The Citizen, 2000-05-10, Page 23THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2000. PAGE 23.
Home & Garden 2000
For a beach vacation, step into the powder room
Everything is possible when you
set out to create a personal style in
your home. You may live in a subur
ban semi, a downtown loft or a
condo in the sky but that doesn’t
matter: with the right idea and the
right tools you can turn it into a
palace. Or a beach cabin.
That’s the message brought to you
by a great new book which sets out
to instruct and inspire homeowners
who are burning to make something
unique and special of their home
environment. We’re not kidding
about the beach cabin: one of the
styles featured takes a very ordinary
little powder room in a newly-built
Canadian home and transforms it
into a beach side cabin. You almost
expect to feel the warm sand beneath
your feet as you enter.
The book is called Room Recipes -
Cooking up Style with Colour. It’s a
big handsome book, jam-packed full
with ideas and projects for creating
style in your home, written by Jane
Lockhart and published by Benjamin
Moore Paints.
If you’re a follower of Jane’s do-it-
yourself design series on HGTV,
One House, Two Looks, you’ll know
just what to expect from Room
Recipes: great ideas, a sure eye for
colour, and easy-to-follow instruc
tions. The book takes a “just do it”
approach to interior design, giving
enthusiastic and practical advice on
every aspect of interior decoration,
from the principles of colour to
dressing a window and working
around less-than-perfect furniture.
“Room Recipes details 11 distinc
tively different room styles which
you can reproduce in your own
home”, says Lockhardt. “We give
you everything you need except one
essential item — ypur own personal
touch. In the case of the powder
room — which we call, sensibly
enough, Beach House — you’ll
probably want to include mementos
of family vacations on far distant
beaches.”
A grand illusion like all the styles
demonstrated in Room Recipes,
Beach House began life as an idea
Create a butterfly garden
By Muriel Edgar
So you have been admiring the
butterfly gardens in the gardening
magazines but do not know where to
begin? Read on and you can have a
garden right out of the pages of a
magazine.
When purchasing your butterfly
house there are a few considerations
to keep in mind. I will briefly outline
the most important points:
• Removable roof or side for clean
ing
• Ventilated under the eaves
• Drainage holes unless made from
rough textured material
• Constructed of aged and natural
materials
• Elongated entrance holes, prefer
ably four
• Furnished with vertical standing
twigs, inside
Now that you have purchased a
functional house, the placement is
just as important. The requirements
are as follows:
• Attach it on a solid cedar rail or
post
• Place at a sheltered height of three
to six feet
• The front of the house must be
facing a south/east position and in a
sunny location with at least 10
hours of sun
You have done all the above now
you can sit back and relax, right?
then became a selection of colours.
Since the idea is to reproduce a little
old cabana on some beach, some
where, the palette consists of
washed-out, sun-bleached colours,
and the paint techniques chosen
create the illusion of well
weathered surfaces. But beaches and
summer vacations also include lots
of bright colours, so provision was
made for accents of complementary
colours to reinforce the vacation
feeling.
But — it really is a powder room
In Room Recipes, Lockhardt
explains that a sure-fire way of
developing a successful space is to
select your style first and then a
palette of colours and be sure to
make every important item in the
room contain at least one of those
colours. The powder room in
question contained a large shiny
white object, which did not
comply with the colour rules. It
couldn’t be removed, so it was partly
disguised with a CPC (Colour
Palette Correct) fabric toilet tank
cover.
The ceiling was also disguised as a
blue summer sky filled with fluffy
white clouds. Room Recipes gives
full instructions for turning ceiling
into sky. The illusion was made even
more convincing in Beach House by
adding four hollow wooden faux
beams, just below the ceiling.
The lower part of the walls were
also disguised — this time as wain
scoting made of faux vertical pan
els topped by a genuine chair rail.
All are appropriately weathered.
Along the wall immediately
above the rail is a row of dancing
starfish. These are three-dimen
sional creatures made from dry
wall compound stencilled into
place on the wall and painted
bright orange.
Details, details
Small shelf units, weathered in
the same way as the wainscoting,
were installed to hold accessories
and a few personal mementos of
happy days spent on beach vaca
tions. Pastel coloured towels hang
Wrong - butterflies need a reason
to come to your yard. Attracting
them is simple:
• Plant flowers and shrubs that
butterflies find irresistible,
around your butterfly house. A
good rule is any nectar produc
ing plant that has a large open
bloom, i.e. coneflower, butterfly
bush, lavender, sedum, liatris,
dill and yarrow.
• Place a shallow pan with a few
small stones at the bottom and
fill with moist clean sand.
Keep the sand moist, since
they love to have 'puddle par
ties’.
• Add a large flat stone near the
entrance of the house. It works
like a heater.
• In
you
your
plate
near
bananas,
will love
sliver of pear inside the house to
help attract new tenants, but be
very cautious of this because you
do not want to attract bugs in
your butterfly house.
• Avoid chemical sprays on your
flowers and shrubs.
Now, you can sit back and enjoy
a therapeutic past time.
the morning or when
have time to relax in
garden, place a shallow
of
the
sliced over-ripe fruit
Butterfly House, i.e.
peaches, pears. They
it. Also slip a small
from hooks, and other powder room
essentials are contained in stainless
steel beach buckets.
In addition to presenting 11 sepa
rate room styles — all created in a
typical, newly-built, Canadian
home — Room Recipes also
explains the basics of colour selec
tion and describes how different
combinations of colour can be
used to set a mood and to influence
the appearance of a room. There is
also advice on how to treat the
exterior of your home to get full
enjoyment from decks and other
add-ons.
Room Recipes - Cooking up
Style with Colour is available only
from Benjamin Moore retailers. It
is illustrated throughout with over
100 original colour photographs,
and contains detailed instructions
for 33 projects, inside and outside
the house.
A unique feature of the book is a
section of removable Room
Recipes Cards with colour samples
to help you in selecting furnish
ings, fabrics and accessories.
Suggested retail price is $13.95.
The description of Beach House,
the main level powder room begins
on page 50.
Secret Ingredients:
• add lots of weathered textures to
surfaces and materials
• choose bright sea, sky and
colours for walls and floors
• accent with shells and classic
stainless-steel beach buckets
• add some soft and wavy lines
within the design
• don’t forget to add a splash of
bright colour
• accent with pictures from family
vacations to beach resorts
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