Here's how to escape via a labor of love. Picture a Tudor row house in Brooklyn filled with a "laboratory" of painted floors, custom floral upholstered sofas and lots of whimsical wallcoverings often used in multiple patterns in one room.That's the setting for designers Jason Oliver Nixon and John Loecke's (pronounced Lucky) design firm, John Loecke, Inc. Continue Reading
Archives for July 2011
Ice, Cool, Baby!
These places are Ice, Cool, Baby.Since it's sweltering hot outside, maybe it would cool us all off to see some chilly interiors like these icy, cool digs.The Ice Hotel is a fantasy oriented get away that might seem really practical right now. Too bad it is only open during certain months of the year. It closes in April with surrounding activities Continue Reading
Color Shades and Tints Plus Tennis
We seem to be obsessed with color lately (see 7/15 - how do you describe yellow and 7/18 - mellow yellow posts) and here we go again with color shades and tints.Color isn't a simplistic choice and is more complicated than you may think. See Worqx.com for all the nity gritty about color. More about the tennis later.Today, I'm speaking with Dustin Van Fleet Continue Reading
Mellow Yellow?
Taking Friday's Post on yellow one step further, yellow is anything but mellow...Some things never change in that yellow tends to evoke the same psychological effects in most people as described by Leatrice Eiseman, color expert for Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training and executive for Pantone Color Institute. Some thoughts in summary from her book Continue Reading
How Would You Describe Yellow?
How would you describe yellow?For me, describing yellow is difficult because there are so many shades of yellow; the pale color of an onion skin, the refreshing look of an iced glass of lemonade, the morning sun, the golden wheat field, a swallowtail butterfly, a daffodil.The dictionary defines yellow as: the hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying Continue Reading
