Rich woods inhabit the walls and floors, and walls that are not walls frame ceilings that are not ceilings.
Osteria Dante is a spiffy place, with stone floors and an exposed wood-frame ceiling and tall windows that admit great slanting shafts of early-evening sunlight.
Jerry Dowd, who owns it along with Gina Fogarty, said the restaurant has the feel of a Vermont inn with a stone fireplace and a beamed A-frame ceiling.
There is a family room with an A-frame ceiling, a formal dining room, four bedrooms and eight bathrooms.
Think an inverted Noah's arc, knotty pine floor planks in the modified A-frame ceiling supported by the sorts of struts that keep a ship afloat in the roughest seas.
Designed by the Santa Monica-based design boutique agency Studio Collective, it has macrame lampshades and sea shells, hand-painted Mexican tiles along the bar, leather bar stools handmade in Spain and A-frame ceilings that give the look and vibe of an old-school Hollywood Hills bungalow. .
Apart from the regular dusting, a scheduled dusting should be done on the photo frames, ceilings and fans, air conditioners and other electrical and electronics devices, inside the furniture, doors and windows including the window sills, carpets etc. Rather you should clean such things which you see on a routine basis but don't clean on a routine basis.
Take your time, and look carefully: elaborate frescoes and paintings, sculpted frames, coffered ceilings, carved wall paneling, faceted doors.
Using mirrors and stainless steel for architectural elements like window frames and ceilings, and concealing corners with curved, upholstered wall panels, Vichey (who now lives in France and Italy) transformed a warren of small rooms into a sleek but intimate aerie.
I hate taking the time to smooth rough spots, fill holes and tape off baseboards, window frames, and ceilings.
Décor — family picture in a seashell-encrusted frame; pressed tin ceiling; massive pizza oven; flour-covered galley kitchen — is minimal.
