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Brett Beldock, a Manhattan interior designer, was thinking about El Morocco and the Monkey Bar when she designed the interiors of a new assisted living facility, the Lodge at Otter Creek, in Middlebury, Vt. "That was their heyday," Ms. Beldock said, referring to the facilitys intended residents. She also was imagining a preppy New England vernacular, with framed botanicals, woodland creatures and the like. These nostalgic touchstones collide in oversize, graphic imagery meant to soothe and elate the inhabitants.
Ms. Beldock designed five wallpapers, made by Stark (which will now produce them for sale), including a huge tropical print embedded with monkeys for the Great Room, top right. In the dining room, she covered the walls with Lucite printed with lace that she had photocopied and enlarged; the library, below right, has glowing bookshelves like those on an ocean liner.
In June, when the residents moved in, Ms. Beldock received her first reviews, all pretty good. The wallpaper installer, she said, had overheard two women assessing their new home. "Even the furniture is sexy," one told the other approvingly. And when Ms. Beldock was hanging paintings in the Alzheimers wing (a k a the Haven Memory Care Center), a man who had been uncommunicative in his last home, according to the staff, took a great interest in her work. "He tried to buy the paintings with his checkers," she said. "And when I left, he leaned over and told me quietly, You can call me Moishe. " |
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For the seasoned chef or anyone who thinks a regular kitchen sink isn't enough, Kohler has introduced the Crevasse rinsing sink. 33 inches long and just eight inches wide, it is intended to make food preparation and cleanup more efficient: one button next to the sink triggers a cold water rinse, and a second activates a more forceful wash of water once preparations are done, simultaneously running the garbage disposal. (The sink doesn't come with a disposal, but it accommodates a standard size one.) A silicon baffle device helps waste slide easily into the disposal, eliminating the need to push scraps down the drain with a fork or, worse, a finger. |
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