As there is shortage of space in a small bathroom, it is essential that the bathroom should not be flooded with a large number of accessories. While selecting bathroom accessories, remember that it should have some consistency with the rest of the bathroom decor. A beautiful wooden cabinet with drawers and adjustable shelf blends well with small bathroom. This is because it can store all the miscellaneous items that are required in the bathroom. Pale colors in combination with the unclouded decor create this minimalist look. (more…)
It may have been an overexposure to early Frank Lloyd Wright, or perhaps too much time spent in boats, but when I was young, and until very recently, I was horrified by furniture. I always thought that a perfect domestic architecture would be heavy on the built-ins. Shelves, benches, various seats and berths—these were the things necessary to finish a space, to tune it for living, to show at least that the designer was not entirely ignorant of how and by whom a house would be used. Also to anchor it. An uncle of mine lived for many years in a very cool Anglo-built adobe in Taos, New Mexico. At the center of the main space was a large circular pit, dug out of the ground and contoured for sitting: a brutal sunken living room, it seemed so much more profound than the loose, impermanent wooden furniture orbiting all around it, sliding this way and that, imported things ready to take up any position, or be replaced. (more…)
Jerry Janssen’s life these days is a dance between opposing worlds: art and decay, grand schemes and the gritty realities of use permits and leaky roofs.
Since purchasing one of Monterey’s most visible buildings 10 months ago, his life has become a mission measured in drops of glue and nail screws, window panes and the relentless reach of an ancient, creeping fig.
The Asian-art dealer from San Francisco bought the building commonly known as the Marsh building in February and has spent the better part of the past year commuting to Monterey on weekends, digging in to the work of restoring a 78-year-old landmark. (more…)
Michelle Lipson found her way to furniture-making almost by chance.
The Wyndmoor native had just returned to the area after some post-college wandering. She was working for a contractor and pondering her next move when she happened into the Washington Square shop then run by Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers.
“I didn’t know anything about furniture, but I loved what I saw,” says Lipson, 33, recalling the fine handmade tables, chairs and chests she glimpsed that day.
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