Showing posts with label Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brown. Show all posts

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Sneak Peak: Planet Tango Dance Studio

Planet Tango dance studio
The home studio of Alberto Paz and Valorie Hart


Alberto is feeling really good these days, and we are officially giving tango classes again. To celebrate, I did a little refurb on our dance studio at home for him. A few little things can really add freshness and energy to a room.

I added lime green silk drapes to replace black and tan check curtains. The same lime green drapes are in the living room, which adjoins the dance room, so the continuity of this luscious color is great.

I painted all the mirrors white, and filled an entire wall with them floor to ceiling. We actually use the ones at mid level to check our steps and posture. I also grouped all the tango art on another wall, floor to ceiling. These are vintage sheet music covers of famous Argentine tangos.

Another burst of color is introduced with the orange chandelier. It was our old dining room chandelier that I spray painted this wonderful color.

A bench for changing shoes is at the upholsterer. It's being covered in white patent leather. You know I'll show it to you when it's done.

We are teaching our first tango workshop of the new year this weekend, and the first after the incident in Canada. Wish you could be here for it!


The view from the living into the Planet Tango dance room

Lime green and orange and white in the living room
These colors are repeated in the dance room

The colors are soooo 2009 ha ha - Will I repaint this year???!!!!


Planet Tango dance studio then...

Planet Tango dance studio now...

Another view from the living room into the dance room

A little vignette in the Visual Vamp living room
I spy an
Anne Harwell painting

Bryan Batt used lime green and an orange chandelier in is old house
He's moved onto the world of greige in a new home

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Confess

What decorating regrets do you have? We all have made errors in judgments, or had a lapse of common sense. My friend Claire wrote a poem about it.



ode to The Brown Chairs

Brown chairs, brown chairs
where did you come from?
You mock me as I pass.

Brown chairs with the slick fabric,
Where are you going?
Do you need a sip of water?
You look parched.

Brown chairs where do you call home?
Crows fly above you
ants below.
You are the boulder in my soul.

Brown chairs of dirt,
the kidneys of the room,
keep searching for your
hellish domain.

----said (with bongos) by Claire



Bilhuber brown


Kenneth Brown


Oh my!


Oy vei!

Catalog brown

Country Living brown