Posted September 19th, 2010
by Clifton Washburn
Appealing to those that crave locally grown, locally made, and hand crafted products, the Naked Table Project invites us to get intimate with creating sustainable furniture. Charles Shackleton, a Vermont furniture maker, launched the project in 2009 as a way to make the process of furniture craft “naked,” meaning transparent. Participants dedicate a weekend to dive deep into learning about the resources that go into the table they are creating. Sha
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Tags: Project Invites, Table, Table Project, Table Project Invites Posted in Home Design Today
Posted September 18th, 2010
by Lawrence Mcloughlin
Sprikk recently completed the design for an office in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
YNNO advises on innovative methods of working and the environments that support these. Their expertise follows the conceptions of the “new ways of working”. As their best reference sprikk planned the office that embodies these notions.
Since their consultants spend more time at their client’s than in the office, YNNO asked for a workplace that functions as a home base rather than a conventional office. A working environment was created that suits the nature of the consultant’s way of working in which communication and networking play a vital role. The flo
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Tags: Sprikk Posted in Home Design Info
Posted September 18th, 2010
by Carolyn Simmons
London has had many economic roles over the centuries and now hopes to settle down as a cultural capital and somewhere between ‘Europe’s financial centre’ and ‘the world’s financial centre’. This requires a planning and design response which is likely to include (1) more large green buildings, because big firms have big space requirements (2) more homes for young, rich and mobile people (3) more urban public space of the highest quality and greatest variety: busy and quiet, large and small, glazed and unglazed, soft and hard, wild and cultured, space at ground level, above ground and below ground, space for shopping and space for prayer, space with quiet water, bright water, dark water, swimming water, boating water and living water, biodiversity, socially diverse space for each cultural group (listeners to Radios 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 etc) and social space for the particular interests of ethnic, work and leisure groups. Lon
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Tags: Financial, Financial Future Posted in Gardening Consultant
Posted September 18th, 2010
by Clifton Washburn
One of my favorite homes from October’s issue of 25 Beautiful Homes was this colorful Victorian in York photographed by Jeremy Phillips. That hand-glazed tile in the kitchen is incredible, it really swings the bland scale way over in the other direction. And the guest bedroom…so much to love there. You already know how I live for canopy beds, but throw in some bold turquoise wallpaper and I’m a total goner. I’m loving the fabric on the chair, pillows and valance too.
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Tags: Colorful Victorian, Home Posted in Home Design Today
Posted September 18th, 2010
by Carolyn Simmons
We just got back from a weekend away at a popular resort in the forest. Yes, we went in the swimming dome and yes we ate pancakes at the Pancake House. But what the whole experience brought home to me is that when you’re two and half ‘everything’ is exciting! And sometimes the most simple of experiences mean the world to you.
The trees, the cycle trailer, the fact that you get your own helmet that is red! The two baby deer that we saw, the fighting squirrels, a pine cone – what’s a pine cone? The den t
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Posted in Gardening Consultant