{"id":3341,"date":"2025-05-24T11:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T03:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/2025\/05\/24\/best-reader-submitted-bedroom-space-winner-loren-madsen\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T11:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T03:56:37","slug":"best-reader-submitted-bedroom-space-winner-loren-madsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/best-reader-submitted-bedroom-space-winner-loren-madsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Gagnant de la meilleure chambre \u00e0 coucher soumise par un lecteur : Loren Madsen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loren Madsen, an installation sculpture artist, is the winner in our Reader-Submitted Bedroom Space category in our first annual Considered Design Awards. Loren designed and built the bedroom with his wife, Libbe, on rural forested land in Laytonville, California. <\/p>\n

For the Madsens, both California natives, their wild mountain home was a long journey in the making: In 1970, they bought 40 acres of land in Laytonville, three hours north of San Francisco, and built a communal-living cabin with friends. But mountain bliss didn\u2019t last forever, says Madsen: \u201cThe hippie life was too much work, so I went back to art.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair did time in the big city; first LA, then New York, where Loren Madsen\u2019s sculpture career thrived. In 2005, they decided to sell their SoHo loft (which had significantly increased in value since they purchased it in 1977), a move profiled in a 2006 story in The New York TImes. <\/em><\/p>\n

They escaped to California and built a house on their 40 acres: a 640-square-foot modified kit without frills but with all the essentials of modern life\u2013a kitchen, bath, television, computers. They needed more room in a separate sleeping space, so Madsen got to work. <\/p>\n

As an artist, Loren is always building something\u2013sculptures, home improvements, and recently, furniture. For the bedroom, he began with basic building materials: 2\u00d74 framing, drywall interior walls, a ceiling of oriented strand board, and an exterior clad in stained plywood. He splurged on four wood-framed, double-glazed doors, a Japanese tansu chest, and Shaker furniture. As a builder, Loren has the essentials down\u2013basic framing and finishing, plumbing, and electrical skills; he also credits his friend Larry and wife Libbe for their building skills and encouragement, respectively. Though he\u2019s a competent builder, we think it\u2019s his well-honed artist\u2019s eye that accounts for the clean-lined, low-impact bedroom space. <\/p>\n

Photography by Loren Madsen. <\/p>\n

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Above: The Madsen\u2019s bedroom opens to the outdoors via four wood-framed, double-glazed doors. <\/p>\n

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Above: From the inside, Loren says the view \u201cmakes waking up quite nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Above: The interior features simple Shaker furniture, a tansu chest, and clerestory windows.<\/p>\n

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Above: The Madsens carry their bed outside in the summer months (though lately, \u201cthe squirrels have been chucking pine cones onto the deck so we\u2019re still inside\u201d).<\/p>\n

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Above: Loren says the simple bedroom is \u201cbasically, a bed, dresser, and closet.\u201d His original design included a toilet, but he ultimately built the cabin without. As he says, \u201cWalking thirty feet through the rain is not a big deal. When I awake I get variants of this view [below] over my feet.\u201d <\/p>\n

Above: The forested vista he now wakes up to \u201cbeats our NYC view,\u201d Loren says.<\/p>\n

Above: A copper sink and a Chinese log chest make for a small washing up area. <\/p>\n

Above: A view of the bedroom structure from the main house about 30 feet away. <\/p>\n

Above: Framing the bedroom in 2x4s. <\/p>\n

Above: The bedroom, cozy and tucked in for the winter. <\/p>\n

Above: The original 600-square-foot communal cabin\u2013designed by Loren and built in 1971\u2013still stands on the property, which makes the site a summertime destination for friends. <\/p>\n

Browse the rest of our Considered Design Awards Winners, whose projects will be featured on Remodelista this week.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Loren Madsen, artiste sculpteur d'installations, est le laur\u00e9at de la cat\u00e9gorie Chambre \u00e0 coucher soumise par les lecteurs dans le cadre de notre premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition annuelle des Prix de la conception r\u00e9fl\u00e9chie. Loren a con\u00e7u et construit cette chambre avec sa femme, Libbe, sur un terrain forestier rural \u00e0 Laytonville, en Californie. Pour les Madsen, tous deux originaires de Californie, leur maison de montagne sauvage \u00e9tait un long voyage dans le [...]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interior-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeofmaterials.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}