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Simplicity. Clean lines and simple silhouettes are key with this design approach: The materials should always take center stage. Straight lines show off strength, character and top-notch craftsmanship. Get this look: Craftsman style works well in an authentic setting or in a transitional home with Craftsman elements added here and there. Feel free to sprinkle bits of Craftsman style around your home — just pay attention to straight lines and uncomplicated pieces, and stay away from heavily turned or ornate forms.
Guests are encouraged to slowly take in the caffeinated beverage and focus their mounting energy in and around themselves, with the chabana arrangement providing a simple representation of the natural world just outside the walls. Just like flowers, the tea and presentation can be personalized and modernized to your taste. The art of the ritual is the ability to make everyone as comfortable, and aesthetically pleased, as possible.
The colorful display of the flowers in conjunction with a tearoom’s stark interior evokes an introspective mood throughout a tea ceremony, wherein matcha (a powdered, highly caffeinated green tea) is served to a small group of intimate guests in handmade decorative lacquerware. Tea is traditionally enjoyed in three long sips, and it is customary to slurp the last drink.
Tearooms also feature a small, raised and recessed space — the tokonoma, or “place of beauty,” which serves as a design altar of sorts, showcasing a tearoom’s chabana arrangement along with a decorative scroll. The tokonoma is a centuries-old design element, but it’s still a perfect platform on which to display the traditional Eastern floral arrangement alongside a modern, personal design element, like a Western photograph or painting, to represent your home’s unique style.
Varying (although not clashing) heights, textures and colors are encouraged to add character to an arrangement. Tearoom interiors are typified by a very minimalist design, so intriguing shapes and colors are encouraged in chabana displays. Taller flowers and branches can reach up to 1 1/2 times the height of the vase, which can also be any shape or size. When you're trimming branches, cut diagonally and cut a tiny slice on the bottoms to maximize hydration. And be sure to trim excess leaves and branches below the rim of the vase
An arrangement can consist of a mere two branches or flowers (sometimes the most memorable representations are the most minimal), but if you’d like to add more, you must do so in odd numbers — three, five, seven etc. Orient the largest blossoms in any arrangement closer to the rim of the vase.
Chabana, far less formal and rigid than ikebana, employs shorter blooms, branches and other irregular offshoots deemed kinka or “forbidden flowers,” not used in ikebana arrangements. As long as the flowers are seasonal to your local area or region, consider them fair game.
Unlike in most Western flower arrangements, each flower in a chabana arrangement is styled outward—facing forward to welcome guests. The focus is always on the visitor, so every colorful blossom should open up toward the center of the room.
the grand idea without the ridiculous details
Love, love the baluster detail on this
love the balusters and the light fixtures in this home
something like this with Edison bulbs
this with Edison bulbs to light up the entry and have that neat glow:)
maybe go for more of this look?
love the look of this entryway
How about this style of baluster and uprights for a more craftsman feel to the entry. feels more...contempary when we walk in
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