I hope you are enjoying your weekend. We are having a sunny day, and I am appreciating it immeasurable. Today, from Architectural Digest, comes a home that was totally redone, rather than bulldozed and rebuilt as another mansion…..unusual for the
Year: 2013
Do you like roses but don’t want to deal with all the fuss it takes to have some roses in the garden? Then this is a rose to consider.
Originality, imagination and engineering combine to solve a source of visual pollution that we see all over the world. It’s a design disaster I say! What am I speaking of?
I live on over 6 wooded acres, and only around the house is it cleared enough to allow for a decent amount of gardening space. Over the years I have added small garden areas I call pocket gardens. This post is about the one I added
On to the interior of this home designed by Eduarda Correa, who established his architecture and design firm in 1994 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. First, a couple of notes for inquiring minds from yesterday’s post. The ceiling in the pool area is
Have I got your attention yet? Although Brazilians like New York City and have purchased plenty of very expensive property with incredible NY city views, many as vacation homes, here is one client, of architect and interior designer Eduardo Correa that built a home that would be difficult to leave, even for vacation.
Today is another gray day in a string of mostly gray and rainy days this summer. A record breaker. It is almost noon, yet the air remains heavy with a suspended mist, the sun seemingly listless and failing miserably at making an appearance. I feel surprisingly at peace, sitting here at my desk writing, despite… Continue reading
At some time we must all have experienced “Calgon, take me away moments.” I remember as a very little girl my Mother, in her best dramatic way used this expression, and
I got a considerable amount of feedback, all positive (thank you my readers) from my post There’s a Song in Every Silence. Many of you asked if the photo was superimposed. Actually, it most likely is one of the earliest photos of
This home is huge, and intriguing. It won 5 HOBI awards (Home Builder Assoc.). It has just about everything one needs in order to keep a family busy and kids out of trouble!