Kategorie: DIY-Projekte

Earlier this week we featured the new Ace Hotel in Shoreditch; here’s another project from the same design team, the newly imagined One Leicester Street. Formerly the St. John Hotel (we covered it back in 2011), the hotel is now owned and operated by Unlisted Collection, a family of design-oriented hotels. The new owners have […]

Afraid of the dark? It’s time to overcome that fear. One of the secrets to a better night’s sleep is a pitch-black setting. Here’s why, plus a guide to making your bedroom a nighttime light-free zone. Above: A serene bedroom in a 200-year-old chalet remodeled by Zurich’s Bergdorf Agency for Concepts and Communication. Learn about […]

On the remote Cape Point Nature Reserve in Scarborough, South Africa, sits an elegant compound built for a family of four by architects Matthew Beatty and Saskia Vermeiren of Beatty Vermeiren. The 1,000-square-foot house is designed as a campsite; the plywood-clad interiors walls are the “tent” and the exterior metal cladding is the “weather sheet,” […]

Last month I spent a week in Portugal and stayed at Baixa House, a renovated Pombaline building pieced into different apartments. One of my favorite things about our room was the simple bedroom with just a few vintage touches. Hotel owner and designer María Ulecia sourced one-of-a-kind pieces for each room: shepherd’s blankets from northern Portugal, […]

Architect Lisa Breeze lived in her 1970s townhouse in Melbourne, Australia, for several years before she changed a single thing—long enough to know exactly what she wanted to do differently, and long enough to grow attached to the house’s personality. The kitchen was a top priority for an overhaul; it had limited storage, cheap hardware, and Breeze’s […]

How to jigsaw a twin bed (or a few), plus desks, shelves, and closets into a tiny room? So often the dorm puzzle is solved in the most cost-conscious and Soviet drab of ways. But privately built student housing alternatives have been cropping up in Denmark, Berlin, and other European cities that are so inventive, […]

When designers Jason and Jenny Rose Maclean relocated from London to the Cotswolds in 2022, one of their neighbors turned out to be Lulu Guinness. Years back, Jenny worked on Lulu’s fashion team creating her signature life-of-the-party evening bags and clutches (if you’ve ever noticed someone toting a bag that looks like a pair of […]

A Remodelista exclusive: Looking for adventure, some friends of ours recently sold their house in London, moved with three young daughters to Northern California, and stumbled upon Mr. Blanding’s dream house. Or what was left of it. The first time they saw the Mediterranean-style stucco house that a San Francisco attorney named Gordon Blanding hired […]

The Kochwagen site says “Become a revolutionist!” If being a revolutionist means outfitting your kitchen with obscure German appliances, sign us up. Kochwagen (“cook wagon” in German), a venture of Berlin-based Peter Gregor, produces mobile cooking trolleys available in a range of sizes and colors. The wagons are made of powder-coated aluminum sheets and are […]

Madrid designers Iñigo Aragón and Pablo López Navarro of Casa Josephine edit their work the way certain poets and writers do: “We start with a lot of ideas and we use metaphors from linguistics to understand and define what we’re doing: does it rhyme, how well does this read?” Pablo tells us. “In the end, […]

A rustic shepherd’s hut, once used to make cheese, has been restored into a simple, bucolic mountain retreat. In 2004, Austrian Frederick Pfeffer purchased this 300-year-old stone hut in Cantal’s volcanic Central Massif region, an area noted for its fromage. The mountain sides were once scattered with such huts (known as buron); until the 1950s, […]

Declare your allegiance to Scandinavian design with a geometric throw (perfect for draping over your linen sofa; see today’s earlier post). You choose: the higher version is $139, the lower is $39.99. Above: Last summer, I spotted this wool twill blanket at Stilleben, a store in Copenhagen. The Twist a Twill Blanket in dark gray, […]

When a 1960s two-bedroom villa went on the market next door to Sophie and Frank De Jonghe’s house, they decided “in a split second” to turn the place into their own creative project. The couple live in the woodsy Belgian village of Oud-Heverlee 20 minutes outside of Brussels. He works in finance, she in real […]

Last week, we profiled 10 of the most beautiful–and functional–closet systems around. Today, architect and designer members of our Professional Directory share the closet systems they specify for their own clients, from custom and high-end to bargain priced. For Julie’s picks, see 10 Easy Pieces: Modular Closet Systems, High to Low. Above: In a client’s 650-square-foot […]

Raisa Sandstrom’s initial plans for her kitchen were entirely in shades of neutral: “I was thinking of resale value and permanence, and trying to be safe,” she says. Then she shared the plans with her boss, Sybil Urmston, of Boston design firm sirTank, who suggested Raisa rethink her approach: “Sybil urged me to create something […]

I think we’ve all been there. Maybe you’ve just moved to the big city, or you grew up the youngest of many and drew the short straw when it came to sleeping assignments, but at some point in your life you’ve probably lived in a tiny bedroom. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, given the […]

This week we’re revisiting our favorite stories from 2024, like this one: At Remodelista we love acting as a design dating service. Here’s a recent NYC example: “We found Anshu and Bill during the depths of Covid through a Remodelista post,” Adrienne Totoro tells us of Anshu Bangia and Bill Agostinho, the couple who together […]

Throughout the 1920s, the space now occupied by Sankt Oberholz was an important venue for Berlin’s avant-garde arts scene. Today, it’s a culture club for the millennial version. Sankt Oberholz (“Saint Oberholz”) in Berlin is a cafe that doubles as a public office space for the city’s laptopped creative types, who come for the simple […]

Oftentimes, here on the Remodelista editorial team, one design discovery leads to another, and another. Case in point: A few weeks ago, Julie stumbled upon Coquo, a Montreal-based company revolutionizing modular kitchen systems, which in turn led us to Witness Apartment, just a few blocks south of our New York offices, in the heart of […]

It was our Remodelista friend Megan Wilson who tipped us off to Inglis Hall, a new-to-us kitchen maker based in East Sussex, England. The company was founded in 2013 by woodworker Toby Hall, who over the course of a two-year residential project that involved 10 carpenters building the frame, the kitchen, and all the wardrobes […]

Antiquarian, draftsman, and self-taught architect Jacques Couëlle, 1902-1996, built a number of astonishing houses on the French Riviera. Made of carved concrete, they’re defined by their fluid lines and close-to-nature interiors—in Couëlle’s day, a critic haughtily, if accurately, labeled them “improved caves.” Needless to say, Couëlle dwellings are hot tickets these days. A villa that […]

Located in the hinterlands of Byron Bay, the Australian seaside hangout and surfing hub, Sun Ranch channels the area’s hang loose vibe. But it does so in surprising, inventive ways: the resort is set on a 55-acre former cattle farm and takes inspiration from 1970s California ranches houses—sunken living room, crushed velvet upholstery, fringed lampshades, […]

“Two early prefab Swedish timber-framed cabins brought to the West Highlands in the late 1990s to a 25-acre woodland where a seven-foot Swedish Viking prince, Borradill, is said to have been buried.” Set between moor and sea loch, the property sounded so wonderful to interior designer Claire Mookerjee and her husband—already regular vacationers in the […]

Lots of Hollywood offices have movie-star swagger, but few are as stylishly original as the Epoch Films setup in a 1940s Beverly Hills warehouse that had been a brass foundry. Originally designed back in 2000 by architect Finn Kappe and Pamela Shamshiri of Commune, the space recently received a refresh, and what stopped us in our tracks […]

Over the last 20 years, New York-based firm Platt Dana Architecture has developed a reputation for transforming traditional buildings and apartments into spaces oriented around contemporary family living. This week, Kate Platt and Hope Dana talk to us specifically about their update of a classic, prewar eight-room apartment for a busy family of five on […]

During a recent stint at The Workshop Residence, Jim Isermann, an artist based in Palm Springs and Guerneville, California, reimagined the humble utility blanket, creating a line of thick cotton duck canvas throws, custom dyed and silk screened. The geometric pattern is a reflection of Isermann’s style, an interpretation of industrial design and fine art through the lens of […]

Ceramic artists Justine and Jean Hay de Slades’ rustic home and studio in France’s Haute Saintonge were years in the making. First, Justine had to establish her line of bone-white porcelain that she calls Epure—the exquisitely simple wares are what first caught our eye: see Made In a Barn in France. Success enabled Jean to […]

Built in 1859, the schoolhouse in London’s Marylebone neighborhood had in recent years been home to a surprising mix of fashion showrooms and an evangelical library. The owners themselves, a husband and wife in their sixties, kept offices here, and as they worked, they envisioned an entirely new use for the structure: their own post-retirement, […]

Like so many people this past year, Kelly Jo moved back to her hometown to be closer to family. A single parent to a young son, she took it a step further by buying her grandparents’ ranch-style house, which was her mother’s childhood home. The house, in Pittsburgh, held sweet memories, but she wasn’t attached […]

As obsessed as we are with hardware, one of our favorite types of cabinet pull isn’t technically a pull at all—rather, it’s an open hole or handle cut out of a flat-front cabinet door. To get the details on the technique, we turned to Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory members Medium Plenty of Oakland, California. Here’s what principals […]

We’re thrilled with the results of our first annual Considered Design Awards: you entered more than 500 projects, voted more than 40,000 times, and tweeted your favorites faithfully. Thanks to all who submitted; we’ll be publishing project profiles over the next two weeks here on Remodelista, and in August, all entry images will go live […]

The Felin Fach Griffin in south Wales offers weary travelers the knowledge that after a pint (or two) and a hearty meal, a comfortable bed is just a stroll upstairs. Originally built in the 17th century as a coaching inn, the Felin Fach Griffin is an ideal spot to settle after rambling around rural back […]

As Remodelista editors, we see many, many kitchens and what we’ve been noticing over the last decade is a slow de-kitchening of kitchens—a trend toward fewer bulky upper cabinets, a preference for components that look more like high-end furniture, a desire to decorate the space as you would any other room (with art, books, table […]

Up ’til now, I admit, I’ve much preferred earthier colors—for wearing and for interiors—than what I’ve always thought of as somewhat frilly, not-me pink. But lately I’ve surprised myself by being rather drawn to it: There’s a slew of pinks out there to love—not all of them bubblegum or tutu—from dusty mauve to soft salmon […]

Alayne Patrick of New York cult boutique Layla produces her clothing, housewares, and jewelry in Jaipur and other parts of India. “I feel at home when I’m there,” she says–which explains how her Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn apartment came to feel like a colorful hideaway in Rajasthan. Alayne first visited India in 1998, and has been […]

Last month we visited an apartment called Birdsnest remodeled by 28-year-old architect Emil Dervish. It was the first project we’ve ever featured in the Ukrainian city of Kiev. But more than the location, what interested most readers was Dervish’s custom approach to storage. That’s especially the case in the kitchen, where the focal point is an […]

The best art/fashion/style has tension—a push and pull between textures, colors, and shapes. This recent project by a Remodelista favorite, LA-based Reath Design, has that coveted tension in spades. It is a modest mobile home, but sited in an exclusive Malibu Beach neighborhood. It feels youthful yet worldly. It juxtaposes somber, autumnal colors with more […]

Evidently, you can sleep your way to the top. At least that’s what Arianna Huffington says—”sleep,” to be clear, meaning a good old-fashioned night’s rest. In her latest book, The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time, the Huffington Post founder, author, and businesswoman advocates a return to prioritizing sleep over being constantly available and plugged-in. It’s […]

Specializing in 18th-century kitchen craftsmanship applied with 21st-century verve, Plain English has been on our radar for a good while. (See, for instance, A Kitchen Inspired by a Windswept Island, A Subtly Splendid Kitchen with a Grand Walk-In Larder, and A Kitchen for the People, Courtesy of Prince Charles.) But we’ve always had to admire the UK company’s […]