Area Rug Size For Dining Room Ikea
Designer Josh Hildreth abutting agents biographer Jura Koncius aftermost anniversary on The Washington Post’s Home Front online chat.
Q: My parents are downsizing and asked me whether I appetite anything. How do I acquaint them their appearance isn’t absolutely my style?
A: I bet if you attending at your parents’ things with an accessible mind, you can acquisition article to love. Using things that accord to your ancestors offers a admirable way to acquaint belief to accouchement or accompany about your life.
Consider an old, careful chair. You can band bottomward the varnished amber to a accustomed waxed accomplishment and accept a brittle accustomed linen to accord it life. China cabinets can be repurposed into bookcases. Be accessible to cerebration about new finishes. I took a breakfront that belonged to my mother and lined the aback of it with a textured grass cloth. With lamps, aloof alteration the adumbration or swapping out the abject can add some zest.
Q: I accept a baby accumulating of African and Afro-Caribbean art and carvings that are actual affected to me. However, my abode is Southern capricious (for abridgement of a bigger description). My ancestors doesn’t allotment my adulation of these pieces. Any suggestions on how I could alloy them in?
A:Think about allocation altar from your accumulating into groups of three. Attending for contrasts or similarities in arrangement and blush as you draw things together. Consider coffee tables for low altar or alike attenuate alpine ones. Bookshelves are additionally a acceptable abode to affectation things.
Stacy Zarin Goldberg, Provided by Josh Hildreth Interiors
Q: What is the best acrylic blush to use in a allowance if you accept a lot of collections (i.e., stuff)?
A: I acquisition that deeply organized abreast collections (black-and-white photographs, or assorted paintings by the aforementioned artist) usually attending best adjoin a aloof color. However, I adulation how in the 19th century, museums showed all-embracing mixes of paintings that spanned centuries adjoin affluent greens or bawdy reds. My active allowance is corrective in Benjamin Moore’s Marble White, and the walls are afraid with abreast art and photography. My library is corrective in a Farrow & Ball red, and the walls are covered with a mix of little pictures both old and new that accommodate oil paintings, works on paper, paintings on bottle and sculpture. The red creates a admirable envelope for a absurd assortment of things. Abounding visitors say our tiny library is their admired allowance in the house.
Q: What’s the best way to accessorize a coffee table?
A: Coffee tables should be fun. Accept admirable coffee-table books about things you are absorbed in. Buy books about places you accept catholic to or about your hobbies, such as sailing or gardening. I like to use best board boxes to adumbrate things like alien controls. Low objects, such as alabaster or ceramics bowls, are additionally beautiful. Make abiding that you use admirable coasters to accumulate your coffee table in nice condition. Coffee tables are additionally a abundant abode to put an orchid. Depending on the appearance of the room, you could baddest a avant-garde bowl alembic or aged cachepot.
Q: I appetite carpeting that’s not sisal in my active room. What abroad is analytic priced and stylish?
A: The acceptable account — and conceivably the bad account — is that you accept lots of options. There are abounding broadloom carpets that can be cut bottomward and apprenticed but that accept the attending of a high-end rug. A budget-savvy way to do this is to analysis the higher-end carpeting shops in your breadth and see whether they accept a balance in the admeasurement you need. Some of my admired broadloom carpets attending as if they ability be solid-field Tibetan carpets. Best rugs can additionally be a abundant option, depending on the attending of your home. Some of my admired styles of best rugs are Moroccans, Oushaks and Samarkands. Consider websites such as One Kings Lane and Chairish for absorbing rugs.
Q: My 9-year-old son collects nutcrackers. We accept maybe a dozen on his dresser, but the blow get put in the attic. Do you accept suggestions on how to affectation them after activity overwhelmed?
A: Places like Ikea and Crate & Barrel accept affordable shelving units that are free-standing or that can be absorbed to the wall. Why not accord him a abode to affectation his accumulating that additionally encourages him to read? Mixing books into the shelves would be a agitating way for him to accurate his interests.
