When architect Michael Imber started conjuring ideas for a house meant to inspire, he didn't stray to exotic lands or fanciful sources for inspiration. Rather, he turned to the laundry room.
"How do you take something everyday and utilitarian and make it romantic as hell?" he asked himself as he began sketching concepts for the 2011 Southern Living Idea House in Horseshoe Bay, Texas. Then,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling Ceramic tile , with the goal of creating a true Southern house imbued with European charm, his mind drifted to the garden.
Thus was born the flower room, a space that's part utility room and part potting shed. It's an airy space that welcomes those passing through from the garage and entering from the small garden off the parking court. Here,100 oil paintings for sale was used to link the lamps together. you can park your boots, hang your sun hat, wash a load of towels and be reminded that this is not a serious, stuffy house.
Imber looked for elements of folly, the things that give a farmhouse personality. One example is the ogee arch on the door leading from the flower room to the kitchen, a treatment echoed in the master bath around the marble-tiled shower.
Rustic paneling on the walls and reclaimed barn timber on the ceiling of the flower room are washed in powder blue paint, giving a dash of unexpected color and making the room feel both warm and cool. On the floor, large blocks of smooth Lueders limestone impart the timelessness of a European farmhouse.
The romance and enduring appeal of the European aesthetic has made the look almost cliche in the U.S., Imber says. "We now get Americana construction wrapped in European packaging." But this house is no stucco box capped with a tile roof and wearing a Tuscan or Mediterranean label.
Influences of southern Europe are abundant. Barrel tiles on the roof, imported from Italy, "will be here 200 years from now," says builder David Mitchell, owner of Casa Highland Construction of Horseshoe Bay.
The study has a distinctly Old World feel with low ceilings of reclaimed timber, one wall of bookshelves and a wall of stone. So does the powder room, with stenciling on the coffered ceiling echoing the subtle blue and green leaded glass in the entry hall window.
Stone arches inside and out,Replacement rubber hose and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. many of them masterpieces of masonry, could have been crafted centuries ago. The sandstone and limestone,If any food Piles condition is poorer than those standards, all 600 tons of it, also tell a Southern story.
It's important for a house to have a strong sense of place,By Alex Lippa Close-up of Air purifier in Massachusetts. Imber says. "It's a very careful understanding of how we live and of the materials of where we live."
Seeking to appeal to a wide swath of the South, not just Texas, Imber chose to build exterior and interior walls of sienna sandstone, a material common in the Texas Hill Country but one also familiar in Tennessee, Georgia and Arkansas.
For a Southern twist on the Old World house that rambles along 150 feet of water on Lake LBJ, he added shutters in a provencal blue, to "evoke the romance of Provence," and he made connected the indoors and outdoors, even in unlikely places. The freestanding tub in the master bathroom stands in front of a wide arched window that reaches from the marble floor to the ceiling. A simple basin-like fountain provides a focal point, while the shoulder-height stucco wall it sits against provides privacy.
"To me, the perfect Southern house is one that flows from indoor to outdoor rooms," Imber says. The connection is strong in the master bedroom, where a private patio looks out on the lake and a small sandy beach.
It's also strong in the family room, where electric sliding doors open onto the large courtyard to create one large living space.
"How do you take something everyday and utilitarian and make it romantic as hell?" he asked himself as he began sketching concepts for the 2011 Southern Living Idea House in Horseshoe Bay, Texas. Then,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling Ceramic tile , with the goal of creating a true Southern house imbued with European charm, his mind drifted to the garden.
Thus was born the flower room, a space that's part utility room and part potting shed. It's an airy space that welcomes those passing through from the garage and entering from the small garden off the parking court. Here,100 oil paintings for sale was used to link the lamps together. you can park your boots, hang your sun hat, wash a load of towels and be reminded that this is not a serious, stuffy house.
Imber looked for elements of folly, the things that give a farmhouse personality. One example is the ogee arch on the door leading from the flower room to the kitchen, a treatment echoed in the master bath around the marble-tiled shower.
Rustic paneling on the walls and reclaimed barn timber on the ceiling of the flower room are washed in powder blue paint, giving a dash of unexpected color and making the room feel both warm and cool. On the floor, large blocks of smooth Lueders limestone impart the timelessness of a European farmhouse.
The romance and enduring appeal of the European aesthetic has made the look almost cliche in the U.S., Imber says. "We now get Americana construction wrapped in European packaging." But this house is no stucco box capped with a tile roof and wearing a Tuscan or Mediterranean label.
Influences of southern Europe are abundant. Barrel tiles on the roof, imported from Italy, "will be here 200 years from now," says builder David Mitchell, owner of Casa Highland Construction of Horseshoe Bay.
The study has a distinctly Old World feel with low ceilings of reclaimed timber, one wall of bookshelves and a wall of stone. So does the powder room, with stenciling on the coffered ceiling echoing the subtle blue and green leaded glass in the entry hall window.
Stone arches inside and out,Replacement rubber hose and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. many of them masterpieces of masonry, could have been crafted centuries ago. The sandstone and limestone,If any food Piles condition is poorer than those standards, all 600 tons of it, also tell a Southern story.
It's important for a house to have a strong sense of place,By Alex Lippa Close-up of Air purifier in Massachusetts. Imber says. "It's a very careful understanding of how we live and of the materials of where we live."
Seeking to appeal to a wide swath of the South, not just Texas, Imber chose to build exterior and interior walls of sienna sandstone, a material common in the Texas Hill Country but one also familiar in Tennessee, Georgia and Arkansas.
For a Southern twist on the Old World house that rambles along 150 feet of water on Lake LBJ, he added shutters in a provencal blue, to "evoke the romance of Provence," and he made connected the indoors and outdoors, even in unlikely places. The freestanding tub in the master bathroom stands in front of a wide arched window that reaches from the marble floor to the ceiling. A simple basin-like fountain provides a focal point, while the shoulder-height stucco wall it sits against provides privacy.
"To me, the perfect Southern house is one that flows from indoor to outdoor rooms," Imber says. The connection is strong in the master bedroom, where a private patio looks out on the lake and a small sandy beach.
It's also strong in the family room, where electric sliding doors open onto the large courtyard to create one large living space.
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