Tammy Blue's Profile

I live in a small space and I'm very envious of your windows with their wonderful light and the view. I LOVE color but have found that in a small space, while one dramatic color adds incredibly to the overall effect, too many colors, especially strong or incompatible ones are dissonant. I find that blues are the most difficult to meld with one another, greens are a strong second. Adding conflicting patterns on top of that creates -- to my eye -- a sense of chaos. Of course this is a personal preference but I do think the space would take much more advantage of the windows and light if it were edited, like the first commenter, suggests, quite a bit. Not necessarily in the things in it but in the colors. One thing that might help is to cover the mismatched side chairs, which can work wonderfully in a large space, in a fabric that matches as closely as possible the color and texture of the drapes. Another relatively inexpensive resolution to this issue would be to replace the rugs with solid color ones, or ones with the simple pattern, which will unify the space rather than break it up. But as others have noted, it probably feels a lot different with your guests hanging out, enjoying your hospitality.

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Yes, it is beautiful and if it were sitting in the middle of Dubai or Shanghai or even NYC no one could bat an eye (though they should). But it's not.

This building is sitting hard along side one of the largest slums in the world. The government doesn't like that word so it calls the settlements hutments (which does give the residents some "ownership" rights they otherwise would not have -- not that having rights to a 50 sq ft room for a family of five is all that it is cracked up to be) but this is where the poorest Mumbiers live, including many of the 600 plus staff that help the Amani's run their home (if you can call this affronting edifice a home).

No matter that it is green, living green in smog and people choked Mumbai makes it hardly worthwhile to have a terrace, much less as many as are shown in this rendering.

If you thought the age of the Robber Barons was bad in terms of the discrepancy between the rich and poor, it was as absolutely nothing compared to the lives of the super-wealthy in India compared to most everyone else.

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What would make this space work for me would be to:

1. Rehang the artwork in the living room. Bring the pieces down, bring them a bit closer together and have the "hang line" be the top of each piece. (This is a big peeve of mine -- hanging pictures above the sight line -- well, unless your 6'5"). Your other pieces are nicely displayed.

2. If you're going to use a table as a plant table then get rid of the chairs. If you're going to have chairs at a table, and these look pretty cool, then make the table a table.

3. As soon as possible, ditch the round white rugs. I'm seeing spots! I'd rather see one white rectangular rug, but that's just me.

What I love are the shelves in the bedroom and the way you pulled together disparate elements by the unifying white. I also love the black and white flooring in the bedroom.