Great Design Plant: Honey Locust Tree

Great Design Plant: Honey Locust Tree

The honey locust tree is a urban and rural pioneer. While it’s more likely to sprout naturally in country fields, this tree is among the most well-known choices for sidewalks, town parks and parking lots, because it stands up just…

10 Wildly Colorful Kitchens That Delight and Thrill

10 Wildly Colorful Kitchens That Delight and Thrill

While white kitchens still reign supreme in several homes, vibrant cooking spaces have made a major comeback. Miles away from the neutral spaces so many of us are utilized to, these spaces aren’t reluctant to adopt color. Take a look…

Axis

Axis

An axis is a physical or visual line that defines the placement and orientation of a structure. Symmetrical objects have one based axis, many axes specify the location of objects in a three or two dimensional plane. An axis does…

Fantastic Lakes Gardener: Things to Do In July

Fantastic Lakes Gardener: Things to Do In July

It’s July, and the frenzy of gardening activity has slowed for Great Lakes anglers, however that is no time to conceal with air conditioning or rest in the hammock. There are still lots of tasks, good things to eat and…

Modern Industrial Ledge House at Napa

Modern Industrial Ledge House at Napa

Architect David Wilson visited this site many times, pondering the upcoming home’s layout with his client over a glass of wine matching for a house overlooking Napa Valley. This is the place where Wilson’s client talked about constructing his dream…

Loggia

Loggia

Whereas a colonnade is a series of columns spaced equally, a loggia is your area or recess created across the facade of a building in which the colonnade and roof create a covered porch or walkway. Loggias can be at…

Your Soul to Satisfy

Your Soul to Satisfy

If you think of your dream house, what do you imagine? Is it a mansion or a cottage? Is it in the mountains or on a tropical island? As I look at photos of homes, occasionally one will catch my…

Design an Easy-Clean Kitchen

Design an Easy-Clean Kitchen

Is there a new kitchen on your future? When you develop the design, there are so many choices to create. Many of those are all about style, and in addition, you should think a great deal about the functionality of…

Grand Historic Estate at New York

Grand Historic Estate at New York

Nestled along the Gold Coast of Long Island, New York — a fitting title for an area that houses the personal estates of some of America’s richest families — is the A.H. Lyons estate, that goes to interior designer Kim…

14 Buzzworthy Yellow and Black Interiors

14 Buzzworthy Yellow and Black Interiors

I was at this dinner party last weekend when an unexpected visitor made an appearance at our table — a big black and yellow bumble bee. One dapper gentleman at our desk had on a sharp-looking white fedora with an…