Kategorie: DIY-Projekte

Proof that neutral interiors needn’t feel boring? This vacation rental, housed in a former bank in Germany. Just take a look at this bedroom, layered in materials and textures to keep the eye moving. Here are the key sources (and some lookalikes). Photography courtesy of Our Food Stories, as seen in St. Oak: A Stripped-Back […]

Michelin-starred London chef Skye Gyngell presides over one of the city’s most ethereally beautiful new restaurants, Spring at Somerset House. At home, her approach to design is equally winning. She recently gave us a tour of her remodeled West London kitchen, which salutes classic English detailing while taking the look in a soulful direction. Here’s how […]

Extend your end-of-summer nights outdoors with a lightweight warm blanket; perfect for draping over a chilly guest or to layer on your bed as the weather cools to fall. Above: Swans Island’s summer weight Corriedale Grey Teal Stripe Wool Blanket is hand-dyed and hand-woven in Maine using domestic wool; $595. Above: The Swedish Knit Blanket […]

How to combine a humble 19th-century farmhouse and an edgy contemporary art collection? Husband-and-wife architects Maria Berman and Brad Horn of Berman Horn Studio, members of the Remodelista Architect & Designer Directory, approached the job in stages. Step 1: Shore up the house. Step 2: Situate the outsized art. Step 3: Devote three years to assembling […]

In a newly remodeled Victorian terrace house in Hampstead Heath belonging to a family of four, the kitchen’s wall of colorful cabinets extends all the way up to the study on the mezzanine above. And steel-frame windows connect table to garden. The bold design is the work of Melissa Robinson of MW Architects, who was […]

It’s easy to see why Kay Lee and Jonathan Chong fell for their West 11th Street garret apartment. In addition to offering a living area with a 22-foot-tall ceiling and giant skylight, it bore the ghost marks of the previous occupants: for decades an artist couple had used the space as their studio/crash pad—and painted […]

Commissioned to overhaul an 1840s Brooklyn brownstone for a Swedish-American family of four, architects Solveig Fernlund (who also happens to be Swedish) and Neil Logan masterfully turned it into a house with dual citizenship. They tackled the five stories—each 24.5 feet wide, approximately 980 square feet, and largely devoid of period detail—by editing out the extraneous, walls included, […]

College costs a fortune. And it doesn’t stop at tuition, room and board fees, and course materials; once you’ve got that taken care of, there’s the yearly dorm room shopping list. “Each school’s list is slightly different but they’re all ridiculous, full of unnecessary items,” says one of our editors, Margot (she should know; she […]

Sydney interior designers Juliette Arent and Sarah-Jane Pyke have been lauded by the Australian design press for “tearing down the walls of conservative design and replacing them with color and layers of sophisticated style.” A good example is their remodel of an early-20th-century house in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra. We particularly like the kitchen with its […]

Not everyone wants a huge kitchen with fancy equipment and built-in everything. Take the owners of this Victorian home (currently for sale on The Modern House) in the Ferndale neighborhood of London. According to designer Adam Bray, who took them on as clients when they decided to renovate, character and efficiency were the priorities. Prior […]

Spotted on Freunde von Freunden: a monastic gentleman’s bedroom in the San Francisco home of Nir Stern. The son of two architects, Stern moved from Tel Aviv to the Bay Area to study architecture but found himself in the tech world doing interface design. He designed his home, a renovated Victorian situated on a hill […]

The secret to happiness? A good night’s sleep, in our opinion. On our wish list for 2017: a new line of bedding from Japanese collection Rikumo that merges “the naturally absorbent properties of washi paper” with 100 percent cotton. The result is a “superlight, crisp, lightweight sheet that allows air to circulate throughout the fibers, helping you maintain […]

We’ve been enamored of florist turned writer Lisa Przystup’s pared-back 1800s farmhouse in the Catskills, with its simple bones and tumbleweeds as sculptural decor, ever since we featured it back in July. (See The Catskills Farmhouse of Two Brooklyn Creatives.) Particularly impressive is that Przystup and her husband, Jonathon Linaberry, have done much of the remodeling themselves […]

Does the versatility of plywood have no limit? From boats to furniture; plywood is flexible, inexpensive, easy to use, and reusable. Made from refashioned pieces of wood that have been bound together, forming a building material that is stronger and stiffer than the sum of its parts; plywood came into its own in the 20th […]

When friends offered Nora Eisermann and Laura Muthesius the use of an apartment in a farm village just beyond Berlin, it came with a shared garden and a challenge: Set in an 1880s romantic ruin, the flat hadn’t been occupied for more than a decade and lacked a kitchen. The couple longed for a retreat from Berlin but couldn’t live on […]

It was the faceted pink counter tiles that first caught our attention. We also loved the cloud of flowers hovering over the café. And the lime-washed tranquility of the guest rooms with century-old moldings. That was before we learned that Rotterdam’s 14-room Hotel âme is beyond boutique: it’s a mom-and-pop establishment created and run by […]

Our story begins in the early 1960s with a hot tip in a doctor’s office: “My father was a dentist in Paris and a patient told him to have a look at this little hamlet lost in the valley—he had heard from his Breton family that the farmer wanted to sell,” Benoît Rauzy tells us. […]

Interior designer Nicola Harding approaches remodeling projects with a one-two punch: “The first thing I do is plan the use of space, quite often reorganizing the way parts of the house are used,” she tells us. “Then I assign paint colors. I understand this is different from the way most decorators work, but, for me, […]

The owner of this Plain English kitchen until recently lived a stone’s throw away, in a farmhouse in rural Suffolk, England, that had been in her husband’s family for nearly a century. Newly widowed and with three children who would soon all be away at university, she decided to downsize without having to uproot: she’s […]

French interior design journalist, stylist, and set designer Christèle Ageorges and her husband Hubert Derlance fell in love with the small town of Lectoure, in the Gers, while walking a stretch of the ancient Way of St James in 2017. Long-time Parisians on holiday, the couple had no real plans to move until serendipity knocked […]

Sweden’s oldest mountain hotel, the 1,700-acre Fjällnäs Reserve, was built in 1882 as a retreat for Swedish royalty to experience the drama of what Fjällnäs calls “the eight seasons.” The hotel is surrounded by a stark landscape of birch forests and barren mountain peaks; rooms feature slate and scrubbed pine surfaces and are simply outfitted […]

We recently visited Libia Moreno and Enrique Arellano at Utilitario Mexicano, their Mexico City emporium devoted to celebrating humble everyday objects made in their adopted country. After falling in love with their shop, we asked to see where they live. The two—she’s a textile designer, he’s a graphic designer, both originally from Colombia—happened to have […]

Dies ist ein weiterer Beweis dafür, dass Küchen, die eher Wohn- oder Esszimmern ähneln als alltäglichen Kochräumen, ein wachsender Trend sind. Diese einzigartige Küche in Brooklyn Heights ist das Werk von Ian Starling (von Starling Architecture), aber die Inspiration für ihr Design stammt von den Architekten und ursprünglichen Besitzern des Hauses aus der Mitte des Jahrhunderts, Joseph und Mary [...]

Während wir versuchen, die Tatsache zu begreifen, dass es bereits November ist, kehren wir zu unserem beliebtesten Beitrag des letzten Monats zurück: das Stadthaus in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, der Architektin Jess Thomas und der Regisseurin und Produzentin Hagan Hinshaw - siehe The Sentimental Minimalist. Heute geht es um die Küche, die Thomas, die Mitinhaberin von Shapeless Studio, in ein langes, schmales Bad im ersten Stock integriert hat. [...]

Diese Woche stöbern wir in den Archiven von Remodelista nach einigen unserer Lieblings-Sommergeschichten. Hier ist eine: Vor ein paar Sommern wurde Julie klar, dass sie etwas gegen das vernachlässigte Gästezimmer in ihrem Sommerhaus in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, unternehmen musste, wenn sie wiederkehrende Besucher haben wollte. Das Zimmer, das früher als Arbeitszimmer diente, hatte schon bessere Tage gesehen: [...]

Eine renovierte Küche in einem charaktervollen Raum ist für uns ein Verkaufsargument. Nehmen Sie zum Beispiel diese neue Küche in einem A-Frame-Haus aus den 1970er Jahren in Springs, New York. Die Eigentümer arbeiteten mit Space Theory, einem vereinfachten und erschwinglichen Ableger von Henrybuilt, zusammen, um eine moderne Küche innerhalb der vorhandenen Kiefernholzverkleidung zu entwerfen. Hier ist eine Liste von [...]

Sie möchten Ihrem Schlafzimmer einen industriellen Touch verleihen? Mit diesem Heimwerkerprojekt, das Sie auf Simplified Building entdeckt haben, gelingt Ihnen das - und das Beste daran ist, dass es Sie nicht mehr als $300 kosten sollte. Eine vollständige Anleitung finden Sie auf Simplified Building. Oben: Sally und Mark Bailey von Bailey's Home & Garden in Großbritannien verwenden ein verzinktes Rohr [...]

Mit mehr als 50 Küchenprojekten ist Jerome Buttrick von Buttrick Projects (ehemals Buttrick Wong Architects) ein Veteran der Küchengestaltung. Eines dieser Projekte war die Küche von Julie in Mill Valley, Kalifornien, die ein Beweis dafür ist, wie gut er darüber nachgedacht hat, wie man einen bedeutungsvollen Raum in einem Ort schaffen kann, der zum Dreh- und Angelpunkt [...]

Als Elisabeth Prueitt und Chad Robertson, die Miteigentümer des Tartine-Imperiums in San Francisco, 2015 in ihr Haus im Castro-Distrikt aus dem Jahr 1960 einzogen, waren sie die ersten Bewohner nach einem Umbau - sie konnten also weder die Einrichtung ihrer neuen Küche auswählen noch wissen, wer sie entworfen hatte. Trotzdem haben sie sie in Betrieb genommen [...]

Das Killiehuntly Farmhouse ist ein Anwesen in den schottischen Highlands, das von der Eigentümerin Anne Storm Pedersen restauriert und als luxuriöse Ferienunterkunft eingerichtet wurde. Eines der Gästezimmer von Killiehuntly, das Birch-Zimmer, verfügt über ein Dutzend Designdetails, die es zu stehlen gilt, darunter ein kohlefarbener Juteteppich und eine einfarbige Shaker-Zahnstange. Hier sind die wichtigsten Elemente [...]

Vipp, die dänische Marke, die 1939 mit einem Treteimer aus Stahl begann, ist heute ein Synonym für modulare Metallküchen und neuerdings auch für Möbel und Leuchten für jeden Raum. Um zu zeigen, was es zu bieten hat, hat das Designhaus, das sich noch immer im Besitz der Familie des Gründers befindet, eine Reihe von Unterkünften in einigen der [...]

Ein neuer Eintrag in der Kategorie der Ikea-Schrankfronten-Hacks: Das Londoner Unternehmen Plykea. Gegründet von Tim Diacon, einem digitalen Produktdesigner, und Adam Vergette, einem Möbeldesigner und Vitsoe-Absolventen, bietet Plykea gut aussehende Schrankfronten aus FSC-zertifiziertem Birkensperrholz an, die entweder mit Birke, Eiche oder Walnuss verkleidet werden können, sowie drei [...]

In diesem Fall hat Kevin Oreck aus Los Angeles (ein Mitglied des Remodelista Architect/Design Directory) ein flexibles, lichtdurchflutetes Haus mit 1.500 Quadratmetern auf einem extrem schmalen Grundstück (39 Fuß breit) und mit einem begrenzten Budget geschaffen. Orecks durchdachte Platzierung der Fenster maximiert das Licht und die Aussicht auf die [...]

“Eine gusseiserne Pfanne und eine Kamera” - so lautet Beth Kirbys Spitzname. Aber das beschreibt nur ansatzweise, was sie in ihrer Küche macht. In ihrem zehn Jahre alten, “generischen kleinen Haus, das von einem Bauunternehmer gebaut wurde”, in North Chattanooga, Tennessee, arbeitet Beth als Fotografin, Stylistin, Autorin, Rezeptentwicklerin, Lehrerin und Bloggerin (siehe Local Milk). Sie brauchte ein [...]

Installing kitchen cabinets isn’t a job for your average homeowner. Think about the total weight of all the ceramics, glassware, and appliances stored in your wall-mounted cabinets—and how disastrous it would be if those cabinets came tumbling down. Enough said? Let’s leave installation to the pros. But if you’re planning a major kitchen remodel, trying […]

When Elisa Restrepo, cofounder of the shoe line Dieppa Restrepo, and her husband, Dylan Dodd, who owns NYC restaurants Karasu, Walter’s, Walter Foods, and Barrio Chino, went looking for a place to escape the city, they chose a three-story split-level house in the “sleepy surfing town” of Montauk and hired Brooklyn architects Space Exploration to overhaul it. They’d worked […]

It took me a while to realize that my new pen pal, Hironobu Kagae, is an emerging lifestyle guru. He and I met on Instagram: I sent him a message admiring his entryway and we struck up a halting conversation. I don’t speak Japanese and Hironobu was relying on Google Translate. But he shared intriguing […]

When couple Paul West and Michelle Bower began renovating their 1717 East London townhouse, they took on a full transformation of a basement kitchen. The kitchen they started with “wasn’t in good working order,” Paul describes, so they enlisted UK kitchen design company deVol to see out their vision. Here we’ve profiled the key elements, […]

When Carla and Niall Maher bought a 1950 suburban ranch house in Westchester, New York, the couple made a commitment to midcentury style. Built into a hillside among other midcentury houses by Roy S. Johnson and Stanley Torkleson, the house was sheetrocked and whitewashed by previous owners (and an Ikea kitchen to boot). The Mahers […]

Designer Makié Yahagi opened her pint-size children’s clothing shop on SoHo’s Thompson Street in 1999 calling it, simply, Makié. The daughter of a seamstress, Makié was making clothing for her two sons (they’re now just a little older than her shop) when she got the idea. We’ve been adherents of her brand (that now includes […]