the house itself matters
"Architecturally, the door becomes a piece of the wall. Traditionally, the door is a celebrated architectural element that announces the connection between two rooms. In a modern aesthetic the door becomes subservient to the plane of the wall. These hinges and the work to set them are generally more costly than a standard hinge and its installation. A set (typically three or four) of good-quality butterfly hinges will set you back around $50; a set of pivot hinges will likely be $200."
2nd floor shows shape[s] and I barely noticed the Lucite desk. “Unfussy, but elegant design with modern shapes, furnishings, and finishes both softens and enhances the architecture and natural surroundings. A peekaboo aesthetic enlivens many elements: invisible lucite, accenting brass, oversized mirrors, and windows and glass partitions.”
Aframe low bench and chairs / “Unfussy, but elegant design with modern shapes, furnishings, and finishes both softens and enhances the architecture and natural surroundings. A peekaboo aesthetic enlivens many elements: invisible lucite, accenting brass, oversized mirrors, and windows and glass partitions.”
Ceiling: tone down grain with wash of clear stain base, added water-based paint and pigment, for suitable opacity. Beams: base paint, then wood grain with glaze. “Bleachtone” is ground white pigment. We used fresh-cut fir beams and used synthetic plasters, paints, and glazes for aged look, to match 3 horizontal beams from civil war. We stain by "fuming” with Ammonium Hydroxide [in pans], which evaporating, interacts with tannic acid in wood, staining each board. Cedar, earth-orange/ sanded, hacked/ clear, dull coat so fumes wouldn’t reach surface. [3 old decorative beams had oxidized wood fibers, "immune" to the process.] Highlight barn floor NO STAIN, but with beeswax and Tung oil, buffed to sheen
Pay attention to history; white is classic, formal, refined and restrained in style. For your Greek revival or federal interiors, white will be expected on trim and on walls in the kitchen and third-floor bedrooms. Make the mistake of painting everything white, and your home will look like a builder’s “flip.” Color selections can, therefore, have contextual requirements that need to be respected if you want your choices to support the history of your architecture. Nothing says “wrong” more than white painted trim paired with walls painted a saturated color in a midcentury modern home.
AT LEAST 20' AREA several sofas can be arranged around oversize cocktail tables. SQUARE table is centered between 2 sofas opposite each other, while NARROW table serves the sofa opposite the stone fireplace. Not the 8-foot conversation arc, each sofa is its own seating group. The lower ceiling MAINTAINS INTIMACY / cozy, and a generous circulation space around the room keeps each sofa’s seating area sufficiently private. A room needs to be at least 20 feet square for an arrangement like this.
Net Zero Home, designed to the Passive House standard. Net positive energy producer. Solar electric and hot water. Thermotech triple-glazed windows. Universal access. Rais sealed combustion wood stove. This frame was finished with a rub-on poly with UV protection to preserve the light color. The oil we usually use doesn't have UV protection and the pine darkens. - Garland Mill
whether you like the style or not: "When all architectural elements have been treated equally, there is no longer a color differentiation to distract your eye. The true beauty of this column detail and texture can be more clearly appreciated and admired."
cool, fresh combo for midcentury chic. Yellowish-green sofa forms a cheerful counterpart to the serene gray wall. When brought together in a room with architectural details such as an angled ceiling and glass window walls, the style is unmistakably midcentury modern.
Western is orange-ish so try mauve-white // Southern, slight blue, blue-grey. // Northern is cool / shadows, so try a peach-white.. ambers.
"The teal color was original to the home and we matched it in the addition. The windows, screens and handrail are Benjamin Moore's Mink. All of the storms in the home have been replaced or added along the way to this home. They are all Wood storms."
Here is another example where a deep roof overhang is a canvas for light. The glow from the interior accentuates the wood surface that covers the underside of the roof.
"During the day the roof shades the glass walls. It also gives a SENSE OF ENCLOSURE to the otherwise transparent glass box."
At night the large roof overhang is a canvas for light spilling from the inside the glass box. A couple of downlights serve a second-floor terrace above the dining room. - Modern Patio by David Hertz & Studio of Environmental Architecture
"At dusk the interior spaces of this house literally glow, their yellow paint standing out against the white and gray exterior walls."
Sample palette: Get a similar look with Silvery Moon, Buxton Blue and Paper White, all from Benjamin Moore.
Using color is one of the best ways to highlight interesting architecture. This bathroom is by no means a large, light-filled space, so it might have been tempting to stick to an all-white palette, but then the interesting angles would have been lost.
I guess it depends what type house, and what country, etc... cause the window treatments take back stage near ceiling and floor and fabrics, etc.!
Revere Pewter BMoore- “Because of the fog in SF, gray paint can look blue, so we need a warmer gray." Davenport is in not-so-foggy Atlanta: “The color can read light gray, brown, green and sometimes blue depending on the lighting and fabrics in the room.” ------------------------------------------------------------ Paper White 1590 "has gray and blue undertones,” Griffin says. "In this Toronto entryway, it reads as gray with the slightest hint of PERIWINKLE to it."
Silver Tradition ICC-23 by Behr "didn’t cast blue or yellow,” she says. “I find that very important in an older house where things tend to look dingy if they are yellow cast.” Souder knew she wanted something very neutral for her 100-year-old Ohio farmhouse.
“Brighter side for a white- still warm- great for gray Pacific Northwest." SW Pure White cabinets - Harmony Weihs.
Provincial style: whitewashed furniture, structural wood/wrought iron details, limestone or light-colored lime-rendered walls, and terra-cotta or sandstone floors. Bit rustic yet chic, it needs STRONG ARCHITECTURAL elements to shine... it might look bland in a GENERIC SUBURBAN home. While many French people do like such style, they often use it merely to add accent pieces in a more contemporary setting. [They might embrace the style in older, rustic homes/but the total look is often created for tourists in Bed/B].
"Board + Batten is clad in a playful composition of painted board, mirror polish stainless steel panels and windows within the regimented spacing of the board and batten layout. Ranging from opaque to translucent to reflective, the siding creates a rich and textured surface that meaningfully integrates the house into the landscape."
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