WWYD... continued.... how to bridge modern, Art Deco, French
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Comments (23)Rosewitch, England was definitely one of my favorite places I have ever visited. My folks took me there when I was 14, and I remember bits and pieces the Crown jewels, walking amongst the Stonehenge stones (roped off now, vandalism), Stratford upon Avon. Time for me to take my own 14YO. Im trying to think how I can get over there for a whole summer, LOL. Dlynn, I could have worked so much more. I didnt really look at night time stuff and there was loads to do. Greece: cant help you, but shoot Yasou a line, she went a few years ago. LOL Annie! Teresa, well go together. I wanted to explore more cooking and food shops/stores but didnt get to. Terri, here is more a link to Pictures of England, a website pointed out to me by Denise. I started it on Bourton on the Water, where we stayed for a few days. Thanks Sharon, I was actually thinking how can I even come close to posting her quality of travel guides, I dont do the pictures she does LOL. We might have sat at the same table in the Cheshire Cheeses dining room! Sawdust still there, but we didnt make it to the cellar. I missed a lot of the British Museum. It has changed.check out the new atrium. I couldnt keep up with DH and DS16. Afternoons, when I planned museums, I crashed. Next time! Pam, lots of people did more than we did per day! Theater every night, more attractions, I cant imagine. Gina heh heh yeah I need another vacation like a hole in my head. Speaking of whichDH has another week off in August. Nooooooooo! Kathleen, DH says he took an average of 200 pictures a day. Yup. Me, I just buy the post cards or Google the images, same thing (DARFC from the photo bugs here) Cathy, thanks for giving me the War and Peace moniker heh heh. Next time I go with CF friends! LindaC, I know. Im still exhausted. Speaking of the V&A, did you know there was a Dale Chihuly chandelier in the entrance room?...See MoreWWYD with this area?
Comments (18)You've already had so many great ideas. When we were looking for a house recently, one thing we always looked for was where to put a treadmill/exercise equipment. I realize many people opt for going to a gym, but DH needs to exercise a couple times a day for optimal health, so he uses a treadmill primarily and wants it at home. I've found many of our friends also have some type of equip at home as well. And in Seattle you can't count on taking a walk outside all the time unless you don't mind a little rain. It's hard to quite see how your BF's basement flows in those pictures, but you might consider adding a workout area somewhere --even if this spot won't work....See MoreDesign Around #18: Post Designs for Art of Kitchen Design.
Comments (153)Purplepansies Blue Louise--I love the combination of the copper brown and the blue. Florantha Starry Night--Good job finding swirly tile. I tried this exercise, but was stumped searching for swirly tile. I love the dark blue drapes. Purplepansies Approaching Thunder Storm--Oooh, I love the artwork! You did a great job of capturing the colors and the mood of the painting. I love the magma supreme granite. Honorbiltkit Vuillard--Also a beautiful painting, full of interesting details and patterns. You captured the color of the rug in the painting, and the painting you chose for your design does a great job of mimicking the painting in the painting. If that makes any sense. Palimpsest Vuillard--You also did a great job of capturing the colors of the painting, playing up the neutrals a bit compared to Honorbiltkit. The floor--is it Marmoleum?--mimics the colors of the rug. Style-wise, the table is unexpected, but I really like it in the design. Pricklypearcactus Lanadscape with Butterflies--I like the interplay of colors in your kitchen just as much as in the original painting. I just want to say how very much I've enjoyed this thread. I liked the artwork, I liked the kitchens, and I liked all the creative thinking that went into putting them together....See MoreModern Architecture & Controversy
Comments (55)There is little love lost between architects and interior designers. We are left to sort out their biggest mistakes so people can actually use them. Look at many of the posts in here, and you will see what I mean. I also think there is little love lost between much of the smug Harvard educated subset and the rest of the country. My father was happy when I got rejected by Harvard for grad school, he was afraid that I would go there.(They were actually #14 of my applications, I thought 13 might be unlucky) When we did tours of local firms to see the different kind of design offices a number of them said they would much rather hire students from our type of program (which I considered 13th grade, in a way) because we had a practical education. One illustrated with this story: "We had two interns, an architect from one of the Ivy's and one from an art-tech school, and we gave them the same project, to get together some lighting for a place we were doing. "In a couple of hours the art tech student came back with two piles from our resource room and said--this pile is basic lighting that I know will light the space functionally just by laying it out properly. This pile has more interesting lighting but I would need to figure out the room cavity and stuff like that, and I am a little slow at that. "The architecture student had several doodles on paper showing rectangles with lightbulbs drawn inside, because he was conceptualizing. As for Harvard, I took Organic Chem at a State school with a Harvard student, and no one wanted to be her lab partner because she broke a lot of equipment, blew up one experiment, and threw awat the desired product and kept the waste product in at least one other. She also had one of the lowest test averages in the class. But my illustrations may make your point as well, Marcolo, because the "different" infill buildings I show are all between 40 and 50 years old and I think there was still some common sense at that time....See MoreGooster
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