Management Chair: rustic design

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

design idea - hardwood walls in master bath

I was walking home from the subway last evening and I passed a dumpster full of this nearly new 4" x 3/4" hard maple t&g flooring (prefinished and micro-bevel) that somone had just savagely uninstalled.

Judging by the amount of dried adhesive on the bottom of the boards and the total absence of nails, it had been installed on a concrete floor before someone bored of it. Anyway, I thought about it for the next 4 blocks and when I got home I changed into my dumpster diving garb, grabbed my gloves, and gave up a great parking space to drive back to the dumpster.

I loaded probably 150 square feet of boards averaging 2' to 4' long into my car and zipped home to find the space I had vacated still waiting for me.

Anyway, I don't really know what I'm going to do with the stuff. It isn't enough to do any of our floors and it would be impossible to get the adhesive off the bottom to ensure a tight and creak-less fit to plywood subflooring. I am thinking it might make nice wall panelling in the master bathroom though, mounted vertically along the curved wall.

So here are some pix of flooring used for walls. Mostly I hate the look - but there are a few that look great and those are the ones that inspire.

Here is the only one that actually comes close to what I am thinking - although I would only come up to about wainscoting height:
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2 - I hate this look.

3 - The ceiling truss-work and iron elements are cool, but too much warm warm wood.

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6 - Horizontal is so much less interesting - it just looks like a sauna.

8 - NO!

9 - No.

10 - Ugh.

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12 - Horrible waste of pretty wood. Looks like a bad bad motel.

13 - This horizontal wood over the bed is pretty cool.

And then there are ceilings made of wood paneling. I really like this next one.

14 - This would be an okay look for the master bedroom ceiling - but with more whitewash on and then sanding of the boards.


15 - Same, but with a full view of the clerestory windows. Ahh, clerestory windows. I just like saying it	.


16 - Cool, but looks like it would get horribly dusty and cobwebby and then be impossible to clean.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

design ideas - rustic chic

This popped up on ApartmentTherapy this morning and I like it. (Link to the article is below). I then went and searched for more pics of these guys' work and studio and I added those below as well.

It is sad that the first thing that came to mind when I saw this post was to kick myself for not buying a set of heavy iron table legs like the ones in the first pic (though not as ornate) when I saw them at the flea market two years ago. It was the end of the day and the guy didn't want to pack them up and take them home because they weighed a ton and he offered them to me cheap - but I was on my bike and didn't want to deal with it. I've been kicking myself ever since -- thinking that they would have been great for a big slab wood table, and here they are and so they are!! Well fuck me.

Oh, and how about the big, boxy, white-washed light-fixture over the table? we're going to need something big over the dining table - it's dark on that side of the room.

In the below picture I really like the vertical paneling on the sides of the bar - like what we talked about except they use white-washed and natural wood slats. I also particularly like the use of old multi-pane windows as a space divider. We might consider this on the bedroom walls around the staircase so that we can close off the bedroom but still get light from the big picture window off the staircase. What do you think?

These rough-hewn boards flanking the corridor are cool and I like the use of the hinges, but it feels a little design-ey since they are purely decorative. If they actually swung closed to shut the corridor, that would be cool, but clearly they don't since the hinges are in the wrong place.