It has been an exciting couple of months. Refurbishing has started. All I seem to do these days is drawing and eating, eating and drawing.
Thus far, we are still re-arranging furniture and have managed to kit out the basics for the master room and bathroom (laminated floors, painted walls/ceiling). Onto the next project!
My first room as a kid had navy blue and dark green tartan wallpaper with matching curtains so forgive me if I have never been friendly towards wallpaper. That is until I came accross Minakani Lab and Cole & Son Designs. Their most contemporary lines have me drooling over their geometric patterns.
Which means that I am either finally acquiring my mother's good taste or her absolute lunacy.
There is a lot to learn from well designed small hotels. Here is a sample that could easily be applied to everyday living and not just holiday dreaming.
Palm Springs Life magazine had a beautiful article of Marmol Radziner's prefab prototype (and home) in Desert Hot Spings, CA. I have bloged about the house before, but I thought the work was too marvelous not to share.
A very simple backyard in Palm Springs, nothing over processed and it even looks a little dated, but I would swap in a heartbeat. I am not exactly sure why our backyward can not look like this. It seems pretty simple to me. A couple sunloungers, some rocks, cement, a few pebbles. Just add water, right?
'Rose Delight' is a mid-century modern home designed by William Kriesel and it is also a vacation rental in Palm Springs, nestled at the foot of the San Jacinto Mountains in the Vista Las Palmas neighborhood.
This off-grid house in the high Mojave Desert has been extensively covered. I was very lucky (photo credits: Yours truly) to join my friend Caroline Ryder, who is writing an article about the lessons learned since the first itHouse was born and how these new designs have been applied to the newer blueprints.
Architects Linda Taalman and Alan Koch, of Taalman Koch Architects, prove to be more than understanding about the needs of desert living. The itHouses are self powered and seamlessly join the beauty of their surroundings with the beauty of the dwellings.
One cannot go wrong if one's project begins at Scandinavian's most western fjord. Architects Widjedal Racki Bergerhoff were commissioned to tear the existing house down and adapt a practical design to the environement and the client.
There is a fantasy house perched on a hiIl in a town east of Stockholm called Ingaro-Evlinge. The steep of the slope was the starting point for the project. The Architects, Widjedal Racki Bergerhoff focused thoroughly designing with all Nuance Black, White and minimal space.
Temperature today for Palm Springs reads 57F, although it also mentions that it feels like 61F. Really? Because I am in situ, and the images below is exactly how it feels.
After 15 years in London I moved to the Mojave Desert in California via a couple of years in Los Angeles. I love all MCM related design and architecture and here I can join together all the images that are helping us make our house a home and the Interiors I have photographed myself. Thanks for stopping by! BB
___________
<!-- SnapWidget -->
