Memorable spaces that tickle your fancy?
August 28, 2007 6:17 PM Subscribe
Which everyday interior spaces tickle your fancy or energize you? Why? Photos, please!
Which are the rooms, corners and crannies that you can't stop thinking about? What is that special je ne sais quoi? The architecture? The decoration? The lighting? Show me!
Think your buddy's living room, not King Louis XIV's throne room. Church library, not cathedral nave. Reading nook, not public library reading room.
In other words, non-monumental spaces that you think are downright nifty.
Which are the rooms, corners and crannies that you can't stop thinking about? What is that special je ne sais quoi? The architecture? The decoration? The lighting? Show me!
Think your buddy's living room, not King Louis XIV's throne room. Church library, not cathedral nave. Reading nook, not public library reading room.
In other words, non-monumental spaces that you think are downright nifty.
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All the examples that are springing to my mind are rooms with epic windows, so that you can almost be outdoors, without all that weather stuff. Glasgow University library has a great set of windows that span two floors, and studying underneath them is brilliant. I'm also a complete sucker for interior Zen gardens behind glass, in an atrium style.
My favourite interior by far had to be our old offices, which were home to newspapers since the 1920s. Layers of building evolution heaped office upon office, and where the presses had first stood was an empty, cavernous space with dusty old bound copies of newspapers from the 1940s.
That was an excellent space to pass the time in, but it paled when through a door at the back I found abandoned offices, complete with desks and 1960s office equipment. God, I'd love to still be able to go down there to read in peace. But it's flats now.
posted by bonaldi at 7:26 PM on August 28, 2007
My favourite interior by far had to be our old offices, which were home to newspapers since the 1920s. Layers of building evolution heaped office upon office, and where the presses had first stood was an empty, cavernous space with dusty old bound copies of newspapers from the 1940s.
That was an excellent space to pass the time in, but it paled when through a door at the back I found abandoned offices, complete with desks and 1960s office equipment. God, I'd love to still be able to go down there to read in peace. But it's flats now.
posted by bonaldi at 7:26 PM on August 28, 2007
I love this view of my dining room, and I'm not sure why. The lighting is outdated, my dining room table is plain, and those flowers are fake. But every time I stand in the kitchen and look in that direction.. I get giddy.
posted by czechmate at 7:29 PM on August 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by czechmate at 7:29 PM on August 28, 2007 [1 favorite]
We just redid our bedroom. The dog had peed on the carpet and it smelled so I tore it out. I painted the ceiling and walss, and I covered the concrete floor with snap-together engineering hardwood flooring. I don't have any good pics of the finished room, but here are some before and after shots while I was working.
I walk into the room and routinely think, "Wow, this is so cool!"
View 1: Before and After
View 2: Before and After
View 3: Before and After
View 4: Before and After
posted by Doohickie at 8:18 PM on August 28, 2007
I walk into the room and routinely think, "Wow, this is so cool!"
View 1: Before and After
View 2: Before and After
View 3: Before and After
View 4: Before and After
posted by Doohickie at 8:18 PM on August 28, 2007
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My living room. My mantlepiece. My coffee table.
posted by hermitosis at 6:40 PM on August 28, 2007