An Enchanting NYC Jewel Box Showroom from UK Designers Pinch
We first posted on UK-based Pinch Design back in 2009, in the early days of Remodelista, and our admiration continues unabated. The London furniture company has flourished under the leadership of...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: The Long Weekend
Here’s to the long weekend—and game nights for a cause, a new series to stream, the best sales, and more. Read on: Who’s recently back from Brimfield? Tag us with your finds on Instagram @remodelista;...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Junior Schouten
We are such unabashed fans of Brooklyn Grange and what they do: promoting, designing, building, and maintaining sustainable urban green spaces. If you want to visit their projects, you’ll likely have...
View ArticleCreative Reuse Cabin: A Decommissioned Electrical Building Converted into...
The electrical building sat unused for years. Part of QuadroDesign’s small industrial campus–with palm trees and fanciful 1960s architecture—the structure was singled out by the company owners as a...
View ArticleSteal This Look: A Hudson Valley DIY Kitchen by a Stealth Design Star
Designer Deborah Ehrlich favors deconstruction over renovation and reduction over decoration. Her 1722 Hudson Valley farmhouse is proof: Ehrlich opened up the floor plan, exposed beams and plaster...
View ArticleDIY: A Simple, Fresh Headboard Hack
Recently in our inbox: the new spring collection from Morrow Soft Goods. Besides the heirloom-like textiles for bed and bath, something else also caught our eye: a simple, ad-hoc yet impactful...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Kitchen Compost Bins
Composting is an essential kitchen task. When I began composting our kitchen scraps (I live in area with a great municipal compost program), we cut our trash output by more than half. Now, when I see a...
View ArticleMeanwhile, on Gardenista: Dining Out Season
Welcome to Meanwhile, on Gardenista, in which we take a look at the goings-on over on our sibling site. In this week’s edition: There are innumerable things we love about summer—but high on our list?...
View ArticleKitchen of the Week: A Cookbook Author’s Deconstructed Australian Shed
As a new mother living in Australia, Carter Were wanted to feel more connected to her sister Harriet in New Zealand. So she proposed that they embark upon a joint project that would allow them to...
View ArticleHigh/Low/Medium: Perforated Lights, Trend Edition
Have you noticed? Perforations, apertures, and otherwise hole-punched design is still going strong. And now it seems lighting is getting in on the punctuated aesthetic—so you can still get in on the...
View ArticleThe Gardener’s Cottage Guesthouse: A Project by “Intuitive Antiques...
Max Rollitt’s bio begins: “born into the world of antiques.” His mother had her own shop in Winchester, England, and, after studying cabinetmaking, furniture design, and restoration, Max opened his own...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Armchair Travel
Just ahead? A Shaker exhibit, the cool cookbook we’re pre-ordering, a French guest house, tomato (wallpaper) summer, and more on our radar. Read on… “I love these mobiles and wall hangings,” says...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Lucy Bathurst
Lately we’ve been noticing the return of lace and eyelet in a way that’s somehow, against all odds, totally un-frilly. Case in point? The romantic yet fresh lace curtains by Nest Design, like these....
View ArticleIn Harmoni: A Low-Impact Summerhouse in Rural Vollerup, Denmark
Situated on the forested Vollerup Strand of Denmark, about an hour and a half north of Copenhagen, Harmoni House is a low-impact summerhouse created by Christoffer Immanuel and Line Thygesen in...
View ArticleSteal This Look: A Summery, Camp-Style Bedroom on Shelter Island
From Brooklyn-based firm Workstead, this Shelter Island retreat for a small family is complete with an elegant camp-style bedroom for the couple’s young daughter. It’s minimally designed with simple,...
View ArticleMade in Connecticut: A New Line of Good-Looking, Flush-Mounted Electrical...
A favorite find from NYC’s recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair was one of the show’s blink and you might miss it debuts: streamlined electrical outlets from architectural lighting brand...
View ArticleRehab Diary: How to Paint Furniture Like an Expert
A few summers ago, my husband and I were driving on Cape Cod when I spied a couple of midcentury modernesque chairs outside a thrift shop. “Stop!” I yelled–we were in need of dining chairs. When I...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Architects’ Favorite Butter Yellow Paint Picks
Butter yellow is a very particular shade—not too saturated but also not so washed out that it becomes pastel. It’s commanding yet understated, and balances a bevy of complementary colors. We’ve...
View ArticleKitchen of the Week: Neutral and Natural in Twentynine Palms, California
Just a few years ago, Kelsey Coppetti was producing digital marketing campaigns for companies like Netflix, Uber, and Toyota. But she pivoted her career to interior design when she and her husband...
View ArticleDesign Detail: A Poetic “Shroud” to Hide the TV
I love putting a movie on the “big screen”—AKA the TV. Much better and more atmospheric than a laptop. But I don’t love the idea of having a screen front and center in our living area. In fact, none of...
View ArticleThe Editors’ Cut: Garden-Inspired Favorites for the Summer Table
Welcome to The Editors’ Cut, our monthly column dedicated to beautiful and useful finds for all over the house. In this installment: our freshly picked finds for the summer kitchen. From a terracotta...
View ArticleOverbrook Overlook: An Architect’s Barn-Turned-Tiny Home ‘Operates Much...
Architect Steve McDowell’s reimagining of a rundown hay barn in Overbrook, Kansas, is among the most striking examples of a repurposed outbuilding we’ve ever seen—and that’s largely due to his...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: The Artist’s Atelier
It’s June, and everywhere nature is at its peak—but handmade beauty abounds, too. This week we’ve been noting a 1600s stone house decorated with blue illustrations, whimsical works by “the Picasso of...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Nishiel Patel
As soon as we spied landscape and urban designer Nishiel Patel‘s exceptional work on a Brooklyn Heights landmark home (see the interiors here and the garden here), we knew we wanted to tap her as our...
View ArticleHooked on a Ruin: A Remote Barn Conversion in Rural Iceland
The Icelandic artist Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir and her husband, Ævar Kristjánsson, a well-known Icelandic broadcaster, had spent years searching for a new home and studio—“a remote place with a view”—when...
View ArticleSleep Well: A Luxury Mattress Designed with Simplicity in Mind, from Tiami
We’ve long known that sleep hygiene is critically important to health—and that includes devoting attention to how the bedroom is designed and how it makes you feel. Soothing colors, warm lighting, an...
View ArticleFather’s Day Gift Guide: Myles Tipley’s 16 Picks for the Design-Minded Dad
Myles Tipley is the dad we’ve been turning to year after year for Father’s Day ideas. A self-taught aesthete, car aficionado, former design blogger, avid recreational shopper, and longstanding...
View ArticleSteal This Look: A Retro Bath on the English Seaside
Ever since we featured The Rose, a new hotel in the seaside town of Deal in East Kent, England, we’ve been thinking of the boldly colorful rooms and baths designed by Harding & Read and stylist...
View ArticleTrend Alert: Cool, Un-Frilly Lace, Eyelet, and Embroidery
When we were growing up, my older sister had a dressing table in her room that was bedecked in a floor-length skirt with an eyelet ruffle at the bottom. It was decidedly frilly—and odd, since it didn’t...
View ArticleMeanwhile, On Gardenista: The Painter’s Garden
Welcome to Meanwhile, on Gardenista, in which we take a look at the goings-on over on our sibling site. This week: painterly landscapes, picnic inspiration, and an artist’s botanical prints. In other...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Elegant Everyday Drinking Glasses, Editors’ Picks Edition
An essential for any kitchen: well-proportioned all-purpose drinking glasses. Here’s what we’ve got on our shelves. N.B.: This post was originally published on July 27, 2011. We have updated it with...
View ArticleKitchen of the Week: Embracing the Old with Quintana Partners
Quintana Partners do plenty to the kitchens they remodel, but you’d never know it. Based on the Spanish island of Menorca (land of white sand bays and British colonial architecture, not be confused...
View ArticleExpert Advice: What Makes Some LED Light Bulbs Much Better than Others?
“We love LEDs,” says Brendan Ravenhill of LA lighting company Ravenhill Studio. “They’re better for the environment. They’re sturdier than their incandescent counterparts and will outlive most of your...
View ArticleDesign Travel: Hotel Wren in Twentynine Palms
A light led us to Hotel Wren—to be specific, the sculptural yet airy pendants by a Sydney-based artist that hang in the guest rooms (which Margot wrote about here). Muted, earthy, and serene, the newly...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Weekend Reads
Ahead this weekend? A pretty summer trend, a cooking school in Japan, in praise of boulders, and more. Read on: Fresh, airy, and un-frilly: the trend we’re surprisingly into. And loving Margot’s...
View ArticleQuick Takes With: Maria Berman and Brad Horn
“Weirdness and charm”: That’s how husband-and-wife duo Maria Berman and Brad Horn, who together make Berman Horn Studio, described the first project we covered of theirs, a quirky, color-filled...
View ArticleHigh/Low/Medium: Geometric Scandinavian Röllakan Rugs
In my dreams I have a blue-green flat-woven rug by one of Scandinavia’s iconic textile designers. An original by Ingegerd Silow, Marianne Richter, Maja Andersson-Wirde, Barbro Nilsson, Judith...
View ArticleSimplicity Reigns: An Architect’s Pared-Down Summer Home in Denmark
To get to her weekend home in Sjællands Odde, Denmark, Karen Kjaergaard takes an 80-minute ferry ride from big coastal city Aarhus to little port Odden on the peninsula. Once there, life slows down and...
View ArticleSteal This Look: A Calm, Quality-Conscious Kitchen in Denmark
In the design of her single-story dream house outside of Copenhagen, 80-year-old Frida called on firm Entasis to realize her vision. The clean and modern kitchen, at its core, is supplied by Danish...
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