Showing posts with label finish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finish. Show all posts
Cozy and practical wood finishes
When picking furniture and other wooden items, go for finishes that are lighter and more natural, so any inevitable scratches and dings fit right in and add character over time instead of causing costly damage and/or an unsightly look. Compared to "perfect" finishes, more natural finishes tend to look more cozy and interesting, and allow people to relax more around them as well.
Image sources: images 1& 2, images 3, image 4
Mediterranean charm
The rough plaster on the walls, the casual shape of the bougainvillaeas, and the various shapes and sizes of rocks remind me to avoid perfection.
Images from AwesomeSpaces.tumblr.com
Equipale furniture
I love these equipale chairs. The rustic natural materials, naturally tanned leather, and that they are still made by hand as they were centuries ago give them a lot of character -and yes, they are very comfortable and look great!
Top image from an ebay listing by roxx (obviously won't be there forever) and the bottom image from ppebble.blogspot.com
Top image from an ebay listing by roxx (obviously won't be there forever) and the bottom image from ppebble.blogspot.com
Free is good
Great place, causally put together with naturals materials, forms, and textures. Here's a beautiful house and what makes it beautiful doesn't cost much - actually, in most cases comes free and unprocessed from nature. Way to go!
Images of "Casa Consuelo" from the Photographer Jordi Canosa's portfolio
Images of "Casa Consuelo" from the Photographer Jordi Canosa's portfolio
Avoid anal homes
Precision craftsmanship has its place, like in cars, appliances, and electronics - it is meaningful in those situations, and has implications for function and longevity. However, there is no need for such precision in most areas of construction and furniture building. It's just inefficient, anal, and looks it, too. These pictures below demonstrate what can be achieved by avoiding such anal-ness: a cozy, relaxing, and beautiful home!
Images from style-files.com
Pretty rustic
Nice laid-back elements: that stone wall, cozy couch, kilim rug, cool distressed leather chair, that old basket used for lighting, cabinets...etc, too many to count.
Images from FresHome.com
Use what's available
In my opinion, few things are more boring than attempted perfection. All that extra effort to create and maintain it and it doesn't look half as good or interesting... The rough and natural textures here make a strong argument against perfectionism.
Turkish home
This is the Turkish designer Rifat Ozbek's home. Intricate Turkish designs still look laid-back and warm. There is something rustic in their essence.
Images from HomeInteriorDesignThemes.com
Beautifully unadorned
This is a pretty cool bath, no? Low maintenance stone, doors that open up to the outdoors, lots of natural light coming through big windows, and unbleached curtains. Not too shabby.
This is Steve McQueen and his wife Neile Adams enjoying a bath together. Isn't it cool to see celebrities in an unpolished and unpretentious space? That place would be pretty low maintenance and would last a long time, too.
Top image from Religion.tumblr.com and the bottom image is from ArtNet.com
This is Steve McQueen and his wife Neile Adams enjoying a bath together. Isn't it cool to see celebrities in an unpolished and unpretentious space? That place would be pretty low maintenance and would last a long time, too.
Bathe outside
I love that flooring, it would feel so cool under bare feet. The concrete plastered walls are quite nice, too. And with that large window, showering in this bathroom would feel almost like showering outdoors.
Image from FrenchByDesign.blogspot.com
Open up to the world outside
Those are some cool doors, no? And the flooring, or the view outside isn't too shabby either.
Image from randomitus.tumblr.com
Tasteful!
Whether you have a tiny balcony or an amazing patio, or you have neither and you're just at a park somewhere, food tastes better outdoors (weather permitting!) and the more you eat outside the happier life will be. That first picture is an especially ideal set up for the art of dining al-fresco (a pretentious way of saying eating outdoors) with that great flooring, super cool stone walls and the patio awning put together using unpolished, minimally processed logs.
Images from DelightByDesign.blogspot.com
Wooden revival
This place has a lot of great furniture simply put together by salvaged wood, old shipping crates, and pallets. They're relatively easy to put together and they really show how great raw wood looks. These things give their home a lot of character and are also easy to live with because you don't need to worry about scratching them, or hurting the finish.
Images from ApartmentTherapy.com
Not so utopic utopia
Wouldn't it be great if we all lived like this? If we thought more highly of the warm, friendly, and the easy going instead of the pretentious, the status-conscious, and the vain? Me thinks; yes, that would be great!
Images from Boutique-Homes.com but I saw it on MechantDesign.blogspot.com first
The good life
Clean, simple, rustic, and easygoing place by the interior designer Sarah Lavoine. Notice the lack of status symbols in or around this place. The exterior shots are great, I just wish there were more of them.
Images from CoteMaison.fr
Simple
Nice simple (and low-maintenance) exterior with corrugated sheets and simple gravel landscaping. This is the Tin Tabernacle Tearoom and it looks like a pretty neat place to hang out.
Image from BaileysHomeAndGarden.com
Rockin' floors!
I am not too wild about the furniture or the artwork and the mirror on the walls but I really like the walls themselves and especially the flooring in these images. The last one is just a bonus landscape shot, the patio cover is quite cool looking in that one.
Images from SabrinaRaffi.com
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