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. [...]
Archive | June, 2010
Unusual Bathroom Sinks
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 [...]
Elaborate Tiled Kitchen Ceiling
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 [...]
Ways to Hang 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 [...]
Outdoors-Indoors Kitchens
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 [...]
