• “An Air of Magic”: Scandi, Shaker, and Snug Lodgings in Bovina, New York

    “An Air of Magic”: Scandi, Shaker, and Snug Lodgings in Bovina, New York,Annie Quigley

    Have you pored over the handwritten menus and Shaker-style dining room of Bovina Farm & Fermentory and wanted to book a trip to upstate New York? Wait til you hear that the couple at its helm, Elizabeth Starks and Jacob Sackett, are now accepting overnight guests—and unsurprisingly, they have a knac

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  • Kitchen of the Week: A Moody and Modern Loft Kitchen in Athens

    Kitchen of the Week: A Moody and Modern Loft Kitchen in Athens,Julie Carlson

    We’ve been admiring the work of Barcelona-based designer Andrew Trotter for a while now, so we took note when we discovered the 10 AM Lofts in Athens, a six-story multipurpose events and exhibition space located in a former warehouse. Working with Gavalas Ioannidou Architecture and Eva Papadaki, Tro

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  • “Elegancy With Built-In Errors”: 14 Questions for Piero Lissoni

    “Elegancy With Built-In Errors”: 14 Questions for Piero Lissoni,Annie Quigley

    What do a sleek silver Alessi espresso maker, an alpine flat in Trentino-Alto Adige, and a lush Turks and Caicos resort have in common? That would be Piero Lissoni. Add any descriptor before “design,” and the Italian multi-hyphenate does it: graphic design, product design, interior design, landscape

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  • 10 Easy Pieces: Architects’ Favorite Black Paint Picks

    10 Easy Pieces: Architects’ Favorite Black Paint Picks,Alexa Hotz

    Few colors hold a room like black—absorbing light, softening edges, and, at times, defining or heightening the details. Architects know it’s less about moodiness and more about mastery. From off-black to near graphite, these are the paints they reach for when restraint becomes the statement. Above:

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  • Meanwhile, On Gardenista: The Eerie Garden

    Meanwhile, On Gardenista: The Eerie Garden,Remodelista Team

    Welcome to Meanwhile, on Gardenista, in which we take a look at the goings-on over on our sibling site. In this week’s Halloween edition: In the eerie garden, statuary adds a spooky note, bare branches tell a story, and shadows are just as evocative as light. Three moody examples we love: Above: Wea

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  • Trend Alert: The Case for Burgundy Accents in the Kitchen

    Trend Alert: The Case for Burgundy Accents in the Kitchen,Margot Guralnick

    The spectrum of reds evoke just about every mood, from fiery to relaxed. Burgundy falls under the latter category and is an easy, delightfully comforting shade to live with. Which perhaps explains why it’s having a color moment. Wine red may be associated with baronial settings, but it works surpris

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  • Steal This Look: A Shaker-Style Mudroom and Laundry in New Hampshire

    Steal This Look: A Shaker-Style Mudroom and Laundry in New Hampshire,Alexa Hotz

    A while back we featured a Shaker-inspired summer retreat in New Hampshire with interiors by Portland, Maine-based Heidi Lachapelle. The clients, a young and active family, were looking for functional spaces while welcoming color and pattern. Lachapelle delivered as seen in the mudroom and laundry s

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  • Required Reading: Retrouvius, Designing Houses from a Philosophy of Reuse

    Required Reading: Retrouvius, Designing Houses from a Philosophy of Reuse,Margot Guralnick

    Retrouvius is Maria Speake and Adam Hills’s combination salvage business and design studio: they lead by example and we’ve been drawing inspiration from them for years. The couple met as architecture students in Glasgow in the early 1990s and, after witnessing many of the city’s historic structures

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  • Extra, Extra: Two Exclusive Offers at Shops We Love, October Edition

    Extra, Extra: Two Exclusive Offers at Shops We Love, October Edition,Remodelista Team

    Ahead, exclusive, just-for-R/G-subscribers coupon codes: Find bold, cheerful patterns and considered outdoor accoutrements from two California faves. Above: At Block Shop, take 15 percent off sitewide with code REMODELISTA15, valid now through now through November 16. (We love the Half Moon Bay Long

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  • Current Obsessions: Slow Pursuits

    Current Obsessions: Slow Pursuits,Remodelista Team

    Happy weekend! Ahead: stationery stores, a wallpaper-in-film watch list, slow stitching, and more cozy pursuits. Read on: Above: ICYMI: Longtime Remodelista friends and prolific house flippers Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen know how to design a kitchen—and set up a stellar bar. For evidence, take a

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  • Resurrecting a 1908 Worker’s Cottage in the Netherlands: A Young Couple’s Weekend DIY

    Resurrecting a 1908 Worker’s Cottage in the Netherlands: A Young Couple’s Weekend DIY,Margot Guralnick

    For a year and a half, Aron de Jong and Irene Bijman devoted every weekend and many week nights, too, to working on their little house in the north of the Netherlands. They met as university students—Aron, 27, is a product designer and Irene, 26, is a psychomotor therapist—and couple dreamed of owni

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  • The Editors’ Cut: 12 Shades of Autumn’s It Color

    The Editors’ Cut: 12 Shades of Autumn’s It Color,Remodelista Team

    Welcome to The Editors’ Cut, our monthly column dedicated to beautiful and useful finds for all over the house. In this installment: We’ve always considered moss-y, olive-y green to be an honorary neutral. Even our most color-shy editors are drawn to the hue, incorporating it into our homes, our war

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  • Kitchen(ette) of the Week: 5 Space-Saving Ideas to Steal from a Brooklyn Cookspace, Ikea Hack Included

    Kitchen(ette) of the Week: 5 Space-Saving Ideas to Steal from a Brooklyn Cookspace, Ikea Hack Included,Fan Winston

    This kitchenette, which rests on the top floor of a Brooklyn brownstone, appears in our book Remodelista: The Organized Home, and every time I stumble upon the photograph, I’m reminded that this is how I want to live—surrounded by fewer, more considered possessions. It’s not just a pretty picture, t

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  • ‘Own’ It Like You Own It: 8 Ways to Personalize Your Rental, Designer Edition

    ‘Own’ It Like You Own It: 8 Ways to Personalize Your Rental, Designer Edition,Justine Hand

    Rental spaces can be a challenge for designers, who often cannot exercise full creative license over features, fixtures, and hues. That’s why it’s all the more impressive when one is able to fully realize their design vision in a rental. When I visited designer/architect duo Cheryl and Jeffery Katz

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  • 10 Easy Pieces: Apartment Sofas

    10 Easy Pieces: Apartment Sofas,Alexa Hotz

    Compact yet comfortable, these sofas occupy that balanced in-between: 70 to 80 inches in length, they fit neatly into spaces short on square footage. Scaled down in length and depth, they prove that proportion can make all the difference. Above: The Maiden Home Varick Sofa comes in a wide range of l

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  • Small-Space Solutions: 7 Clever Twists on Room Dividers

    Small-Space Solutions: 7 Clever Twists on Room Dividers,Annie Quigley

    If you have a roommate, live in a small studio, or want to break up a large open area, you might wish for walls where there are none. But unless you’re doing a big remodel, this isn’t always possible. Enter the clever room divider, which can be opened, closed, or rearranged on a whim—a particularly

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  • Steal This Look: A Remodelista’s Minimalist Galley Kitchen in Brooklyn Heights

    Steal This Look: A Remodelista’s Minimalist Galley Kitchen in Brooklyn Heights,Julie Carlson

    When my husband, Josh, and I moved to Brooklyn Heights a few years ago, we were lucky enough to find a parlor floor flat that hadn’t been updated for a couple of decades, so it was a blank slate. The kitchen in particular needed work, so we called on our friend Malachi Connolly, a New York/Cape Cod-

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  • Making Space: A 350-Square-Foot Parisian Pied-à-Terre Studio from Corpus Studio

    Making Space: A 350-Square-Foot Parisian Pied-à-Terre Studio from Corpus Studio,Alexa Hotz

    Situated on the first floor of a six-story Père-Lachaise building, architects Ronan Le Grand and Konrad Steffensen of Corpus Studio have reworked a compact Parisian pied-à-terre into a remarkable example of the transformative potential of considered design. The apartment, just 350 square feet, was o

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  • Design Hot Take: Wall-to-Wall Carpet Makes a Comeback

    Design Hot Take: Wall-to-Wall Carpet Makes a Comeback,Nicole Najafi

    Lately we’ve been tracking an unlikely trend: Wood floors have reigned for years, but carpet is making appearances in sophisticated living rooms and cool hotels, particularly in rich, saturated colors—and somehow, though we never thought we’d say it, it’s looking fresh and innovative, not musty and

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  • Current Obsessions: Outsiders

    Current Obsessions: Outsiders,Remodelista Team

    It was a big week here at Remodelista and Gardenista: Our latest (sixth!) book is out in the world! Read more about it right over here, and find it wherever books are sold. (P.S. We’d love to see your copy. Snap a photo in your garden (or front stoop, sunny window, or fire escape) and tag us on Inst

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