These elegant conservatories, atriums, and sunrooms help homeowners celebrate the immediate presence of nature at home
An orchard once far afield (as any sensible grove should be) has encroached upon the back hall, dear ones... Enchanted fruits now litter the floor and branches have sprouted from our bookcases, their leafy tendrils mingling with tassels and tapestries alike. Furthermore, a bird has nested amid the draperies and our front parlor is overrun with beasts. Ivy encases our curios cabinet and the ceiling is awash in stars... Lady Luna herself looks in on us from time to time, illuminating our abode in her pale glow... {A Grand Gothic Revival Sun Room} {Antique Turkish Textile} {Wrought Iron Garden Furniture} Curious happenings have occurred out of doors as well. Teapots pour tulips, topiary table lamps lounge among the shrubs. A chaise that once slept at the foot of our bed has slithered outside (followed soon after by a set of chairs.) The trio spend their days basking upon the balcony, occasionally clad in velvet but most often in the buff... (oh, my) The seasons brings to life a brass bed frame, a briar of roses in the summer, a coverlet of crocus in early spring. Petunia clad pillows scatter across a carpet, oriental in origin now overrun with moss... {A fairy tale setting styled by Rebecca Purcell} {A Fragment of Antique Floral Wallpaper} As an explanation of these oddities we can only state that “Baroque Organic” is a concept that we often incorporate in our designs as well as our personal décor. Visions of grand roomscapes reclaimed by nature are an endless source of inspiration, as are gardens littered with finery and furnishings. Gathered here are a few luscious images that blur the line between indoors and out. Enjoy! ~Splendor {High Tea in the Garden}
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When Japanese people shake hands with westerners, we sometimes bow while shaking hands. It might look comical to you, but I have probably done it myself before, hahaha. I know that it looks funny but bowing is so natural for us and we naturally bow when greeting. However, the opposite thing can happen to westerners. When westerners bow in Japanese style, some of them stick out their heads forward. It looks comical for us, too. Why do you think it happens? In the western greeting, you shake hands as you look straight at the eyes of the other person, which expresses integrity. I think that this manner makes some westerners try to look at the other person even when they are bowing. It makes their chin up and causes the sticking of their heads. In Japanese greeting, we show our respect by removing our gaze from the other person. Staring at someone directly is considered rude. (There seem to be some exceptions, for bowing in some martial arts, we look at the opponent.) I’ve never thought of the reasons behind the manner of bowing, but I’ve just learned it from a book that I’ve read. hehehe. This idea makes sense to me also when comparing with the practice of bowing in the tea ceremony. When we greet formally in a ceremony, we place a folding fan on the floor in front of us to create a temporal borderline with it. It is the sign of condescension by not directly facing to the other person. It supports aforementioned idea. Not understanding these cultural backgrounds makes our greeting comical. This is what I have learned from my tea school and some books. Bowing varies school to school and person to person, but this is how I do it. I’m not sure if you want to know but I’ll share some detailed tips: Move your hand smoothly by traveling along your lap and place them on the floor in front of your knees. Retain a small space between both hands and make a triangle with your thumbs and index fingers. Line up the four fingers, which looks beautiful. Touch the floor without your palm making in contact to the floor, to make your hand look gentle. Bend your hip and tilt your upper body with a straight back. Try not to curl your back. Look at the floor a little far from you, with your chin down When raising your body back, do not push up with your arms, use your back. Take back your hand smoothly with the backward motion Now, you are one of the people who can bow beautifully in the tea room. If I have a chance to shake hands, I’ll try to look at the other person’s eyes and try not to bow at the same time. If you have a chance to do Japanese bowing, try to look at the floor!
THE LAND SURROUNDING this residential conservatory gently slopes toward the river, so the structure itself becomes a passage.
Glorious Garden Rooms Hello, everyone! I'm Mari from Design Shuffle, a fabulous site that brings together designers and design lovers to showcase projects and share inspiration from the world of interior designs. I'm delighted to be visiting A Delightsome Life today as a guest blogger. I so enjoyed Kathy's post on the Wardian Case. She inspired this look at eight glorious garden rooms. Flowers and interior designówhat could be better than that? Please enjoy!This glorious garden room looks like a huge Wardian case doesn't it? An antique table and chairs offer the perfect spot for Sunday brunch or formal dinner
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Dining-Room Inspiration 1. I've always lived in homes that had big, sometimes even huge windows. My bedroom as a child had a huge French window, my student studio in Paris had a sliding window that was nearly bigger than the room itself, the first apartment I bought had a whole wall of windows in every room. 2. J'ai toujours habité dans des lieux qui possédaient de grandes, voire d'immenses fenêtres. Ma chambre d'enfant avait une double fenêtre descendant jusqu'au sol, mon studio d'étudiante une fenêtre coulissante aussi grande que la petite pièce, mon premier appartement avait carrément un mur de fenêtre dans chaque pièce. 3. So I'm used to live in rooms that are flooded in light and I want to keep it that way. I guess it shows in the inspiration pictures I filed for my dining-room. 4. J'ai donc l'habitude de vivre dans des pièces baignées de lumière et j'aime ça. Je crois que cela se voit dans les photos d'inspiration que je vous ai montrées jusqu'à présent. 5. This is not what I have with Cottage of course, but dreaming over beautiful pictures never hurts, does it? Pourtant, ce n'est pas du tout ce que j'ai avec Cottage... Mais rêver sur des photos ne peut pas faire de mal, hein? 6. When I began renovating Cottage, I thought I'd do something to the tiny window I have in the dining-nook. It overlooks the garden and it would be perfect if it was larger. Quand j'ai commencé la rénovation de Cottage, je pensais transformer la petite fenêtre du coin salle-à-manger. Elle donne sur le jardin et serait parfaite si elle était un peu plus grande. 7. I didn't want to do anything that would be out of character for Cottage, but maybe just creating an other window exaclty like the original one, next to it, would be charming. Je ne voulais cependant pas dénaturer Cottage et mon idée était de créer une deuxième fenêtre identique, située contre la première, avec juste l'encadrement en granit pour les séparer. 8. It turns out opening a new window in a stone cottage requires an architect to make sure the walls won't stumble down once you rip a hole in them. Mais une telle transformation nécessite d'embaucher un architecte pour voir si mes vieux murs en pierre peuvent supporter qu'on y creuse un trou sans que la maison ne s'écroule. 9. There's no way I have the money to pay for an architect, the metallic beam involved in keeping my walls up and buying the nowadays very expensive stones to put around the new window like I have around the old one. Je n'ai pas les moyens pour un architecte, pour une consolidation de mur probablement via IPN et pour acheter un nouvel entourage de fenêtre en granit. 10. That's one of the reason that made me open up the wall between my dining-nook and my kitchen, so the light from the bigger kitchen window could arrive in the dark dining-nook. C'est une des raisons qui m'a poussée à ouvrir le mur entre la cuisine et la salle-à-manger: ainsi la lumière de la fenêtre de la cuisine atteint la sombre salle-à-manger. But now I have to create something charming with the window I have which is not going to be an inch larger... Mais maintenant, je me retrouve à devoir transformer en quelque chose de charmant une petite fenêtre qui ne peut pas s'agrandir d'un seul centimètre... The dining-room window is the one to the left of the door. This is the adventure I'll tell you about in the next posts, stay tuned! Voilà l'aventure que je vous propose de suivre dans les prochains articles ! Have you done something to your windows so they add charm to your room? Have you ever tried to turn something you didn't like in your house into an asset? Quelles sont vos astuces pour donner du charme à une fenêtre ? Avez-vous déjà essayé de transformer en atout un défaut de votre maison ? Beautiful black sill... See you soon, A bientôt, PS1 : All the sources for my inspiration pictures can be found on my Pinterest board "Dining-room". PS1: Les sources pour chacune des photos d'inspiration sont sur mon dossier Pinterest. PS2: I have paint on my hands as I type and two of the cats have some in their fur... Be assured that we are working to have something to show you! PS2: J'ai de la peinture séchée sur les mains et deux des chats en ont dans leur fourrure... Soyez sûr qu'ici on travaille pour avoir des choses à vous montrer plus tard! PS3: I'm sharing my inspiration with:
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Necessary items for a porch.... especially a Farmhouse porch.... We have been fixing up our porch, planting flowers and getting things ready for summer, picnics on the porch, swimming, family visits... It occurred to me there are necessary things for a farmhouse porch.... Flowers are a must...overflowing...spilling out....welcoming visitors with their colorful and vibrant blooms. 1. Table with chairs, for relaxing and visiting, eating watermelon and drinking ice tea. 2. A tool box filled with blooms, flowers, or suntan lotion. 3. A potting bench or table for potting plants, containers for holding clippers and gardening tools. 4. Garden signs 5. Spray painted flower boxes and planters 6. Watering cans...more than one...and spray painted is much better 7. Birdhouses 8. Metal Chairs with metal planters filled with flowers and flags. A rake or shovel is nice....looks like you are doing farmhouse chores 9. Spray painted canning jars...I love the look of enamelware so I spray painted the lids red and the jars white. 10. Old doors, shutters, windows and shelves. 11. Vintage bathtub filled with overflowing flowers 12. Vintage wheelbarrow filled with flowers 13. A kitchen hutch filled with dishes and terra cotta pots Visit lucyina.com 14. Any metal buckets, chairs, pots, pans will do 15. A metal gate at the entrance is always an extra treat ****************** Pinned from finegardening.com I love these pictures from Pinterest....so many amazing ideas to see. More ideas for your porch: .... pillows and soft items to make your visitors comfortable, glasses for ice tea, baskets filled with sun tan lotion, or bug spray for cool night visitors like mosquitoes. A large basket filled with towels for unexpected guests swimming.... Soft lights or candles so that guests can find their way to their cars once the sun has gone down.... Visit anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com Visit dusedrommer.blogspot.com Visit midwestliving.com Visit aprimitiveplace.org Thanks for coming by for a visit! joining in with these amazing parties: http://thededicatedhouse.blogspot.com http://www.astrollthrulife.net http://linda-coastalcharm.blogspot.com http://knickoftimeinteriors.blogspot.com Blessings, Debbie
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I love the look of older homes. Like, 100 years old (or older) homes. source I love the character and charm they possess. There is a beauty and warmth that is hard to describe, but can definitely be “felt” when you are inside on older home. source But my home was built in...
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