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Landscaping a Townhouse
Elysian Landscapes has really grabbed my attention. I love what they do! Check out the townhouse garden they did in NYC.
Click on the pictures and go straight to their site.
Later,
Patti
Elysian Landscapes and West Elm
Do you get the West Elm catalog?
I just got the latest edition that features outdoor furniture and accessories. The cover immediately caught my eye—it’s a lush tropical landscape with palms entitled “Lush Life.” As I was thumbing through admiring the landscaping and oohing and aahing at the eye candy I noticed a teeny tiny paragraph about Elysian Landscapes. So naturally I looked them up. It’s interesting to see the real settings West Elm used in their magazine shoot.
The gardens are so cool—California dry tropicals with pools.
Later,
Patti
AND ANOTHER THING…
I just opened my new June 2012 edition of Garden Design Magazine and guess who’s on page 22 and 23???!!!
You guessed it– Elysian Landscapes. It appears this pool and setting belong to the designer: Judy Kameon. In the interview by Andrew Sessa she talks about creating alfresco entertaining areas–not just your run of the mill decks and patios.
Here’s the photo by Gemma and Andrew Ingalls.
“You only see what you know.” my eleventh grade English teacher, Ms. Reynolds’ words ring in my ears to this day.
Do any of you know the name of those magnificent plants? Do tell.
Patti
The Ugly Stage
We’re at The Ugly Stage.
We’re having a carport built but this is NOT our carport!! This one is from Structures in Birmingham. Ours won’t look exactly like this but it’s close.
Our old garage—you know the one I loved so much (this should be read with the utmost sarcasm)-
has been torn down…
…and replaced by a humungous pile of Georgia Red Clay.
In fact we have 3 humungous piles of Georgia Red Clay in our backyard.
And we have some lovely footings with excellently constructed rebar supports sitting in many inches of rain water.
You see, since the demo and digging it started to rain. It has rained, and rained, and rained.
Today some nice men came out with a pump and a generator and pumped the water out of the footings… They just now cranked up their truck and left, taking the pump with them… in the rain.
So now my dream carport (it used to be a Dream Garage, but I downsized) is about a week behind schedule—not that there is a schedule; just a vague desire to finish in this lifetime.
THIS is how my new carport will look. It’ll be open on 3 sides with a solid back wall so the neighbors won’t have to look at our cars and it’ll have a 7 foot high storage area underneath it for yard tools and gardening stuff. I’m very excited about that part.
Maybe it’ll stop raining tomorrow.
Later,
Patti
Kirkwood Flip Update #3
The Kirkwood Flip house is coming along on schedule—except we don’t really have a schedule, just an idea of how long we think it should take and when we think we should finish.
Since my last post on the house…
the not attractive UGLY awnings have been removed…
the siding in on the back corner is finished…the new steps are done…the new brick trim is on… and the new back door is in place…
inside the plumbing has been roughed in…the new electrical work has begun…
and the can lights are in place in the kitchen…
A little layout hint—the sink is going to be centered under the middle window on the left and the range will sit between the windows on the right. All the windows are awesome!
Later
Patti
Posted in Bungalows, Kitchens, Renovations, Tudor Homes
Tagged architecture, Atlanta homes, bungalow, Renovations
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Painted Wood Ceilings
Well, the Serial Renovator, my lovely daughter, has this thing about bead board ceilings. I don’t mean the bead board you buy in 4X8 panels at Home Depot—I mean the real kind that you install one board at a time—on the ceiling.
Some of you might remember this kitchen from my Breaking Down a Great Kitchen post. Love it!!! The ceiling is tongue in groove pine—installed one board at a time then primed and painted.
Does installing a wood ceiling sound like something that would give you a crick in the neck. Yes, I think so, too. In fact I have first hand knowledge of that crick producing activity. I watched the installation of said board ceiling over the weekend.
It’s pine tongue in groove with a bevel on the edges to give that “look.”
Cut random lengths to avoid a pattern where the boards meet. Nailed to the ceiling joists with a snazzy new nail gun.
The boards were cut on an angle so the ends meet cleanly. Note the snazzy mitre saw—The Serial Renovator’s Christmas present from her mother. Some little girls want jewelry—mine wants power tools.
I think the ceiling looks fabulous!
Here’s a little wood ceiling Eye Candy Inspiration from Pinterest:
Southern Living
What do you think of tongue in groove wood ceilings?
Later,
Patti
Posted in Bungalows, Kitchens, Renovations
Tagged Atlanta homes, bungalow, DIY, kitchen, Renovations, Virginia Highland
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