Category: Coastal Style

When Joe Walters purchased his Vancouver house, there was a broken-down car on the front lawn and “you can see the sky through the rotting roof,” he says. However Walters, founder of Radec Group, a company which builds homes and oversees commercial projects, and his wife, Karla, took their time constructing the home in the […]

“We are living in the realm of resourcefulness out here,” says builder Dave Radatti of Northern Montana’s Mindful Designs. Northern Montanans are resourceful when it comes to reclaiming, reusing, creating their own homes, staying warm and even besting the house mortgage system. When catchy loan requirements threatened to reevaluate the purchase of 10 acres in […]

True midcentury kitchen appliances, a darling enclosed sunporch and a spacious basement master suite helped sell this Denver couple in their residence. While their previous downtown loft had its upsides, Caylin Engle and Colin Scott yearned for more space than they had in their 800-square-foot loft. This 1926 bungalow doubles their square footage and has […]

Something amazing often occurs in Northern European layouts. No matter the reason, the design firms here — all with Danish origins — are making their mark with beautiful chairs in a lively Danish aesthetic. Split backs, powerful repeating lines, floating seats and natural contours win out with such layout locates. Whether you look to Hay, […]

When looked at comparative to other spaces in a 15, stairs are a thing. They are basically vertical corridors of motion, but in several cases they are a part of other spaces — open to them physically or taking within a room to connect upstairs and downstairs. There are many, many methods of articulating stairs […]

Princesses and superheroes are all well and good, but they do not last long. Sure, a 5-year-old might love them, but what about a 10-year-old? My fundamental rule for nurseries and kids’ rooms is to produce something that is youthful and lively but that won’t be entirely useless in five decades. That’s why I love […]

We are living smaller and brighter these days, therefore we need hardworking, multifunctional furniture to help out us. Don’t fret; hardworking and sexy aren’t mutually exclusive. 1 piece available on the marketplace that’s irresistibly fashionable and superfunctional is the Twilight Sleeper Sofa. When you’re scaling down, you do not dedicate an whole room to the […]

Japanese architects create some of the most popular contemporary homes, evidenced by their proliferation in blogs and magazines, and at the number of books dedicated to them. This popularity stems from bold layouts born of a number of special factors: the high price of property in cities like Tokyo (meaning little and awkward plots of […]

When cookbook author, blogger and designer Lisa Nieschlag bought the home she shares with her husband and child in Münster, Germany, she was greeted with little rooms, tiny windows and five types of wallpaper. “It had been dark and depressing. We needed to extend our imaginations to think of the home for a place in […]

Showcasing beach homes in the USA, Mexico and the Bahamas, Rooms to Inspire from the Sea (Rizzoli, 2012) requires the pulse of what’s chic in coastal dwelling today. Created by wife-and-husband team Annie Kelly and Tim Street-Porter, this new addition to the Baths to Inspire series looks at a dazzling number of popular beachfront designs. […]