With a committee to tend them, my roses will flourish. Last summer I confessed that I Hate Gardening and gave up on my four-year experiment — trying to grow roses in the front of our house. I ripped them out and planted low-maintenance spirea in their place. However, instead of throwing them out I donated [...]
Archive | May, 2011
Concrete Trough Sink Kitchen
Materials and design were kept simple, so large statements don’t overwhelm. A Northern California kitchen boasts a raw metal custom range hood worthy of respect - but it’s not what drew me. It was the island’s over-sized concrete trough sink featuring a pair of faucets from Ann Sacks. This outside-the-box Italian style home is located [...]
Dining Room Personalities
Choose one feature as a core idea — call it personality — for maximum visual success. The dining room can be the most romantic place in the house or the most dysfunctional. Too often it’s infrequently used because it’s not been updated or it doesn’t have a visual point of view. All too often it’s [...]
Artistic Ceramic Tableware
Illustrations from the natural world bring beauty to every day objects. Birdhouses, framed egg prints and color matching paint to chicken eggs (leave it to Martha) are decorating favorites, but the biggest bird demand is and has always been the rooster. I remember a colorful handpainted Barcelos version my mother brought back from Portugal. It [...]
Zebrawood Master Bath
This striking material is at home in any room. Last week I featured a dramatic Zebrawood Kitchen in a historic townhouse and talked about using this exotic wood for countertops and accents. Today, I want to share a contemporary master bath made from the same dense material. The veneer was used to create a custom [...]
