Limed Oak - Not Pickled

I love limed oak.

 The molding and most woodworking in this room is limed oak.

 This finish is coming back in a BIG WAY.

All the major furniture manufacturers have versions of this finish.

Look for them they are there.

And will be coming on strong.

Now that the retail market is completely saturated 

with DARK finishes .....

just you wait, 

this will start popping up in retail showrooms.

People in Florida are begging for light furniture and I like limed wood.

Oak turns 'taupe-ish.'

Hopefully someday I will have 

a limed oak floor like image #1.

#1

Liming Wood

A few hundred years ago wood was treated with a caustic lime mixture to protect it from the attacks of insects and worms. Later on the the effect of the lime residue on the wood grain became fashionable so eventually it was used for solely decorative reasons.

#2
If you have someone do this for you in your home
be careful that it doesn't turn out with a slightly pink tinge.
Just make sure that you mention it to your finisher.
It has turned out pinkie in the very room that I have featured in this post.
*The finish I have used (when liming wood) for woodwork
and built-ins is the color in the picture #2.
Below I have a few sites to explore if you wish to try it on your own.

What do you think about LIMED WOOD?

*and how about the alabaster light fixture????

Want to try it ? click here or here

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Been To Tel Aviv?

I have never been to Tel Aviv.

Many kids that I grew up with went.

IT was almost a right of passage in Miami Beach.

I never went.

I never wanted to, so i didn't.

But all these years later.....

 with all the happy people I have met from there,

and the happy stories I have heard.....

I would go today.

The streets of Tel Aviv.

The beaches.

hmmmmm...not too different from Miami Beach.

- and the cool places to just chill with new and old friends..

A man based in Paris stays here

 in this 1924 apartment in Tel Aviv,

which he decorated with 1924 deco pieces that he puchased from Germany.

I have imported chairs just like the two on the right from Paris.

I loved them and they are living in an old clients house that I did.

Have you been to Tel Aviv ?

What stories do you have to share?

story and image credit click here

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Hiding Your Sources

The secret to creativity 

is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

As a designer 

this is an important practice 

that I am not always good at.

Are you?

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Deco Done Right

There are a few of you that know I am a lover of DECO.

When it is done right.......

it is magnificent.

One of the things that I am drawn to 

about fine Deco furnishings and interiors 

is that they are CLASSIC.

They are 'FOREVER.'

Check the walls out
(and everything else) in this bathroom.

This study reminds me of one that I did.
Look at the arms on these chairs.
The back height of the chairs are too high for me.
But this is so well done.

I think this bedroom is absolutely dreamy.
Check the bed's frame out.
Fantastic!!!

I understand that Deco is a very specific taste and style.

Can you appreciate 
the work that went into this home?
Can you admire the style of it all 
even if you couldn't live in it?

To know more about the designers CLICK HERE

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What You Will.....

Imagination is the beginning of creation. 
You imagine what you desire, 
you will what you imagine 
and at last you create 
what you will.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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