Waterloo

This house is asymmetrical. A design statement as part of the original build and on a macro level it makes the house a special wonky folly.  However on the subtle micro level (meaning only the installers and myself )it is arrgh!!

I thought I had certain layout lay ups  for the Entry Hall and Living Room. Get a center hall table. Centered on what? The arch in the hall nope,  that is not centered on the hall or the living room.  Centered on the length of the hall nope, too close to the door to  the kitchen door and the arch to the stairs.

Table Centered on Arch in Hall

Even at night it still looks bad.

Design decree... Big space create multiple seating areas. Yes and no. The dead center of the Living Room is not centered on the arch on one side or the steel casement doors on the other. Nor are the windows centered on the facing walls.

Table centered on Casement Door In Living Room.

 I am going to embrace asymmetry, throw rules out the window and it is going to be great! I stopped fighting against what I have and the spaces are coming together.

Case goods have been placed.

Gilt Iron Console

French 19th Century Commode

English Vitrine

We are so Continental. 

"The Continental" video link

The coffee table has been ordered and its predecessor is going to a new home across town. The rug is en route, art is being moved here and there and hopefully the upholstery will make it in time. 

These arches and asymmetry will not be my Waterloo!

If You Love It Let It Go

See the two ticking stripe chairs at the bottom of the picture? Those dressmaker details, lightly gathered skirts on the chair corners, the very narrow welting and the self binding applied on the bias on this pair of slipper chairs  in  a Miles Redd designed room confirmed the direction of the Living Room design. The simple fabric makes a great contrast to a very formal application.

House Beautiful- Miles Redd

The House with the Diamond Windows is a house built for formal living and staff. We are neither formal, nor do we have staff. The house is full of contrasts. Despite the scale and the architectural attention to detail the materials are  quite humble. The walls are troweled plaster, the moldings are restrained basic. The interiors decorations need to reflect the same high/ low mix. 

The longest lead time right now is the upholstery and it will be lucky if the pieces are back in time for the final showing of the One Room Challenge. Another deadline is looming in early December and the house buzzing with activity. 

The chaise has been painted white and is getting new casters. The chaise and the red sofa are both being reupholstered.

The sofa will be recovered with no seam in the back and one seat cushion.

In Kravet Fabrics Off White Woven.

This pair of French Chairs are bring reupholstered with two fabrics.

 

Blithfield "Parnham", Plum/ Moss/ Aqua on the outside.

Pindler "Velluto", Watermelon on the inside.

It is actually pink in real life.

The rug I am torn between "Senegal Natural"



and "Calypso" Natural



I go back and forth. I need to cover a lot of square footage. I just cant decide.
What I absolutely need to deal with and need help is the coffee table.... We bought this when I was having my Fifth Avenue Octogenarian  moment in our NYC apartment. Two very important points. The apartment was not on Fifth Avenue and I am not an Octogenarian but I do  have this table. 


It is a good table but, but, but, I think it needs to go. This I think needs to replace it and rather than prolong the agony I need to just do it and put the old table out to pasture. 


I still have case goods, curtains, art and stuff but, I think the reason this room has been such a sticky wicket is I need to let the old table go.
The Entry Hall Upholstery is a happy accident from the consignment store one town over.



To be covered in this vintage french fabric from the Textile Trunk.



I think I am most excited to see the bench with the new fabric.
I hope you are enjoying the other bloggers posts. So many of them have knocked me right off my feet.

Double Whammy- Entry Hall and Living Room

I will start by saying I love this house. I knew it the second I walked in that first rainy day but, figured it would never happen. It did and it has proved to be better then we ever imagined. Especially when this is what you are stating off with... These three images are virtually staged.

Entry Hall

Living Room

Family Room with Living Room through the arch.


The spaces are big the Entry Hall 28' L x 8' Wide. Not including the Entry Vestibule. The Living Room is 28' Long x 18' Wide. 

 The Living Room held our Christmas Tree for our First Christmas in the house. It was a weirdly depressing tree that listed terrible to the side and leaked all over the floor. Thankfully the floors were refinished after.

Living Room with Entry Hall through arch.

Held our Kitchen cabinets and appliances prior to their installation.

We expected these two be two of the least used spaces in the house because the spaces were very dark. However following the removal the the enclosed porch.

Enclosed Porch Interior

Enclosed Porch Exterior

                             

Porch without Enclosure. Living Room is on the other side of the French door.

The rooms are actually very bright much to everyone's surprise but, with the exception of paint and the floors being refinished they remain annoyingly empty and unused.