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A Home Inspired by an Ant Colony (Seriously)
We love the way Japanese architects think outside the box. In this case, a colony of ants was the inspiration for this house in Omaezaki, designed by Atsushi and Mayumi Kawamoto of mA-Style...
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Required Reading: Nest by Truck
If you're like us, a slavish fan of Truck Furniture (and the owner's entire approach to design), you might be interested in their latest book, "Truck Nest." Osaka-based Truck, a collaborative venture...
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Japanese-Inspired Matchstick Blinds
Last year, I went on a rampage and covered all the windows with simple white fabric roller blinds—inside mount, no frills. I had not anticipated all the options for cords and pulleys, borders,...
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10 Favorites: Smart and Skinny Houses in Japan
Sitting on top of some of the most expensive property values in the world, the Japanese are fluent in narrow houses on sliver lots. Typically no wider than 15 feet, fitting in all the programmatic...
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East Meets West: An Architect's Award-Winning First Commission
They met on a film set and fell in love; prompting her to move from Tokyo to Auckland (and bring her Japanese bathtub with her, metaphorically speaking). The film set of Memory and Desire, directed by...
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Stockholm Meets Kyoto: The Ceremony Set
Swedish architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has partnered with Toronto-based Mjölk to create the Ceremony Set, a Scandinavian nod to the Japanese tea ceremony. In this Scandinavian...
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Shou-Sugi-Ban Wood Siding
The latest trend in wood siding? Burned, charred siding. Via the blog Pursuing Wabi, one family's account of building a house in Southern California with Mexico City–born, San Diego–based architect...
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Born of Friendship: Warang Wayan
Yuri Tsuchiya, who loves traveling around Asia, and Masami Ishida, who loves touring Africa, met in their mid-twenties when they worked together in the same shop. Today Yuri and Masami live worlds...
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5 Favorites: Instant Springlike Bedroom from Urban Barn
SPONSORED POST Here at Remodelista, we're continually rearranging and reinvigorating the main living spaces in our homes. Just in time for spring, Canadian-based Urban Barn has released their new...
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5 Favorites: Japanese-Inspired Mesh Pendant Lights
A while back we admired this vintage fishing basket repurposed as a pendant light, spotted in the home of Hitoshi Uchida. It's among the many details we admire in Uchida's home in Kamakura, Japan,...
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A Room with a View: Cafe Aura in Japan
Cafe Aura is located in the mountainous town of Karuizawa, a place famous for more reasons than one—a summer get-away destination for Tokyo dwellers, a spot John Lennon and Yoko Ono admired and...
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The Outsider's Guide to Tokyo: 10 Cutting-Edge Cafes, Shops, and Restaurants
Sometimes the best insights into a city can come from an outsider, so when we heard that our SF-based friend Jay Carroll of One Trip Pass was headed to Tokyo, we asked him to take his camera and...
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DIY: Watercolor Japanese Lantern
To be filed under "Do try this at home": watercolor-splashed Japanese paper lanterns, courtesy of Danish textile and product designer Ditte Maigaard, who runs the Ditte Maigaard Studio. To see more...
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10 Easy Pieces: Classic Tea Kettles
According to psychologist Barry Schwartz, the secret to happiness is having less to choose from. In his book, The Paradox of Choice (Harper Perennial), Schwartz describes how choice ultimately leads...
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A Measuring Stick for LIfe
I tracked the growth of my two children by marking their heights on their bedroom door. Alas, all that information was painted over when we sold our house. When Wakako Takagi, the founder of...
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Reader Rehab: A House Transformed by an L-Shaped Garden
If you had a long and narrow side garden instead of a front one, and the opportunity arose to turn it into an L-shaped garden by purchasing a perpendicular vacant lot; would you do it if even if it...
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5 Favorites: Warm Wood from Members of the Remodelista Architect/Designer...
We think most things look—and feel—better once they're worn in, wood included. Here are five favorite spaces with wood that flaunts the lived-in look; some of it centuries old, some brand new. For...
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Current Obsessions: Old and New Masters
This coming week we'll be tackling DIY projects (online, at least). Meanwhile, here's what's been piquing our interest lately: Above: Alexa is looking forward to Paulette Tavormina's Old...
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Living Large in a Tiny House, Downsizing Edition
My friend Wendy Furman, an artist and graphic designer, high-tailed it out of LA six years ago, trading her Laurel Canyon home for a funky 1940s cottage overlooking vineyards in the Napa Valley....
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A Chair for All: DIY Seating from Max Lamb
Have you ever taken a personality test and felt betrayed, like they've got you all wrong? "Don't they know that I'm really more of a rebel with a carefree spirit and not an uptight, over-organized...
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