Flipping through this month's Traditional Home magazine

I've been reading Traditional Home for centuries and just about always find a room that I love within it's pages.  The April issue is no exception.  Here's the room:

Oops!  This is the "Before" shot.

Here's the "After."

And this.

The color on the walls is brave and perfect.  I looked for the name of that orange in the Resource pages, but it was a custom color.  However, Sherwin Williams' Robust Orange/6628, is a similar rich hue.  Benjamin Moore's Corlsbud Canyon/076 is another delicious, saturated orange.  Blue is the complementary color to orange, so the huge vase of delphiniums on the table was a brilliant stroke.  The chandelier, the window treatments, the clean lines on the upholstered pieces--so well done.  This room is filled with many details that add up to great design and a space that I'd feel very comfortable and downright happy in.  While this is a very traditional room, the use of color and fabric give it a gorgeous update.  Gerald Pomeroy of Boston did the interior design and the photographer is Francesco Lagnese.  

There was another good "before" and "after" in the magazine.

The bathroom before

Lots of good ideas in this photo, don't you think?  Also by Gerald Pomeroy Design Group.  

I hope you all enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Ciao,

Anne

A bathroom sink to dream about

I love reading my Sunday New York Times. Each and every page is caressed by my hands and read until my eyeballs are burning.  Sometimes it takes me all week to get through it--not because of its' size (getting thinner like all my favorite newspapers), but because I really want to give each section my full attention.  I don't have a lot of "full attention" time.

This week there was a special New York Times Style Magazine.  Inside, there's an article, written by Pilar Viladas, about a home built on an island in the Pacific Northwest.  Photographs by Dwight Eschliman.  First I'll show you the bathroom sink:

Do you see it?  The sink?  Under the extended faucet?  Carved into the rock? Wow!  Now that's something to see!  And look out the window!  How does one not stand there all day, transfixed by the view?

Here's a few more pix of the house.  Enjoy your day.

I feel chilly in this room, but with a fire going in the fireplace, the chandelier turned on to sparkle and a couple of thick, warm, colorful throws, I could settle right in and just look out the window.

Here's how to make a gray day seem just fine.  Fire and water.  So good.

Ciao,

Anne