Current Obsessions: Good and Simple
In this week’s The New Shaker issue, we’ve been looking afresh at Shaker design, aka the trend that just keeps going, including a Shaker exhibit curated by Frances McDormand, seven new Shaker-inspired...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Michael Breland and Peter Harper
The next design duo to watch? That would be Michael Breland and Peter Harper, the partners (in life and in work) behind LA-based Breland-Harper, an interdisciplinary design firm that blends...
View ArticleThe Coach House: A Former Auto Garage Becomes a Family Home in South East London
After transforming a historic gin distillery into their first family abode, interior designer Leo Wood of Kinder Design and her architect husband, Rupert Scott of Open Practice Architecture, were ready...
View ArticleSteal This Look: An On-Trend Kitchen in a Georgian Renovation in London
A while back we featured a kitchen renovation project from deVol in a Georgian terrace off Regent’s Park in London. While the project is new, the design decisions are everlasting—from the lighting (a...
View ArticleScandi Storage for Every Room: Reform Expands Beyond the Kitchen
Founded 10 year ago by two Danish entrepreneurs, Reform made a splash by offering high-brow Ikea hacks: designer kitchen cabinet fronts—by Norm Architects and Jean Nouvel, among others—for Ikea’s base...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Burl Wood Side Tables
On par with our trend predictions for the season, we’ve noticed the return of 70s-esque burl wood in both restaurant and residential interiors. Here, we profile 10 side tables finished in burl wood for...
View ArticleKitchen of the Week: An Indoor/Outdoor Space for a Pair of Naturalists in...
Of all of the eco-minded spaces we’ve featured over the years, the project that embodies the phrase most literally is this one, in Washington state. The project (which Fan originally profiled in The...
View Article24-Hour Art: Sculptor Jeff Feld’s Live-Work Quarters and Gallery in a...
Architectural designer Lauren Lochry’s clients typically like to close a door or laptop and leave the world of work behind. Mixed-media artist Jeff Feld chooses to immerse himself in his profession....
View ArticlePretty in Pink: Café Petiole in Somerset House, London
Prettiest dining space we’ve seen in a while? Café Petiole, a recently opened plant-forward cafe in London’s Somerset House, designed by London and Milan-based Duelle Studio. Working with eco paint...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Spookiest Season
Of note this weekend: last-minute Halloween decor, cabin getaways, and time for a nice cup of tea. Read on: Only a few more days to enter to win $1,000 in design-forward lighting. Enter here. The...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Erin Rouse
If ever there were a household object that epitomizes beauty in utility, it’s a well-made broom. Specifically, an Erin Rouse broom. Through Custodian, Erin makes Shaker-style brooms that are as...
View ArticleIn the Stillness: A 1640s Georgian in an Affecting Palette by Cassandra Ellis
Recently the New Zealand-born, London-based designer Cassandra Ellis sent a note from across the pond: She’d completed a project in East Sussex, not far from her redone flint barn but “a completely...
View ArticleComing Up Next: 10 Design Trends On Our Radar
We’re calling it now: From calming wood-enveloped rooms to a playful addition to the dinner table, these are the design trends that’ll be everywhere in the months ahead. 1. Wood-Wrapped Rooms 2....
View ArticleSteal This Look: A Noirish Living Room in Coastal Sweden
We’ve featured before the remodel of a 19th-century house in Härnösand, Sweden by Sofia Nyman of Skälso Arkitekter. Outside, the wood house is painted blackish-green while inside, inky shades of gray...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Bedside Wall Shelves with Lamps
We like the idea of a bedside shelf and the floor space it frees up in lieu of bedside tables, but the question of lighting comes up. On one hand, a pint-sized cordless LED lamp might suffice, but real...
View ArticleExpert Advice: Halloween Decor Tips from a Master of the Dark Arts
Our go-to Master of the Dark Arts when it comes to Halloween? That would be Claudia Schwartz—proprietor of San Francisco’s dearly departed Bell’occhio—a sought-after SF stylist and shop owner who...
View ArticleThe Witching Hour: 16 Times a Broom Doubled as Decor, from the Archives
This is Halloween, Remodelista style. A humble household object has served as display-worthy decor in several of the homes we’ve featured over the years. Here, 16 favorite examples of brooms as witchy...
View ArticleKitchen of the Week: A New Century-Old-Looking Kitchen in a Grand Elizabethan...
When you run a U.K. company that makes hand-built wooden kitchens, you sometimes cross a moat to get to work. Such was the case for this commission by bespoke specialists Inglis Hall. It’s set on a...
View ArticlePremium Bohemian: Danish-Designed Cappelen Dimyr Rugs and Coverlets
“We want our pieces to be the final element of a personal and eclectic home,” write sisters Maja and Ellen Dixdotter. The Copenhagen-based Swedish duo together run minimalist fashion label By Malene...
View ArticleThe Treehouse: ‘New England Sensibility With a Twist’
For lovers of old homes, new builds can often feel sterile and soulless. Not this Shaker-inspired four-bedroom new construction in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee....
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Design Distraction
In need of a moment of serenity? Scroll down for a quiet backyard escape (with hot tub), pretty glass teapots, and goings-on from Paris to the West Coast. P.S. U.S. readers, have you voted yet? You can...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Emily Thompson
If Wednesday Addams were a floral designer, her arrangements would look like Emily Thompson’s: dripping, clambering, creeping, amorphous, and alive despite being very much dead. We’ve covered Emily’s...
View ArticleNext-Level Flip: A Design Couple Lovingly Transforms a 1630s House in Antwerp
Architect Thomas Maria and designer Ann Butaye are a Belgian husband-and-wife team who have recently dedicated their practice to historic house flipping. In their designs, the two use only natural,...
View ArticleTrend Alert: 12 Artful Folding Screens as Decor
Noticed lately: folding screens as decor. Here are some favorites: Above: A screen by Edgar Jayet featuring a cotton canvas from Chiarastella Cattana’s collection. See more: Trend Alert: 7 Folding...
View ArticleElection Day: V Is for Voting
It’s Election Day, and we’re pausing our regularly scheduled programming to go to the polls. Please join us: You can find your polling location and hours (or check on the status of your ballot) at...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Classic Teakettles
Ever spent hours sleuthing for something as seemingly simple as the perfect teakettle? We have. We’ve taken notes from each other, sifted through all the options, and narrowed down our selection to 10...
View ArticleRest Your Eye Here: 9 Spaces Enveloped in Wood
Rooms wrapped entirely in wood are all over the place these days, and we recently read an insight about why: Wood, evidently, offers a subtle nod to the outdoors and sense of warmth that’s soothing to...
View ArticleKitchen of the Week: Rethinking Perfection in a Cabinetmaker’s Own Kitchen
Ben Block has hand-crafted countless kitchens all over the state of Maine via his company, Block Brothers Custom Cabinets, based in Northport. But the one he sent our way this spring is by far his most...
View ArticleTrend Alert: The Storybook Look
In the design world, a homey popularism is ascendant. The sustainability movement’s celebration of all things vintage has led to a new appreciation for furnishings that are cozy, robust, and firmly...
View Article7 Tips for Creating a Calm, Low-Key Bedroom with Tricia Rose of Rough Linen
We can always rely on Tricia Rose, the doyenne of Rough Linen, for a bit of bedroom advice. Here, she tells us how to achieve a calm, low-key bedroom, scented candles not included. 1. Get comfortable....
View ArticleA Place for Dreaming: An Elemental and Sustainably Built Retreat in Cornwall...
We’ve long admired the artful approach of SASA Works, a workshop-based architecture practice out of London’s Hackney neighborhood headed by polymath Craig Bamford and artist Isik Sayarer. Bamford,...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Take Care
Dear readers, hope you have a haven to hunker down in this weekend. It’s a good time to declutter, hang some art, gather around the table, and take care of your space. And if you’re looking for a...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Heidi Lachapelle
Three words Heidi Lachapelle channeled for her recent interiors project? “Color and pattern and layers.” Come to think of it, that pretty much sums up the kind of warm, considered interiors we’re...
View ArticleA Scottish Fisherman’s Cottage Gets an Update, with Make-Do-and-Mend Spirit
On the rugged coast of Scotland’s Isle of Mull, a small stone cottage sits just feet from the chilly water. The old bothy was a fisherman’s refuge and a sheep pen before it was purchased by Peter...
View ArticleObject Lessons: Vico Magistretti’s Carimate Chairs
This may be the chic-est thing ever to come out of a golf club. Vico Magistretti originally designed his iconic Carimate Chairs with rush seating in 1959 for the Carimate Golf Club, just north of...
View ArticleSteal This Look: A Lush Country Living Room in the Canadian Wilds
When John and Juli Baker of Toronto shop Mjölk bought an 1800s farming stone house north of Lake Ontario, it was an impulse. In spite of that fact, the interior came together quite thoughtfully...
View ArticleNow Admiring: Wool Throw Rugs for Warmth Underfoot
Feel like bundling up lately? Same. Sweater season is upon us, and it’s time to layer up your interiors, too. Personally I like to add literal and visual warmth with rugs in the cold months, and the...
View ArticleJust Add Blankets: 11 Built-In Reading Nooks, Small Space Edition
Have an unused stretch of hallway, a spot beneath the eves, a spot beneath a window, or an awkward nook that does nothing but collect dust bunnies? Perhaps you need a reading nook. With a platform, a...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Serving Platters
A platter for all seasons: Here are our 10 favorite serving platters with perennial appeal. For more serving pieces, see our posts: 10 Easy Pieces: Serving Trays 10 Easy Pieces: Handmade Ceramic...
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