Showing posts with label Front Porch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Front Porch. Show all posts

Friday, June 14, 2013

Trumeau on the Porch

Century old teller window, below.  Susanne Hudson saw it differently & made a trumeau.  Placed upside down, mirror installed,  a few inches cut off for scale & equally historic molding applied.


Kimberly Queen fern, below, tolerates blasting sun.  Vintage white baskets, below, $4 total, thrift store.


Faux bois table in the back corner?  Found in junk shop under $10 and it's made of resin.  Sprayed, who knows?
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Garden & Be Well,     XO Tara
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Pics taken earlier this month at my garden, created with Susanne Hudson, at the Penny McHenry Hydrangea Festival.
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Apologies for  vulgarities about filthy lucre, it's in defense of my profession.  How many more times must I hear, "I can't afford a garden."  Stool, old windows, door etc....were rescued, aka free.
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By good accident Susanne's reflection is in the mirror.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

How to Use Heads in Design

Got heads?



They're for


exterior, and


interior.
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Have you noticed a formula for your favorite interiors & exteriors?  Not into formulas?  No worries, formulas are nothing more than Shopping Lists!  Now, I have your attention.
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I've always been drawn to interiors with heads & ......
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In my garden is a decades old collection of broken heads.  Most were a $1.
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Top pic from same home/garden as previous post.  Bottom pics Nicky Haslam, via Cote de Texas article.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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More than heads, bodies too.  And urns with plinths.

Friday, May 10, 2013

Front Porch: Chain Rail

Lunch, below, this week.  Every home seen from the chair I sat in was a century old and white clapboard.  


Front porch columns each have iron rings, below, for chains lost to history, I've already designed their replacement.


With their 'swag' to mach the arch, below.


Will copy a pair of the columns, deeper into the garden, as entry to a garden room with enfilade from the front sidewalk.
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Repetition.
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Notice the power lines, bottom pics?  The bane of my existence for a mature camellia I wish to keep and limb-up into a tree.  They will contact the power company to see what can be done.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Pics same garden as yesterday's post.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

A Lawn Rule: Before & After


Came for the art show, a first visit, earlier this month.  He, we hadn't met before, asked a few garden questions.  Within moments, "Your lawn is in charge & you must be in charge of your lawn", I said.


I described a typical Victorian shape, for their Victorian home, rectangular with the corners worn away leaving an oval of turf.  Corners filled in with stone.


Earlier this week he sends me these pics, above/below.


I know, without asking, more pics will arrive.
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Loving what he's done and can't wait for the 'corners' to be filled.
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And I'm sure he remembers my comment about a focal point on axis with the front window, at right, above.
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Garden & Be Well,  XO Tara
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Top pic mine.  Is your lawn in charge?  

Saturday, March 16, 2013

On the Porch

Unused on an upstairs porch at the master bedroom, below, she brought the sofa downstairs near the kitchen and potager.  Much better, it's been used for a few naps.





My trugs are plastic, functional.  Hers look so good.


My favorite garden boots.  Ankle support, no dirt gets in, the boot works the shovel, not my foot.  Plastic clogs are great for most days but when it's digging & function it's my almost 30 year old Danners.
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Pics taken this month.  Same garden as several previous posts.  Graham Stuart Thomas is excellent on the garden boot.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Front Porch Views

Common once-upon-a-time the cabin.


Built on acreage outside Athens, GA this 1 room cabin was 'home' for many years as monies were saved to build the main house.


Keeping some views pristine from the cabin's front porch honors its past.


 View, above, sitting in the rocking chair, below.  Daffodils were planted last year to look 'as if' they had always been there.  Georgia red clay, above, isn't a problem it's Providence.


Keeping the original pilings, above, was paramount.


Not far away is the home, already a century old, the family in the cabin dreamed, worked & saved to build.
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This story was common, once-upon-a-time in USA.  Hard work, saving, doing without, no security net, fortitude.  Plan B when Plan A fizzled?  Hard work, saving, doing without, no security net, fortitude.
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And the man who built the cabin?  I would be proud to walk 'his' grounds and show him my work as he told me stories of its past.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Pics taken last week, same jobsite as previous several posts.  This project is using everything I've learned in 3 decades, and teaching new lessons.  Adoring the drama of directing the eye, foot, tire, spirit.