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Room for summer (II)

bowo84 — Sat, 27 Feb 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 — Mon, 08 Feb 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 (II)

bowo84 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:15:12 +0000

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.

The designer suggest eye a sweeping colonnade from the old house to the firm foundations of the cesspool. Marble walkway with a flat concrete roof running some 12 meters from the house to what the designer was now calling the new home. Colored creeper’s climbing the columns of the walkway and, in the new house, a completely private wing. This new house would have the new garage that the owner wanted. Next on it on the ground floor would be a study and a bar. And close by a new master bedroom with huge picture windows which would overlook the feeding area where the cluster day after day—especially in the early morning. There would be seclusion there, peace and quiet whilst any guest would stay in the old house where they could do their own thing.

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