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hometoursandotherstuff · 2 years

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You’ve got to see the decor in stylist/designer/artist Maude Smith’s Victorian house in Stockwell, UK. Owner of the home decor company, Maude Made, she has redone every inch of this house from the hand-painted bathroom tiles to the once-ugly kitchen cupboards disguised with pretty broken crockery.

Her kitchen walls are covered in wine corks. Floral curtains frame French doors that lead out into the garden.

Maude decorated her kitchen cupboards with corks, shells and broken china

Dried hops hanging from the ceiling separate the kitchen and dining areas.

A gallery wall, including some of her own pieces, and a chair collection occupy one side of the dining room.

A reading spot in the dining room.

A library area in the first-floor sitting room.

Feathers hang above a stove that she found at an antiques market.

Wallpaper in the hall was designed by Maude for her final project at Edinburgh College of Art, while many of the doors feature her hand-painted murals.

Hand-painted tiles decorate the bathroom walls.

The main bedroom features cut-out paper birds hanging from the ceiling, and a paper trim along the chest of drawers.

Her own clothing creations are on display in the bedroom.

A hand-painted fireplace in a sunshine-yellow bedroom.

Maude painting a mural on the white-brick wall in the garden.

https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/a-stylists-south-london-house

#designer's house #artist's house #colorful decor #artsy decor #long post #unique design

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mcmansionhell · 4 months

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we've found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps more.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Come on, Kate, that's a little kooky, but certainly it's not McMansion Heaven. This is very much a house in the earthly realm. Purgatory. McMansion Purgatory." Well, let me now play Beatrice to your Dante, young Pilgrim. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

It is rare to find a house that has everything. A house that wills itself into Postmodernism yet remains unable to let go of the kookiest moments of the prior zeitgeist, the Bruce Goffs and Earthships, the commune houses built from car windshields, the seventies moments of psychedelic hippie fracture. It is everything. It has everything. It is theme park, it is High Tech. It is Renaissance (in the San Antonio Riverwalk sense of the word.) It is medieval. It is maybe the greatest pastiche to sucker itself to the side of a mountain, perilously overlooking a large body of water. Look at it. Just look.

The inside is white. This makes it dreamlike, almost benevolent. It is bright because this is McMansion Heaven and Gray is for McMansion Hell. There is an overbearing sheen of 80s optimism. In this house, the credit default swap has not yet been invented, but could be.

It takes a lot for me to drop the cocaine word because I think it's a cheap joke. But there's something about this example that makes it plausible, not in a derogatory way, but in a liberatory one, a sensuous one. Someone created this house to have a particular experience, a particular feeling. It possesses an element of true fantasy, the thematic. Its rooms are not meant to be one cohesive composition, but rather a series of scenes, of vastly different spatial moments, compressed, expanded, bright, close.

And then there's this kitchen for some reason. Or so you think. Everything the interior design tries to hide, namely how unceasingly peculiar the house is, it is not entirely able to because the choices made here remain decadent, indulgent, albeit in a more familiar way.

Rare is it to discover an interior wherein one truly must wear sunglasses. The environment created in service to transparency has to somewhat prevent the elements from penetrating too deep while retaining their desirable qualities. I don't think an architect designed this house. An architect would have had access to specifically engineered products for this purpose. Whoever built this house had certain access to architectural catalogues but not those used in the highest end or most structurally complex projects. The customization here lies in the assemblage of materials and in doing so stretches them to the height of their imaginative capacity. To borrow from Charles Jencks, ad-hoc is a perfect description. It is an architecture of availability and of adventure.

A small interlude. We are outside. There is no rear exterior view of this house because it would be impossible to get one from the scrawny lawn that lies at its depths. This space is intended to serve the same purpose, which is to look upon the house itself as much as gaze from the house to the world beyond.

Living in a city, I often think about exhibitionism. Living in a city is inherently exhibitionist. A house is a permeable visible surface; it is entirely possible that someone will catch a glimpse of me they're not supposed to when I rush to the living room in only a t-shirt to turn out the light before bed. But this is a space that is only exhibitionist in the sense that it is an architecture of exposure, and yet this exposure would not be possible without the protection of the site, of the distance from every other pair of eyes. In this respect, a double freedom is secured. The window intimates the potential of seeing. But no one sees.

At the heart of this house lies a strange mix of concepts. Postmodern classicist columns of the Disney World set. The unpolished edge of the vernacular. There is also an organicist bent to the whole thing, something more Goff than Gaudí, and here we see some of the house's most organic forms, the monolith- or shell-like vanity mixed with the luminous artifice of mirrors and white. A backlit cave, primitive and performative at the same time, which is, in essence, the dialectic of the luxury bathroom.

And yet our McMansion Heaven is still a McMansion. It is still an accumulation of deliberate signifiers of wealth, very much a construction with the secondary purpose of invoking envy, a palatial residence designed without much cohesion. The presence of golf, of wood, of masculine and patriarchal symbolism with an undercurrent of luxury drives that point home. The McMansion can aspire to an art form, but there are still many levels to ascend before one gets to where God's sitting.

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#architecture #design #mcmansion #mcmansions #ugly houses #interior design #bad architecture

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vintagehomecollection · 2 months

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Traditional Country Style, 1991

#vintage #vintage interior #1990s #90s #interior design #conservatory #greenhouse #sunroom #wicker #house plants #terra cotta #tile #birdcage #traditional #country #style #home #architecture

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ancientsstudies · 9 months

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The sun will always come back.

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sorrelpaws · 1 year

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NOW EAT THIS SUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#the owl house #toh spoilers #luz noceda #toh #THIS WAS SUCH A DOPE DESIGN.............................................. i start liking it more every time i see it #its such a cute mix of like. king and harpy eda IDK i love it

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prideprejudce · 6 months

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house of the dragon & religious imagery 🤝

#the designers of this poster ATE #house of the dragon #hotd spoilers #house of the dragon season two #hotd season 2 spoilers #hotd season 2 #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #rhaenicent #I’m actually losing my mind here

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sunnyirry · 23 days

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cat hoodie luz you will always be famous

#the owl house #luz noceda #im a lil sad to see her grow out of it ngl #the timeskip design is great and all but i miss her dorkiness :(#animation #fanart #my art #toh

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insidematthieu · 1 year

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Can’t believe we’ve reached the end...I have a lot to say about TOH but I’ll save it for another post. Right now I’m just gonna upload some designs, starting with my favorite one, Titan Luz! Or Luzan, as she was called in the files. The way they animated her made me wanna cry (in the best way)

#illustration #the owl house #character design #toh spoilers

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keepingitneutral · 5 months

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Black Cabin, Bergen, Norway,

Soheil Kiani

#art #design #architecture #minimal #nature #interior design #interiors #luxury lifestyle #retreat #cabin #norway #bergen #concept #render #black #soheil kiani #luxury home #luxury house #luxury pad

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hometoursandotherstuff · 2 years

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Quirky, whimsical, and colorful are the only words to describe Artist & Designer Natalie Papier’s own home in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The double doors open to reveal a large credenza painted bright blue.

In the entrance there’s also a rainbow-painted piano and you can see the fantastical pieces ahead, like the life sized ostrich statue. Plus, the lemon yellow couch and an old restaurant sign. These people know how to have fun.

“Your house brings you joy and reflects your own interests,” Papier says. “We love art and color. And we have crazy animals and two kids..” They call it “The Sprite Room,” b/c of the colors.

France was the inspiration when she designed the kitchen. She placed a gold strip under the counters for a beautiful look and she also chose marble with lots of veining.

If you balance color with wood tones and metals, it grounds the room, Papier says. Nothing feels too in-your-face when you find the right balance.

The galley-style kitchen still feels open and flows into this massive dining space.

They dubbed this room “The Sunrise Room,” and it’s grounded by a large blue velvet sofa. The tiger rug and origami print carpet pack the room with personality.

The stairs are tucked between the kitchen and “The Sunrise Room.” And there’s something to look at on every step leading to the second floor.

The main bedroom is a suite.

This sitting area is part of the main bdrm. suite. A local artist painted the mural to represent their move from Chicago to North Carolina.

One of the most-used rooms in the house, the upstairs family room/media room, is where the family chills, watches movies, plays games, etc.

Even the laundry room is playful.

Daughter’s room has a shell chandelier and a gallery wall.

The guest powder room is very cool.

Both daughter’s rooms are expertly decorated.

The main bath has tile done in a giant yellow & white strip pattern. Adorable ceramic strawberry table/stool holds a drink in the tub/shower area.

https://charlotte.axios.com/235771/home-tour-see-inside-southparks-most-colorful-home/

#designer's house #colorful decor #home design #quirky decor #long post

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mcmansionhell · 2 months

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ode to a faux grecian urn

Howdy everyone,

Today's house, built in 2001, comes to you from, you guessed it, the Chicago suburbs. The house is a testimony to traditional craftsmanship and traditional values (having lots of money.) The cost of painting this house greige is approximately the GDP of Slovenia so the owners have decided to keep it period perfect (beige.) Anyway.

This 5 bedroom, 7.5 bathroom house clocks in at a completely reasonable 12,700 square feet. If you like hulking masses and all-tile interiors, it could be all yours for the reasonable price of $2.65 million.

The problem with having a house that is 12,700 square feet is that they have to go somewhere. At least 500 of them were devoted to this foyer. Despite the size, I consider this a rather cold and lackluster welcome. Cold feet anyone?

The theme of this house is, vaguely, "old stuff." Kind of like if Chuck E Cheese did the sets for Spartacus. Why the dining room is on a platform is a good question. The answer: the American mind desires clearly demarcated space, which, sadly, is verboten in our culture.

The other problem with a 12,700 square foot house is that even huge furniture looks tiny in it.

Entering cheat codes in "Kitchen Building Sim 2000" because I spent my entire $70,000 budget on the island.

Of course, a second sitting room (without television) is warranted. Personally, speaking, I'm team Prince.

I wonder why rich people do this. Surely they must know it's tacky right? That it's giving Liberace? (Ask your parents, kids.) That it's giving Art.com 75% off sale if you enter the code ROMANEMPIRE.

Something about the bathroom really just says "You know what, I give up. Who cares?" But this is not even the worst part of the bathroom...

Not gonna lie, this activates my flight or fight response.

If you remember Raggedy Ann you should probably schedule your first colonoscopy.

Anyways, that does it for the interior. Let's take a nice peek at what's out back.

I love mowing in a line. I love monomaniacal tasks that are lethal to gophers.

Alright, that does it for this edition of McMansion Hell. Back to the book mines for me. Bonus posts up on Patreon soon.

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#architecture #design #mcmansion #mcmansions #ugly houses #interior design #bad architecture #mcmansion hell #illinois #2000s

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ydteus · 4 months

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