Cool Decorating & Remodeling images

A few nice Decorating & Remodeling images I found:

Casa Battlo and Casa Amattler


Image by wallygrom (very busy at work)
Casa Batlló is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904–1906; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia, part of the Illa de la Discòrdia in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain. Gaudí’s assistants Domènec Sugrañes i Gras , Josep Canaleta y Joan Rubió also contributed to the renovation project.

The local name for the building is Casa dels Ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.

The building looks very remarkable – like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.

It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the sword of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

Casa Amatller is a building in the Modernisme style in Barcelona, designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Along with Casa Batlló and Casa Lleó-Morera, it makes up the three most important buildings in Barcelona’s famous Illa de la Discòrdia ("Block of Discord"), noted for its unique modernist buildings.

The building was originally designed as a residence for chocolatier Antoni Amatller and was constructed between 1898 and 1900.

Aloha


Image by Tracy27
We’re remodelling our back ramada into a tiki bar. Here are some preview glimpses from last night’s decorating party. Here we have Chief Bartender and CEO, Trader Wee.

Ancestor Skull


Image by justin
Not a mask, but striking head-setup – shell-encrusted eyes and skull decorated from the Pacific Islands. This is actual 20th century Ancestor Worship!

Pacific Islands art collection – from the remodeled de Young Museum in San Francisco – inspiration for me to undertake a mask-making project.

It was the best museum I’ve been to in the United States in years. The eclecticism of the Barnes Foundation, with some of the beauty of architecture and setting characteristic of Louisiana.