Welcome to the fifth week of my home office makeover I’m doing as part of Calling It Home’s One Room Challenge. Along the history-conscious East Coast, the living room of an Oyster Bay, New York, home in which George Washington really did sleep (during a 1790 visit) had a lot to live up to. So when designer Sallie Giordano bought it as her family’s weekend retreat, one of her overarching impulses was to honor its age.
You’ll find examples that reflect the choices made for different styles and periods, and you’ll no doubt find one or two examples that will inspire you to craft an elegant design for your living room! Porro prism designs have the added benefit of folding the optical path so that the physical length of the binoculars is less than the focal length of the objective and wider spacing of the objectives gives a better sensation …