Contemporary design has taken to the streets of Manhattan in the shape of tiny public lending libraries. Lodged between stately columns, on a public park bench, nestled in a schoolyard fence, in a street or in the end of a pier, 10 small-scale designer libraries currently reside in New York’s East Village and Lower East…
From the start of your bathroom renovation, your pipes and framers need to understand where your toilet should go — whether it’ll be mounted on the floor or wall and in which the water supply ought to be positioned. If that’s not complicated enough wall paneling, tile installation, shower doors and baseboards will all factor…
A drip cap is a feature on the exterior of a window, positioned on peak of the window. It extends out and is intended to channel water out from the window; water follows the contour of the drip cap, and then melts the outer edge. Chris Hill The drip cap inside this case is only…
When a couple of medical professionals (she was a nurse, he a radiologist) planned their retirement, they planned big lifestyle changes. They were living and functioning in Indianapolis but wished to be closer to their kids and grandchildren from the Washington, D.C., area, and they wanted to grow grapes for wine. They found 25 acres…
If this city condo needed character, the designers in Groundswell Design Group traveled to the country stylewise. The condo, a clean-lined contemporary penthouse in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberty neighborhood, was too bare, and the detailing was dull. To meet the needs of the proprietor, one builder, one of the 2 bedrooms has been opened up and…
When consumer Dianne Rogers came across a dusty, cobweb-covered antique birdcage at Wilmington, North Carolina, she pictured a fantastic chandelier. “It had been authentic, older, iron and big — about 32 inches high, and it caught my creativity,” she states. The new fixture is right at home in her “Carolina room,” a comfortable covered porch…
“The leak and also the lines of this house were good, but it had to be brought current, and it had a lot of structural repairs,” says architect Ken Dahlin of Genesis Architects. Noted Wisconsin architect John Randal McDonald designed the home in 1952, influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian design. Every time a modern-day…
Every time Debbie Gliksman’s daughter, Lianna, returned home from school, Gliksman’s two younger boys at home would need to bunk together to free up a space. She knew the family had an excess space but did not need to proceed. “My family feels an attachment to our house. We really love the property,” she states.…
The homes of today do come with a room for everything. If you’d love a den for relaxing but additionally need a home office, you’ll have both even in the event that you don’t have separate rooms. Thinking about how to make it work? Use these expert methods to create your own den and office…
In late autumn through winter, Russian blossom sheds its blossoms to reveal stately silvery stems for a perfect snowscape complement. Nevertheless, it’s also safe to say that purple-flowering plants reign in summer and spring gardens, and Russian sage, a popular spiky specimen, stands above similarly hued sorts with a soft, purple haze of blooms —…