Indulge your Bridgerton fantasies at Boconnoc’s Georgian Lostwithiel Manor in Cornwall where Charles I hid during the Civil War.
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Are dreams of entertaining in festively adorned rooms filled with holiday guests, colliding with the reality of your home’s drab, outdated design? Don’t let lack of funds or lengthy remodeling timelines hinder your hosting desires. Just cover most of your surfaces with Cover Styl’.
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The company’s covering solutions can be applied to private, as well as commercial projects, and feature a 10-year guarantee against delamination, cracking and yellowing.
Cover Styl’s adhesive coverings are available in more than 470 different styles, so there is myriad of options to complement anyone’s interior tastes. Compared to conventional renovations, remodeling the look of a room in your home with Cover Styl’ solutions are 50 percent to 70 percent less.
Kohler Living – Celebrating Bold Minds & Inspiring Designs
A live-streamed event with insightful conversations and a range of new products, Kohler Living is your guide to the ideas and innovations that will redefine the way we live and work.
Live on November 4 & 5, and streaming on-demand after.
Register now!
STARTS ON NOV 04, 2021 AT 9:00 AM PST
Contemplation: Honshu Island
Pierre Frey captures our imagination with its mix of contemporary design and a nod to Honshu Island’s Japanese emperors, ancient temples and wooded vistas.
The particulars: printed in wide width on a fire-retardant non-woven backing.
Photo: Pierre Frey Paris
You don’t say….
“Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style.” – Billy Baldwin.
The late interior designer, Billy Baldwin.
If you could, wood you?
Style wise, wooden bathtubs follow in the Ofuro tradition or European style. Image via Creative Residence.
What could be more Zen than retreating from the clamor of the concrete jungle by disengaging in a warm soothing bathtub made of wood?
Waterproof, durable, custom and handmade, wooden tubs use self-standing fixtures that rise from the floor or wall-mounted faucets to source water.
This is from Alegna’s Laguna series. Photos via TwistedSwifter.com
Swiss company Alegna is celebrated for its wooden bathtubs for the bath or yacht.
Close-up view of the Laguna bathtub.
Imagine the simple beauty of a serene soak in a deep wood bathtub made from teak, with its neutral aroma, lemon-scented Hinoki wood or Western red cedar, with its sweet cedar fragrance. Welcome the practical allure of a deep vessel that keeps water hotter, longer than a conventional bathtub made of unnatural materials.
Custom-made wooden tubs can be made from a variety of natural and imported hardwoods. Image via Architectural Digest of a MAXX design.
From a style perspective, wooden tubs typically are featured in the Japanese Ofuro tradition, characterized by clean, straight lines or European style tubs for one to two people.
Wooden tubs, which are generally customized, are best made from native or imported hardwoods such as African or Honduran mahogany; white ash; maple; walnut; black walnut; or black cherry. Select a combination of woods for a visually stunning impact.
Hue-mor
“I never met a color I didn’t like.”
– Dale Chihuly
Sister Parish
Interior decorator and socialite, Dorothy May Kinnicutt, a.k.a. “Sister Parish,” was no nun. Her design of the Yellow Oval Room at the White House, was created during the presidential administration of JFK.
Tis’ the season: Old school goes new school
Real Simple offers an exciting new take on an old holiday staple: the evergreen wreath.
Get fruity. Tired of conventional evergreen? Try an aromatic blend of fruits for your holiday wreath. Image via Real Simple.
Instead of using evergreen, make your own custom wreath using citrus fruits, circular florist’s foam and wooden florist picks. Begin by attaching the larger-sized fruits like oranges. Next follow with more demi-sized fruits such as limes and clementines.
To finish the look of your wreath, use thick, velvet ribbon to attach it to a door, fireplace mantle or window.
Welcoming home whimsy for the holidays
‘Happenstance’ is how Architectural Digest’s special projects editor and noted style maker, Carolyn Roehm, describes her design aesthetic when it comes to breathing life into her holiday table concepts. But ‘majestic’ and ‘whimsical’ are the bon mots that pop into the minds of most people when the eye feasts on her color-inspired sparkle for holiday entertaining.
There’s no question that November triggers the time of year when you can and should purposefully elevate the look of your holiday home. Now, you too can follow Roehm’s journey from design concept, which incorporates such treasures as jewel-toned lighting, candles, crystals and mirrors, to its fittingly spectacular end result: a polished and finished look that will reimagine your holiday entertaining into more spirited and glittery ways.
Roehm intertwines, romance, adventure and glamour into her holiday design concept. Images by Carolyn Roehm, via Architectural Digest.
Slocum & Howell 