Two years ago I began clipping magazine pages to use on a picture wall inspired by botanical prints. Shortly after we moved into our house, we sold most of the contemporary art I’d owned for years. My walls were happily bare. My aim was to find low-cost replacement art from the high-quality English magazines I [...]
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Doors in Disguise
Long seen in paneled rooms, non-door doors are gaining favor. With extensive renovating and updating required for many homes, finding an alternative to a framed door can be advantageous. That’s one reason why interior barn doors have become popular (though there are others) and that’s where “doors in disguise” come in. Actually, these doors aren’t [...]
Country Living Fair
Antiques and collectible were only part of the 3-day Country Living Fair experience. Country Living Magazine held the first of their three annual fairs this weekend at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York. By 11 a.m. on Saturday morning it was nearly impossible to move through the dozen or so barns housing the [...]
Grayscale Expressions
A single gray-stripe motif is used in public and private spaces, from the sacred to the mondaine. The term “grayscale” is usually applied to visual images it seems to be appropriate to use it describe nuanced interiors created from shades of gray. Although these may technically be monochromatic, they are dependent on the play of [...]
Wabi-Sabi Sink Faucets
The Japanese aesthetic of imperfection and simplicity is expressed in the use of raw plumbing pipes. Raw copper plumbing pipes and valves are an industrial look often embraced by avant garde architects. I adore my sink jewelry but piping has its own kind of graceful beauty that I also could easily live with in the [...]
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