Black-and-white checkerboard floors are an enduring, curiously forthright flooring material that seems to work in just about any space, from modern to classic, from Josef Frank’s Swedish modernist interior to Julian Schnabel’s New York City home Palazzo Chupi.
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Being smitten with rusty steel, we love this solution to a rather homely exposed brick fireplace: cover it in sheets of intentionally-rusted corten steel (also known as weathering steel) and paint the flue blue. via Japanese Trash Related posts: lust for rust: in a modern house and our own experiments nina’s tool bucket: essentials for doing-it-yourself d-i-y…
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For years, I made short-shrift of concrete block, associating it with the clunky cinderblock-and-pine shelves beloved by frugal college students, or bleak, prison-like garages and homemade tool sheds. I’d pass cheap, strong concrete blocks at construction sites and lumber yards, and wonder what I could do with them. Although I’m crazy about concrete, I seemed…
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