Monday, July 4, 2011

The Man Cave - Deconstructed

Three men and a house - modern. An interior designer decorated this house. Well, my brother's partner is a graphic arts designer and he and my brother own the interior so... I think that qualifies it. The third man? My Grandpa lives here too and I have have the privilege of hanging out with him for two weeks!

While mostly modern, the house has warm parquet flooring and traditional little touches like pottery pieces and an upholstered chair in a corner with a print of bright blue skies, flowers, leaves, two billy goats and even a mountain! And the artwork is an eclectic mix of pieces like the mirror pictured above, but also watercolors depicting Paris scenes and more traditional oils that all fit together seamlessly and timelessly. The house faces east so the rising and setting sun pours in through white horizontal blinds, creating sensational patterns everywhere.

Living in someone else's home for a piece is almost always sweet fun, but this time it's even better because when our time is up we get to return to the place we call home - the place where we can wake up in the middle of the night and find the bathroom without a second thought.

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