This Family of Five’s Library-Inspired Home Office Does Triple Duty
When Becca Lloyd decided it was time to revamp a spare bedroom into an office and craft space at her family’s Salt Lake City home last year, the art history instructor knew she wanted to draw upon her memories of shelving books at Yale’s Beinecke Library.
NEXT WAVE DESIGN
California’s agricultural epicenter is just about the last place you’d expect to find the world’s most elite surfers. But 11-time world champion Kelly Slater had flipped the small town of Lemoore in California’s King County—best known for producing crops such as grapes and almonds—into the most unexpected destination for one of the West’s most iconic sports.
PAST MEETS PRESENT
David Froehlich and Jason Castleberry had been kicking around all kinds of scenarios for the remodel of their character-filled early 1920s Edwardian in San Francisco when they finally nailed down solid wish lists for the transformation of their kitchen and bathroom…
NEW COLOR CRUSH
Utah stylist and interior designer Meta Coleman became besotted with the mottled, cloudlike finish of limewash after visiting a friend’s home in Sweden. The traditional European wall application made of lime putty, mineral pigment, and water is earthkind and chemical-free…
RAISE THE ROOF
Two years ago, when Cassandra LaValle moved into her fiancé’s South Seattle Craftsman, she was faced with the daunting task of merging not only closets but also disparate decorating styles…
INSTANT CURB APPEAL
High style, low fuss—that was Rachel and Michael Graves’s goal for the exterior of the 1951 ranch house they purchased last summer in Ojai, California. “We needed to bring it back to its roots with clean lines, modernist color, and a general midcentury vibe,” Michael says…
THE FUTURE IS HERE
If you’re feeling outsmarted by smarthome technology these days, you’re not alone. While the Internet of Things is intended to simplify life, the vast number of options can be intimidating. We get it: In fact, we’re currently hard at work designing what we’re calling the Sunset Smart Cottage, a high-tech, high-design space we’ll be revealing at this year’s Celebration Weekend in Sonoma…
NAILING IT
Ah, the gallery wall—that beloved (albeit ubiquitous) design feature. Inside her 1910 farmhouse in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains, Suna Lock, owner of Stripe Design Group and Stripe shops, turns a blank space on its head by dodging conventional sets of framed images in favor of easy-to-source, 3-D gatherings that don’t break the bank…
THE NEW CLEAN LIVING
Today’s method of organization isn’t about acquiring bins and baskets to corral accumulations. In their first book, New Minimalism: Decluttering and Design for Sustainable, Intentional Living, Kyle Quilici and Cary Fortinbegin with a guide to extreme spring cleaning and continue with rules for thoughtful acquisitions…
DESIGNERS ON A ROLL
Encompassing two stories and some 8,000 square feet, the Waterworks Kitchen showroom debuts this month in San Francisco’s Design District. And lest the sculptural brass faucets and saddle-stitched handles take things firmly into fantasy-home territory, rest assured there’s plenty of everyday inspiration in store…
backyard blockbuster
There’s no better time than an early summer evening to ditch the sofa in favor of an outdoor-movie night. To re-create a bit of that drive-in-theater magic on your lawn, start with some portable tech, like LG’s PH550 Mini-beam LED Projector…
THE DEEP END
Our vote for makeover hue of the moment: matte black. The bold design choice is also surprisingly versatile, finding a range of expression in elements from furniture to faucets…