Greenhouse conservatory project
Nancy and I recently attended a party at the newly completed home of the client who’s greenhouse conservatory is pictured on our website page: Dome Palmhouse
It is an amazing home with each room being finished differently in various exotic woods. Even the windows in the different rooms are completely different. One room has steel casements, another mahogany triple-hungs etc. You might think that this effect would be one of disharmony – and it could have been, but this holds together very well due to the skill of the architects, Custom Design Concepts Architecture, in McLean, Virginia.
There was a beautiful two-story, round, walnut-paneled library with an old-world looking steel balcony that is lined with bookshelves and has a domed ceiling painted with images reminiscent of the great classical frescos.
John Kiernan of Blue Line Studios in Warrenton Virginia is the artist responsible for the work. A former police officer turned painter he has studied many years to become a master of faux finishes and “reality” murals and in 2005 he was inducted into “Salon”, the International Society of Decorative Painters.
Check out John’s website at www.bluelinestudios1.com.
I’m going to post some more pictures of this amazing conservatory soon. It was the first project that Tanglewood undertook which has an exposed decorative steel superstructure inside. In the meantime you can get a preview by looking at “Our Portfolio”, page #10 on our website.
