Window Curtain Concepts For Bathrooms

Coordinating window treatments as well as drapery are created using greatest attention to improve the interior decor with the bathroom or even family room. In regards to bathroom, window treatments are simply imagined to end up being practical, possibly to spice up house windows or perhaps to variety shower enclosures. Nonetheless, there are many design concepts for shower draperies, which could provide a magnificent variation to each side your bathroom. Reviewed listed below are exciting shower drape suggestions.

Although selecting a shower layer, you will possess to select the charge, form of cloth along with degree associated with servicing essential for materials as well as development. In regards to styles, it is possible to select from basic, daring, flowered, and mathematical as well as candy striped designs. Lighting hues are usually mainly utilized, because they provide a vivid along with large visual appeal to space. Window treatments emphasized along with glowing coloring may think on the river, portrayal an active influence. Some individuals similar to change the styles along with works of art or perhaps favorite shots the most popular varieties of layer textiles pertaining to shower enclosures are generally soft, terry as well as plastic-type material. 

Soft as well as plastic-type material is generally cost-effective and also works nicely throughout holding onto normal water within the housing. Additional, they may be cleaned out quickly by simply hurling as well as machine-washing. In case a large material can be used, it could offer an enjoyable seem, nevertheless it could possibly get soiled effortlessly plus collect humidity. Nonetheless, use a plastic material boat resistant to humidity, retaining the actual window curtain dry out. Anti-bacterial window treatments can also be found to stop build up involving microorganisms credited to wetness. They're addressed with appropriate supplies to withstand the increase involving germs.

There are many approaches to include to the actual décor regarding shower drapes. When considering to kids bathroom, you'll find a limitless various habits, such as characters, plants, geese, bass, along with insects, that will type a topic to the bathroom. Grasp bathroom packages might be embellished together with draperies that will point out the color system from the surfaces plus complement some other lighting fixtures. Candy striped drapes are usually interesting regarding greater lavatories. As it pertains to drape supports, there are some designs, such as typical 'D' condition and also 'L' design. The best collection of a fishing rod certainly provides to your mood with the bathroom, just like every other place in your house. Window treatments tend to be installed along with hook varieties put about the track that is certainly goes with the particular wall mounts your pole ought not to be heavy, as it can offer a chaotic visual appeal. You'll be able to decide upon an extensive selection or even supports, when it concerns to materials, shade, conclude and also design.

Hook varieties in addition function to add to the actual décor regarding bathrooms, as his or her sort and look could provide a creative search. They are available in diverse finishes, resources and also surface finishes, such as hard surface finishes. The particular designs consist of spherical to flowery along with star-shaped tow hooks in which match up the actual design about the window treatments.
Shower draperies have to be washed frequently along with managed dry out, as a way to stop mildew and mold development and also microbe build-up. Correct upkeep will guarantee reliability of your shower enclosures created simply by shower draperies. Bathrooms look wonderful while using proper window curtain, because they can kind a different place, in spite of like a main bathroom.

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 Window Curtain Concepts For Bathrooms

Just how to Get a Personal Giant Mattress

Giant Mattress. Ever before speculate exactly where stars find these giant beds and exactly how considerably they have got to invest this kind of tremendous room? The net has created the idea much simpler for that regular every day individual to stay similar to superstars at the small fraction in the charge. Therefore, if you've thought of resting on any giant mattress, the ambitions can be designed an actuality.

Giant a mattress aren't usually presented in a mattress shop. Nonetheless, these are nonetheless offered. The majority of giant a mattress needs to have to end up being particular obtained with all the specific requirements in dimensions, so that you can move the size of you choose. You are able to enquire about particular buy price ranges your neighborhood mattress retailer or even search on the web regarding specific buy beds. You may well be astonished at the in which you're supplied. Giant beds are becoming extremely inexpensive in comparison to a typical mattress measurement.

For the way large you select to proceed, moving the particular giant mattress again to the house pertaining to location can be essentially the toughest element of acquiring the brand-new mattress. Mattress merchants will have supply solutions intended for yet another charge. Otherwise, obtaining a giant mattress sent to from a web based business can be extremely cost-effective, along with your fresh mattress will probably be shipped right to the home.

Looking at the actual stiffness can be hard given that taste air mattresses usually are and not on exhibit. Even so, utilizing one more significant mattress to confirm the stiffness amount which makes a person beloved is very important. If you aren't comfy with your fresh sleep, your current slumber will be affected. And also, whenever you snooze endures one's body experiences. Improved amount which a giant mattress provides is vital to your quality of life. Uneasy air mattresses could cause or perhaps worsen lower back pain or perhaps lead to rest decline.

The body is determined by at the very least 4 hours involving snooze to ensure that it stays working correctly. In a few conditions, everyone has sleeplessness, frequently the result of an issue referred to as sleeping disorders. Folks being affected by sleep loss never have the need to slumber, in order that they usually do not slumber. Insomniacs must not attempt to push by themselves to snooze until their health and also way of life are generally exhibiting troubles thanks to sleep disorders, like small interest ranges or even regular negligence. When this happens, prescription medication is usually necessary to assist an individual rest.
Various companies along with brand names offer you feature with reference to giant air mattresses. Make sure to evaluate the characteristics of various companies to observe what's important to anyone. A nominal amount 10-year ensures must be among the list of characteristics you're looking for. Know very well what your alternatives tend to be along with the thing you need and wish in the giant mattress prior to you buy.

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Bedroom Vanities: A new Female's Best Buddy

The bedroom vanities, not really to be mistaken with any bathroom mirror, is the best inclusion for any bedroom. Your classic type of the actual counter continues to be, and stays, well-known amidst females. Fashionable furniture, many reasons exist for exactly why any bedroom vanities is an excellent expenditure. 

Just what Bedroom counter? 

Any bedroom mirror is extremely not the same as a new bathroom counter. It's normally a new kitchen table that may be sitting with which has a reflection. Bedroom vanities, also referred to as makeup products platforms, are perfect for a lady as well as adolescent woman since they're an outstanding way to carry out your own make-up. Bathroom vanities may also be extremely esthetically interesting and therefore are a great add-on to virtually any bedroom. They don't really use up a lot place, and therefore are invaluable. Many bedroom vanities feature a lot of safe-keeping to shop makeup products along with other equipment, along with the hand mirror will be fished it to be simple to how to apply makeup easily. 

Some other Type for all 

Whilst the simple design of the bedroom vanities can be a desk which has a hand mirror as well as kitchen table, there are numerous versions for the design. There are other complex vanities, with much different space for storage, a huge reflection as well as designed timber design. Considering that any bedroom mirror can be a traditional furniture piece wooden vanities are usually common, mainly because it produces a far more traditional appear. For people who want a fashionable seem, yet such as the capability of new bedroom vainness, there are other subtle models obtainable.

Simple goblet platforms having a stool as well as reflect tend to be common, or even there's also vanities made from new tinted steel. Bedroom vanities are generally not too extensive, therefore don't take on upward considerably room space. In reality, due to representation from your hand mirror, they're able to produce the optical illusion the area is greater than. They are often not only standard and decorative mirrors both. You will find the alternative to obtain a vainness having a two on the side’s reflection; either side in which magnifies the other typical aspect. Several vanities include several reflection, to enable them to become tilted to demonstrate 3 facets from the confront there's also a few vanities which may have internal lighting effects, in order that you've got a much better look at his or her confront to how to apply makeup using. A new bedroom mirror is actually each and every female's fantasy furniture, no matter whether old or young. A new bedroom counter isn't just furniture to all of them, it's an addition.

This is a location to stay as well as carry out your own make-up, retailer your own makeup products and jeweler also it brings to whatever space it can be throughout. Bedroom vanities can be difficult to uncover, consequently research prices. Online stores provide a range of vanities, use not reluctant to buy online. Don't simply accept any type of counter, nevertheless there is probably a new bedroom mirror on the market to go with all of those other area in case you search with enough concentration 

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Abstract Art in Traditional Interiors, Part 1

When I designed the living room of the 2007 ASO Show House in Lafayette, Louisiana, I was still living in New York full-time and only occasionally in Louisiana. When the show house opened and ladies would come through the room, no one knew who I was or what I looked like. I was often engaged in conversation with someone so those just entering the space assumed I was another person touring the house. I would hear ooh's and aaah's over the beautiful antiques (on loan from Au Vieux Paris Antiques, one of Louisiana's finest antique dealers) and "isn't that a nice sofa?" ( a classic Bridgewater Arm Hickory Chair sofa on loan from Albarado's it was, in fact, a very nice sofa), but then I would hear, "I can't stand all of this abstract art", and "well, this is all very nice but the art is awful." It was unbearable for me! When I, a New York interior designer, accepted the task of designing the living room, the focal point of the house, I decided that I would furnish the room locally so as to make folks feel the room was attainable, within reach, and possible for them to have similar style and beauty in their own Louisiana homes. In addition to Au Vieux Paris Antiques and Albarado's, I was fortunate to have Grand Contemporary Gallery (now closed) as a resource for art. At the time, Yvette Owens, George Marks, and Helaine Moyse were some of my favorite Louisiana artists and Jennifer Grand represented all three. I was thrilled and very excited to be able to pull together a space using the elements of design that I had always used, what I had learned in my employment with Eric Cohler, Edwin Jackson, and Hinson & Company, what I knew to be true: juxtaposition is what gives energy to a room, excitement to a space, and is always necessary for any room to "sing".

Of course, this is no new theory or design concept and has been in place in the best interiors for decades, centuries even, but I guess I was a bit ahead of my time in Lafayette. I remember having decorators ask me, "what style would you call this?". Choking back laughter, I would say traditional and see utter confusion all over their face. In the end, designing the room in the above two photos paid off for me. House and Home featured the room on the cover and again a year later and, moreover, I was hired by a most wonderful client to do one of the largest projects I've ever done.

I am forever grateful to Eric Cohler and Jane Supino (son, mother) for teaching me so much of what I know about art. Both big collectors, Cohler and Supino educated me about artists, how to collect, and the greatest gift of all: how to mix seemingly disparate types of art in a cohesive, wonderful way. After I left Eric Cohler Design and was working at Hinson & Company, I was hired by Eric and Ms. Supino to serve as project manager and fabric / wall covering shopper/coordinator for the large-scale project of renovating and furnishing Ms. Supino's new Park Avenue apartment. This project was thrilling for me. I loved the client, loved the space, loved everything Ms. Supino already owned that would move into this apartment, and had a ball selecting all of the fabrics, wall coverings, new furniture. I had no idea that along the way, the client would teach me so much and that this project was a major stepping stone in my career and where I am today.

Traditional Home (note the word Traditional even though you see major abstract paintings in the photo by Colleen Duffley) published the apartment. The living room sums up the entire apartment and I consider this project a great success and one I always remember as a turning point in who I am as a designer and art consultant.

Why all of this reflection on past projects? The room seen below stopped me in my tracks. I think it is one of the most beautiful living rooms I've ever seen. Suzanne Rheinstein, New Orleans native, is the Los Angeles based designer who created this elegant and serene space featured in the May issue of House Beautiful. Rheinstein's rooms are always beautiful and I consider her one of America's top designers. I have seen many of Rheinstein's projects published but never with a bold, graphic, intense abstract painting like the incredible Carolyn Carr piece above the sofa in this room of a New York apartment. One word: FABULOUS!

photo by Francois Dischinger, May 2012 issue of House Beautiful

And then, oh and then, the August issue of Architectural Digest arrived in the mail on Saturday. As I thumbed through it just to see what awaited me when I have time to sit down and read the magazine in its entirety, the latest brilliance of Thomas Jayne (New York designer with a pied-a-terre in New Orleans) was revealed. And boy is it brilliant. Philadelphia clients with an amazing (Warhol, Jasper Johns, Ruscha, Lichtenstein, Twombly, Kline--just to name a few) collection of art received the perfection of Thomas Jayne's masterful work in this dining room:

photos by Roger Davies--badly scanned on my scanner from August 2012 issue of Architectural Digest

First of all, the antiques are about as fine as fine can be. A "late-Georgian dining table" and "suite of Empire chairs" and a Regency console table are included. By the way, note that the green fabric used on dining chairs in the Thomas Jayne project is the same Cowtan & Tout fabric that we used in neutral on Ms. Supino's sofa. The Gracie wallpaper? STUNNING! But it gets better...the clients have a "Cy Twombly 'Blackboard' painting and a small geometric Franz Kline that play off the hand-painted Gracie scenic wallpaper" and "a classic Kline abstraction makes a strong statement paired with a Regency table and a Han-dynasty ceramic bull."


To say that I can't stop looking at the entire feature in Architectural Digest would be a joke. It is on my desk and I keep going back to it for inspiration. None of my clients have art of this caliber but that doesn't mean I can't achieve the same great success as I build collections for them. Thank you Suzanne and Thomas for showing the world that a fine, classic, traditional room should have a shot in the arm of abstraction to make it all work.

River Forest Passive House final photos

At last! Eric Hausman took these in late summer, but I had to hold off making them public until some publications happened.  Dwell website, Green Builder Magazine, Tribune, Crain's, to name a few...it's been a good run in the press.  Awards too--USGBC Emerald Award, DOE Challenge Home Innovation Award, Green Builder "Best Behind the Walls" and a few others. Thanks to Brandon Weiss and Eric Barton for helping with the good exposure! Here's how the house turned out:

Southwest view--from garage to house. Cedar and the window cladding contrasting with the 2-texture siding

South composition: solar gain as art...

View from dining room to kitchen/back entry; indirect T5 uplighting was used throughout the house for ambient

Zola windows--great looking European Passive House performance

Stair as screen between entry and living spaces; built of yellow birch by Designed Stairs

Evening shot of the front facade.

Stay tuned for some philosophizing on design, and then the next projects.  I'm very excited to be undertaking a series of smaller, more affordable Passive House designs.  We're thinking nothing short of redefining the American home...

Abstract Art in Traditional Interiors, Part 2-The Masters of the Mix

I received so many emails about my last post (Abstract Art in Traditional Interiors, part 1) that it made the task of selecting images for this post really fun as I realized the subject hit home to so many readers. Here are examples of abstract art used in traditional interiors in projects done by the masters of design whose work I always turn to for inspiration when working on client projects. Billy Baldwin, Albert Hadley, Bunny Williams, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Todd Romano, and Suzanne Kasler are designers whose projects have filled my favorite rooms binders for years. 

When I was in college and began recognizing styles of design that I liked, Albert Hadley and Bunny Williams were at the top of my list (as well as Charlotte Moss and Mark Hampton). Through my first job in New York at Hinson & Company I was exposed to the designs of Billy Baldwin who is, for the record, my all-time favorite designer. By the early-mid 2000's Jeffrey Bilhuber and Todd Romano came on my radar, and in the last few years Suzanne Kasler has consistently done projects that have caught my eye.

Let's start by going way back to Billy Baldwin's interiors from the 70's. 

circa 1970: In the living room of Mr. and Mrs. Harding Lawrence's Dallas home, the first of four projects Billy Baldwin masterfully executed for the Lawrence's, a Theodoros Stamos painting reigns over a "raspberry colored glazed" room filled with chintz, antique chairs, celadon vases and lacquered pieces. 

Living Room of Mr. and Mrs. Harding Lawrence's Dallas home. image from DesignFaith.blogspot.com.

In Billy Baldwin: An Autobiography, Mr. Baldwin says, "The house in Dallas, which I did in 1970, turned out to be a wild success and I confess I did it in a taste that is not really mine at all: brilliant colors, American paintings, and good furniture both old and new. It also had colossal comfort."

I thought I had seen nearly all of Billy Baldwin's published projects but when this incredible accomplishment appeared before my eyes, I was WOWED! The Don Placido Arango's of Madrid were the lucky inhabitants of this unbelievably chic apartment overlooking the Prado and the Ritz in one of my favorite cities. The Spanish do have great style and the addition of Baldwin to the team of client-designer achieved greatness in my opinion.

In Billy Baldwin Remembers, about this apartment Baldwin says, "The Arangos wanted a bright, country atmosphere for their three beautiful children, so we gave the apartment the look of a country house, very light and breezy, with lovely old furniture from England and France."

America lost one of its all-time top talents in March when Albert Hadley passed away. Dubbed the "dean of American decorating" by magazine editors, Mr. Hadley created brilliance over and over and over in his projects. With a simple flair, which I think is hard to come by because projects with great flair can often be over the top, Mr. Hadley created real, as opposed to fantasy, rooms that always seemed so livable and never with too much unnecessary stuff and clutter. In an interview with Architectural Digest in 2011, Mr. Hadley said, "Whatever you put in your house should be interesting. I may not like it, but that doesn’t make any difference. And decorating is not about dollars and cents; it’s an emotional thing, it’s passion. Buying a painting or a piece of furniture just because a famous name made it isn’t passion." To read the full interview which is very interesting, click here after you've finished reading my post!

This fabulous room by Mr. Hadley has all of the elements that any chic room of its time would. Chintz curtains, lacquered walls, comfortable upholstered pieces, antique chair, simple coffee table, really great lantern that all co-exist happily and with great effect. But the painting is the shot in the arm, the kick in the pants, the energy necessary for the room to sing. The room, it turns out, is actually an executive office for the Bank of New York circa 1970 I am guessing. Who wouldn't mind going to work in this space??

The project that repeatedly brought Mr. Hadley so much attention is the apartment of Mrs. Vincent Astor. The famous red lacquered, brass trimmed library is one of the most often seen photographs of excellent design. A photo I have not seen as much is the below image of Mrs. Astor's bedroom. A room that really could have tipped the sweet scale is tempered by two paintings. Still feminine and soft like the rest of the room, the abstract pieces break down the girly-ness of it all.

image from required reading: Adam Lewis's Albert Hadley: The Story of America's Preeminent Interior Designer

Virginia native Bunny Williams is at the top of the design world in every way. Her successful firm with major clients has led the way to a beautiful shop, Treillage, in New York as well as a wonderful line of furniture, lighting, accessories in her Beeline Home collection. When perusing the many years covered in Ms. Williams' online portfolio, the use of abstract art in traditional interiors is a staple of the classically good interiors that Bunny Williams Inc. brings to life. One of my favorites is this "House in Provence" living room where damask, needlepoint, tufted furniture, and Tang-dynasty figures are in perfect harmony with a very large painting in a simple floater frame.

image via www.bunnywilliams.com

For the Beeline Home showroom at the 2011 Spring High Point market, Bunny Williams selected a painting by Mallory Page from Mrs. Howard/Max & Company in Atlanta. "An Unusual Repertoire" was center stage above the classic Knole-style sofa against faux-ivy covered walls. Mallory Page's fantastic painting now hangs in a Bunny Williams client's home in Delaware.

Mallory Page's "An Unusual Repertoire" in Beeline Home's High Point Showroom. Image via Stylebeat.

In my opinion, Jeffrey Bilhuber is one of the top five American designers working today. Bilhuber's projects are always good, never a slip, and represent 21st century traditional. I featured a bedroom a couple of posts back that is from the same London town house as this living room. This project is from an old issue of Elle Decor that is as fresh in my mind now as the day I saw it seven years ago. It represents another of those "AHA!" moments for me where I realized I had seen genius design as I flipped the pages and saw example after example of balance, proportion, scale, and harmony.

This project remains one of my all-time favorite published projects and, since the day the magazine hit the newsstand, has remained in its entirety in my special binder used only for Mr. Bilhuber's projects. 

The Ross Bleckner painting above the sofa is a wonderful counterpoint to the details of the room. Again, like Mr. Hadley's work in Mrs. Astor's bedroom, the abstract piece was needed to keep the room from becoming too feminine and too formal.

 "In the drawing room of a townhouse in England, a Ross Bleckner painting and a rococo gilded-gesso chandelier; the collection of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain above the door is from John Rosselli. "--Elle Decor

Note how the painting above the mantel perfectly picks up the color of the pair of ebonized slipper chairs in the center of the room. Anything other than the painting by Kristian Ryokan would have fought with swag detail of the paneling. Balance, proportion, scale, harmony...Mr. Bilhuber gets it.

"In a living area in an England townhouse, the wing chair is upholstered in Sahco Hesslein’s Faro linen; the painting, Speedster, 2003, is by Kristian Ryokan."---Elle Decor

both images above by Simon Upton, from Elle Decor

One of Jeffrey Bilhuber's most recent projects exemplifies what this post is all about. In the living room of a New York townhouse, one sees this view when entering the room:

"The living room’s center window is dressed in swagged curtains of a Robert Kime printed linen; the chandelier is Continental, and the banquettes were custom made. The 19th-century Amritsar carpet is from J. lloulian."--Architectural Digest

You can't really get any more traditional than the swagged curtains and crystal chandelier and 19th-century rug. And then you turn right and see this unbelievable Joan Mitchell painting from 1952. PERFECTION!

"An untitled Joan Mitchell painting from 1952 hangs above a custom-made sofa in the living room; the tables are 17th-century Japanese."--Architectural Digest

As if it could get any better than a Joan Mitchell focal point in the living room, a vivid Alex Katz elevates the dining room from so-so to fantastic. A show of Mr. Katz's work at The Jewish Museum in New York in 2006 is one of the turning-point moments in my life. I have never forgotten the show and still recall the hours I spent in the museum in awe of what was before me. This experience showed me that my true passion is art. Mr. Katz's figurative work is what I was blown away by and one of the reasons I can beat artists up a bit when they paint figurative pieces that just don't add up, so to speak, to the genius of Mr. Katz's portraits. I am not as familiar with Katz's abstract landscapes but really love the piece below which serves as another window with a view in this dining room.

"An Alex Katz painting, 5:30 PM, Late May (2007), makes a big splash in the dining room. Above the Irish Regency table glitters a Russian gilt-bronze chandelier, circa 1800; the George II walnut side chairs are upholstered in an Edelman leather."--Architectural Digest