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Small corner turn into a seating room area . We turn a small nook , opposite , into a seating expanse by tot a cushion and pillows . The window box are constitute with four type of ivy ; the mix of green leaf draws the eye from the DoI to the outside world . We take a soft , neutral paint ( Benjamin Moore Historic Color Monterey White ) , which gear up a pondering mood . A beat - up tree stump fromWest Elmserves as a small board . A elementary drinking glass holds a smattering of hosta farewell and efflorescence . Photo by : Todd Coleman
We turned a small nook , opposite , into a seat surface area by adding a shock and pillows . The windowpane boxes are institute with four types of common ivy ; the mix of unripened leave draws the eye from the interior to the outside reality . We chose a soft , neutral paint ( Benjamin Moore Historic Color Monterey White ) , which sets a contemplative climate .
A musical rhythm - up tree podium fromWest Elmserves as a little tabular array . A simple drinking glass holds a handful of hosta leave of absence and blossom . photograph by : Todd Coleman
When I moved to New York City from Southern California nearly 20 years ago , I pretermit the easy access to nature I ’d always enjoy there . Over metre , though , I became attuned to the ways the natural humans reveals itself even in the heart of the urban center — in its rambling common , its abundant farmers markets , its window boxes erupt with bloom . Still , by the middle of last twelvemonth , my 4th - floor apartment in Williamsburg , Brooklyn , and my daily commute on the subway had commence to finger asphyxiate . It was time for a alteration .
More than anything , the copious sunlight streaming in through the windows first draw my partner , Daniel , and me to the two - bedroom flat we eventually purchased in Manhattan ’s Gramercy Park neighborhood . We loved the architectural details that remain in our newfangled home , which was build in 1901 , but many had been scrubbed clean over time . Most of the apartment ’s original modeling had been removed , so we installed matching segments in place where it was missing . We rule 100 - twelvemonth - old light fixtures appropriate to the era and overall aesthetic . The previous owners had laid down contemporary bleach bamboo floor , which we supersede with white oak rescued from a barn in Virginia .
Choosing container
Garden Design ’s manner director , Lindsey Taylor , assembled a selection of small container she thought might work well in the flat , including : 1.Jamali Garden’scement urn 2.Campania International’setched Alessio planter 3.Anthropologie’sglazed Ivory Epoch pot 4.Flora Grubb’spalm tree diagram - textured Thai planter 5.Pottery Barn’sgalvanized cachepot 6.Terrain’stin container , part of a band of four that nest in a woven tray 7 . Campo de ’ Fiori ’s Dragonscale plantation owner , covered in live moss that preserve to rise over time ( available fromJayson Home ) 8.Accent Decor’sgreen Market pot 9.Flora Grubb’sridged Cypress vase .
Fill any of your new container with a finebegoniabenitochiba , courtesy ofSprout Home . Photo by : Todd Coleman
Then we waited — and expect . The beautiful but largely empty flat that we now called home daunted us . We did n’t cognise what to do next . That ’s when Lindsey Taylor , dash director of Garden Design , introduced me to her friend Shane Powers . “ This is exactly the kind of billet he stand out in , ” she told me . A designer and editor atMartha Stewart Livingwith an abiding respect for the rude world , he ’s worked on interiors for node all over the globe .
For a while the exchanges between Shane and me bordered on the abstract . I cited a particular piece of piano music by Claude Debussy as being what I wanted the apartment to feel like . Shane responded by eastward - mailing image of furniture and decorative constituent he felt expressed the same sense of quiet , solace , and rumination . At ABC Carpet & Home we found a sofa and chair upholstered in unbleached loose - weave linen paper . From Tara Shaw Antiques in New Orleans , we buy an sometime dining table that was refinish with a textured , unhappy - whitewash aerofoil . The convergence of old and Modern feel perfectly in sync .
An old snap of a stretch of New Mexico desert , enlarge and framed , became the focal point of the living elbow room . pic by : Todd Coleman
From the kickoff , Shane know he wanted living works to punctuate the space and echo the leafy treetops visible out of doors . We installed window boxes fill up with different ivy in variegate chromaticity that would keep their foliage class - round . Two urn pullulate snake plants ( Sansevieria trifasciata ) with striking bladelike leave mainstay one end of the living elbow room , and a rotate variety of different plant life and childlike system of cut flowers inhabit various corners and surfaces . We were measured not to exaggerate it : The heading was not to make a garden indoors but to enkindle the feeling of being in a garden .
One especially meaningful element originate out of an early conference with Shane in which we laid out on a table a aggregation of fragments — leave , blossoms , swatch of fabric — that reflect the mode and palette we were going for . One of those refuse was an sometime snapshot I took on the cross - country slip that carried me from California to New York City years ago of a stretch of New Mexico desert . We ended up blowing up that snapshot , frame it , and position it as the focal point of the animation room . The image is nature and the musing of nature at the same time , a sherd of the past and a poignant emblem of a fresh beginning . It is absolutely right in our base .
Our lounge , diametrical , is covered in light - weave linen paper . We opted for windowpane shades made of likewise textured and hued material , a simple pull - down model in a color calledWheat from Janovic . We bought material in New York City ’s fashion territory and ask a seamster to make pillow cover . All told , each pillow cost about $ 35 .
The urn hold the snake plAant is a breeding fromTara Shaw Antiquesin New Orleans . It ’s construcAted of lightweight fiberglass and face weirdly substantial . We set it on a low atomic number 47 - colored tray fromJamali Gardento catch any H2O spills . We chose to hang up only a few pieces of art on the wall , including this antique Korean roll . Photo by : Todd Coleman
Sourcebok : Gallic furniture breeding atABC Home(212 - 473 - 3000;abchome.com ) , demode piece of furniture from Tara Shaw ( 504 - 525 - 1131;tarashaw.com ) and advice on interior décor by Shane Powers ( shanepowersonline.com ) .
Choosing FabricsOne of the most productive moment in the procedure came whenShane Powers , a graphic designer who aid us plan our inside , circularise swatches of material on a board with leaves from our plant and a photograph I accept in New Mexico , which we had blown up and now hangs in our living room ( see premature slide ) . Having these items on the tabular array made it easy to pick out the material we used to cover pillows and cushions . photograph by : Todd Coleman
Fill any of your new container with a finebegoniabenitochiba , courtesy ofSprout Home .
