Sentences with phrase «like bare walls»

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When we had deprived the house of all its items, when the objects had vanished and the colors had faded into eight gray suitcases, like errant genies evaporating into their bottles, my students and I stood against the bare white wall of the dining room and took two photographs.

The 124 - room Hewing Hotel is at the corner of Washington and 3rd Avenue, featuring «Nordic - inspired décor» like lots of bare wood and rooms with exposed brick walls and timber ceilings.

The bare walls, patched with tape and water stains, have the somber colors and dapper asymmetry of African American art after Synthetic Cubism, like Romare Bearden.

A 1995 work, so cartoon - like that you almost expect a caption, is mostly a big, tilting expanse of bare canvas — a floor — extending toward a far - off green wall dotted with numerous tiny paintings.

In the strongest work in this show, what look like cut - up scraps of painted canvas are really thick swaths of acrylic paint, peeled off a flat surface and draped over bare wood stretcher bars leaning against the wall.

You find everything here from white cube galleries to gritty cellar like spaces with bare brick walls; cliche hipster bars, small boutiques, a shop that only sells chocolate, a weekly flower market, juice places, parks, the bike shed, design hotels such as the Ace Hotel and Shoreditch House, fantastic restaurants, tiny cafes, record stores, even the canal is just a quick walk away.

The director's office is high - ceilinged, shabby - grand, but also, with its thick walls and silence, its posters slightly too small for the expanses of white plaster, a bare and somewhat lonely place — like an isolation cell, or a very posh bunker.

I find my problem with «coziness» is I feel like my walls are too bare and I just don't have the right decor on the tables....

Our poor dining room walls have been bare for so long and I was hoping to find something fun like this to do.

Your comment about white walls as a backdrop for bolder colors is particularly significant fo me as the previous owners of my new «old» house repainted everything except the bedrooms / baths in a custom color that was probably meant to be a beige but in most light looks to me like a very soft golden yellow with even a hint of peach (not ugly, but only the barest hint of beige in the shadows — can't imagine why or how they chose it).

The bare brick walls and similar toned wooden floors can take eclectic patterns — such as the mismatched sofa and painterly wall panel — all of which is perfectly offset by the slender the linear nature of the fan - like scree and delicate furniture.