Autor: amo de casa

When you design and produce kitchens for a living, you get to use your own quarters as a testing ground. Kine Ask Stenersen and Kristoffer Eng are the couple behind Ask og Eng, the Oslo, Norway-based workshop known for its artful Ikea hacks: they specialize in making bamboo fronts for Ikea kitchen cabinets. The duo […]

Maleeha and Ian and their two daughters decamped from Brooklyn to Westchester County, just north of the city, for familiar reasons. In need of breathing room, the family—she’s a UX designer, he’s a doctor—settled on a 1910 Mediterranean-style fixer-upper in Pelham, New York, with an elegant terracotta-tiled roof and lots of windows. They took the […]

Confession: We’ve been hesitant at Remodelista to delve into the design scene in China; it’s unknown territory for us. But we’ve been quietly bookmarking projects that speak to us (and make us want to get on a plane). First up: a compelling whitewashed brick compound in Shanghai by KUU Architects, a design practice run by […]

Our love for light-filled, airy interiors is well-documented, but every once in a while, we encounter moody, sexy spaces that tempt us to the dark side—like this culinary lair from deVOL designed for a couple who live in Petersham, a small village on the Thames, not far from London. The owners wanted a space that […]

This week we’re revisiting some of our favorite all-time summer stories, like this one: Here’s a dose of sunshine, courtesy of Danish kitchen designers Reform. Outfitted in oak veneer, stainless steel, and a gradient of yellow to ochre tile, the minimalist look is one to co-opt. Here, we profile the essential items to recreate it, […]

In the Great Austens conservation area in the market town of Farnham in Surrey, England, Ben and Claire Macland were looking to replace an old interwar bungalow located on a corner plot. The bungalow was poorly constructed with an even poorer energy rating. They called on Rural Office, an architecture firm based in Carmarthen, Wales […]

The kids’ furniture market has grown–and grown up, fortunately. Here are our choices for simple, functional, and well-designed twin beds (not just reserved for the under-twelve set). Above: The Crate & Barrel Hampshire Olive Green Arched Bed is on sale for $109.65 to $594.15 depending on size. Above: The upholstered Twin Ella Bed comes in […]

Ready to make a change in your kitchen, without the expense and hassle of sourcing and installing all-new everything? A new coat of paint on kitchen cabinets, when done well, can completely change the look of your kitchen—on a minimal budget. (If you need proof, just see 6 Kitchen Cabinets Transformed with Paint.) Ready to […]

As a girl, Laxmi Hussain loved spending afternoons drawing in her father’s corner store in St. John’s Wood, London: “I used to spread my paper and pens on top of the ice cream fridges looking out the window.” She went on to earn a degree in architecture and to work in design. She’s now a […]

Let others bemoan the challenges of fitting a working kitchen into a closet-sized space. To designer Marianne Evennou, c’est normal. Marianne caters to a Parisian clientele who ask her to take on all sorts of remodels, from first apartments to historic townhouses. Celebrated for her inventive use of color and interior windows—and for approaching each […]

How’s your sleep these days? If you’re anything like us, getting into bed is the best part of the day. Sleep is finally getting its due as an essential component of good health, not a luxury or a mark of laziness. Case in point: This week is the National Sleep Foundation’s Sleep Awareness Week, and […]

Emerging Finnish design company Kitzen specializes in kitchen systems that offer, as its founders like to say, “the ideal conditions for cooking.” And, we might add, for keeping clutter out of sight. Kitzen’s look is modern and seamless: Its fully made kitchens use top-of-the-line materials and appliances (by Miele and Gaggenau) and don’t skimp on the storage. Kitzen customizes […]

Curtains can go very, very wrong. If you go overboard, you end up with something heavy and expensive and claustrophobic, like one of those getups Sally Field wore in Lincoln. On the other hand, don’t ignore them until too late, after all the remodel money has been spent. Like I did. With my husband threatening […]

After the legendary Manka’s Inverness Lodge in West Marin, California, burned in a fire, owners Margaret Grade and Daniel DeLong were looking for a commercial kitchen to cook in again. When they heard the former Olema Inn was up for sale, they jumped at the opportunity. The roadhouse, built in 1876, is on the corner […]

The Woodhouse Lodge dates to 1962 when the Catskills were the Borscht Belt (aka the Jewish Alps). Unlike so many neighboring resorts that went belly up decades ago, this modest joint—a welcoming A-frame with wings—carried on. But it had seen far better days when New York interior designer Megan Pflug and her artist husband, J. […]

Set in a stripped-down 1960s Hyatt in LA’s buzzing Koreatown, the now debuting Line Hotel–from the owner of New York’s NoMad–takes a refreshingly raw approach to the architectural makeover. Hotel impresario Andrew Zobler of the Sydell Group let loose an impressive creative team, including It Boy chef Roy Choi and LA designer Sean Knibb, to […]