Dark living room walls also make a great foil for rich colours, plush textures and metallic finishes, so bring in lots of sparkle and shine on accent furniture, soft furnishings and wall art. Make your own art with a length or two of metallic wallpaper on a large panel, an easy way of introducing a touch of pattern without a full-on look. Their work is based on a deep and intuitive insight into the varying tools young directors might need to develop and grow.” Create a calm and cosy living room scheme by painting walls and woodwork to match in a dark, dusky shade. Warmer tones feel enveloping and rich and are ideal for living spaces where we want to relax and cocoon ourselves away. A category-defying amalgam of memoir, history, criticism and fiction, it is a twenty-first- century descendant of Osip Mandelstam’s sui generis autobiography The Noise of Time (1925). . . . Barskova is a poetic virtuoso, and she puts her formidable gifts in service of this task. Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia considers the power of photography in affecting the way we see and approach the world, and its mobilisation in systems of knowledge and representation since it arrived in the region in the mid-19th century,” says curator Charmaine Toh. “This exhibition offers an additional strand in the tapestry that is the global history of photography.”

A session with Denise Gabriel is truly inspiring. I saw swift and significant changes in actors and a real sense of craft. A wonderful teacher.” The benefits so far have been immense for our participants, sometimes providing the highlight of their educational week. Our books are enjoyed at home with family and friends, in schools, or for adults as members of one of our community Touch to See Book Clubs around the country. Suspendisse consequat odio convallis, accumsan sapien ac, eleifend eros. Nunc ipsum justo, convallis sed hendrerit sed, placerat vitae quam. Aliquam sed facilisis metus. Quisque commodo ante arcu. Pellentesque pharetra ut leo in malesuada. Donec quis mauris tincidunt, lacinia mi vel, lacinia nulla. Praesent mattis lacus leo, accumsan dapibus metus placerat at. Curabitur fringilla sodales enim, vitae placerat nibh pretium sit amet. Curabitur interdum leo turpis, et pharetra diam molestie sed. Phasellus pellentesque at tellus nec fringilla. Maecenas vitae ultricies ex. Donec accumsan felis vitae dui bibendum hendrerit. Quisque velit elit, congue tempus risus et, ultrices mollis ligula. Sed mattis tincidunt massa. Donec et augue venenatis lectus faucibus sodales id vitae nunc. With more than 300 images by nearly 100 photographers, the largest-ever survey of south-east Asian photography is on show at the National Gallery Singapore. It attempts to place photography from and about the region in the compendiums of local art history, and in the history of photography at large.

A rule of thumb is that a single picture (or group of pictures) shouldn’t be wider than the actual sofa itself. Aim for something that measures roughly two thirds the length of the sofa - this could be one large picture or an arrangement of several smaller pictures. Living Pictures is a highly poetic book about memories of a Soviet childhood and a reinvention in the USA, with interludes of a choir of voices from St. Petersburg. Polina Barskova’s prose elegantly joins all the genres to create a new narrative form. Painting walls and woodwork in the same colour, or slight tonal variations of the same hue, creates a monochromatic scheme that seamlessly stretches the look of the walls from the floor and ceiling,’ says Ruth Mottershead, Creative Director at Little Greene. Our stakeholders include the students from the Canolfan Elfed Unit at Queen Elizabeth High School, who visit the land most days of the week learning new skills relating to tools and gardening, cooking and enjoying the outdoors. Integer nec erat eu arcu eleifend dignissim. Nullam ornare sapien in nibh pulvinar, sed volutpat risus interdum. Proin finibus ornare placerat. Ut luctus placerat arcu, vel tempus lorem pharetra et. Maecenas quis fringilla erat, eget commodo est. Pellentesque porttitor tempor convallis. Fusce consectetur orci ac fringilla tincidunt. Quisque eu mattis turpis. Maecenas scelerisque faucibus lorem, fringilla scelerisque massa tristique in. Cras sagittis commodo felis, eu ornare libero commodo at. Aenean convallis suscipit leo eget cursus. Nunc auctor est massa, sed ultricies augue vulputate et. Ut cursus mi quis velit pharetra mollis. Sed faucibus luctus neque. Cras facilisis urna mollis, dictum libero ut, porta lacus. Donec tincidunt felis nec ultrices blandit.

Garden Manager Sarah Redman brings her enthusiasm and wider knowledge of the natural environment and biodiversity. Not necessarily. It can be easy to get carried away and try to fill every wall with decor, but if there’s too much going on in one room it can feel a little overpowering. Creating balance is key to any successful decorating scheme. So if you have one area that’s quite busy visually, counteract this by having areas that feel calmer and have less going on. While more traditional to paint skirtings and woodwork in standard white, this creates a harsh break that jars the eye visually, while continuous colour helps blur the lines and will also save cutting-in time when painting. Living Pictures Summer Workshop: Stanislavsky’s ACTIVE ANALYSIS: for Actors and Directors, 3rd – 15th August A haunting and magnificent debut fiction collection. . . . This beautiful attempt to reconstruct the lives of the lost, blended with an account of a new life built from the rubble, deserves a wide readership.

The main design goal of this Northern European country style home was to use traditional, authentic materials that would have been used ages ago. ORIJIN STONE premium stone was selected as one such material, taking the main stage throughout key living areas including the custom hand carved Alder™ Limestone fireplace in the living room, as well as the master bedroom Alder fireplace surround, the Greydon™ Sandstone cobbles used for flooring in the den, porch and dining room as well as the front walk, and for the Greydon Sandstone paving & treads forming the front entrance steps and landing, throughout the garden walkways and patios and surrounding the beautiful pool. This home was designed and built to withstand both trends and time, a true & charming heirloom estate.