What are your favorite American persimmon cultivars? (taste-wise)
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Comments (66)Lucky you! Gorgeous room with beyond great bones. I am going to suggest two very different options for this room. Option no 1, paint your walls the colour of your choice in a shade which complements the stain glass add very simple side panels on either side of the window. Both the curtains in the paint should match very closely so the stained glass is framed. A Venetian glass chandelier, again on tone with the drapes and walls can be added. Make sure when it is hung, it sits low so as not to ruin the sight line of the stained glass. Next, get some light coloured, glamorous modern furniture as suggested by the some of the other contributors. This option will give you a very clean contemporary room, and will make the traditional elements in your room stand out. Table has to be round to highlight the bowed window. Placemats, flowers etc.. all need to blend in with the colour of the walls. This option will highlight the room's best features, will lighten and modernize things but will not change any of the traditional features of the room. Option 2, is a more traditional option. Paint your walls, in a neutral shade, add light coloured drapes, traditional wood furniture, light coloured upholstery on the chairs and a light coloured rug on the floor. Finally finish thing off with a light coloured chandelier. Fortuny silk, or mother of pearl would be great choices. Regardless of whether you choose the more modern route, or the more traditional route add a couple of rococo or chinoiserie style gilded mirrors. Enjoy your beautiful room!...See MoreDining Room Dilemma!
Comments (76)A very nice space indeed. I would upholster the chairs in a paisley all over fabric like you would see on an old paisley shawl, The type that had black in the center and the paisley along the edges. It will give you the same effect as with using old rugs on the chairs but a bit more commfortable. Paint the table black and then silver leaf one side of a glass top and etch a design in it in gold. This will give you a vere eglomise(sp?) look. reverse painting on glass. while the gypsy look is extremely eclectic it does have a cohesive look and in my opinion painting teh wall and sofit different colors and then a different treatment on the underside of the soffit would be a great mistake. It will for sure shorten your room as mentioned previously. One of teh most iconic gypsy rooms is the one that was designed for the ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev at the Dakota in Manhatten. I believe it was on the cover of Architectural Digest. It was full of items and lots going on but still had a calmness about it because it was so cohesive. This room might be a great inspiration to you. Good luck!...See MoreArtwork. Worth the splurge or not?
Comments (244)All true, Heather Roddy! I posted to this thread when it first began, and I still love reading people's thoughts about art. We have a collection of mostly watercolors, as well as one huge oil painting and two giant pastels. I am beginning to rotate the art, as I have several waiting to be framed and no space left! There is just one drawback that I recently discovered: We are having the interior of our house painted and new flooring on the first floor done soon, and all the artwork must come down! Quite a job. Lest you musicians think you have it "easy," we also have to move our grand piano, taking off its legs, wrapping it up so that sawdust doesn't damage it, and fitting it into a tiny room that is not being renovated, then reversing the process when the work is done. The guitars and dulcimer will just be carried upstairs, thank goodness. I was sad when I did it, but now I'm glad I got rid of my grandfather's electric organ a year ago. That thing was so heavy, it took three men to lift it into a truck. My husband's back was sore for a week. Ah, the perils of art!...See MorePOLL: Do you have fruit trees?
Comments (259)Right now I have Meyer lemon, Eureka lemon, Fuji apple, blood orange, naval orange, avocado, cherimoya, white sapote, Kaffir lime, yuzu, and ice cream banana (which has bananas on it right now). When I lived in Venice (CA), I had pineapple guava, Manila mango, papaya, and Texas red fig trees, plus a Valencia orange. I do miss the trees I had in Venice, but I only have so much room. I also grow pineapples, but they are not trees, although they definitely make fruit....See Moreshane11
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