Sep 03, 2009 | Posted in Inspirations |
Often times great art can come about by accident. For instance, I was driving along and wanted to capture the sky at twilight, but with my limited knowledge of camera apertures and the use of one unsteady hand to take the photo while driving resulted in… accidental art.
How many of you have taken a photo at night and didn’t have the camera on the correct setting, or couldn’t keep your hand steady? Your photo probably looked a lot like this image below.
Photo from BestFamilyPhotographyTips.com
A photo out of focus can be a beautiful accident. The energetic motion of the streaks of light will command attention in any urban living room design. For a visually powerful piece, dramatically enlarge the photo to cover an entire wall.
To accomplish the enlargement , transfer the image onto painter’s canvas for a more textured and abstract effect. Not only does this provide a more artististic feel, it allows some wiggle room for loss of image resolution from the enlargement. Split the image up onto multiple canvases, allowing for an interesting geometric configuration and ease of installation. Wrap canvases over 2″ deep frames for visual weight and then hang.
You now have a unique piece of photo art to decorate your home interior created by you! So go out and make a mistake, and create art from your own happy accident!
San Francisco interior designer, Kimball Starr, is a commercial design and residential interior design firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kimball works to “change lives one room at a time” through designing creative and innovative interiors across the country.
Labels: art, photography, wall accents
Aug 05, 2009 | Posted in How To & Decorating Tips |
When I think of palm trees, images of sand beaches, tropical water, and lazy days pop into my head. Needless to say, I’ve always had a penchant for these trees. So when I came across a tree-lined driveway of these tropical weather trees, I just had to show this early morning image.
A tree often associated with tropical destinations and informality can have the opposite effect of importance, formality, and create a sense of arrival and anticipation when used in repetition.
What’s especially wonderful about using these towering palm trees is the sense of grandeur they impart when driving between them and their versatility that makes them look right at home leading up to a Beverly Hills resort, a seaside home in Hawaii, or in the California countryside as seen here.
The key here is the immense height which gives the sense of importance, the repetition of the same size and shape to create a rhythm and formality, and of course the fact that they’re well maintained.
Duplicating this effect doesn’t have to be limited to palm trees! Any tree or hedge, such as junipers, that are trimmed or shaped in a strong geometric shape and repeated along an entrance will give you this sense of anticipation of arrival, and the taller the tree, the grander the sense of arrival. So go ahead and create your own exclamation point and make a grand entrance!
San Francisco interior designer, Kimball Starr, is a commercial design and residential interior design firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kimball works to “change lives one room at a time” through designing creative and innovative interiors across the country.
Labels: driveway, entrance, outdoor
