lines and vertical louvers give superb light control and a streamlined look in this compact white-walled living room. More good looks and well organized storage without clutter in the modular wall unit. A seating and the canvas director’s chair by Right Direction add color notes. Ash coffee table made to order by John. Moderns track lighting from Majestic. (more…)
Where Ann has picked up the fabrics colors in her flowers. Summer living spelled out by the white tiles, cool greens and massed plants in a relaxed room stripped of non-essentials. In our long summer, rooms should be clear and bright, pared and paled. If new slipcovers are out of the question, try such tricks as changing cushions, replacing curtains by white slim lines, leaving polished floors bare of heavy rugs and massing baskets of garden flowers everywhere, an occupying a temporary pied-a-wall while her permanent home is being built, gave her sitting-room a summery look by replacing a rich dark Persian rug with a pastel. The rug’s design coordinates with the shell pattern of the Designers Guild cotton curtains and cushions. 
Well as much as any heart would sing when faced with a cesspool. The designer said very interesting in making their extension and when he got back to his office he asked for architects drawing of the original cesspool. The designer had found precisely what he expected. It was deeply sunk into the ground on piles and the foundations of a building which measures some twenty-four feet by thirty-seven feet were there to be exploited. I completed a series of site drawings. I visualized the whole new setting of the old house. Certainly there was need for a new dining room in the old place. But apart from that there was nothing startling to be done. But that cesspool really switched me on as an architect. 