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address number plaque with cherub

Addressing Your Home

by on June 29, 2010 in Outside

House numbers are a feature that rarely get attention The address sign at the bottom of our driveway is in disrepair and our house numbers are fading away. As I think about what to do, the surprise is how much thought this update really requires. Obviously, addresses range from home-improvement-store plain to stylish and personalized. [...]

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two Kohler Gilford sinks in a master bathroom spa in Richard Neutra house

Unusual Bathroom Sinks

by on June 29, 2010 in Modern Bath

Spa-style baths center on the unexpected In this ultra-modern “wet room” master bath, the sink is flat! Essentially it has no basin – water flowing from the Danze Parma wall-mounted faucet hits the Kohler Purist “wet surface” and runs off into the channel-drain around it. Because the sink is mounted against a stainless-steel-clad wall and [...]

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tiled coffered kitchen ceiling Wallace Neff designed house

Elaborate Tiled Kitchen Ceiling

by on June 27, 2010 in Wood Kitchen

Over the top design elements need not overpower a room An elaborate tiled coffered ceiling is an over the top design element in this kitchen addition, but by keeping the rest of the room light it doesn’t over power the space.  Glass door cabinets are place over windows and remind me of our recent Salie [...]

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pictures hung on adjoining walls in two rows

Ways to Hang Picture Walls

by on June 25, 2010 in Picture Walls

Odd vs. Even? What about hybrid  odd and and even numbers of rows? Creating a successful wall often comes down to calculations based on how many pieces are  available to hang in a single area, the size of each, and their scale (relative size) compared to the total wall area. In addition it’s important to [...]

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white bulthaup kitchen with glass walls that retracts completely

Outdoors-Indoors Kitchens

by on June 22, 2010 in Modern Kitchen

Glass walls allow kitchens to go green — inside and out Bringing natural light and color indoors by creating a window wall in a cooking space is a glorious point of view. In an 1883 Victorian townhouse in Chicago [top and below] the entire back façade up to the gabled first-floor roof was replaced by [...]

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