Do you dream of a colorful bedroom? Thanks to architect Jess Thomas we do. Her Brooklyn townhouse is filled with a lot of good ideas—see our post, the Sentimental Minimalist—but it was her pale pink-on-pink guest room that really piqued our interest. As her place demonstrates, a monochromatic bedroom telegraphs an inviting completeness and calmness. […]
Steal This Look: A Hushed Bedroom in Calming Colors
Lucky is the home that calls Nina and Craig Plummer its owners. The two are the founders of Ellei Home (formerly called Ingredients LDN), an inspiring online store based in Edinburgh, and the grand apartment they share is a testing ground for the beautiful products sold on their site. Only items that fit their philosophy […]
Steal This Look: A Spare and Simple Attic Guest Room in Denmark
One of our favorite Scandinavian spaces in recent years is the family home of Johanne Landbo and Lukas Filip Fernandes in Copenhagen. Their renovation consisted of “not much to fix except for the fun aesthetic things”, resulting in a series of rooms with handmade or vintage pieces. The attic in the townhouse serves as a […]
Roba este look: Una cocina tranquila en la Costa Azul
French architect Sabine Bell and British designer Lauren Jennings took on the update of a 1927 historic carved concrete dwelling originally built by Jacques Couëlle. While preserving the identity of the original structure, the team built out a kitchen extension, extending the slate floors of the living room, building out hand-painted Shaker-like cabinetry, and outfitting […]
Kitchen of the Week: A Sleek Modern Kitchen with a Hippie Heart
We are all trying to make more low-impact choices here at Remodelista, so it was with a particular thrill that we recently stumbled upon Sustainable Kitchens, a kitchen design and manufacturing company based in Bristol, England, that prioritizes ethical materials. Its core principles—a reliance on solid, responsibly-sourced wood and non-toxic materials; an emphasis on locally […]
Before & After: A Galley Kitchen Reinvented
Creative director Jakob Daschek is Swedish, fashion stylist Barbara Abbatemaggio is Italian, and their overhauled NYC kitchen, designed by architect Lauren Wegel, an Annabelle Selldorf protégé, caters to both of their sensibilities. “Jakob’s aesthetic is modern, while Barbara often prefers rustic, romantic spaces with lots of warmth and comfort,” says Wegel, “so we took a […]
Rehab Diary: A Dated Kitchen Gets a Modern Upgrade in Maplewood, NJ
After 15 years of renting apartments in Brooklyn and living with other people’s design decisions, it was a dream come true when my husband and I bought a 1,000-square-foot home in Maplewood, New Jersey—a suburb thirty miles outside of New York City. Our home, we jokingly say, is the smallest house in Maplewood—it might be […]
English-Style in Seattle: A Couple’s Longtime Home Gets an Anglo Update
Spending all this time in our own quarters leads to restless thinking—of making home improvements or of moving on, maybe to another planet. Today we’re spotlighting the longtime family home of a couple with grown children who felt very ready for a change but decided to stay put. Their place, a charming but compact 1915 […]
Under the Eaves: A Brick House Reinvention in South London by Simon Astridge
Architect Simon Astridge is best known for is his Plywood House, a South London row house that he resuscitated by weaving three additions into the existing framework (see Raw Materials in a Cost-Conscious Victorian Remodel). Right across the street, he and his team have left their mark on another abode. This one, a humble, single-story […]
Remodeling 101: The L-Shaped Kitchen
Looking for a kitchen layout, with space for multiple cooks and onlookers? Consider the versatile L-shape, a two-walled setup that tucks neatly into a corner while remaining open to the surrounding space. The L-shaped kitchen works especially well in lofts and open-living setups where it’s often wrapped around an island or dining table. Here’s a […]
House Call: Shoring Up—and Unbuttoning—One of the Most Historic Haciendas in Galisteo, New Mexico
Dani Brubaker spotted artist Patricia Larsen’s handmade interiors here on Remodelista and on Instagram, and recognized a kindred spirit. Patricia specializes in using salvaged materials: she creates rather than buys what she needs and likes her rooms to have a welcomingly unbuttoned look. “Her work is very raw, it’s emotional, and she has this tendency to […]
A Rising-Star Architect Casts Her Own Brooklyn Townhouse in Pinks, Greens, and Grays
What happens when two young architects get to be their own clients? Budget constraints are, of course, a given—so things like learning how to hang wallpaper come into play. So does treating the house as a treasure hunt, and finding out what’s hiding under the carpets and painted mantels. And, of course, experimenting with the […]
Kitchen of the Week: A Minimalist Design by an Annabelle Selldorf Protégé
Lauren Wegel is an architect who loves succinctness. She began her career working for another New York minimalist, Annabelle Selldorf, which is how we met: see A Hardworking Brooklyn Kitchen By A Big Gun Architect. That was back in 2013, and, in recent years, Wegel has been running her own tiny firm. The thought and […]
Trend Alert: 7 Folding Screens in the Bedroom (Headboard Edition)
Noticed lately: folding screens as headboards. Here’s a look: Above: For the James Bradley Hotel in Bradley Beach, NJ, designer Sebastian Zuchowicki commissioned folding headboards in the bedrooms. Above: For an installation at Seventh House Gallery in Los Angeles, designer Courtney Applebaum used a folding black lacquered screen in a bedroom setup. Above: A bedroom […]
Eat, Pray, Love: Luxury Linens for Less
It was a trip to the Amalfi Coast that inspired Ariel Kaye, an LA entrepreneur, to start her own line of affordable luxury bed linens. As she tells it, she fell in love–not with a dashing Italian, but with the sumptuous sheets at a picturesque hotel. “I returned home on a quest for perfection,” she says. […]
Kitchen of the Week: An Ikea Kitchen with an Elegant Upper Cabinet Solution
“Every once in a while, you’re lucky enough to pair up with a client who’s on the same aesthetic wavelength,” says Kevin Greenberg, principal of NYC design firm Space Exploration, about a recent prewar apartment remodel fronting Brooklyn’s Sunset Park. The clients—a photographer and a solar engineer—exuded a “relaxed intelligence” throughout the design process. When […]
A Modern Fairy-Tale Told in 800 Square Feet: Sandeep Salter’s Family Apartment
Sandeep Salter knows a thing or two about creative living. The daughter of a choreographer (Darshan Singh Bhuller) and a dancer, Sandeep grew up in London’s Primrose Hill before studying fine art at Parsons in New York. There she worked as an archivist and bibliographer, met husband Carson Salter, and ran a small bookshop out […]
Kitchen(s) of the Week: 13 On-Trend Sunny Yellow Spaces
This week, in the spirit of savoring every last bit of the season, we’re revisiting some of our favorite summery stories, like this one: Noticed and admired of late: bright-spot kitchens in shades of turmeric, mustard, and marigold. Here are 10 standouts ranging in style from urban contemporary to vintage beach cottage, all accented in […]
Kitchen of the Week: The Plain English Power in Numbers Kitchen
When it comes to kitchen design, the team at Plain English are proud traditionalists. But they also have an inventive bent. Specializing in what they call “rooms defined by the dignity of utility,” they don’t stint on storage or clever detailing. Case in point, this two-toned remodel in a Dorset, England, farmhouse with a newly opened up ceiling […]
Kitchen of the Week: New York Architect Elizabeth Roberts’s Own Kitchen Update, Before and After
Architect Elizabeth Roberts’s 1866 Italianate townhouse remodel—from SRO to charmingly orderly family quarters in a black-and-white palette—was the first project we photographed for Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home. During the long process of working on our first book, we returned to Roberts’ place in Brooklyn so many times that it became something like […]
Steal This Look: The New Parisian Apartment Bedroom
We recently featured the new Second Residence, a showcase apartment from cult lifestyle store Merci, located in an 18th-century building in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Former creative director Jules Mesny-Deschamps worked with Reka Magyar, the store’s head of style, to create the artful mix-and-match look. Here, we dissect the key elements of the bedroom: […]
Kitchen of the Week: Age-Old Natural Materials in a Modern Addition
At Remodelista, we pride ourselves on sharing not just the pretty images of projects we admire, but also the intel on where to source all the products that go into their designs. That’s our usual M.O. anyway. This time, our only advice for those who want to replicate the look of this handsome London townhouse […]
The Vipp Pop-Up Palazzo: Scandi Minimalism in an Italian Baroque Setting Turned Temporary Hotel
This week on Remodelista, we’re exploring moveable, leave-no-trace furnishings, starting with a very memorable hotel that is Vipp’s latest foray into the hospitality world. The Danish design brand’s first offering back in 1939 was a pedal-operated metal wastebasket, and it has remained true to its heritage while building a portfolio of lean, thoughtfully made furnishings […]
Year-Round at the Beach: At Home with Two Stylish Women in the Hamptons
On a trip to Paris’s Maison et Objet, our co-founders Julie and Francesca crossed paths with Mona Nerenberg, owner of Bloom in Sag Harbor, NY, a cult-favorite shop filled with Swedish antiques and white ceramics (now in its 18th year). Noting that the Gardenista team had been to her Hamptons home to admire the deer […]
Horse, Moon, Hill: Artfully Frayed Linens by Faye Toogood for Once Milano
Admiring, in the category of Perfect/Imperfect: a collection of artfully frayed linens inspired by the English landscape’s “earthy palette of rich browns, grassy greens and chalky whites” by UK designer (and longtime Remodelista favorite) Faye Toogood for London-based Once Milano. Here’s a look at some of our favorites from the collection (also available via Garde […]
Kitchen of the Week: Life’s Daily Details Celebrated in an Architect-Designed Kitchen
Architects Andrea Fisk and Jess Thomas of Shapeless Studio are modernists with beating hearts. Their love of workmanship, new and old, and attention to life’s daily details is on display in all of their residential work, including their own Brooklyn quarters: see The Sentimental Minimalist and A Rising Star Architect’s Townhouse in Pinks, Grays, and […]
An International Affair: Studio Oink Collaborate with a NY Design Team on a Young Family’s Brooklyn Townhouse
Meet the yours, mine, and ours remodel. Scarlett Shao and Joseph Casper are a couple who share a passion for modern design, and specifically for a look they describe as “minimal but lived in.” Wanting to take a European approach to their Greenpoint, Brooklyn, remodel, they decided to assemble a far-flung team—and had the vision […]
A Bohemian B & B in Belgium
Don’t be fooled: Le Jardin Bohemien may sound like an arboretum, but it’s actually a cafe with a B&B. Situated in a 17th century building in the center of Ghent, Le Jardin Bohemien is owned and operated by Jean Pierre De Taeye and Kristine Dehond. The couple, who are passionate about art (he’s an interior […]
10 Easy Pieces: Architects’ Favorite Blue Paints for Anywhere in the House
Looking to add some blue around the house? We asked a few experts in the Remodelista Architect & Designer Directory for their favorite blue (and green-blue) paints for kitchen cabinets, walls, and anywhere that needs a bit of subtle color. Here are their picks: Above: The selection of blues, from bright to moody to barely […]
Rehab Diary: A Napa Valley Kitchen Makeover, Ikea Cabinets Included
When designers Michael Roché and Jackson Butler were asked to renovate a small Napa Valley house, the mandate was to stay within a tight budget. Built as a cabin in the 1920s, it had been added onto over the years, and when purchased was half renovated and in a state of disarray. Its selling point: the structure is set […]
Kitchen of the Week: A Glassmaker’s Imaginative Studio Kitchen in London, DIY Ikea Hacks Included
A look inside a maker’s studio almost always reveals far more than the artist’s craft; often, the space surrounding a workbench has been creatively adapted. Jochen Holz’s studio in Stratford, East London, is a case in point. Here, the German-born glassmaker—whose wonky, textured pieces and sculptural neon installations can be found at The New Craftsmen […]
10 Easy Pieces: Kitchen Cabinet Latches
We’re fans of the utilitarian kitchen (think deVol and Plain English), old-fashioned cabinet latches included. In the days before magnet closures, latches—both spring-loaded knobs and shutter bars—were designed to keep cabinet doors closed. Today they’re still utilized for their sturdiness, but also for their retro appeal. Here are our favorites. Above: British Standard Cabinet Latches in […]
Custom Fronts: Bespoke Ikea Cabinet Doors Inspired by Nature
Custom Fronts launched at the start of the year as a stylish, sustainable kitchen design service that takes inspiration from nature. Founded by husband-and-wife team Rachel and Ian, it has attracted the attention of the design world, not least because the clean lines of their designs—made to order from their studio in Sussex—start at £29 […]
Block-Printed Textiles from a New York Painter
Artist Caroline Z. Hurley was first exposed to the art of block printing during a trip to Bali. Upon her return to New York City, she took her inspiration to another level and started block-printing Italian linen and other textiles. A RISD graduate and Memphis native, Hurley works as a part-time teacher and spends her evenings […]
Kitchen(s) of the Week: 6 Low-Impact Deconstructed Kitchens
Recently, while thumbing through our newest book, I noticed a commonality in the kitchens featured: The majority of them are without standard built-in cabinets. Instead, these ingeniously cobbled-together spaces use restaurant tables, antique chests, or homemade shelves to store their cooking tools and pantry items. They may not look like the typical kitchen with upper […]
Kitchen of the Week: A Harmonious New Kitchen for a 1970s A-Frame
How to gracefully incorporate a new kitchen in a vintage A-frame? The owners of this 1970s kit house in Springs, New York—the once affordable Hamptons hamlet that Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner called home—opted for a European-style kitchen systems approach. The couple, who are both in television production and come from the UK and Europe, […]
Kitchen of the Week: An Architect’s Colorful “Modern Cottage” Kitchen in a London Highrise
We recently featured a Victorian townhouse that Studio Ben Allen recast in eye-opening pigmented concrete; see London in Living Color Inside and Out. Today, we’re visiting a precursor project: architect Ben Allen’s own kitchen in which he experimented for the first time with brightly tinted building materials. The space is in a duplex apartment that […]
Steal This Look: A Cottage-Style Bunk Room in Highgate, London
When designer Mark Lewis remodeled his family home in Highgate, he kitted out his daughter’s cottage-style room with adult-size bunk beds to accommodate visiting grandparents. From the trim and bed frame paint colors to the classic British prints and wooden toys, it’s a look we’d like to replicate. Here are sources for the key elements. […]
Steal This Look: The Design-Minded Country Kitchen, Budget Edition
A while back, Margot wrote about Charlie and Kevin Dumais’s modern-rustic kitchen in their Litchfield, CT, home. Today, we’re going to show you exactly how they designed their characterful kitchen without breaking the bank. Hint: Start with Ikea. Featured photograph by Eric Piasecki, from Kitchen of the Week: A Design Couple’s Ikea-with-a-Twist Kitchen in Connecticut. […]
Kitchen of the Week: A Proper English Kitchen with New England-Inspired Shiplap Paneling
“I had a vision as soon as I walked in,” says Sally, the owner of this southwest London kitchen. It’s located in what had been a seen-better-days Edwardian house and promptly after purchasing the place, Sally and her husband, Greg, acted on her plan: They hired a contractor and took down the wall between the sitting room and […]