Beach Glow

This article in Veranda magazine really caught my eye.  I love the soft blues and greens of the interiors by Susan Ferrier against the austere, almost graphic background of the architecture by Mcalpine and Tankersley. It's like a beautiful soft peice of sea glass set against the back drop of a sandy beach.

You can just barely make out the Buccellati silver seashell on the books of the coffe table.  Definitely one of my favorite accessories.

I love how this painting by Michael Marlowe echoes the various shades of the fabrics.  I wonder which came first, the painting or the fabrics.

I love the use of long, full wall sheers in a beach house.

I love the playful use of glass tile and the arched ceiling in this kitchen. It's casual yet spunky, and not at all boring.

 All photos by Tria Giovan for Veranda Magazine

Go Green

My latest issue of at home magazine  arrived at exactly the right time. I was just starting to get anxious to start working outside in my garden. We have finally had a few warm days here in Connecticut, but everything is still brown. These inspiring verdant gardens were exactly what I wanted to see. If only my garden looked as fabulous as these do.

All photos by Stacy Bass for at home

Cinderella Story

 After...

Much of what we do as architects

involves transforming sow's ears into silk purses.  We always try to make these transformations in the most cost effective way.  This is the first of what I hope will be a regular monthly feature of my blog.

Before ...

photos by Huestis Tucker Architects

This is what the house looked like just a few short months before.  Yikes, huh? This project was almost entirely a face lift.  We removed the front porch, installed new windows and lots of nice trim.  Now the house looks as though it might have always been in this lovely New England town.

Sable Island

I was totally taken with this image on the cover of “The Modern Estate” magazine in the winter of 08. I was completely captivated by the dramatic effect of this enormous photo as the focal point of a NYC apartment.

Every body knows about the wild horses of Chincoteague thanks to the children’s book “Misty of Chincoteague”, but until I saw this article, I had never heard of the wild horses of Sable Island. Robert Dutesco’s hauntingly beautiful photographs of the wild horses made me want to know more about the horses and about the island itself.

The background and history of the island as described by Richard Friswell in the article is fascinating. Sable Island is a crescent shaped spit of sand 125 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia. It is essentially uninhabited except for the 300 to 400 wild horses. Access to the island is restricted and very limited. It must be a sublime place to visit, so remote, and wild and beautiful. Sable Island is definitely going on my bucket list.

The wildness of horses mirrors that of the wild and stormy landscape.

photos by Robert Dutesco

These are satelite views of the island.  It's hard to imagine why this sandbar/island exists 125 miles off the coast of rocky Nova Scotia, seemingly out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

As seen from above.  It looks so beautiful.

Being a map lover, I had to include this.

For more information see the article in The Modern Estate