Tag: <span>Met Home</span>

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Is this the Met Home of the Year?

In past years the winners of the Met Home of the Year Contest have run in the pages of the magazine but this year, the battleground for the modernist accolade, the luxe prizes, and the public praising is on PointClickHome. And it could all be yours if you enter your home by November 18th.

To give you a little taste of the competition we dug into our metcontest inbox and pulled out a house worth a mention: Trowbridge Farm. House is an understatement considering that we are talking about a 9,000-square-foot former hotel from the 1930s. When this couple first saw this Catskills behemoth in 1994, even in its state of disrepair with mushrooms growing on the living room floor and vines coming in the windows, they knew they had to have it. It took eight years to gut the 50-bedroom and ten-bathroom hotel, put on a new roof and plan the final renovation. We have to commend this labor of love and adore the historic and modern mix but the question is, is this:

MetHomeContest_Dining1.jpgThe Met Home Dining Room of the Year?

MetHomeContest_Living-room1.jpgThe Met Home Living Room of the Year?

MetHomeContest_Kitchen1.jpgThe Met Home Kitchen of the Year?

Help us decide if think this house or its individual rooms have what it takes…and if you think so, let us know with a comment, but if not, maybe you should put your home into the running.

To enter email methomecontest@hfmus.com and include photographs of your room/s and a short story of your home’s design. The best part of this contest is that in addition to whole house submissions, any space within your home is a viable entry (a mosaic tile floor, shaped like a zebra rug, is in the running right now, if that tells you anything). And for a $5,000 shopping spree to Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams or the great chance to win one of the 13 prizes for the Editor’s Favorite rooms–it’s worth an easy email entry.

Last call for submissions is November 18th, so be bold, be house proud, and send those pictures in to methomecontest@hfmus.com!

Projects

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This week we fully launched our coverage of Metropolitan Homes Showtime House: behind-the-scenes videos, house tours, room galleries, decadent decor, designer secrets, sweepstakes and virtual mood boards that’ll help you recreate the featured rooms. But when you have a four-story townhouse designed by 12 top designers using six of the edgiest, wittiest shows on television for their inspiration–it’s almost too big, too amazing to begin to capture it all. The house is packed with stories on innovative color, texture and materials–it is basically a novel on good design–but if there was one thing that makes these rooms sing, its the lighting.

(Above) Paper Clip Chandelier by Gary Ponzo featured in Jamie Drakes Californication Writers Study
Meticulously handmade from over 4,000 little clips, this chandelier casts a prism-like pattern onto ceiling and walls when illuminated by its half-silvered bulb.

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Flos Sky Garden by Marcel Wanders featured in Laura Kirars Tudors Living Room

Inspired by an antique decorated plaster ceiling in his former home, the Dutch designer created these architectural spheres with laser-cut leaves, flowers and branches in a chalk plaster relief.When grouped together, they fill the room with an illusionary garden.

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Drink Another Chandelier by Gregoire Abrial featured in Amy Laus Dexter Dining Room

Repurposed wine glasses dipped in white latex, then strung amidst wood, cables, light bulbs, wires, wax rope and ribbon form the aptly named “Drink Another.”

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Light Fixture by David Weeks featured in White Webb's Weeds Lounge

This nine-globe triple-tier fixture hovers like a mobile. Weeks slices away portions of generic cone shapes until a new, sensual form emerges which then can be added to the lamp base.

This is just a scratch on surface of great design, so click here for more from the Showtime House.

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