Found Materials

The practice of creating a whole from unlikely found or otherwise acquired objects is one that I apply to interior design.  I pull together old brick that has been exposed to many fires in one house into a new house... the bricks age complements the newness of freshly cut and milled timbers that dress the ceiling.  On the floor may be some old roofing slate cut into tiles adjoining spruce and hemlock wood that was acquired from one of the oldest houses in Lincoln. An old door to the basement rises vertically from the slates integrity.  The walls around all this are a semi smooth surface of plaster painted with a low VOC paint in a jersey cream color.  All together these elements from many different locations come together and create a new space that has history and a story to be told.  There is a certain sensation to the way it feels and a character to be seen that is unique from any other space.