Categoría: Diseño interior

By now, our fondness for The Modern House, the UK real estate agency that seems to have no shortage of enviable listings, has been well-documented (for a sampling of recent posts we’ve written that originated from their site, go here, here, and here). So we were intrigued when their team sent word of a new […]

This last week of August, we’re revisiting summery stories from the archives, like this one: Architect Greg Dutton came to our attention a few years ago, when he designed and built a 600-square-foot Scandi-Inspired Off-the-Grid Hut on his parents’ sprawling cattle farm in eastern Ohio. Recently, we discovered he’s helped them add another 600-square-feet guesthouse […]

We first became fans of Pernille Lind back in 2017, when we covered the opening of Hotel Sanders, an intimate Copenhagen property she designed with her Lind + Almond co-founder Richy Almond. Of all the warm Scandinavian furnishings the duo used to transform three late-1800s houses into a cozy hotel, one stood out in particular: […]

After 11 years of living in their Brooklyn brownstone, architect Anat Soudry’s friends were ready: they wanted to replace the Ikea shoebox kitchen that came with their otherwise well-preserved 1889 townhouse. John and Danielle—he’s a magazine journalist; she’s an early education teacher and former fashion designer—are aesthetes who love to cook and have three young […]

London interior designer Nicola Harding was the right person to turn to. Her clients, a couple with two young boys, were leaving London for rural Berkshire and life in a Georgian brick manse. They appreciated the grandeur of their house—8,600 square feet, seven bedrooms—but how to downplay the stuffy formality and lend the spaces the […]

Does everyone long to find a daily ritual that unleashes new powers of invention, efficiency, focus–and hours of free time? As a habitual night worker (and morning sleeper), I certainly do. Which makes reading Mason Currey’s Daily Rituals a great pleasure, if only to find that none of us are alone in our oddball routines […]

Architect Thomas Maria and designer Ann Butaye are a Belgian husband-and-wife team who have recently dedicated their practice to historic house flipping. In their designs, the two use only natural, eco-friendly materials and focus on restoration and renewal. After Ann had a serious health scare a few years ago, creating healing environments also became their […]

Our architect friend Elizabeth Roberts clued us in a while back to her (and many fellow designers’) favorite winter escape: Hix Island House, a wabi-sabi, eco-friendly hotel in Vieques. Here’s her account. “Designed by Toronto-based architect John Hix, Hix Island House is a perfect blank slate for viewing the surrounding nature; the contrast of the rugged, […]

In addition to linen and cotton, wool is one of our tried-and-true, go-to textiles for all over the house. It’s both hardy (as in a dependable wool rug) and luxurious (as in soft sheepskin blankets), and we love the way it looks in all its forms. But wool has other benefits, too: It’s eco-friendly, water-resistant, […]

Brothers Hugh and Howard Miller trained as architects before turning their attention, as the duo H Miller Bros, to kitchens, furniture, products and sometimes even gardens (they won a silver gilt medal for their Urban Foraging Station design for at the Chelsea Flower Show earlier this year). Their work is people-centered and their latest kitchen, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

When actors (and hands-on remodelers) Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen decided to downsize to a 1949 three bedroom fixer-upper in Studio City, LA, they had to find space to fit their family of six. The fact that their four boys, ages 15 to 24, all happen to be giants made the need for extra room […]

Like so many people, Alexandra Evans and her husband, Tom, had always been cautious about color: “We had to think about resale value, so we painted everything white,” she says. Then the couple bought a 1914 fixer upper in Richmond Park, in southwest London, for themselves and their three children, ages 4, 9, and 13. Feeling as if […]

Design writer Ros Byam Shaw is the creator of the “Perfect” series of books: Perfect English made its debut in 2007, followed by Perfect English Cottage, Perfect English Farmhouse, and Perfect French Country (as well as the instant classic Farrow & Ball Decorating with Colour). The former features editor of The World of Interiors, Byam Shaw teamed up with […]

There’s nothing like a freshly made bed, with clean sheets and luxurious pillows—particularly during hibernating season. But is your bed (where you sleep, relax, read, watch Netflix and, quite possibly, eat and work) really clean? It’s a question we almost couldn’t bear to ask. “It pays to go deeper,” says bedding maven Tricia Rose of Rough Linen, […]

Dianne Nordt, natural de Virginia, descubrió su oficio en la universidad e imaginó un futuro como tejedora, viviendo en una granja con su marido y sus hijos y criando ovejas. Todo ha salido bien con la Nordt Family Farm. La tejedora y diseñadora Dianne Nordt dirige, junto con su marido, la Nordt Family Farm, de 400 acres, a orillas [...]

Uno de nuestros proyectos de renovación favoritos es la conversión de una finca georgiana en Cambridgeshire, que pasó de ser un lugar de retiro silencioso monástico a una glamurosa casa moderna. La cocina es uno de los componentes más nuevos de la renovación, situada en el lugar que ocupaba el comedor de la orden religiosa. Completa con armarios de color rosa cálido, accesorios de latón y espejos [...]

El difunto arquitecto Yves Bayard, que diseñó el Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Niza, reconstruyó un establo de ovejas del siglo XVI con su esposa, la diseñadora Jacqueline Morabito, en la ciudad de Saint-Paul de Vence (sede de la Fundación Maeght). Nos gusta la decoración ad hoc de las ventanas: trozos de tela enganchados a los marcos. Fotos [...]

“Queremos que nuestras piezas sean el elemento final de un hogar personal y ecléctico”, escriben las hermanas Maja y Ellen Dixdotter. Este dúo sueco afincado en Copenhague dirige conjuntamente la marca de moda minimalista By Malene Birger, así como Cappelen Dimyr, una joven empresa dedicada a la creación de alfombras, tapices y colchas contemporáneos hechos a mano y producidos de forma ética en By [...].

En algunas de nuestras cocinas favoritas de los últimos tiempos se han instalado armarios que van del suelo al techo en lugar de armarios altos montados en la pared (algunos con escaleras de biblioteca para acceder a la parte superior). El resultado es un aspecto más limpio con múltiples posibilidades de almacenamiento. Arriba: En una casa de Los Feliz, en Los Ángeles, la diseñadora Tamar Barnoon reconfiguró una cocina anticuada, añadiendo una pared [...]

Después de dos años, estaba dispuesta a separarme de mi cabecero en ángulo recto, con el que luchaba cada vez que intentaba sentarme y trabajar con el portátil en la cama. Mi batiburrillo de almohadas colocadas de forma creativa no era una solución suficientemente buena. El cabecero en ángulo proporciona exactamente el apoyo que buscaba [...]

Cuando Peter Dolkas y Michelle Ficker, diseñadores afincados en Brooklyn y pertenecientes a Studio Dorian, recibieron el encargo de renovar la nueva propiedad de una familia de Brooklyn en el condado de Litchfield (Connecticut), el proyecto comenzó como una casa de fin de semana. Sin embargo, a lo largo de la renovación, la pareja decidió mudarse por completo de Brooklyn. Seguían teniendo la intención de recibir a muchos invitados en su casa, así que [...]

No cabe duda de que, cuando se trata de eficiencia doméstica, la sábana bajera es un invento de ensueño. Sin embargo, a menudo es una pesadilla doblarla. Todos esos bordes elásticos se niegan a ser doblados. Afortunadamente, hay una manera. Con la ayuda de mi marido, Chad, he aquí cómo doblar correctamente una sábana bajera. [...]

Frede y Claudia Edgerton se arriesgaron con una propiedad en Hill Country, cerca de Fredericksburg (Texas): una réplica de un pueblo del Viejo Oeste con la fachada de una comisaría, una taberna y una réplica del edificio del Álamo. Los Edgerton, en colaboración con su nuera, la diseñadora de interiores de Austin Ann Edgerton, recurrieron a los arquitectos Kevin Stewart y Liz Rau [...]

El año pasado me lancé a cubrir todas las ventanas con simples estores enrollables de tela blanca, de montaje interior, sin florituras. No había previsto todas las opciones de cordones y poleas, cenefas, forros y cenefas. Aunque se puede ir a lo loco con los adornos, nosotros preferimos un aspecto más sobrio. No es tan espartano como un [...]

Somos grandes fans de las cocinas deVOL, así que nos fijamos mucho cuando el ebanista británico abrió una sucursal en Nueva York no hace mucho. Ahora puedes ver de cerca sus cuatro estilos de armarios en su sala de exposiciones de Bond Street, en el Bajo Manhattan. Aunque cada línea tiene algo que recomendar, [...]

Los arquitectos Claesson Koivisto Rune se inspiraron en la bruma y la niebla del archipiélago sueco para elegir la paleta de colores del Hotel Skeppsholmen de Estocolmo. Situado en una pequeña isla a la que se accede por un puente desde el centro de Estocolmo, el Hotel Skeppsholmen ocupa dos edificios que datan de 1699 y se construyeron para albergar [...]

Cuando los parisinos Celia y Rodolphe compraron una casa adosada de 1910 en Williamsburg, Brooklyn, el plan era hacer una remodelación ligera: nuevo suelo en el sótano y el salón, una cocina en la planta principal y un baño reformado en el piso de arriba. Serían cuatro o cinco meses, como mucho. Consiguieron el permiso y empezaron a trabajar enseguida. Luego [...]

Como tantas otras personas que se topan con una casa de ensueño, Jeremy Wortsman buscó una razón de peso para comprar la casa de mediados de siglo que estaba a pocos minutos de la de su familia, en la exuberante cordillera de Dandenong, al este de Melbourne. Trasplantado de Estados Unidos, Wortsman, que creció en Nueva York, trafica con la creatividad y no tardó en dar con una respuesta. [...]