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One of our favorites design details in our first book, Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home, are the puddle-like mirrors in French designer Corinne Gilbert’s Brooklyn atelier. We had never encountered anything like them—until…
A while back we featured a kitchen sink with a marble backsplash that rises in a curve. This simple flourish—evocative of classic Italian washstands, fountains from antiquity, and boudoir bathrooms—captured our imaginations and sent us…
Our story begins in the early 1960s with a hot tip in a doctor’s office: “My father was a dentist in Paris and a patient told him to have a look at this little hamlet…
Like so many people who come upon a dream fixer-upper, Jeremy Wortsman searched for a compelling reason to buy the needy midcentury house minutes from his family’s own place in the lush Dandenong Ranges, east…
“We spent nearly two decades pondering how we wanted the rooms to function,” says Jennifer Parker-Stanton of the office and adjoining main bath in her 1958 South Pasadena home. “The spaces flow from one to…
Welcome to our new column, The Brass Tacks, in which we highlight the tiniest but mightiest details in the house: good-looking hardware, hinges, and fixtures. For our first installment, we’re featuring an attractive alternative to…
It’s a given: At some point in your life you will need a light-emitting fixture (for reading, for cooking, for illuminating a sad corner in your apartment). Bring an industrial edge–and a bit of a…
The three women behind the blog The Merrythought have been coming up with some great DIY projects of late. We especially like Catilin McGrath’s simple, elegant DIY towel holder made for her own rental bathroom. I plan to…
On a quick visit to Los Angeles last week, we wandered into Filmore Clark, a new tile showroom tucked on a side street just off Melrose near the Pacific Design Center. Owner Lee Harris Nicholson…
Last week we featured the Cliffside Home of creative couple McShane and Cleo Murname of Project M+. Today, we’re revisiting their exquisitely simple, blue-and-white-tiled master bath–and lingering long enough to investigate all the key elements.…