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Grand Picture Walls

February 20, 2017 by Jane F Leave a Comment

grand picture walls - hallway of a London flat hung with a collection of Chinese Mao posters - House & Garden via Atticmag

Grand picture walls offer maximum impact and color in any space from a hallway to a gabled room. Grand picture walls present themselves in a variety of ways. A wall can be considered grand due to the size of the pictures. The amount of wall space covered by pictures — or the sheer number of pictures — can create a grand scale, even in a small room. How pictures are arranged on … [Read more...]

Two-Tone Four Poster Beds

May 25, 2016 by Jane F Leave a Comment

four poster beds - Tops of the bed posts and the head board rail were painted white by designer Stephan Eicker so they would not compete with the Fromental sink wall covering - House & Garden via Atticmag

Designers style up four poster beds with a quirky two-tone treatment. Giving four poster beds a two-tone treatment adds color as well as visual interest to an otherwise predictably conservative bed frame. And the idea is especially useful for updating salvage or thrifted pieces which are often repainted -- but only one color! What I love about each of these two-tone four … [Read more...]

Mild Winter Garden

December 20, 2015 by Jane F Leave a Comment

mild winter garden - rustic oak bridge leading to the potager on a Wye Valley estate garden - House&Garden via Atticmag

No snow for Christmas this year, just a mild winter garden glistening with hoar frost on cold mornings. Hoar frost is a staple of mild winter gardens and I've always wondered about it. Defined as “a grayish-white crystalline deposit of frozen water vapor formed in clear still weather on vegetation, fences…” it looks like icing on the grass. It sparkles before it evaporates, … [Read more...]

Lavender and Friends

November 13, 2015 by Jane F Leave a Comment

lavender - pale blue sitting room with Swedish armchairs and a lavender skirted table - design house of the hamptons via atticmag.com

Lavender has surprising décor power for a pastel hue and it plays nicely with others. Lavender is working harder than ever in a variety of décor roles — from accent, to background to focal point color. It’s a hue I am drawn to so I always notice how it is used. When we first moved into our house I had the guest room painted lavender. I though it would be soothing but, on a … [Read more...]

Scampston Hall Walled Garden

May 31, 2015 by Jane F 2 Comments

walled gardens - oval fountain in the Perennial meadow of the Scampston Estate Walled Garden - Undated Handout Photo of a Scampston Walled Garden - Photo Phil Tatler/thisislocallondon.co.uk

The Scampston Estate Walled Garden has a modern style with woodland plants and ornamental grasses. The walled garden at Scampston Hall is one of two must-see gardens in northern England. On the grounds of a Regency country house in Yorkshire, the house and garden has been in the hands of the same family for more than 300 years. Like many stately British homes, public tours of … [Read more...]

The Chic of Peaked Headboards

January 15, 2012 by Jane F 4 Comments

headboards - tall slipcovered headboard with center point and scalloped sides - House & Garden via Atticmag

Treatments for headboards range from painted to upholstered, but the silhouette always shapes up. Headboards have come a long way from the days of default dark-wood 4-posters, sleigh beds and frames. Architectural motifs, color, a variety of covering styles are making bed-heads into furniture statements rather than neutral go-along pieces. Many are taller and more imposing … [Read more...]

Holidays in Bloom

December 18, 2011 by Jane F 4 Comments

holidays in bloom - magnolia leaf garland and white tulips on a mantel - House & Garden via Atticmag

Having confessed that I hate gardening, the flip side is I love arranged flowers for the holidays. Living in the country has given me an appreciation for vines, berries, branches, and pods that I never would have understood as a city person. Of course, living in New York City, where floral trends originate, gave me an appreciation of how far flowers travel, especially for the … [Read more...]

Riveted Range Guard Kitchen

October 5, 2011 by Jane F 3 Comments

riveted range guard - Spanish country kitchen with stainless steel range guard with decorative riveted border - House & Garden via Atticmag

The riveted range guard wall above the range takes on uncommon decorative power. For a spacious kitchen in a newly constructed Spanish country home, architect Pablo Carvajal and designer Isabel Lopez-Quesada created a stunning riveted range guard behind a white Lancanche Sully with an electric (or perhaps induction) top. Protecting the wall with fireproof material is … [Read more...]

Fuchsia Flashes

October 2, 2011 by Jane F 5 Comments

fuschia Venetian plaster foyer by Raphael de Cardenas - Elle Décor via Atticmag

Dubbed Hollywood Cerise and Fandango in the early part of the 20th century, fuchsia is a floral hue. While the magazines and color gurus are trying to sell us a saccharine hue dubbed Honeysuckle, I’ve been seeing something stronger – fuchsia -- pop up as an accent color with black and white, green and gray. We’ve see a lot of it on the web (FFOOFF) and forever in Crayola boxes … [Read more...]

Embellished Walls

September 7, 2011 by Jane F 2 Comments

embellished walls - decorative contemporary wallpaper panel frieze - House & Garden via Atticmag

If all over decoration on embellished walls feels like too much, consider the idea of a frieze. The frieze is a really old idea -- as old as the Parthenon, the original source. Today it can be used on embellished walls as a band of pattern that creates a deep border for the top of a wall just below the ceiling. If a room has crown molding, the frieze sits just below that. It’s … [Read more...]

Christmas Room Variations

December 5, 2010 by Jane F 12 Comments

Christmas room - Christmas decorated foyer with a tree beneath the stairs - House & Garden via Atticmag

Christmas room decorating includes an unexpected variety of locations for holiday décor. This has been such a hectic season it wouldn’t surprise me if many of us were a bit tardy in getting to our seasonal Christmas room decorating tasks. While most people have their traditions which dictate where the tree and the gifts are put each year, some like to put a festive mood … [Read more...]

Dining Room Bookcase Walls

May 16, 2010 by Jane F 3 Comments

dining room bookcase - gray dining room with built in bookcases by Lars Bolander - Elle Decor via Atticmag

A dining room bookcase transforms a single-purpose room into a modern multipurpose space. Think about a dining room bookcase. Seriously. Ask yourself how much a dining room table and chairs, buffet and cabinets costs vs how often those pieces are used?  Apart from answering “I just like it,” most of us could put the dining room to better, more practical use. For me, it feels … [Read more...]

Plummy Dark Rooms

September 22, 2009 by Jane F 1 Comment

plummy dark rooms - living room with purple sofa and deep red walls by Paolo Moschino - House & Garden via Atticmag

Plummy dark rooms -- purples and oxblood reds -- are deeply romantic and fashionable this year. The red-and-purple color scheme in what I call plummy dark rooms has a special impact in these two English living rooms. Red rooms are hardly a novelty, especially in dining rooms. But brining this type of dark hue into the living room feels like a statement about creating an … [Read more...]

Hollywood Style

January 19, 2009 by Jane F Leave a Comment

hollywood style - antique anglo indian bed in an LA house decorated by Michael S. Smith - H&G via Atticmag

A home by Michael S. Smith in Hollywood colonial style has antique furniture worthy of a starring role. “I don’t know whether it’s cause or effect -- because I work with so many clients in films, or the reason I have so many clients in films, but I have a cinematic feel for interiors,” Michael S. Smith told an interviewer from House & Garden magazine. Smith, a … [Read more...]

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