Check Out This Dorm Room !!

"But it is in fact a perfectly authentic expression of the 21-year-old college senior who was voted “preppiest in the class” at Choate Rosemary Hall and has a sincere love for Stubbs & Wootton slipper shoes and melon-colored pants. “I can’t live in a minimalist world,” says Sinsteden, who is majoring in French and art history. “For me, it’s all about eclecticism.”

N.Y.T.

He had decorated his family's home several times by the time he was twelve.

When other 15-year-olds were going to lacrosse camp, Sinsteden worked for David Easton, a neoclassical decorator in the Albert Hadley/Bunny Williams school. After his first year of college, he interned for Moss and still works for her one day a week. “I finish her sentences,” he says. “And she reads my mind.”

“Max has a gift and a great eye, combined with raw energy and enthusiasm,” Moss says.

To read the complete article; http://nymag.com/homedesign/spring2009/56426/

This artcle makes me smile just reading it.

How lucky is Maximilian Sinsteden?

And lucky, lucky that his parents indulged his talents, and were sensitive to them.

Imagine if he had been raised by different people.....

The journey getting here is a fragile thing.

Do you think so too ?

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Bright Days, Bright Canvas, and Bright Sundays

So.....Where the hell are my sunglasses ????
When the summer comes to Florida....It is not great for me.

Do you know about seasonal depression ? I suffer from it in Florida in the summer months. The humidity is oppressive (and it hasn't even hit yet), and I get headaches, almost daily.

When hurricane season comes....forget about it !! Miserable.
For me, Florida's summer months effect my lifestyle the same way the freezing cold effects others in the winter months up north. I can only be outside for a little while for fear of melting into the sidewalk.
I talk about it all the time to my freinds....the whole reason for living here is the ocean.

The end !!! That's it , nothing else.
Truly, the only place to be is right by the water. Once you get there...it is difficult to complain.

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Rainwater Harvesting Is Green And Beautiful

(The Maximum Annual Gallons of Rain Capture on a 2,000 square foot roof with 14 inches of rain are calculated as follows:

14 inches x 2,000 square feet x .623 gallons = 17,444 gallons)

http://www.harvesth2o.com/Capture_System.shtml

You can go all the way......
Or do just a little bit.

Yes, you can go green too !

" A water garden is not just a change in your landscape, it's a change in your lifestyle. A properly installed, low maintenance, ecologically balanced work of art for you to enjoy everyday. Unlike many home improvement projects, a pond gets better with age, and each passing season brings its own beauty."

http://www.jamesponds.com/rainwater.html

James Ponds is proud to announce that all our features can incorporate a rainwater harvesting system, Aquascape Inc’s RainXchange™ System.

This sounds so exciting to me.

And look, it is so lush ( I love lush ) !!
sources;www.HarvestingRainwater.com

and James Ponds

Now it is time for http://www.fififlowers.com/

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Andrea Cochran - Landscape Architecture

I have for a very long time wished for a room with a glass garage door such as this example.

I could open it to my garden and feel as though I am outside. The perfect flooring for such a room would be a polished concrete floor, or a stone floor.

I could stay inside , and out of the sun & rain. This would be perfect for painting or napping.

I adore both !
I came across these images and wished to share them with you.
Andrea Cochran is amazing , and these pictures reflect just some of her work.

About The History of Landscape Arcitecture

"The Romans under took landscape architecture on an extensive scale,and Vitruvius wrote on many topics (eg the layout of towns) which still concern landscape architects. As with the other arts, it was not until the Renaissance, that garden design was revived, with outstanding examples including the pleasure grounds at the Villa d'Este,Tivoli,Italy. The renaissance garden developed through the 16th and 17th centuries,reaching an ultimate grandeur in the work of André le Nôtre at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles.

In the 18th century,England became the focus of a new style of landscape design. Figures such as William Kent,Humphry Repton, and most famously Lancelot 'Capability' Brown remodeled the great estate parks of the English gentry to resemble a neat and tidy version of nature. Many of these parks remain today. The term 'landscape architecture' was first used by the Scotsman Gilbert Laing Meason in the title of his book onThe Landscape Architecture of the Great Painters of Italy(London, 1828). It was about the type of architecture found in landscape paintings. The term "landscape architecture" was then taken up by JC Loudon and AJ Downing.

Through the 19th century, urban planning became more important, and it was the combination of modern planning with the tradition of landscape gardening that gave Landscape Architecture its unique focus. In the second half of the century,Frederick Law Olmsted completed a series of parks which continue to have a huge influence on the practices of Landscape Architecture today. Among these were Central Park in New York, Prospect Park in Brooklyn,and Boston's so called Emerald Necklace park system."

The way I feel about Interior Design & Landscape Architecture is this.....

every house is ugly before it is 'touched by design.'

I mean it starts out as a box. A shelter.

And then it is polished by an architect adding a few bells and whistles , such as shutters, balconies, patios, fire places , floor to ceiling windows, etc. etc.

You could make a really, really ugly house charming or dramatic just with the landscaping.

You can never spend enough, or do enough landscaping.

Never.
This is a relatively new profession, being brought into the mainstream in the 1970's.

And landscaping is a never ending project.

It is good for you too.

Landscaping is good for the soul.
I particularly like this.

It may be in the 17th floor of a high rise, I don't know.

But this is totally brilliant. Do you like it ?

This looks like Modern Art to me.
To name but a few of Andrea Cochran's accomplishments;

AIA National Convention, 2009

New York Botanical Garden Lecture 2008

Portland Museum of Art

Dwell On Design Conference 2007

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Garden Tour 2007

http://www.andreacochran.com/

Her Book; Andrea Cochran ; Landscapes

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