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

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!