Sometimes when I meet a new client, I get a chance to see a new neighborhood.
This last Tuesday morning I drove to the middle of Valley Center, up a slow, gradual hill to the end of a “no-outlet” road. There I found a 1950’s-era home in the middle of a huge rock outcropping. The gently sloping driveway and grounds were interlaced with streams, ponds, and pine forests, with an occasional garden bridge and a few weathered pieces of statuary. At a gentle rise in the center of the rock gardens was the flat-roofed home.
A large deck surrounded most of the house, and I could see that the homeowners had added new floor-to-ceiling windows just about everywhere. When I went inside, the rain that had been threatening all morning started really coming down—and as I looked out of those limitless windows I felt like I had been transported into an Asian reverse-perspective painting of gray clouds, pine trees, and softly beautiful distant mountains.
Weathered Red Kitchen Cabinets
It seemed almost anti-climatic to focus on the kitchen (white, uninspired, a carry-over from the previous homeowner), but once we acknowledged the Asian theme, the kitchen pretty much designed itself:
o weathered red cabinets
o large oriental hardware
o black appliances
o brown/black raku-inspired countertop
o antique chandelier
o shiny black backsplash tile
(I’d like to think that the weathered statuary outside would approve. )
4/22/10 TODAY’S FAVORITE THING:
Stone Forest’s SYNC Drop-in Vessel Sink
This is the new drop-in version of Stone Forest’s Award-winning modular SYNC™ series. It also comes in bamboo.
SPECS: All polished. Onyx. #SYNC-VSL Dimensions 3.75 x 20.5 x 17 in.
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