Yes, listen to Lesley: you're finished with the blue. The whole point of an accent color is its unexpectedness, and once you spread it all around--a pillow here, a vase there, a mat on a framed pic...
As a left brained decorator, I don't pay much attention to the alleged romance of evocative or seductive color names ( oh yeah, baby, gimme some of that Elephant's Breath... ) and prefer to ju...
My favorite unintentionally funny name is the one proudly blazoned in tres elegant letters on a cheesy condo a mile north of my place: "The ParVenu".
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Loufromlou, I probably should have added the little eye-rolling avatar just to be sure everyone realized I was joking, although I figured the Rudoph allusion made that pretty clear. Not clear enoug...
Heather, finding a dog-eared copy of that card of the Auditorium Building & the El once sent me on a quest in search of the original Albert Fleury painting. It took me two years to track it down, b...
By the time I got a videocamera, both my grandfathers, one grandmother & my mother were dead and my other grandmother was in such ill health that I couldn't bear to film her, knowing that if I did,...
OK, the curtains are too much for such a small space, but overall, I love the glittery 193Os feel of the room, and I agree about the mirrors in the corner.
It's true that the a/c setup...
Made out of the right kind of wood--something that weathers like the fence to a nice silvery sheen, rather than something that merely rots--these would make a great addition to a backyard grilling...
One of my favorite things at Henry Hobson Richardson's wonderful Glessner House in Chicago--an 1886 landmark full of features that we take for granted nowadays, but that were startlingly new when t...
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME FOLKS.
Yes, the Cubist/Constructivist/Deathstar aesthetic of styrofoam packing forms is cool, and I've always thought that, stacked up high & spotlit in a Modern...
OK, I'm not a fan of random refuse turned into 'amusing' light fixtures--broken plates, paper plates, milk crates, toys (and yeah, I know I can't really talk, since I've done the same thing,
Alternatively, here's another method: my own, actually, invented in 1999 & posted on the late, great AOL Decorating Board soon after that, and from whose corporate archives my explanation was retri...
Here's a spectacular vintage Knole sofa--Knole as in Vita Sackville-West's ancient house, not Knoll as the maker of Saarinen's Tulip table--for only $6500, the only catch being that it seems to be ...
The best thing about living in a 192Os apartment building is steam heat, which keeps everything comfortable all the time without the up-&-down cycling that comes with forced air. The other good th...
That's beautiful wood and I like the way Sue uses curves to soften the open side of the shelves.
On the other hand, the combination of two different size brackets, the white gaps in ...
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Yes, listen to Lesley: you're finished with the blue. The whole point of an accent color is its unexpectedness, and once you spread it all around--a pillow here, a vase there, a mat on a framed pic...
As a left brained decorator, I don't pay much attention to the alleged romance of evocative or seductive color names ( oh yeah, baby, gimme some of that Elephant's Breath... ) and prefer to ju...
My favorite unintentionally funny name is the one proudly blazoned in tres elegant letters on a cheesy condo a mile north of my place: "The ParVenu". --------------------------...
Loufromlou, I probably should have added the little eye-rolling avatar just to be sure everyone realized I was joking, although I figured the Rudoph allusion made that pretty clear. Not clear enoug...
Heather, finding a dog-eared copy of that card of the Auditorium Building & the El once sent me on a quest in search of the original Albert Fleury painting. It took me two years to track it down, b...
OK, let's do this the easy way: everyone hates whatever they loved a year ago. Got it.
Oh, not another deer head. They're sooooo over. Especially for Rudolph, there.
By the time I got a videocamera, both my grandfathers, one grandmother & my mother were dead and my other grandmother was in such ill health that I couldn't bear to film her, knowing that if I did,...
OK, the curtains are too much for such a small space, but overall, I love the glittery 193Os feel of the room, and I agree about the mirrors in the corner. It's true that the a/c setup...
Made out of the right kind of wood--something that weathers like the fence to a nice silvery sheen, rather than something that merely rots--these would make a great addition to a backyard grilling...
One of my favorite things at Henry Hobson Richardson's wonderful Glessner House in Chicago--an 1886 landmark full of features that we take for granted nowadays, but that were startlingly new when t...
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME FOLKS. Yes, the Cubist/Constructivist/Deathstar aesthetic of styrofoam packing forms is cool, and I've always thought that, stacked up high & spotlit in a Modern...
Northlowell, I loike the way things are turning out so far, so please drop me a line. I'm as easy to find as I could make myself: magnaverde@aol.com
Whoa, Ken! That's exactly the stove I need, and if it doesn't actually work, well, it's not a big deal, since I don't actually cook. MAGNAVERDE.
OK, I'm not a fan of random refuse turned into 'amusing' light fixtures--broken plates, paper plates, milk crates, toys (and yeah, I know I can't really talk, since I've done the same thing,
So I guess this means my fifteen minutes are up... http://i13.photobucket.co...
Alternatively, here's another method: my own, actually, invented in 1999 & posted on the late, great AOL Decorating Board soon after that, and from whose corporate archives my explanation was retri...
Here's a spectacular vintage Knole sofa--Knole as in Vita Sackville-West's ancient house, not Knoll as the maker of Saarinen's Tulip table--for only $6500, the only catch being that it seems to be ...
The best thing about living in a 192Os apartment building is steam heat, which keeps everything comfortable all the time without the up-&-down cycling that comes with forced air. The other good th...
That's beautiful wood and I like the way Sue uses curves to soften the open side of the shelves. On the other hand, the combination of two different size brackets, the white gaps in ...