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continued the rhythm of the slats on the ceiling with slats that run down the wall to the left. The area behind the slats contains a stainless steel range and hood. He wrapped the range and hood in stainless steel to create a continuous look. “The steel provides a nice contrast to the wood coming down,”
ceilings are concrete, lighting couldn’t be recessed into them. Instead, Mikhael came up with a beautiful way to conceal the lack of recessing. He used LED tape lights mounted in long, narrow channels that hang down less than an inch from the ceiling. “Then we used wood slats to give them a home. The ceiling slats shield the lighting,” he says. In addition to concealing the light channels, the slats bring the walnut across the ceiling in a pleasing rhythm.
Avoid clutter catchalls. A tray or basket on the coffee table or counter to hold clutter might seem like a smart idea — until it’s full and overflowing onto the surface around it. Remember that clutter attracts more clutter, so when a group of random little items (hair ties, loose change, buttons, pens) ends up in one spot, you’re far more likely to add other (larger) random items (stack of mail, shopping bag, pile of dry cleaning) to it. A better practice is to create a spot for each type of item — for instance, a jar for coins, a cup for pens, a hook for keys, a tray for mail, and a drawer organizer with little slots for small items like hair ties and stamps. It then becomes easy and satisfying to drop things into their individual containers.
Some are left natural, while others are tinted with white paint, and the darker triangles had a strategic run-in with a blow torch. “When you take a blow torch to wood and lightly run it over the surface, the grain of the wood pops out like tiger stripes
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