Some scenes are best framed formally, with a doorway. Think ‘enfilade’ — a group of rooms with doorways in line, like this view at the Tate Britain.
Or sometimes framing can be informal, with a portion of the surroundings —
But back to ‘enfilade’ — I’ll segue now to garden, and use this example from the tour to Glastonbury that Sam and I took in May.
I learned about enfilade from reading Tara Dillard’s blog.
Meanwhile, on the homefront, there’s another kind of bath — the bathroom. This one has no kayaks and things are not so pretty. One bathroom is being demolished as I write…bang bang bang just overhead. Here’s the state of destruction at lunchtime…

Framed by the doorway — gutting the bathroom, and oh how it needed it. See that green strip on the bottom where the tub was framed in? You can see that previous owners had it refinished from avocado green to white.
I used to think I could wait until avocado green and harvest gold were in again. Now I realize that may not happen in my lifetime. I’ll stand by this quote from one of the comics in the Sunday paper a couple of weeks ago…
Everything I have is in that awkward stage between outdated and retro.
(“The Lockhorns” August 21)
What do you think? Do you favor new, or should I have waited for retro?
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