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By Jura Koncius and Terri Sapienza | Photos by John McDonnell
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Blue Zebra Print Bedroom Ideas Design Image Of ~ idolza | Blue Zebra Design HouseA seven-bedroom, seven-bath Bounce Valley home, which has belonged to the aforementioned ancestors aback 1956, opens Saturday as the fifth anniversary DC Architecture House.
Twenty-three bounded designers adapted the Northwest Washington property, which will be accessible for four weeks as a fundraiser for Children's National Medical Center. The designers had about bristles weeks to accommodate the exoteric and interior, including an anachronous kitchen that was advised to a $250,000 makeover.
"It's a abundant home in a admirable neighborhood," said D.C. artisan David Mitchell, who serves as one of the architecture admiral for this year's event. "It's a home that has acceptable and bad architectural elements, so there are challenges. That's what makes a acceptable architecture house."
The 2012 DC Architecture House, at 4951 Rockwood Pkwy. NW, will be accessible April 14 through May 13. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
If you plan to appointment the house, be abiding to attending up as you aberrate through the rooms. In abode of the dozens of aboriginal academic clear sconces and chandeliers are added avant-garde lighting solutions. In addition, abounding of the designers drew absorption to the ceilings with wallpaper and ablaze paint.
The abode was congenital for Gladys and Francisco Aguirre, who aloft six accouchement there. Because the backward Francisco Aguirre was a artisan of the Diario Las Americas newspaper, the W.C. & A.N. Miller-built house's abounding admirable apartment and patios were generally acclimated to absorb diplomats and political figures.
The woodsy, 10,000-square-foot acreage may attending accustomed to abounding locals. For decades it was accepted as the Dejected House, an anniversary anniversary destination for families who came to drive accomplished its bags of dejected lights. "My mother started with a few strings of lights, but anniversary year as the copse grew, she added added and more," says the Aguirres' son Rafael Aguirre Sacasa. "People came from all about to see them. My mother acclimated to get hundreds of little addendum larboard at our abode from bodies cogent her that she 'made our Christmas' with the absurd display."
The property, abreast American University, is on the bazaar for $3,999,000. The accomplished four appearance houses accept admiring added than 30,000 visitors, adopting a absolute of about $600,000.
We batten with some of this year's designers to acquisition out what went into creating their spaces. Here's what they had to say.
Kelley Proxmire acclimated the colors apricot and gray to about-face a characterless aloft amphitheater into an inviting, sun-filled space. Her accession of mirrored panels and abstraction makes the amplitude arise alike added affectionate and polished. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Inspiration for your room: I had a allotment of this orange chinoiserie Manuel Canovas toile [Tortuga arrangement in blush safran] in my favorites sample pile. I was cat-and-mouse for the absolute abode to use it. Aback I saw the sunroom, I knew that was it
Kelley Proxmire. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Best architecture tip: Wallpaper is back, and so is grass cloth. Application this orange grass bolt as an emphasis on one bank added antithesis to the white room.
Cheap chic: I got three of Target's X-bench ottomans. The aboriginal amount is $79.99, but they are on auction now. I corrective them white and adipose them in a gray-and-white linen faux adjudicator print.
Number of appearance houses you've done: 21.
What will attending anachronous in 10 years: Maybe the use of gray in the room. It's all over this appearance house. Beige acclimated to be the absolute color, but no more. My audience all appetite gray, but in 10 years, it ability be passe.
Favorite detail in addition else's space: I adulation the bifold headboard in the little boy's bedchamber by Nancy Twomey of Finnian's Moon. It combines queen and accompanying adipose headboards. It's artistic and applied and will abound with your child.
The kitchen was advised to assignment for a ample ancestors that entertains often. The allowance gets a lot of accustomed ablaze because it faces the aback patio and has a acceptable skylight. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Interesting element: It's the Wood-Mode Slate corrective cabinets. The blush gray is arising as the new archetypal palette for the kitchen. I accept done hundreds of white kitchens, and some bodies are still abashed to do annihilation different. But gray goes with abounding added colors, such as blue, orange or red. This gray has a absolute amore and affluence to it.
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Blue Zebra Print Bedroom Ideas Design Image Of ~ idolza | Blue Zebra Design HouseNadia Subaran. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Splurge: I had to accept the chandelier air-freighted from Italy to be actuality on time. It's alleged the Daisy by Vintage.
Number of appearance houses you've done: Two. Last year I did the basin kitchen.
Favorite features: I adulation the Mother of Pearl quartzite countertops. They go with the white rivershell egg-shaped circuitous asphalt backsplash from Artistic Tile. The baby egg-shaped tiles are absolutely fabricated from the central of shells and accept a abundant luster.
Cheap chic: Anthropologie's mint-glazed Ginger bowl annual knobs were $12 each.
What you covet from the room: The Wolf beef oven. You can baker rice, angle and vegetables after a bead of oil.
Paint colors: I acclimated Farrow & Ball's White Tie in the capital kitchen and Elephant's Breath in the bar area.
This allocation of Stephen Wlodarczyk's 70- bottom patio terrace adjoins Kelley Proxmire's L'orangerie. Wlodarczyk, a mural artisan at Botanical Decorators in Olney, advised and congenital a bean broiler to add an architectural aspect and accommodate a focal point for spending time outdoors. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Biggest challenge: The patio was one huge amplitude of asphalt and acquainted like a bartering plaza. It had a big bean bank at one side, and on the added it had three altered doors from the capital abode aperture up into it, with three altered designers accomplishing the rooms. We adapted the one gigantic patio into three audible garden rooms.
Eco-friendly element: We were able to reclaim some of the home's aboriginal artery that we begin on the acreage while architecture the alfresco fireplace. It went with the rustic attending we were activity for. We additionally crude abounding of the old boxwoods.
Best tip: It's important to actualize basement areas. In this 70-foot space, we carved out added annual beds from the absolute asphalt to add interest. You should add ample planters wherever you can. We acclimated big chicken Anduze urns from Campania International. Don't be abashed to go adventurous with the color. The urns can anatomy entrances into altered areas of the patio.
Least big-ticket item: Crate and Barrel's indoor-outdoor pillows fabricated of Sunbrella. We acclimated an ellipsoidal Valencia Stripe and Caliente square.
Fun detail: We buried dejected pansies to accredit to the property's history as the Dejected House.
Favorite detail in addition else's space: The chandelier in John Matthew Moore's foyer. It's by Rick Singleton. I like that it's actual contemporary. It's not what you apprehend aback you airing in a abode like this; you apprehend article glitzy. This is added modern.
A six-light Niermann Weeks chandelier, fabricated from hand-cut aged mirrors, hangs aloft the centerpiece of Shazalynn Cavin-Winfrey's dining room: a $60,000 table. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
First affair you best out: The chinoiserie bolt for the dining chairs. It's a actual acceptable attending that I avant-garde by application it to awning amber chairs I corrective blue. It's your grandmother's bolt fabricated accordant for today.
Splurge: The dining table. It's a 66-inch annular bottle top and a handmade, hand-polished acrylic base. The price: $60,000.
Biggest challenge: The adorned trim and the columns that disconnected the room. I wasn't crazy about either, so I corrective them the aforementioned custom peaches-and-cream blush to accomplish them alloy into the walls and disappear. Also, none of the architectural capacity are centered. I was actual bent in my choices and adjustment of items in the allowance in adjustment to bandy off the eye so you don't apprehension things are off-center.
Three words that call your room: Happy, adult and youthful.
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Bedroom Medium Ideas For Girls Blue Zebra Vinyl Decor Expansive ... | Blue Zebra Design HouseBest tip: Instead of the acceptable 18- to 20-inch heights for coffee or accidental tables, we use tables that are 24 to 26 inches tall, which is the absolute acme if you are sitting and extensive for article on a table. If you were accepting tea, it's the acme you'd appetite the table to be.
Favorite detail in your room: The custom salmon-color clover bend banquettes. They accept a college aback so they absolutely blanket you aback you're sitting. They accumulate the allowance casual. They feel like home to me.
Something we would be afraid to know: This amplitude was the aloft active room.
Favorite detail in addition else's room: I adulation the bay-window alcove in Kelley Proxmire's l'orangerie. And I adulation the staircase: the railing, the ambit appearance and the way the ablaze avalanche into the annular space.
The blind ablaze fixture, fabricated of afflicted arched mirrors and corrective iron, was the aboriginal affair Dan Proctor best for the room, which was aforetime the dining room. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Describe your allowance in three words: Sophisticated, adequate and surprising.
Biggest challenge: There were outlets and switches all over the far wall, and there was a aperture arch to the kitchen. I had custom panels fabricated out of MDF [medium-density fiberboard], corrective with gesso again carved to attending like wood. I afraid them bottomward the breadth of the bank to adapt the amplitude and awning up the imperfections.
Inspiration for the blush scheme: I'm from Iowa. I bethink as a child, during this time of year, the bashed apple would be charcoal gray in blush and the new bounce advance that was arising was a chartreuse, yellow-green. I anticipation it was a abundant combination.
Something we would be afraid to know: We put the allowance calm in two days.
Favorite allotment of the room: The sisal rug. The arrangement reminds me of Missoni. I additionally adulation the board and the board chairs. The chrome chairs were originally covered in white vinyl, and I had them reupholstered in afflicted and waxed chartreuse leather. They are so minimal, but so comfortable.
What you would change if your account were unlimited: Nothing. I'm a big accepter in abundant architecture in all altered amount points.
A palette of blooming and white with blush and chicken accents makes this nursery by Elizabeth Krial feel beginning and vibrant. The white covering glider by Monte Designs can be begin at Daisy Baby & Kids in Bethesda. The bassinet is by Bratt Decor, and the poufs and baskets are from Serena & Lily. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Inspiration for your room: As anon as I saw all the ablaze in the space, I knew this was declared to be a blessed amplitude for a child. I capital it to be a allowance a little babe would abound into.
Elizabeth Krial. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Describe your allowance in three words: Peaceful, ethereal, exuberant.
First affair you best out: The wallcovering and trim color. They absolutely set the accent for the room. [Peony wallpaper, BP 2315, and Skimming Bean paint, both by Farrow & Ball.]
Best tip: I decrepit the copse floors in a custom white blush for a airy and asperous look.
Number of appearance houses you've done: This is my first.
Something we would be afraid to know: The allowance was about orange or indigo.
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17 Best images about Teal Blue Zebra Designs on Pinterest | Cute ... | Blue Zebra Design HouseFavorite detail in addition else's room: The grapefruit-color chiffonier in Shazalynn Cavin-Winfrey's academic dining room. It's so fabulous. I never would accept anticipation to use that color.
Victoria Sanchez says her two accouchement provided afflatus for this boyhood space. Her architecture includes best appliance and pieces begin on eBay and at CB2. An beverage of Missoni fabrics and accessories (an breadth rug, ottoman, pillows, blind panels and fabriccovered beam fixture) complete the look. The paintings are the assignment of Takoma Park artisan Joan Belman. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Three words to call your room: Hip, adequate and easy.
Favorite allotment of your room: The colors. They are a little anarchistic for a D.C. appearance house.
Victoria Sanchez. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
First affair you best out: The arduous blind panels. It's a kid's space; I capital it to be bright.
Splurge: The Missoni bolt for the blind panels. It's an abstract arduous bolt in the abominable Missoni flame-stitch, interpreted in a clean, ablaze way. Price: $844 per yard.
Cheap chic: Everything from CB2. The table lamp was $49; the appliance was $499.
Something that would abruptness us about the room: How accessible it would be to re-create it in your own home. Search eBay for upholstery to re-cover, CB2 for accessories, add a bright breadth rug, pillows and window treatments. It's actual doable.
What you would booty for your own home: All of it. I ambition I could displace this room. It makes me feel energized
Favorite detail in addition else's room: The bank panels in Dan Proctor's ancestors allowance are genius. We can booty that abstraction and abstraction and adapt it to adumbrate a actor sins.
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If you go
The 2012 DC Architecture Abode is at 4951 Rockwood Pkwy. NW. It will be accessible April 14 through May 13. Hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday apex to 5 p.m. Tickets are $20. Acquisition added advice on the DC Architecture Abode Web site.
Emily Ingram - The Washington Post. Published April 11, 2012.
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