A designer’s culinary work space, built to satisfy artistic aspirations as well as the needs of an active cook. In this home in suburban Connecticut, a personal vision based on travels to France combined with a love for European furniture inspired a blockbuster kitchen with its own language of ideas and surfaces and – happily [...]
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Tufted Touches
An enduring way to embellish upholstery and textiles. Tufting is a 3-dimensional pattern – usually a diamond grid – made by sewing down center points and fixing them with decoration. Covered buttons have been used as anchors since tufting came popular in the mid-19th century and on deeply-tufted upholstery they are kept small. Pillows can [...]
Belgian Farmhouse Kitchen & Laundry
Charm and comfort, even in the laundry room. A reclaimed stone floor, natural oak woodwork, and a play of raw and finished surfaces is mixed with carefully chosen antiques in an ancient farmhouse that shows why Belgian style has become so celebrated. Rustic but elegant, the house was renovated by interior designers whose taste range [...]
High Tea
As accessories, teapots can live in multiple rooms. Teapots and bracket shelves are meant for each other somehow. This combination might be called old fashioned or sweet — particularly with a Neoclassical Swedish half-moon style table in the mix — though it also has a cottage look. No matter. For me, teapots can be utilitarian [...]
Bathroom Murals
For those who like large-scale pattern or a decorative treatment on walls. Consider a mural. The verdant country lane photo mural adds great color, an indoor-outdoor feeling plus the strong perspective of the road visually enlarges the room. A far more lavish Carrara marble spa bath adds a mirrored wall that reflects an amazingly graphic [...]
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