Cloud Pagoda
Exterior---Entrance/Kitchen---Living Room/Study---Bathroom (1st Floor)/Stairs
Studio ---Bedroom/Dressing Room/Bathroom (2nd Floor)
Design Plans & Construction Photos
This is the first thing you see after you get out the elevator and open the front door. Originally this is supposed to be the entrance balcony, but we sealed it off with a movable glass enclosure so now it's more like a small entrance foyer. I'm not into the idea of hanging up my own artworks since I much prefer to look at paintings by artists I admire, but Elena made me put up a couple of my own. She said we should have the wolves and the angel guard the front door for us. It's a comforting thought I guess.
I knew exactly what I wanted during the designing and planning phase, and I simply just drew/painted/collaged mockups for the contractors to see (using Photoshop). I did mockups of how the spaces should look when finished, including custom-built furniture and with all the pictures "virtually" hung on the walls (including mocking up the type of frames that would be ideal) so I could see if they matched the spaces well. Elena trusted my instinct completely, and some of the details were her idea.
Looking out.
Looking down.
And going in.
The kitchen is to the right after entering. To the left is the storage room. For all you artists--let's see how many paintings on the wall you can identify. Some of them are prints we purchased, some are up-scaled high resolution scans/photos I took from the numerous art books I have, and some were downloaded from online (with carefully up-scaling). The up-scaled ones range from excellent quality (almost like a commercial print) to good enough for displaying at a distance (meaning you're not supposed to put your nose up to it). I spent two weeks scanning, up-scaling, tweaking/touching up, and supervising the printing process. Overall, one week was spent scanning/tweaking/touching up the prints (for example if a painting was printed on facing pages, I'd have to carefully touch up the middle joining sections by consulting various references I could find). Then another week at the printing facility (I brought my own setup there because I was not happy with theirs. Local printing facilities in Fuzhou are far from satisfactory).
Exterior---Entrance/Kitchen---Living Room/Study---Bathroom (1st Floor)/Stairs