If you crave a home that not only looks amazing, but feels personal and warm and perfectly youpersonally, it is time to start decorating with aim. In this new series, we will be exploring methods to tap into your unique personal style and decorate out of the center. This week, we are working on creating a vision for your home. Let’s begin! TILTON FENWICK Working on this step will help train your attention and provide you a place to gather…
In 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney”eloped” into Europe. In Europe, Wright assembled the Wasmuth portfolio (arguably the most influential set of architectural drawings of its time), and Cheney analyzed the writings of Swedish feminist Ellen Key. The Europe trip was scandalous (Cheney was wed to one of Wright’s Oak Park clients, and Wright was also married), prompting Chicago newspapers and preachers to railing against the couple’s immorality. Therefore it was from the question to come back to their…
It’s that time of year at which there is more darkness and less sunlight each day. And while no one enjoys watching it grow dark at 4:30 p.m., it’s fun to appear in the sky on a winter’s evening and see a landscape of celebrities in the night sky. Stars have a special magical effect where they’re. Below are some ways to bring stars inside to light up your property. RYAN ASSOCIATES GENERAL CONTRACTORS I have a major crush on…
A few weeks back we had been taken with an wonderful sculptural door we found on a Houzz tour had to learn more about the artist who designed it. This led us to Austin sculptor Susan Wallace, who specializes in dealing with aluminum and generates beautiful, one-of-a-kind customized screen doors as well as prominent public artwork projects. After receiving an MFA in sculpture, Wallace landed a job working at the model shop in the University of Texas School of Architecture,…
I’ve always found things were built previously since they had more focus on quality. In the case of doors, there are motifs and intricate mouldings that are expensive to make today but with them in a contemporary house brings a needed warmth to your room. Sometimes all it takes is a little sanding and paint to bring old doors back to life. A look a the following ideas can inspire you to go for a trip to your local architectural…
Depending on the amount of gift-wrapping stations on Houzz, it is not tough to believe that the outside of the present is at least as important to some people as what’s inside. This holiday, go the extra mile (or at least make it look as if you’ve got ) and also make your wrapping shine. We have assembled the perfect gift trimming for every style, whether you’re a catchy and handmade kind or prefer tasteful and simple. Perhaps you need…
The timing of Ken Burns’ latest PBS documentary, Prohibition, couldn’t have been more ideal; the latest season of Boardwalk Empire had just started on HBO and I was missing half the references (George Remus referring to himself in the third person, by way of instance ) prior to my Burns education. The most powerful age in terms of design sway within Prohibition occasions was by far was the Roaring Twenties, a decade of wild fun wedged between the horror of…