即使在最好的房子,生活对于大多数人来说是一系列”之前,“模糊趋向于完美的隐含的“后”。There's always the rug that doesn't work, the telephone wire that should not be visible, the wing chair in need of reupholstering. And much as we cringe at our own past lapses in design, "before" can also be lovely: Those chaotic years when we are rearing children, building companies and never quite getting the house together often turn out to be among the best times of our lives.
但是“之后”是好的。并试图恢复传统元素与前一个设计师,但结果刚刚离开他们沮丧。“每个人都曾在这所房子,”观察桑德拉Nunnerley,出生于新西兰的室内设计师这对夫妇向谁寻求帮助。“但是没有人把它整个的感觉。所有的可怜的骨头陷入混乱。”
Nunnerley不禁注意到多大的房子的主层功能。“当我到达时,家庭住在厨房里,”她回忆道。客厅”都是切碎,充满了笨重的东西,和小地毯,“所有早期设计的结果。“只是没有办法坐。这房子是从未使用过的一部分。我告诉业主,通过设计,我们要让他们使用整个房子。”
然后她转移到主卧室,打开先前的主人与他们的两个孩子将成为青少年,房子的主人在格林威治,康涅狄格,决定他们的时刻已经到来。“是时候真正使它成为一个我们喜欢的房子,”妻子说,“而不只是一个地方公园自己。”From the outside, the Normandy-style structure of gracefully half-tried timbered brick already looked perfect. It was solid and substantial, handsomely situated on three hilltop acres, and secluded within its own wooded border. The first time the wife walked out the French doors onto the rear terrace, she looked around and thought, This is a place where my children could get married.
在里面,另一方面,这是一个烂摊子。一代又一代的业主和设计师剥夺了旧模型和取代的现代主义,地中海,高科技。业主自己到三楼。有一个夹层阁楼两堵墙,效果是有点像在卧室里醒来的通风道曼哈顿的公寓房子,把邻居的太平梯对面。“这是非常开放的,”妻子回忆说。“这没有任何亲密。”
与她合作架构助理托马斯同性恋,设计师把天花板回去并且给它起了一个浅墓穴,幻觉的身高和圆形的外壳。手绘墙纸,定制的房间的尺寸在中国比赛,创造了一个“围墙花园”的感觉,和新橱柜隐藏杂乱的书籍、电视和音响系统。说,“我们都喜欢好音乐的丈夫。“但可见的是树林里。”
