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With obsessively curated remodeling guides, daily design dispatches, and ideas for every room, Remodelista is the definitive sourcebook for your considered home. We're a group of friends with a collective design DNA and a mission to deliver a daily curated selection of stylish pieces and furnishings for your home.
Remodelista
9h ago
Chances are good you’ve digitally crossed paths with Summer Rayne Oakes. The author of How to Make a Houseplant Love You, she’s the host of the popular Youtube series Plant One on Me and the new podcast Bad Seeds, founder of the urban naturalist hub Homestead Brooklyn, and served as the indoor gardening expert for our latest book Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home, among many other things. She models, too.
Until recently, Summer was rooted in Brooklyn, where she famously shared her Williamsburg loft with many hundreds of houseplants: see our Gardenista visit from a few years back. Summer still k ..read more
Remodelista
2d ago
While we were working on our book Remodelista in Maine with the photojournalist Greta Rybus, Greta let us in on a project she was working on: a book documenting hot springs, public baths, and soaking spots the world over. We’ve been awaiting the publication of Hot Springs ever since, and as of this month it’s officially out in the world—researched, written, and photographed by Greta, who traveled to five continents and thirteen countries, from Iceland to Bolivia, Turkey to Japan, Alaska to Hungary, to make it.
Some hot springs, Greta writes in the book’s introduction, “feel like a party, other ..read more
Remodelista
3d ago
We’ve been obsessing over Shaker design for 10-plus years now. And we thought we had seen it all. We stand corrected.
While browsing a new favorite online housewares shop, Orné de Feuilles of Tokyo, we were delighted to discover five Japanese Shaker box translations that adhere to tradition—swallow tail joints and copper rivets included—while giving the classic catchall practical new uses. Here are the surprise designs, plus some inspired Japanese versions of Shaker classics.
Photography courtesy of Orné de Feuilles.
Above: A Shaker Tissue Box, anyone? The Shaker pieces offered by Orné de Feu ..read more
Remodelista
3d ago
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 on their property. This one, while radically different, shares the same elegant, simple-is-best spirit.
Though it wasn’t long ago that his family purchased this cottage, they’ve been thinking about it since Greg was a kid growing up on the ranch. “The cottage is directly next to our farm. You can see my parents’ house on top ..read more
Remodelista
4d ago
Any party planner will tell you it’s all about the details—but David Stark takes that maxim to a new level. The in-demand New York-based event producer, designer, and author designs fêtes for celebrities, stars, and nonprofits the world over, but look closer and you’ll begin to notice that even the glitziest of soirees often feature the humblest of materials. Candleholders made from….old bricks? Statement-making centerpieces quite literally made from eggshells? David’s done it. In his hands, everyday materials are transformed into something that’ll make you do a double-take—a party trick that ..read more
Remodelista
5d ago
An unlikely rooftop oasis, ’70s florals, a wood-burning hot tub collaboration, and more signs of spring ahead:
Above: From this week’s Modernity in Outer Paris: A 1910 House in Île-de-France by Mudo Architecture. Photograph by Mary Gaudin.
“If a tiny, depressing roof can be transformed into a private urban oasis…then anything’s possible.”
One of our all-time favorite stores, Maison Empereur in Marseille—the oldest hardware store in France—won the Global Innovation Award in the housewares category for retail excellence this past week in Chicago. (Margot recently stopped by and can confirm its ..read more
Remodelista
6d ago
You may know Anthony Esteves from Soot House, the pitch-black Maine home that’s become something of an Internet sensation in the last half decade. Or perhaps you’re one of the 55 thousand people who follow him on Instagram, where he builds stone walls, chars wood, and painstakingly restores old windows by hand. (He also makes a cameo, occasionally, modeling for Rudy Jude, the small-batch clothing line with a cult following created by his partner, Julie O’Rourke.)
For us, it’s his intentional, hand-made approach to building—working with a palette of local materials, often down to the nails—that ..read more
Remodelista
6d ago
Interiors stylist Brittany Albert left much well enough alone in her Connecticut kitchen, but managed to transform an uninspired space courtesy of cost-conscious tweaks: see The Cosmetic Kitchen Upgrade, Trade Secrets Included.
Brittany freely shared her paint colors; how she was tracked down remaindered marble; and her hardware, and sink light sources. But she asked that we not go into the modest brass and glass ceiling lights: she had found them via a tip from a designer friend who requested silence on the subject.
Can a standout ceiling light really be kept secret? We originally presented B ..read more
Remodelista
1w ago
Beyond Ikea (and what a good idea!): Vermland in Copenhagen is a kitchen and furniture workshop offering solid-wood modular components designed to last a lifetime, as they say. “Our ready-to-assembly modular kitchen system is made of interlocking solid wood frames ensuring a long-lasting, sustainable, and affordable design, based on a refined yet experimental approach.” We’re on board.
Here’s a look:
Above: A kitchen installation in Villa Stenlose, displaying the versatility of the system. Above: Another kitchen featuring the precision of Nordic carpentry. Above: The elegant joinery. Above ..read more
Remodelista
1w ago
If you know us, you know that we love decanting. Swapping your packaged olive oil for a classic metal cruet offers an instant upgrade for your kitchen counter, with the bonus of protecting olive oil from sunlight. Here, we profile our 10 favorite metal dispensers in stainless steel, brass, and copper.
Above: Schoolhouse offers the Spanish Oil Pitcher, a traditional European-style pitcher made from polished stainless steel; $39.99. Above: The Gentner Oil Decanter 2 is available in polished tarnished brass or darkened brass (shown here); $419 at Gentner. Above: The Olipac Elegante Olive Oil D ..read more