Berried branches

Nov12

Berried branches are integral part of the autumn-winter decoration. Bright colors of crops look very good among dark green foliage and brown branches. Let’s get familiar with the most common ones.
Holly berry (Ilex aquifolium): evergreen shrub. Leaves are shiny, dark green, wavy edged and spiky. Berries are bold red, which are poisonous for humans.
Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus): deciduous bush. Leaves are oval, in different sizes. Its crops are in clusters. There are two seeds in every soft, white berry.
Privet (Ligustrum vulgare): this shrub decorates with its leaves. Longish leaves fall only in the middle of winter. Crops are shiny bluish black, they grow in clusters.
Mistletoe (Viscum album): half parasite evergreen living on trees. Leaves are greenish yellow, oval. White crops are fake-berries which are softly opaque and sticky.
Scarlet firethorn (Pyracantha coccinea): spiny evergreen shrub. Leaves are shiny, lanced, edges are intact. Crops are red (there are variations with orange and yellow berries) and grow in big bunches.
We can use several other berried brunches for decorating (Bodinier’s beautyberry, yew, rose-hips etc.). These get dry soon thanks to the warm air of rooms but still keep their color.
Ask for help of an interior designer for the season decoration of your home.

Big hall

Nov9

Furnish a big hall can be a problem too. The space can be beautifully filled with a center table and a decorative chandelier.

Magnolia

Nov7

Magnolia color became popular as a wall paint. Named after the flower – it is a light cream color with a tint of rose shade. UK standard RGB 244 233 216

Silhouettes

Nov5

Silhouette was a popular piece of fine arts in the 18-19th century. It is a silhouette on a light – usually white – base, cut out of black cardboard or painted with black paint. Most often it is a human profile portrait (vignette) but the theme can be also a genre or animals.
This was the cheaper and faster version of portrait miniatures. The most talented artists made a silhouette by freehand in a few minutes, just looking the model sitting in front of them. The inner part of the silhouette is simply black without details, neither the eyes nor other characteristics were illustrated. Their sizes were between 7 and 13 cm. Making it was a kind of show at fairs and even the poorer could afford paying for one thanks to the cheap material. The artists not necessarily had to have a wealthy patron for their job.
Making silhouettes was a popular pastime among nobles also. The easier way was to hang a tensed paper on a mount between the model and the drawer, while the model was lighted by a candle from behind. The shadow on the paper was drawn around and that was used as a stencil for cutting the final one of black cardboard. The painted version was usually also pre-drawn and filled later with black ink.
The silhouettes were framed and put on the wall. Later variations appeared on glass, gypsum and ivory.
They can be easily fitted into fashionable, minimal color palettes thanks to their black-and-white basic colors. Ask for help of an interior designer placing your collection in a proper way.

Edible decoration 1.

Oct31

Edible decorations for Halloween

Roof shapes

Oct29

There are a lot of things that should be decided during the building of a family home, already when the style of the home is discussed with the architect. One of them is the structure of the roof, which has to fit to the style of the future building. We can choose among several types, so it’s worth to know the certain names and features of them.
Gable: two similar sloped and joint rooftops plus two gables (firewalls) giving a right-angle rectangular based roof
Hip: it has four similar sloped and joint rooftops plus a ridge
Mansard (French roof): a gable or hip roof with the pitch divided into a shallow slope above a steeper slope. The steep slope may be curved.
Tented: a type of rectangular hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak
Conical: polygon or circle based, sloped or split tented-like roof
There are several other types of roof beside these, but the mentioned above are surely fit for classic style buildings.
It’s worth to involve an interior designer already at the beginning for cooperating with the architect to create the best home for the customer.