Framing a Kitchen View into the Landscape

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Framing a Kitchen View into the Landscape

Framing the view, below.  Literally, upside down.  Beautiful vista & sky, hidden with valence.
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Showing off the art, a storage shed.  Perfect example of why I must go inside a home or ask for pictures from inside to outside, when doing online design.
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Have you guessed already?  This is the kitchen in my new home, ca. 1900, 11' ceilings.  Moving, with men, next week.
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Named my company, A Garden View, in the mid-80's.  A take on E.M.Forster's recent film, A Room With A View.  Little knowing its propitiousness, or what was already set within my DNA as non-negotiable.  Went with Jenny, my mother-in-law, to the movie and it was my introduction to Forster.  Don't know him yet?  Go to Amazon and order his books.  Jenny long gone of breast cancer, age 57, theater gone too.  E.M.Forster remains.
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Now, my house.

Valence gone, below.

 A pecan grove, below, is around my house, some of the trees seem ca. 1900 too.

No worries about the storage shed, will add a fence, below.

To the animal mesh, above, 'X' will be added, below.

Don't want to use ivy, below, but probably will.  Few worries about a mature green cover, and freeze death.  And starting over, ugh.

Will add lighting, below,  on some of the posts, with dimmer switches.

Cannot imagine, not having a beautiful view from inside to outside.

A view I've had the joy of creating.

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(Off topic, I think I've found a spot on the property for a pair of tall columns, below.)

Cannot wait till I'm in the garden and considering how to design the interiors for incredible views as backdrop to the garden.

A garden view, again.

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Beauty travels 2 directions in a garden.  

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Anticipation, designing a garden, as enriching as the doing, then the having.

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Garden & Be Well,   XO Tara

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Top 3 pics mine, bottom pics Pinterest.  Hard leaving my home of 30 years.  My kitchen is walls of windows, new kitchen, 1 window, but it has an incredible walk-in pantry with window too.

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Tom Jones, Tower of Song, streaming thru my head with this new garden.

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He sings he's crazy for love, I'm crazy for views, a garden, orchard, gravel paths/drive, potager.....crazy for it NOW.   "I was born like this, I had no choice."