Categoría: Renovación del hogar

House-hunter news: in a city famous for its minuscule living quarters, a young creative couple managed to acquire a corner parcel of land. Located in Tokyo’s historic, densely populated Asakusa district, the plot had been cleared of an existing structure and was just big enough for its new owners, confectioner Mio Tsuchiya and graphic designer Moe […]

It was a case of strange bedfellows: an Italian couple based in Washington D.C. approached local architecture firm Fowlkes Studio with a 1980s brick Colonial and an impressive collection of pedigreed European modernist furniture. How to combine the two into a family home? Fowlkes, which is run by husband-and-wife team, VW and Catherine Fowlkes (they […]

How does a 28-year-old from a small town in Kazakhstan become an in-demand interior designer with projects featured in The New York Times and AD? “Am I really a designer? Is this real?” asks Fariz Mamedov. “It feels like a fairytale.” An understandable response: not so long ago, Fariz explains, he was singing in a […]

London designer Mark Lewis knows how to conjure a world out of empty space: He began his career working on theater sets. So he was the perfect person for the job when a client wanted to transform a charming old garage into a guest room. Remodelista and Gardenista regulars know we have a weakness for […]

Wallpaper may be more of a commitment than paint, but it’s also more impactful. For those wanting to make a room feel more homey—and, yes, #cottagecore, #cozycore, #grandmacore, and #coastalgrandmother—an overall leafy or geometric pattern is a good way to go. We ourselves are currently immersed in the vast design library of Boråstapeter, Sweden’s oldest […]

For some reason, the 11th century Vikings were not anticipating future luxury hotel needs when they claimed Häringe Peninsula for themselves. Luckily, however, Swedish Count Gustav Hornhad had the foresight 600 years later to build just the thing: a stone castle on the outskirts of Stockholm. A half hour’s drive away in Västerhaninge, Häringe Slott […]

When London interior designer Mark Lewis says he cares about the nuts and bolts, he means that literally. A while back, after finding it hard to source things like traditional shelf brackets and wall hooks, he began producing them himself and offering them on his website’s home store. A surprise element is that many of […]

When Brazilian architect and designer Felipe Hess renovated a 4,800-square-foot apartment for a young art collector, he let the client’s antique Brazilian furniture and artwork dictate the space. The apartment, located on Avenida Paulista in São Paulo, Brazil, was originally sectioned off into a series of small rooms. Hess converted it into just two rooms: […]

We at Remodelista are on a mission to resurrect the lost art of the well-made bed. Lesson one: square corners (sometimes known as hospital corners when the fold is diagonal). My grandfather, a WWII vet, taught me all I know about bed-making, including proper square corners. My favorite part of helping him was testing his […]

Before Nimi Attanayake, of London-based Nimtim Architects, redesigned the 1920s townhouse for 2020s living, the kitchen was small and closed-off from the rest of the living space: “It was perfunctory, ill-considered, with no connection to [the rest of the rooms] nor any space to socialize,” Nimi tells us. “It was also separated from the dining […]

With the holidays coming on and guests arriving at the door, we’re turning our attention to the room that often gets overlooked day-to-day: the guest bed and bath. Chances are, yours has become a temporary storage facility for spare furniture, wrapping supplies, an old stationary bike, or the litter box. But it’s not too late […]

“This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight.” So goes the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem—set in what was once called Acadia, now modern-day Maine—that gives its name to Portland-based Evangeline Linens, a new soft goods company from a native Mainer and veteran of […]

Tuscon-based architect Rick Joy grew up in Maine, where he studied music and worked as a carpenter before going to architecture school at the University of Arizona. Joy has earned a reputation as a master of desert rammed-earth construction (Steven Holl calls his work “transcendent moments of space, light, and matter” in Rick Joy: Desert […]

Laura Aviva collaborates with artisan workshops in Latin America to create L’Aviva Home’s lighting, textiles, and furniture. She approaches traditional craft as a springboard for sophisticated, entirely new designs and loves getting her collaborators to apply their skills in undreamed of ways. Her pieces land in impressive settings that are featured on the company website. […]

“Reuse is not a design trend; it’s an attitude, a mindset, and a behavioral approach that isn’t just relevant today— it’s vital,” says Maria Speake. Back in the early 1990s in Glasgow, she and fellow architecture student Adam Hills watched historic buildings being demolished. “The madness of this process wasn’t just about unnecessary waste, it […]

As architects who have a penchant for being organized (are there any who don’t?), my husband and I are on a never-ending quest for more storage space. After Living Small in London for ten years with our two sons, we Sleuthed for More Space last year and upgraded our kitchen, taking the opportunity to create […]

Hillary and Jim Straatman weren’t planning to move—nor was Hillary looking for a career change. Three years ago, she was a cardiac nurse on leave with two young daughters when a real estate broker mentioned a well-preserved four square newly on the market in Bellingham, Washington. Jim had grown up in Seattle in a similar […]

A feng shui master who hails from North Carolina, Katherine Anne Lewis studied under three grand masters and has had her LA-based global consultancy for more than a decade, specializing in the intersection of feng shui, design, and well-being. Feng shui, Lewis explains, is the 4,000-year-old Chinese art of placement, aimed at creating rooms that impart […]

When I was last in Copenhagen, I found myself picking up a daily coffee at Lille Petra, a cafe designed and operated by &Tradition and tucked into the courtyard of the brand’s showroom. Now, &Tradition extends its offering with Hotel Petra, a 40-room boutique hotel in a landmark building meticulously restored by the brand. Like […]

This apartment belongs to a fashion designer and a priest (you can chew on that, but the owners insist on anonymity). Here’s what we know: They live in a historic mill building on the outskirts of Mainz, in Western Germany, and they have very good taste. When they signed the lease on their flat—a single-story, 150-square-meter (1,614-square-foot) space—it was “cluttered […]

Five years ago, we wrote about the arrival of TOURISTS Welcome: The Hip Berkshires Escape Everyone’s Talking About. This summer, the TOURISTS team added to its growing compound, with two newly remodeled vacation home rentals (just a 10-minute walk “through the woods and across the river” from the lodge in North Adams, MA). Both homes […]

Uno de nuestros espacios escandinavos favoritos de los últimos años es la casa familiar de Johanne Landbo y Lukas Filip Fernandes en Copenhague. Su reforma consistió en “no arreglar mucho salvo las cosas estéticas divertidas”, lo que dio como resultado una serie de habitaciones con piezas hechas a mano o vintage. El ático de la casa adosada sirve de [...]

En Remodelista todos intentamos tomar decisiones que tengan un menor impacto ambiental, así que nos hizo especial ilusión descubrir recientemente Sustainable Kitchens, una empresa de diseño y fabricación de cocinas con sede en Bristol (Inglaterra) que da prioridad a los materiales éticos. Sus principios básicos son la confianza en la madera maciza de origen responsable y los materiales no tóxicos, [...]

El director creativo Jakob Daschek es sueco y la estilista de moda Barbara Abbatemaggio es italiana, y su renovada cocina neoyorquina, diseñada por la arquitecta Lauren Wegel, protegida de Annabelle Selldorf, responde a las sensibilidades de ambos. “La estética de Jakob es moderna, mientras que Barbara suele preferir espacios rústicos y románticos con mucha calidez y confort”, dice Wegel, “así que [...]

El arquitecto Simon Astridge es conocido sobre todo por su Plywood House, una casa adosada del sur de Londres que resucitó entretejiendo tres añadidos en el armazón existente (véase Raw Materials in a Cost-Conscious Victorian Remodel). Justo enfrente, él y su equipo han dejado su impronta en otra vivienda. Ésta, una humilde casa de una sola [...]

¿Busca una distribución de cocina con espacio para varios cocineros y curiosos? Considere la versátil forma en L, una configuración de dos paredes que se encaja perfectamente en una esquina sin dejar de estar abierta al espacio circundante. La cocina en L funciona especialmente bien en lofts y salones abiertos, donde suele estar rodeada por una isla o una mesa de comedor. He aquí una [...]

Últimamente me llama la atención: biombos plegables como cabeceros. Echa un vistazo: Arriba: Para el hotel James Bradley de Bradley Beach, Nueva Jersey, el diseñador Sebastian Zuchowicki encargó cabeceros plegables en las habitaciones. Arriba: Para una instalación en la galería Seventh House de Los Ángeles, la diseñadora Courtney Applebaum utilizó un biombo plegable lacado en negro en un dormitorio. Arriba: Un dormitorio [...]

Cuando se trata del diseño de cocinas, el equipo de Plain English es un orgulloso tradicionalista. Pero también tienen una inclinación inventiva. Especializados en lo que ellos llaman “estancias definidas por la dignidad de la utilidad”, no escatiman en almacenamiento ni en detalles ingeniosos. Por ejemplo, esta remodelación en dos tonos de una granja de Dorset, Inglaterra, con un techo [...]

La artista Caroline Z. Hurley conoció el arte de la impresión en bloque durante un viaje a Bali. A su regreso a Nueva York, llevó su inspiración a otro nivel y empezó a estampar lino italiano y otros tejidos. Licenciada en RISD y natural de Memphis, Hurley trabaja como profesora a tiempo parcial y pasa las tardes [...]

Hace poco, mientras hojeaba nuestro último libro, me di cuenta de que había algo en común en las cocinas que aparecían: La mayoría carece de armarios empotrados. En su lugar, estos espacios ingeniosamente improvisados utilizan mesas de restaurante, arcones antiguos o estanterías caseras para guardar sus utensilios de cocina y artículos de despensa. Puede que no parezcan la típica cocina con [...]

Hace poco presentamos una casa victoriana que el estudio Ben Allen reconstruyó con hormigón pigmentado; véase Londres en Living Color por dentro y por fuera. Hoy visitamos un proyecto precursor: la propia cocina del arquitecto Ben Allen, en la que experimentó por primera vez con materiales de construcción de colores vivos. El espacio se encuentra en un apartamento dúplex que [...]

“Tuve una visión nada más entrar”, dice Sally, la propietaria de esta cocina del suroeste de Londres. Está situada en lo que había sido una casa eduardiana en mejor estado y, poco después de comprarla, Sally y su marido, Greg, pusieron en marcha su plan: Contrataron a un contratista y derribaron la pared entre el salón y la [...]

It’s been over fifteen years since I walked the cobblestone streets of the medieval town of Visby, located on the Swedish island of Gotland. I’m plotting a return visit to the island–and if I go I’ll be sure to stay at the hotel and restaurant Hotel Magazin 1. Located on the southern part of the […]

Designers Christine Sofie Johansen and Rasmus Robert are among their own best clients. In addition to running Studio Force Majeure, their Copenhagen interiors firm, the couple have spent the last seven years rehabbing and flipping vacation houses on Denmark’s north coast, just a hop and skip from Copenhagen. They call this venture The Business and […]

Chef Frederik Bille Brahe and designer Caroline Brasch Nielsen live with their two young children on the top floor of a 17th-century house in Copenhagen. While the bones of the apartment are decidedly old, the kitchen is strikingly contemporary, thanks to cabinet fronts designed by Belgian artists Muller Van Severen for Reform. And the fact […]

¿Cómo crear un dormitorio suave y suntuoso que no resulte demasiado recargado ni demasiado juvenil? (Hemos consultado a Twig Hutchinson, directora de arte, estilista y fundadora de la revista online Minford, que recientemente ha reformado el dormitorio y el cuarto de baño de su casa londinense de principios de la época victoriana, para que nos cuente [...].