Showing posts with label porch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label porch. Show all posts
The Modern Farm Table
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| via Woman's Day Specials Remodeling Makeovers Magazine |
as anyone else noticed this table popping up all over the place.?? The Modern Farm Table...I might have one myself for the back porch....True to form I FOUND this on the side of the road right around the corner....you just never know what you might find on the side of the road...and I am surely not afraid to make a fool out of myself getting it in the car.
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| My Black Laquered soon to be stripped Modern Farm Table. Notice it has already started being stripped. I put in on the porch to see if it would fit, and I think it will work. Will have to find new chairs |
The table has been sitting in the garage, partially stripped, and now it is coming to life. This is my project of the week...hopefully I will get it done...and we will have something to replace the awful patio stuff on the porch right now. (ie a table that goes with those aweful chairs...which might just need slipcovers)
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| via designsponge I can't wait to set my table, these Modern chairs are the perfect juxtoposition. Isn't that a pretty runner? |
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| e15′s Bigfoot table |
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| via DecorPad (Viva Terra) |
No Air Conditioning...
We were without AC for 24 hours...THE HORROR!!!! The porch was the only place that took the edge off (when 95 degrees feels cool you know you are in trouble.) I call our porch the front porch off the back, b/c it looks like what I wanted just off the back...which really is better, more privacy. I can't wait to make my way out to the porch in terms of design. But it will do for now....gotta get the inside finished first. But it works, and made me really happy we added it in our renovation.
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This is our house in May set up for a birthday celebration. Less than a month after moving in so please disregard lack of grass, landscaping, and bit of mess. B/C it could have looked like THIS... |
| via Velvet and Linen Brooke Gianetti's home before they enclosed the porch. Looks a little similar to ours... Can't wait for grass! |
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| via coastal living crisp white makes it feel cooler...wonder if the was taken in 110 degree heat?? |
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| via martha stewart Love the farmhouse picnic. thinking 4th of July?? |
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| via southern living We have a blue ceiling too! |
BTW: the AC was fixed and we have now retreated inside. Makes you appreciate the AC. Lifes Luxeries
Georgia O’Keeffe's Ghost Ranch
Many of you must have heard of artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, she was a major figure in American art from the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones, and landscapes.
The artist’s house at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico is where she spent each summer and fall of most of the last 40 years of her long and prolific life. (She died in 1986 at the age of 98.). Some years ago it was restored to its original 1940s appearance, based on photographs from the period.
Adobe fireplaces and walls, and the viga-and-latilla ceilings typical of New Mexican adobe-style architecture, endow the house with a welcoming, earthy intimacy.
“To me it is the best place in the world,” O’Keeffe (at 94) said of Ghost Ranch. “It has always been secluded and solitary. When I first went there, it was only one house with one room—which had a ghost living in it.”
O’Keeffe would climb the ladder to the roof, where she often slept.
The kitchen and breakfast room feature viga-and-latilla ceilings and windows that open onto the high-desert landscape.
As elsewhere in the house, rocks, shells and bones collected by the artist on her walks line shelves in the dining room. Chinese chairs surround the plain plywood table. The simple, U-shaped adobe structure was built in the 1930s; it now sits on approximately 12 acres.
From the breakfast room, O’Keeffe could look north to the pump house.
Her Untitled (Red and Yellow Cliffs) dates from 1940, the year she bought the property. It pictures the view from her window.
The studio at Ghost Ranch remained an austere space with few furnishings. “I thought the ranch would be good for me because nothing can grow here and I wouldn’t be able to use up my time gardening,” she said.
The Le Corbusier–style lounge chair in the studio is original to the house.
The house, with Cerro Pedernal in the distance.
All images and information from Architectural Digest.
The artist’s house at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico is where she spent each summer and fall of most of the last 40 years of her long and prolific life. (She died in 1986 at the age of 98.). Some years ago it was restored to its original 1940s appearance, based on photographs from the period.
Adobe fireplaces and walls, and the viga-and-latilla ceilings typical of New Mexican adobe-style architecture, endow the house with a welcoming, earthy intimacy.
“To me it is the best place in the world,” O’Keeffe (at 94) said of Ghost Ranch. “It has always been secluded and solitary. When I first went there, it was only one house with one room—which had a ghost living in it.”
O’Keeffe would climb the ladder to the roof, where she often slept.
The kitchen and breakfast room feature viga-and-latilla ceilings and windows that open onto the high-desert landscape.
As elsewhere in the house, rocks, shells and bones collected by the artist on her walks line shelves in the dining room. Chinese chairs surround the plain plywood table. The simple, U-shaped adobe structure was built in the 1930s; it now sits on approximately 12 acres.
From the breakfast room, O’Keeffe could look north to the pump house.
Her Untitled (Red and Yellow Cliffs) dates from 1940, the year she bought the property. It pictures the view from her window.
The studio at Ghost Ranch remained an austere space with few furnishings. “I thought the ranch would be good for me because nothing can grow here and I wouldn’t be able to use up my time gardening,” she said.
The Le Corbusier–style lounge chair in the studio is original to the house.
The house, with Cerro Pedernal in the distance.
All images and information from Architectural Digest.
Interior Designer Peter Nolden
Germany based Peter Nolden is the owner of Peter Interior Design specializing in French and Scandinavian furniture and objects from the 18th century. His rooms have appeared in Decor Home, Country, Architektur & Whohen, AD Italia, AD Deutschland, Marie Claire, House & Garden and other reknown magazines. Hope you like my selection, sweethearts.
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Interior Designer Nancy Taylor's Home
Today we'll visit Nancy Taylor's 18th-century Rhode Island farmhouse. Warm and welcoming rooms filled with antiques and reclaimed wood. And to top it off a magnificent garden.
The dressing room includes a vintage chaise as well as a 19th-century English vanity and pieces from Nancy's collection of pokerware. These boxes are decorated with an Arts and Crafts-era technique in which designs were burned into wood, as if with the tip of a red-hot fireplace poker. Pink lusterware brightens the green-vined wallpaper.
The furnishings and accents include '40s French leather armchairs, a framed batik print from Bali, and a flat-weave Peruvian rug. I hesitated before including this photograph because I don't like animals' heads on the walls (nor anywhere else!) but well, other people do. Do you?
The dining area in the kitchen, includes toile-covered banquettes, Indonesian chairs, and a custom English cherrywood table.
Potting area. Enameled-tin graniteware outfits the potting area, which centers around a salvaged soapstone sink.
The master bath features a claw-foot tub that came with the house and a white-painted 19th-century English spool chair with an upholstered seat and arms.
The stairwell was lined with hand-hewn planks from the oldest part of the house. "These are the boards that were carved from the oak trees on the land in 1776," she says. "I left them unpainted, so when I touch the boards I am touching the same wood those colonial farmers touched." She uses the stairwell, which is surrounded by the house's original banister, as an area to display her family photos
In the master bedroom a c. 1840 mahogany Empire-style bed, a late-19th-century mirrored oak chest. A hand-crocheted bedspread, rag rug, and beadboard walls offset the dark wood furniture and ceiling.
Front porch opens to a gorgeous garden.
Images and information from Country Living
Built on an Island
This summer home was built on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines. Before building began, rocks and boulders had to be dislodged from the cliffside using dynamite and jackhammers .All the hard work was well worth it as the result was this gorgeous view of the turquoise waters, white-sand beaches, and barren coastline.
Weather proof furniture to relax in and enjoy the view from the veranda.
Natural materials inspired the home’s exterior palette with walls the colour of wet sand. This pergola adds shade and structure to the pool terrace.
A high, vented roof and ceiling fans keep hot air from building up in the bedrooms. The white paint and fabrics contribute to this bedroom’s cool feeling.
The only glass in the house’s architecture is in the French doors to the veranda. The wide openings provide cross-ventilation and expansive views of the ocean from nearly every room in the house.
Another photo of the veranda overlooking Pasture Bay. Maybe I would add a hammock and take a nap listening to the soothing lullaby of the waves.
Have a happy Sunday!
All images from Coastal Living.
Interior Designer Lyndsy Woods
I love the way interior designer Lyndsy Wooks mixes styles and uses cream and earthy colours to make these elegant but warm and livable rooms.
She has her own company L Kae Interiors. Hope you like these photographs I selected for you.
Sit in this rocking chair with a good book and have a splendid weekend!
All images from here.
She has her own company L Kae Interiors. Hope you like these photographs I selected for you.
Sit in this rocking chair with a good book and have a splendid weekend!
All images from here.
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