ethnic traditions, customs and attitudes carry forward our family values. paying tribute to family heritage and tradition to give our children a strong sense of family ties. Our roots make us what we are, and respect for ancestral traditions gives the interior of your home a special individuality.
Vernacular Heritage
regional architecture, called the vernacular, designs structures to harmonize and blend with the environment. Designedto reflect the past, with historical influences complete the vernacular in place of these houses dominate their settings. These houses recreate the traditional neighborhoods of the past with a strong sense of place.
Many vernacular structures provide friendly zones and promote a relaxed lifestyle. For example, Santa Fe stucco block homes often have courtyards and Adobe. Friendly houses porches invite neighborly chats usually to Florida Cracker. Key West wood-framed "ShellHomes and North Carolina "low country" houses with wide porches and large windows that take advantage of the region to cool breezes.
Vernacular homes provide a transition space protected from outside to inside, but without the benefit of such estate transitional spaces much when structural or landscaping details are added to bring the private interior of the house in accordance with the outside world. If your home lacks a covered entry, consider a wood or ironto provide a frame tent or a feeling of protection and shelter.
ethnic influences on American architecture and furnishings
As Native Americans have always built their houses at home and imitated, it is not surprising that Italian and Mediterranean villas, the great English country houses, farms and simple French can be found across the United States. From the early days of our nation, Americans have taken design details from all over the world andcopied, adapted and redesigned their ethnic patterns and furnishings.
Models originating in Africa, such as the spotted and complex geometries have been duplicated in many ways. Mexican antiques, Danish and Swedish furniture and oriental influenced accessories are mixed in our homes. From New England Cape Cod in Santa Fe Adobe, our diverse heritage influenced American architecture and interior design, while log cabins, rustic western interiors and American folk arthave suggested that some American origin.
Style and the emotional atmosphere
Style remember is the end result of decoration of the combination of specific characteristics of an era, an artistic movement, or a particular region, such as Victorian, Art Nouveau, or Midwestern Prairie style. Mood or emotional atmosphere, the personal interpretation of style to evoke feelings, whether they are smooth and clean, elegant, formal, informal, friendly, romantic oreclectic.
Architectural styles: Structure and Services
All the rooms of a period or style is best for museums or exhibitions next. Eclectic mix of furniture from different periods, as a contemporary sofa, a silver maple Chippendale side table and a Louis XVI gilt mirror. The beautiful and the bizarre, create exquisite and daily, mixed with lightness and joy, happy homes.
The architectural style can refer to a structure or typeDevice. period styles mixing with the lifestyle of today is called New Traditionalism. The combinations of styles with a touch of fun to create elegant and simple. Some large pieces, consisting of sets will be just the informality of a more cumbersome to take home.
Style influenced the design of interiors. Understand the architecture of your home and as a reference point for your decoration. In my case, our modern furniture looked totallyout of place in our home in 1878, then we have traded our glass dining table for a traditional wood, and replaced a modular sofa with a mellow antiquity.
Some Victorian homes look magnificent when furnished with period furniture, but it is more difficult than vice versa, which is a modern house, furnished with antiques to be done. Grand Old houses decorated with modern furnishings look better with a simple, easy, and ends at a wall-curtain valance.
Comparison of styles of its heritage with other styles, your imagination makes for interesting rooms and apartments. Not all the rooms of the house need to incorporate the same style, but fails to provide some blending from room to room harmony. Mixing heritage styles according to those who have built your house to share an aura of harmonization.
Your personal style
If you have a strong affinity for a particular style, they bind to plan your entire design. Encourage respect for your familyTraditions> to surround themselves with ethnic furnishings and family heirlooms. Each style can be customized to your lifestyle, if allowed to lean traditional formal or informal relationship to it, is to dress or carry a knife to decorative ornaments.
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