Expert answers to questions about home decor fabrics. When interior designer and textile expert Jamie Gibbs teaches his class on interior fabrics at Parsons The New School for Design in NYC, he asks each student to bring in a sample. Then he does a virtuoso “show and tell,” identifying and discussing fibers, weaving, printing, finishing, [...]
Archive | January, 2011
Antique Island Kitchen
Pale yellow and dark wood blend with marble and steel in a contemporary cottage. There’s something very neat and understated about this East Coast country house kitchen which shows a welcome balance between warm and cool, old and new. On the warm side are the elegant pale yellow, Shaker style perimeter cabinets around a dark [...]
Antique Attraction
Like family, antiques are welcomed into our homes. It’s not often that I run across an online shop where everything feels like a long lost relative. In the case of Alhambra (Antiques), it’s like having an affluent grandmother. They use the parenthesis because for the Granda family it’s not just about antiques but style, art [...]
Bedroom Backdrops
There’s something about repainting the bedroom that heightened my sensitivity to accent walls. “Well, duh,” you may be thinking. It wasn’t that obvious to me since I was mainly focused on finding a fresh color without making radical changes in the headboard or bedding. But having seen so many hideous painted, patterned or textured bedroom [...]
Gray Marble Bathroom
A renovation with simple details yields fabulous results When a friend of ours redid her narrow, turn-of-the-century NYC apartment bathroom, she opted for simplicity with a kiss of glitz. Honed gray marble tiles in four sizes allowed Country Floors to plan subways for the wainscot, mosaic for floors, and tiny ½-inch tesserae for borders to [...]
