Before making a more colourful and happy post here to wish you all a happy weekend, I thought I present to you the new table that has come to live with us in the Penthouse since a week, in case some of you have been following what is going on in this little apartment, over the last year.
I encourage you to visit my flickr account, in case you are not already doing so, as there are detailed descriptions and comments under each picture. I am mostly used to posting there, but am trying to slowly bring the focus here, which will eventually result in some changes, too....but there is time for that...and it 'll be done soft and smoothly....
So here is " cocktail hour" the sexy, three leged 50s table that came to live with as a test and is at the same time intended to be listed in the vintage section of the shop. We need some time to decide and are not forcing any decisions at the moment.
I named this collection of pictures Tabula Rasa, because living in a white environment offers the freedom to play with styles, mood, furniture and accent colours so easily, as the new experiences that can be formed and absorbed in the fresh, pure and mostly unihabited memories of newly borns.
The result satisfies me, but at the same time I miss the freshness and vividness of this version of our sofa corner....so we'll see how things evolve in the next days and weeks....
Stay tuned and do keep an eye here, as it is so much more easy to post pictures and discribe them more spontaneously and directly.
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Oh! Would you please...just....
....love me?
....not only for who I am...
....but also despite who I am...
....and mostly for who I am yet not!
I guess we all want to be loved, not only for all our goodness, but moslty despite our bad sides and imperfections....and mostly for our efforts to becoming the persons we are proud of being.
Processes are often tough to go through, yet the way in which real, internal changes take place.
Our characters remind of houses....the better materials we use for their construction, the better the solidarity, the duration and the outcome....we may cheat by focusing on the...decoration(!)...but sooner or later we'll have to go back restoring the foundations, should we have neglected them in the first place...
....not only for who I am...
....but also despite who I am...
....and mostly for who I am yet not!
I guess we all want to be loved, not only for all our goodness, but moslty despite our bad sides and imperfections....and mostly for our efforts to becoming the persons we are proud of being.
Processes are often tough to go through, yet the way in which real, internal changes take place.
Our characters remind of houses....the better materials we use for their construction, the better the solidarity, the duration and the outcome....we may cheat by focusing on the...decoration(!)...but sooner or later we'll have to go back restoring the foundations, should we have neglected them in the first place...
Wishing you a happy, fresh weekend....
...like the feeling that these two pictures evoke to me...Spring is the time for blue skies and on the left is an example of how nature can be represented in our living spaces...here on our table settings...
Dotted light blue napkins, like the sky with white friendly clouds...
Wooven placemats from bamboo, bringing the earth inside....
Darker shades of blue reminding of deep seas and...
White standing for natural light, like the one reflected in the villages of Greek Aegean islands.
Have a great weekend!
Dotted light blue napkins, like the sky with white friendly clouds...
Wooven placemats from bamboo, bringing the earth inside....
Darker shades of blue reminding of deep seas and...
White standing for natural light, like the one reflected in the villages of Greek Aegean islands.
Have a great weekend!
Vertical lines & curves
Finding the relations of shapes in a space is one of interior designers powerful tools. The eye must be trained to find immediately the vertical and horizontal lines in a space, therefore realising where furniture and what kind of them should be placed where, with the purpose of maximising the space's capacity and functionality.
This should be the first thing to be taken into consideration. Then the style of the furniture depending on the person's sense of style and personal taste can follow, also considering colours and texture, which both have a tremendous effect on a space.
The decoration of the space, with its bigger or smaller details is and should be the last step.This is emphasised here, because no matter how beautifully styled or delicately decorated a home or its corners might be, should the inner architecture have not been taken into serious consideration before, a lot of mistakes can occur and the capabilities of a space might not be used to their fullest extend. In the worst case, large ammounts of money have been spent on fantastic pieces of furniture or home accessories, only to find out that they do not fit in the space or actually do not bring out its best character.
The whole balanced feeling and functionality of a space depends though, on the right choices of furniture, concerning their shape, size and colour and the most beneficial placement and arrangement of them in the space. Of course vertical treatments, such as wall colours and the possible choice of the right wallpaper and even material choices for horizontal surfaces such as floors, have a great impact on a space and can actually add or subtract to its beauty and sense of space.
A few of the people I cooperated with back in Greece, during my first steps of actually performing my hobby as a profession, were thankful that their bank account was saved from quite a sum of euros, after seeing that a simple rearrangement of the place and correction of details had a major visual and practical impact.
Should the clients wish to go on with replacing furniture anyway, this is another issue. Still, in these times of a tremendous economical crisis, repurpose and reuse is an attitude which conforms with current reality and also shifts the attention from over consuming to actually appreciating what we have and finding pleasure within our own range of reach.
Now, as for the pictures put together here(It's one of the exercises I do to train my eye) , they were grouped mostly according to some relevancy in shapes. But also according to some relevancy depending on context. Can you spot the relativity among them and in between them?
4 seasons - good reasons
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These lovely melamine plates are sold for $54 a set and the whole amount is to be donated for support at Haiti.
More info here:
www.lostbirdfound.com/platecharity.ph
Ferm Living
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For big.....
and small children ; )
Flip the pages of their delightful catalogue on line and pay a visit to their blog.
Remember to :
1. Sit back comfortably
2. Enjoy
3. Control your wish - need to have now almost everything that is featured. There are other enjoyable things in life than shopping and interior design, right? ;-)
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