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Room for summer (II)

bowo84 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:20:09 +0000

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.

For the coolest of color schemes, a palette of soft blues iced with white. On the bed, ‘Elizabeth’ sheets and continental quilt cover, and their blue bed ruffle. Bedside chest was satin-finished in British Paints’ ‘Pearl Blue’. White cane pieces, especially charming plant stand, add summaries. Tiny conservatory tacked on to a living room is a perfect place to enjoy long cool drinks on sweltering evenings. Lush meadow to sleep in, designed by Patricia. Instant cool with ‘Companions a new coordinated package of wallpaper and fabric. Two views of a delightful sun-room extension leading from a formal drawing room. Terracotta of the walls is echoed in cotton cushion covers on the comfortable cane seats, set on a while tiled floor. Flowering in pots are massed under the window.

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Rooms for summer (I)

bowo84 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:17:56 +0000

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.

“I always soften a room for summer, “says designer Ann Jane. Its “applied decoration only” in her bedroom, as she’ll soon moves to a new house. Nevertheless, Ann has achieved a satisfying balance between cool elegance and total prettiness by mixing delicate old lace, fine white fabrics and dark polished wood. Adding an unexpected kick of color: the tapestry covers for cushions made by Ann herself another inspired touch of instant decoration: the lace-edged supper cloth hung over an old lampshade. Below: Bedroom where a teenager girl has done her own thing. She made her dressing table from an old washstand, stripped to match stacked campaign chests. For fun, she created a spectacular nest of cushions by blowing up the empty silver linings of wine casks.

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A whole new setting (I)

bowo84 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:13:45 +0000

A quiet Englishmen and his wife, both of whom have lived in Singapore for many years, came to the designer recently. They had ideas of extending their oldies house which is on the fringe of the hill from which the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation beamed the republic’s news throughout Asia—an area which is semi-jungle in the heart of concrete and brick new developments. On the face of it the task seemed to be a run of the mill one which did not demand much excitement. It was the usual “give me more space for the family and my motor car.” And the designer has a look at their problem. When the designer arrived at the house he lack of interest disappeared right away.

The designer found that the existing two-storey house was set in a very large garden. There, at least 25 bird cages were in the main garage and the birds were trying to out sing each other. There were bird baths all over the large expanse of garden not be endangered by any new buildings because the couple were true naturalists. Their basic request was for an extension around the garden area and found some distance from the house that there had obviously been an earlier building on the site. On questioning my client I learned that there had been a community Septic Tank on the site but that it had been filled in when main drainage came to the area.

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