Archive for August, 2010
Embrace your Eclectic :: 3 Steps to Make it Work
1August 31, 2010
Eclecticism can make a room bold and invigorating if it's done right, but more often than not, I find the term used as an excuse for liking everything and yet nothing. The danger is in spreading yourself too thin, weakening and diluting your passion, your decorative statement and style-sense. Do you accommodate too many others' styles, furnishings, and expectations to the point that your house and all the things in it don't reflect you anymore?
There are three steps to make eclectic décor live together happily, and keep your home-sweet-home from becoming a repository of unrelated junk: [ . . . ]
Strung Out on Caffeine and . . . Remodeling. Solution: "My Kids"
5August 30, 2010
by Holly Bertsch
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So how does one go about getting a job done on time? Well, it all comes down to planning. By planning I mean -- get your (special) orders in on time. That has been what has been slowing us down recently. I am constantly waiting for this . . . to be able to do that. The granite can't be measured for the kitchen, because the cabinets came in wrong. The shower door can't be measured for the custom shower, because the client couldn't decide on the marble they wanted for the enclosure. These things, I felt, were totally out of my control. Yet . . . they have left me strung out on remodeling and . . . caffeine. [ . . . ]
Charles R Wolfe :: Achievable Placemaking on a Morning Walk
5August 27, 2010
In the city, as always, new and old seek balance, against a backdrop of trying economic times.
At the doctrinal level, old battles return: Is new urbanism with its inherent and neighborhood-based walk, bike and ride really overly nostalgic and prescriptive? Is the prescription unsustainable because it can ignore an existing and organic urban fabric, regardless of reduced carbon footprint? [ . . . ]
Ana M. Manzo :: Emotional Architecture
17August 26, 2010
It takes a lot of courage to open our hearts and express to the world how we feel at any given time, especially if the emotions that invade us, at that particular time, are negative. Some, those who dare, express themselves by crying, screaming, laughing, talking. But there are those too, who display emotion through creative expression (sometimes even unconsciously).[ . . . ]
Autumn’s Coming
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There are early signs of Autumn in lower Delaware. The bugs have taken their music down a notch, the light has changed and there is more north bound traffic than south. The rise to the height of Summer came quickly this year and I look forward to the brisk energy brought in by Fall.
