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Klassen opted to paint the whole room white, including the paneling and trim. The window frames were painted black to add contrast and make them look like black metal. The furniture also changed dramatically. Jenkins had shown Klassen an image of a hanging daybed, and Klassen knew immediately that they could do something similar with the help of local builder and contractor Tim Sprang. Klassen showed him the image and he got to creating. The room’s layout puts the daybed in a spot that gets lots of sunlight. “I wanted her to lay right in the sunlight like it is outside,” Klassen says. The bed is attached to both the ceiling and floor so it doesn’t swing, since the room didn’t have space for that. Sprang used long bolts to ensure that everything was safely secured in the ceiling joists. He also found rope that could support the weight. They used black hooks on the ceiling to echo the window frames, the chair in the corner and the curtain rods. Bed cushion: Urban Outfitters; throw: Target; rugs: Rugs USA; macrame plant hangers and gold hanging pots: Urban Outfitters; side table: Target; plants: Family Tree Nursery; curtains: Ikea; curtain hardware: Bed Bath & Beyond; chandelier...
Fill the vase halfway with fresh water. Wrap the first willow branch around your hand as many times as possible to form a circular band. Tip: Avoid traditional green floral foam, which is toxic when inhaled and not biodegradable and therefore also harmful to the environment. “Instead, use bendable branches like curly willow to create a structure for holding your flowers in place,” Del Pero says.
A few other guidelines: Larger volumes are always better than smaller ones. Avoid completely regularized forms. Perfect cubes and long, narrow spaces with parallel walls are poor acoustical performers. Irregular shapes and surfaces (walls, floors, ceilings, bookcases) as well as convex forms allow sound to be diffused in a space, which is desirable. Avoid concave surfaces, which tend to focus sound. Avoid room dimensions that are direct multiples of one another (1:2:3) — for example, a 16-foot by 24-foot room with 8-foot ceilings — because they will amplify resonating frequencies, making for an acoustically muddy and noisy space.
Omlet SaveEmail ‘Beware of the Chickens’ Plaque - $10.40 This probably won’t make any potential intruders run for the hills. But then you never know — chicken poop all over the yard is pretty terrifying!
Williams-Sonoma SaveEmail Egg Gifts Crates, Set of 6 - $12.95 Package fresh eggs to give to your friends in these cartons with personalized labels. There’s room to record all of the specifics: your name, the breed of the hen etc.
Etsy SaveEmail Gathering Apron Sewing Pattern by Sew Liberated - $11.95 Feeling crafty? Stitch yourself one of these gathering aprons and cover up your outfit for chicken chore time in style. It has a large front pocket designed for gathering eggs.
Omlet SaveEmail Egg Skelter - $36.99 When you are collecting eggs from the backyard every day, they begin to stack up. And it quickly becomes hard to remember which ones were collected first. Use this genius egg holder, and you’ll always know which egg to eat next.
Display your T.P. artfully. Wow, this is the best solution to the “Where do I put the year’s supply of toilet paper I just bought at Costco?” problem I’ve ever seen! While I find it a little silly when people have a T.P. pyramid on the back of the commode, more designers and photo stylists have been taking advantage of the round roll shape and using it in bathroom designs. Now if everyone could just agree on which way to hang it, we’d have all the T.P. issues solved.
To save on space, pay attention to where you locate the bathroom and closet in your bedroom. Rooms that have bathroom or closet access before the sleeping area require a longer hall (see the left-hand plan). If you organize the circulation so the bathroom and closet are accessed through the sleeping area (right-hand plan), you don't need a separate hall, and you can add the circulation space into the room to make it feel larger, too.
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Hemingway mentioned the Monteleone's famous Carousel Bar and Lounge, which rotates slowly around the bar staff in the center, in his short story The Night Before Battle. A pianist and trumpeter provide live jazz nightly from behind the bar. Tip: Ask for a Sazerac, a whiskey cocktail that originated in the French Quarter at the Sazerac House.
Must-Stays Hotel Monteleone Location: 214 Royal St. Cost: From $169 a night Noteworthy: The hotel offers Author Suites, dedicated to famous American writers from the South who have either stayed at the hotel, written about the hotel or both. Ernest Hemingway stayed at the Hotel Monteleone, as did other notable celebrities who now have suites named after them, including Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty and William Faulkner. The hotel is in the heart of the French Quarter, so it's ideal as a base from which to explore the city. The building was originally constructed in 1886 in Beaux-Arts style; it has undergone many expansions since then, the most recent of which was in 1964. Climb to the top for a rooftop pool and bar, as well as some fantastic views of the French Quarter and the city.
You could spend all day roaming the French Quarter's antiques shops — especially if you're a fan of antiques from the Louis XIV era. And you're likely to get famished, so grab a fried shrimp po' boy at Central Grocery or some jambalaya or etouffee at Coop's Place on Decatur.
Royal Street: A center for art and historical French Quarter culture one block parallel to Bourbon Street Location: French Quarter Noteworthy: The street is full of galleries, antiques shops and Spanish architecture Throughout the French Quarter, historic gallery houses like the one shown here, with Spanish wrought iron accents, date back to shortly after the 1788 fire. Since the Spanish were ruling at the time, these structures made of adobe brick and with flat roofs replaced the common pitched roofs and wooden structures of the French style.
Jackson Square Location: Along the Mississippi River on Decatur Street Noteworthy: Across the street, the historic Cafe Du Monde is open 24 hours and sells powdered beignets, a deep-fried pastry that's ubiquitous in New Orleans. Over the centuries this historic central square in the French Quarter neighborhood once held public executions of criminals; it now hosts regular art sales and live music events. The Saint Louis Cathedral across from Jackson Square is worth a visit. The design of Jackson Square mimics the Parisian Place de Vosges. A mule-drawn carriage, like the one seen here, can take you on a guided tour of the area. The carriages line up along the Decatur Street side. Or pop into the French Quarter Visitor Center and join a ranger-lead tour along the riverfront beginning at 9:30 a.m.
MoMA PS1: A contemporary arts institution housed in an old public school Cost: $10; free with MoMA ticket Location: 22-25 Jackson Ave. (at 46th Avenue), Long Island City, Queens Noteworthy: Each summer the courtyard is taken over by an installation that is a backdrop for weekend "warm ups." Everybody visiting NYC knows about MoMA, but its younger sister institution is also worth seeing. MoMA PS1 takes its name from the building (Public School 1) in which it's housed, but in the summer the focus is on the triangular courtyard. Here is where the winner of the annual Young Architects Program constructs a pavilion that shades, cools and serves as a backdrop for warm-weather parties with lots of music and dancing. Pictured is the 2012 installation, "Wendy," by HWKN; the blue explosion housed fans and sprayed mist over revelers, but it was also treated with a nanoparticle spray that actually cleaned the air.
Grand Central Terminal: The grandest of New York City's train stations Cost: Free Location: 42nd Street and Park Avenue, Midtown Noteworthy: Grand Central Terminal is celebrating its 100th birthday in 2013, with events throughout the year. Grand Central Terminal may be one of New York City's icons — like the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and even Central Park — that visitors don't need to be told about, but it's worth highlighting for its amazing architecture, grand spaces and hidden gems. And a restoration in the 1990s means that the building celebrates its centennial without looking a day over 10! The design of Reed and Stern with Warren and Wetmore elevates and reroutes Park Avenue around the building to, among other things, create the grand main hall (seen here looking toward its newest tenant, the Apple Store). A subtle indication of the before condition can be found by looking to the northwest corner of the ceiling, where a small dirty patch can be seen, exhibiting the decades of cigarette smoke that lined the surfaces. Hidden gems include the whispering gallery outside the Oyster Bar and the Campbell Apartment (a bar), accessed via an elevator off one of...
Central Park: The 1.3-square-mile green heart of Manhattan Cost: Free, although places like the zoo charge admission Location: From 59th Street to 110th Street, between Fifth and Eighth avenues Noteworthy: The Mall, Bethesda Fountain, Central Park Zoo, the Great Lawn, Strawberry Fields, the Ramble, the Conservatory Garden ... too many great places to list
This vintage case is cleanly mounted atop a metal stand, which turns it into a one-of-a-kind nightstand. Its deep red color picks up on the bedding, and details like the chain handle and lock hardware add character.
Scavenged wood. Conte & Conte used fallen branches from the wooded area around the property to create this rustic chicken coop in Connecticut.
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