Notes on making a room work
Section
Finishing Touches
The last ten per cent: walls, hanging height, shelves and the layer everybody skips.
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Finishing TouchesThe wall is what got skippedAsk someone what their finished room is missing and they usually cannot say. Stand in the doorway and it is generally a wall.…
Finishing TouchesEye level, not the middle of the wallMost pictures in most houses are hung too high, and the reason is that people centre them on the wall rather than on the person look…
Finishing TouchesEmpty space is the ingredientOpen shelving is the hardest surface in a house to get right, because it is judged as a composition and filled as a storage solution…
Finishing TouchesSomewhere to put things down, within two stepsAn entrance needs one thing before it needs anything else: a surface to put something on within two steps of the door.…