Houzz Tour: A Creative Home Accessorised With family Gras

Houzz Tour: A Creative Home Accessorised With family Gras - Creation Before its last renovation, this house was a classic exterior and a modern heart. Located just outside of Washington, DC, it was built in 2002 in a Georgian mansion style. Inside, the living room is mostly open space. When the interior designer Raji Radhakrishnan and his family moved there 10 years ago, she began to put his style in the structure. "It was my design lab, and it went through various incarnations, she said. The latter, completed last year, was all about containing some of the spaces and make them more intimate and adding architectural details that gave the interior a little weight.

Houzz at a Glance
Who lives here Interior designer Raji Radhakrishnan and his family
Location Northern Virginia, United States
Size 4 bedrooms, 3½ bathrooms

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before the redesign, Radhakrishnan said that when visitors came through the front door, they could see the entire first floor. "You can see all the way back to the family room. Sometimes I wish I was there in my pajamas relaxing with my cereal, and I wanted more privacy, "she said. ". Also, I like classical architecture, and I wanted to bring some sense of the outside "It began with the creation of a gated entrance; a hexagonal lobby with a wooden sculpture in the center, which the designer has chosen for its large scale and graceful curves. Not only does it make a dramatic statement, it helps to screen the family room. From this home, you can enter the rest of the house through the portals described with fleshy plastering and appropriate period. "There was not much molding at all before the redesign, she said. "The ceilings are high here, so something big deemed appropriate.

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Preview family room with eight sides you catch around the sculpture reveals one of the new design movements Radhakrishnan: floor to ceiling photo murals - the company now manufactures wall coverings. He is seen here once the designer took the London Underground. "I love 1930s and 1940s French furniture era, said Radhakrishnan. "I love the lines of Georgian architecture, and I used some of the basic principles of, but I did not think I had to be a slave to a federalist style - especially as this is a new house. For me, the classic lines were just a starting point, and I mixed in different styles.

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"I think the mural brings a sense of movement and modernity to the part, " Radhakrishnan said.

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his affinity for art deco furniture from the time of France was born of a travel life. "I grew up in India, where I studied classical dance and I went to several international tours, she said. "The many cities I visited then influence my aesthetic today." The artwork throughout the home is the result of a long marriage. "My husband and I started donating art to another back when we could go on and shop at flea markets, she said.

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Another great fresco represents part of meta-painting Louis-Léopold Boilly representing a crowd viewing a work of art depicting the coronation of the Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon. "I always loved watching the people, Radhakrishnan said. "I love watching people's expressions in painting.

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the designer said that blow the image up to the wall size created the ultimate people watching experience; viewers can explore the small gestures and expressions on the painted spectators. Because wall paint and furniture are powerful, the designer used a calm wool carpets, white except for some subtle black lines, to balance things.

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In the same room, vintage lithograph by Al Held Radhakrishnan crowns a console designed by placing a mirror behind an architectural artifact. 'Once upon a time hardware in a French balcony, she said. As for the presidency of Marc Newson and candlesticks Carl Hansen. "You have to have seats and lighting, so why not make your most interesting choice possible?" She adds.

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When customers come, this table can be expanded to accommodate 12, but on other occasions it is kept small. "Only during the holidays do, we have a large number of people around the table, said Radhakrishnan. "Keep the table to its smaller size makes it more casual entertaining small groups. The blue sofa provides additional function space. "I like pleating corner in a room, said the designer. "What makes it so much more usable. Guests sit here before and after a meal. I often talk to my children here. "

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Radhakrishnan twisted kitchen by removing the doors of the upper cabinets, back blue paint and make them work as shelves. 'I love my items for white, she said. "Put on a blue background allows pieces to stand out."

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the house is mainly white, so Radhakrishnan added some relief by painting the black library. "It breaks the monotony, she said. The creator, inspired by a painting by Richard Serra, added black swirls around the base of the luminaire. "I think it keeps the white room to get lost on the white ceiling, she said, adding that she also painted the shade on the lamp.

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At the upstairs, the mural behind the bed from a sketch of the designer found on an old book plate. "I photographed and enlarged it, she said. "Here, I framed with molding so that it floats on the wall." When asked if his last redesign is the latest, Radhakrishnan makes no promises. "This may be to the dismay of my family, but I want to change things," she said. "I can not help it because it's so much fun to play.


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