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 […]

Kitchen of the Week: A Cost-Conscious Cabin Kitchen Puzzled Together from Vintage Finds
The cabin dates from 1979, but its newly shored-up kitchen has the sepia warmth of a much earlier era. Located in the Poconos, in Bushkill, Pennsylvania, a hike from the famous Bushkill Falls, the hideaway was purchased by a group of four friends for use as a retreat and word-of-mouth rental. The new owners include […]

Backyard Bunkhouse, Hollywood Royal Family Edition
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 […]

An Artful Hotel on the Swedish Island of Gotland
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 […]

Kitchen of the Week: A Brightly Colored (and Cost Conscious) London Kitchen
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 […]

Kitchen of the Week: Masterful Storage in a Workstead Design
So many kitchen designers of late bypass above-the-counter cabinets to avoid an overly kitchen-y, old-fashioned look. But Workstead’s solution for a Brooklyn family of five makes masterful use of floor-to-(nearly)-ceiling millwork. And there’s nothing Betty Crocker about it. In fact, the cabinetry is so elegant, it works equally well in the dining area. Photography by Matthew Williams. Above: Situated on the parlor […]

Seaside Scandi : A 1970s Cabin Makeover on the Danish Riviera
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 […]

A Midcentury-Style 1980s House: The Takatina Take on an Upstate Hideaway
Ten years ago, when we first met Takaaki and Christina Kawabata, they had just fled Brooklyn with their two young kids to live in an entirely open-plan cabin in upstate New York. The couple—he’s an architect, she’s an interior designer—transformed their modest 1960s retreat into a Japanese-style, minimalist farmhouse: see The New Pioneers: A One-Room […]

The Perfect English Townhouse, Courtesy of a UK Design Authority
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 […]

10 Things Nobody Tells You About Washing Your Bedding
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, […]

Steal This Look: A Characterful Kitchen in Copenhagen
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 […]
