Design
Our interior furniture and design work is influenced by the spaces and light of New York lofts, repurposed/recycled industrial and farm elements, wabi-sabi improvisation, film noir lighting, exotic and worn wood, textiles and ceramics from Mexico, Morocco and Guatemala, old Saint Louis tile and brickwork, and Arts and Crafts colors. It all has to be comfortable and make people feel at home. Outside landscape design uses native species, multi-levels, lots of grasses and smooth stone walkways - with water, grottos, garden and open space in harmony.
Lighting
Lighting is concentrated where it needs to be and soft where it isn’t needed. The forms that deliver light can be anything from old farm chicken feeders to homemade hanging spots to chic cable tracks with unusual heads. LED strips illuminate with thousands of possible colors. Natural light is generously welcomed in.
Made some sconces out of bent copper with some scraps of corrugated metal
This was done using strip multicolor LED lights under each step. Color of the day?
Multicolor LED lights behind panels with frosted glass
Purple light makes the pool very inviting on hot summer nights
Furniture and Other Made
Build whatever can be built out of whatever looks cool.
Those cleanout pipes are actually PVC that we painted with rust paint. Easy shelves with stained 2x10's
Two 6' table tops made from yellow pine with copper inlay. To make the "chandelier" I wired up 12' of chicken feeder that we found in a farm antique store in the Ozarks.
2" threaded black pipe made into a trestle for the table. I have no idea what sequence I used in turning them so it would eventually all go on!
Some nice built-ins for a closet at a rental property
Two little nightstands made from travertine marble tiles.
Landscape
Outside should be another world of comfort and interest, with elements that enliven and entertain the senses. We enjoy creating grottos and naturally bounded enfolding spaces that open onto larger, more airy gardens, common spaces and paths. Hard, smoothe, soft, open, breezy, containing….
The god of the garden watches over us
Nighttime swim in the hot Missouri summer
Patio table over travertine marble
Western sky over the very necessary screenporch. You'd be lovin' it too if you had Missouri mosquitos
Crazy big ten foot tall castor beans outgrew the canas. Butterfly bush, sweet potato vine, yellow creeping jenny, Bosnian pine, river of rocks and rusty rebar things with rusty circles on them
Calamagrostis Karl Foerster Feather grasses along the fence by the pool and miscanthus tall grasses along the yard and at the pool's end make the pool deck its own little grotto
One of our rental properties. It was a garage that we made into a very cool little apartment
Landscaping in front of rental property. Asur birch, rhododendrons, azelias, boxwoods, creeping euonymus, purple sedum,
Walkway with granite bench, tall grasses, boxwood, rose of sharon, hostas
All set for summertime dinner on the screenporch