Full Quality picture 1) The dining room has some Chinese style. The laquer paintings are modern, by an artist in Beijing. Paintings and altar table purchased from Dragonfly in Reston, VA. |
Full Quality picture 2) Deco-styled floral plaques in the hallway from foyer to dining room. |
Full Quality picture 3) The raised ends make this 19th century Chinese piece an "altar table". |
Full Quality picture 4) Last years holiday tree, in the family room. |
Full Quality picture 5) The family room combines Arts & Crafts and Art Deco styling. |
Full Quality picture 6) Lizards have become our totem animal. |
Full Quality picture 7) The foyer floor has an Art Nouveau "ribbon and wing" design, that our interior designer found on a picture of a wardrobe. |
Full Quality picture 8) The Science Fiction has finally left the old 'boards and glass blocks' bookshelves, for these repurposed CD storage shelves, which are shallow enough to fit neatly in this space at the back of the library. |
Full Quality picture 9) In the library, note the cool Art Deco light fixture, and the Frank Smith piece "Fully Integrated Synthetic Haddock". |
Full Quality picture 10) Three of these smaller mates to the Library light fixture now grace the basement stairs. |
Full Quality picture 11) This Art Deco fixture now lights the elevator. |
Full Quality picture 12) The most recently arrived furnishings are this pair of lamps in the family room, with lizards climbing them. |
Full Quality picture 13) The blue tone of this Art Deco fixture complements the wall color in Rosie's office nicely. |
Full Quality picture 14) Will bought these cool light shades in Venice, and our interior designer conceived the mirror in back to feature them. |
Full Quality picture 15) We stumbled on this Art Deco style wooden screen in an antique shop in Arlington. In front is the "comfy chair", and in back is the elevator door. |
Full Quality picture 16) The living room has the most Art Deco look. Will's parents acquired the Persian rug and Arab coffee pot while living in Dhahran back in the 1950s. |
Full Quality picture 17) The Frank Smith metal critter on the mantle goes nicely below Suat Garton's "September Tree". |
Full Quality picture 18) We finally landscaped the front, and replaced the original really bad concrete driveway with one textured and colored to look like slate. |
Full Quality picture 19) In mid-December, we had the chaotic mass of shrubbery and weeds on the downhill side torn out, improving the view of the neighbors nice new house. In the spring we'll address the empty space that left. |
Full Quality picture 20) We put some hollys and "Green Giant" arborvitaes in between the houses, and our neighbor replaced the mess further back with those smaller shrubs. |
Full Quality picture 21) We added a few plantings on the uphill side. |
Full Quality picture 22) Even the rec room is improving, with the ex-family room furniture and some Frank Smith art on the wells. Now for some curtains there... |
Full Quality picture 23) A matched pair of Persian carpets from Will's parents. |
Full Quality picture 24) They hang upstairs on both sides of the main staircase. |
Full Quality picture 25) I'm trying hard here to find an angle that shows them both well. |
Full Quality picture 26) This lace was made by one of the handfull of elderly women still making lace on the island of Burano near Venice. |
Full Quality picture 27) The vase was a Christmas present to us a few years ago. Its exact color match with the fabric on the more recent chairs is happy coincidence. |
Full Quality picture 28) The breakfast table is all copper (except for the anti-tarnish coating). The shape is 2 intersecting cones, the base a narrow one and the top a wide one. |
Full Quality picture 29) We found these mirrors with inlaid peacocks at the Art Deco Society of Washington's annual show and sale in June of 2004. |
Full Quality picture 30) The cool floor tile in this upstairs bathroom is called River Rocks, by imagine tile. Note the real rocks in the corner. |
Full Quality picture 31) This Crestron gear delivers streaming MP3s and radio (XM, FM, AM, and Internet) to the built-in speakers in 8 rooms. |
Full Quality picture 32) The white boxes in the forground are an HAI OmniPro security system. Almond boxes further back are the LiteTouch lighting control system. In between them are a LAN hub, telephone patch panel, and video distribution (that's largely unterminated, as we're not TV people - no cable or satellite, only broadcast). On the left is my 19 inch rack (Any real geek has one - as a good geek, I got it for free, but as a bad geek, I haven't put anything in it yet. The Crestron system would work well in there, but it would cost $1000+ to buy all the Crestron rack mount ears needed, which is silly.) |
