Mantles, tables, chests, dressers, bookshelves, and their flotsam/jetsom, tell me how to arrange clients gardens.
Do they like simplicity, focal points, pairs, drifts, matchy/watchy, shiny, bright colors, rustic, fru-fru, farm, castle, muted hues, eclectic, showy & etc.
Junking recently I found this dresser for the foyer of my new office. Once sited I went to the kitchen & started grabbing blue/white. Free is good.
On its way home, above/below.
What is the Garden Design indicated by the top of this chest with the blue/white? Girlfriend obviously likes pairs & focal points. Biggest platter is a gorgeous antique iron gate. Tulipiers are brick/stone columns with pair old urns and the smaller plates a flagstone path. Surface of the chest is groundcover Asiatic jasmine.
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THIS is how I see interiors. Source material for the garden.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Never anticipated my new office being this fun, 'camp chic' style. Nor psycho-analyzing my own table top style.
4 comments:
Tara---what a clever way to see the future garden design! Love it!
Best, Ellen
I have noticed a distinct lack of tabletops in my house - fewer than in my old house - which causes me decoration issues during Christmas. I normally put out a Nativity scene and a carolers scene - in the old house, the Nativity went on a chest in my family room (the chest is now relegated to the basement), and the carolers went in my breakfast room (that piece of furniture - a huge sideboard - stayed with the old house).
I have not seen the right replacements for a few key spots in the new house, but some day they will find me.
- Holly
All design is related....just have to see it.
I had a difficult time when I shifted from fashion to landscape, took someone I admired to tell me "design is design!"
Love that 'antique gate'!
I think this would serve any gardener who's confused about a personal gardening style, like me. My tabletops DO seem to resemble my gardens -- a little chaotic, but contained. Eclectic, but not crazy edgy.
Come to think of it, sounds like the way I think and dress and eat. Perhaps you should consider a side practice of psychotherapy, helping people discover their true nature through gardening. Oh, I guess you already do that!
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