Randy Orr - Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Cellar Dweller... but for a Good Cause
It's usually not a lot fun to spend the work day in a small dark cool room in a basement. Unless it is for Wine!
Yes a Wine Cellar!! Do you love Wine? I do and nothing better than creating a room to provide a little ambiance to where a collection of 'nectar of the Gods' will be residing.
For this project of course it involves Lime Plaster, specifically Marmorino and Intonachino will be my go to plaster for the ceilings and walls.
Also installing ceiling beams, the neat part about the ceiling beams is that we decided to incorporate some state of the art LED Lighting... it will be installed shortly. This type of band or rope light, is like nothing I have ever seen... I will take a picture and post it, crazy technology!
It's a perfect fit for what we need to do...
Beginning the layout
You design it. Spec it. And we create it.
Randy Orr - Monday, August 30, 2010
BLOOM BOX: Heard of it? . . . You Will
Not that this has anything to do with interior decorating, but it has more to do with sustainable living which may indirectly down the road(a long road at that) would certainly render more disposable income for other ventures at home.
Consuming less energy, means more energy for other things!
Randy Orr - Thursday, August 05, 2010
. . . do You Dwell?
Not on the Past or the Future . . .
More as in the magazine - Dwell.
It is one of my fave's for sourcing creative ideas and inspiration for
when you look at the box (house) and think what can I do with this one!?
That is the question that I have been pondering for a while since we
bought our own little Love Shack in 'The Beach Community'.
The home is 36 years old with no updates
until we moved in. Slowly I have been chipping away with small reno
projects, one at a time. In the past weeks I decided to take on the
window facade since it was just so blahhh. Therefore, Dwell was the
place of inspiration, since there are always dozens of updated homes
with a contemporary 70's vibe. I personally enjoy the
cottage/contemporary look and that is the direction for our home...if we
ever finish ;)
Lime Plaster Planter Box
Often there is left over material from
other projects, thus I decided to take Lime Plaster outside for the
ultimate test. I designed the box to be built out of plywood and then
took the same steps as you would with a shower walls, sealed with
concrete and applied my Lime Plaster over the concrete.
We also needed to warm up the exterior,
what better than adding more of what BC is good at cedar! Using the
cedar in lengths of 2" x 8' strapping the box and to help create a
linear vibe with 1/4" spacing between that is more common is design
these days.
The rest was what I love to do! Play with Plaster...
Funny part in the end
I
actually didn't like the 1st colour of the plaster, (HC 107) Gettysburg
Gray once we mounted it. Since we used the French cleats, just pulled
it off and applied another coat of Lime Plaster to change the colour (HC
166) Kendall Charcoal and set it back on the cleats - easy.
You design it. Spec it. And we create
it.
Randy Orr - Tuesday, June 01, 2010
