10 Easy Pieces: Stylish Toolboxes
Toolboxes these days seem to be catching up with handbags: available in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, and indispensable for stowing essentials (tools and also household goods). Here's a...
View ArticleRehab Diaries: DIY Beadboard Ceilings
For five years, Emily Wright stared up her house's "stomped stalactite ceilings" wishing they'd disappear:Then she came up with an inexpensive solution, DIY beadboard paneling, that she and her...
View ArticleDIY: A New $60 Lindsey Adelman Pendant Light
Whether you live in a state-of-the-art loft or a tiny fixer-upper, chances are you'd like to have a Lindsey Adelman light dangling overhead. No other lighting designer has so quickly become a household...
View ArticleTrend Alert: Patterned Tiled Bathroom Floors, Black and White Edition
My biggest remodeling mistake? My matte white tiled bathroom floors with white grout—recipe for grubbiness. Next go round I'm thinking about a geometric black and white tile scheme. Here's a roundup of...
View ArticleMakié Clothier on Thompson Street
I first discovered Makié Clothier eight years ago when I was pregnant with my first child. Browsing the streets of SoHo, I came across a tiny store on Thompson Street with the most inspired baby...
View ArticleRemodeling 101: White Tile Pattern Glossary
Simple, unpretentious and cost-effective, white ceramic tile is the white T-shirt of the kitchen. It's often called subway tile, because it was developed for New York City subway stations back in the...
View ArticleDIY: The Copper Pipe Curtain Rod for $35
If you're like me, every purchase that arrives in the mail is a source of great anticipation and high hopes. I tear open the box and pull out the item (most recently, three curtain rods for our...
View Article13 Favorites: Best of Household Tools
Limited to an urban-sized tool box? We've rounded up our favorite tools, including classic hammers, mini screwdrivers, and a compact tape measure, all ideal for handling everyday household tasks....
View ArticleThe Olli Lounger: Slow Design for the Modern World
SF-based New Zealander Joanne Zorkendorfer spent almost a decade working as an industrial designer at the prestigious design firm Ideo before branching off on her own. The idea for Olli came when she...
View ArticleA California Carriage House Transformed
After graduating from UC Berkeley with a BA in architecture, Christi Azevedo started her career fabricating limited-edition wood and steel furniture. Over the years, her focus evolved into an...
View ArticleMaquillage with a Mission: Make in NYC
Make is not your average beauty brand. First off, the architect-designed packaging was inspired by the work of Donald Judd. And the color spectrum comes from creatives like London interior designer...
View ArticleShop the Bungalow: Friends and Neighbors in Austin, TX
Visiting Friends & Neighbors is just like hanging out at the home of your coolest, best-traveled friend—except that all her stuff is for sale. East Austin's newest concept store is co-owned by Jade...
View ArticleTrending on Gardenista: Mother's Day Ideas Straight from the Garden
Sure-bet hits for Mother's Day, most of them fragrant and easy. Above There's still plenty of time to pull off the miracle foot soak and other projects presented in DIY: Home Spa, Mother's Day Edition....
View ArticleHigh/Low: Industrial Chandelier
To be filed under: Great minds think alike. That cool industrial-chic chandelier by that Brooklyn design firm you spotted a while ago (but balked at the price)? You can get something similar from that...
View ArticleAsk The Expert: 10 Home Maintenance Musts from Handywoman Kheli Mason
Colorado-based Kheli Mason had been studying to become a doctor when her career unexpectedly changed paths. She took a term off to earn some extra money, and landed a job with a forward-thinking...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: Mum's the Word
Take a look at what's been on our radar this week: Above: Our friends Scout Regalia will be at ICFF in New York again this year. We just got word that their Lean-To Tent that we featured last year is...
View ArticleMoving Up on Potrero Hill
When architect Cary Bernstein's client moved into a 1900s cottage in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood, he was a bachelor; after his life expanded to include a wife and three young children,...
View ArticleThis Week's Table of Contents: Working It
Where are you most productive? Here at Remodelista, we’re a roving crew with laptops: we work at our kitchen tables, on our sofas, in home offices, in our official offices (in SF, NYC, and London), and...
View ArticleTotokaelo's Fashion-Forward Office in Seattle
In 2001, Jill Wenger moved from Texas to Seattle, Washington, and, at the age of 26, opened Totokaelo, a retail shop devoted to women's fashion by under-the-radar designers. Thirteen years later,...
View Article12 Design-Worthy Scissors
When I think about the ultimate office accessories, I picture my grandfather desk's. He was an aerospace engineer and his work surface was arrayed with steel architectural pencils, the sharpest...
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