Home Inspiration With Meredith Swinehart
If you haven't submitted your entry to the 2015 Remodelista Considered Design Awards, it's time to get going! Entries are due this Monday, June 22, by midnight Pacific Time.
Insider tip: So far, we've received the fewest entries in the Best Bath Space category for both professional and amateur designers.
Here's a sneak preview of some of the entries we've received so far, followed by the full list of Remodelista categories. (Curious about the competition? You can see all contest entries as soon as they're submitted on the Remodelista Awards Page.)
Remodelista Awards Categories
We're running separate contests for professional designers and amateur designers in the following categories:
- Best Kitchen Space
- Best Living and/or Dining Space
- Best Bath Space
Prize
Every winner will receive a $200 gift card from prize sponsor Kaufmann Mercantile, and every project will be profiled with a full post on Remodelista. Winners will be announced on August 8.
Gardeners and Outdoor Designers
The Gardenista Considered Design Awards has six categories this year for home gardeners and for architects and spatial designers. Head over to Gardenista for details.
How to Enter
Our contest is open to everyone living in the US, UK, and Canada (except Quebec), and there is no entry fee. Submit up to six photos of your space along with a descriptive caption for each photo and a design statement explaining your overall project. You can submit one project in each category for which you qualify. All projects will be published live on our Awards Hub Page within minutes of submitting.
See our Official Rules and FAQ for more information, and Enter the Contest here.
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Have you sent in your submissions to the Gardenista Considered Design Awards? Whether you're a professional or an enthusiast, now is the time: Final deadline is this Monday. Click below for details.
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Home Inspiration With Margot Guralnick
Rupert Mckelvie of Out of the Valley is on a mission to elevate backwoods design. Based in bucolic Devon England, he specializes in making masterfully detailed off-the-grid cabins—see his Devon showcase/vacation rental here. "The idea was to bring a bit of the natural world into people's homes," he says of his latest accoutrement, a curiosities cabinet.
Above: Known as the Object Calendar, the cabinet's 12 compartments "each represent a month of the year, and can be used to document seasonal changes with found objects" says Rupert. It's made of English ash with hand-cut dovetails and a cork backing. You supply the curiosities.
Above: The cabinet comes with entomology pins for securing finds in place.
Above: Brass fittings and a limestone weight hold an ash-framed Plexiglas door in place. The Calendar Cabinet is £495 ($779) from Out of the Valley.
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Architecture & Interiors With Meredith Swinehart
New York designer Magdalena Keck says that pied-à-terres are her dream projects: "You get to know people from across the globe and work with them to realize their dreams." In the case of her most recent overhaul, Keck's client was a São Paulo businessman who needed a toehold in New York and fell for a small one-bedroom Tribeca loft. Though it needed light and storage, among other things, Keck's client didn't want to let go of the charming roughness that had wooed him in the first place.
His programmatic needs were simple: He travels to NYC every two to three months for business and pleasure, sometimes just for a day en route to Europe, other times joined by his family for a stay of several weeks. In response, Keck saw to it that the living room quickly converts into a sleeping space, and introduced a second bath plus washer and dryer to accommodate family and guests.
As for costs, the majority of project dollars went toward swapping existing living room windows for French doors that lead to small steel balconies; relocating the kitchen to join the living room in one open space; and adding the second bath. To keep budget in check, Keck salvaged the existing wood floor, used no-frills lighting wherever possible, and specified simple, reasonably priced fixtures for the bath. Take a look at her results.
Photography by Jeff Cate.
Above: The first and most dramatic order of business was to replace the existing living room windows with balcony doors to let in air and light. The client wanted an outdoor space, but his request to build a large terrace was rejected by building management. Instead, Keck installed two small steel balconies that project from the apartment about 18 inches, the maximum the building would allow. It's enough space for the client to have standing room and even a tiny balcony garden.
(Thinking of French doors for your own place? See Remodeling 101 for advice.)
Above: Keck removed the rusted and patched tin ceiling to reveal the original wood ceiling and steel hangers. NYC building code requires fireproofing between apartments, so Keck removed the ceiling's aged paint and applied an invisible, matte fireproofing to the newly exposed ceilings. To lighten the space, Keck had the wood floors restored and whitewashed, and the worn brick walls painted white.
Above: Privacy curtains were needed in the living room, but how to keep them from dominating the doors? Keck chose a pure white linen to contrast with the rawness of the Tribeca alley beyond. And instead of hanging standard, space-hogging curtains over the doors, she created a simple wooden-peg solution: a linen panel hangs loosely on one peg when open, and drapes across three pegs when closed.
Above: A custom kitchen replaced a worn one from the 1970s that had been tucked in an awkward location. The new design faces the living room, so Keck's client can cook for guests while socializing.
Above: The stainless steel island is wrapped in black Corian on three sides, allowing the stainless steel drawer facings to mirror the stainless steel appliances on the pantry wall. Keck used affordable black track lighting to spotlight the artwork on the far wall.
Above: The back wall of the kitchen is made of full-height oak pantries with a wall oven, warming drawer, and wine cooler from Viking.
Above: Keck chose Benjamin Moore Super White for the apartment walls. In the small dining area, vintage wood furniture stands out against the clean white background.
Above: The sole bedroom is small—it accommodates a queen-sized bed with 10 inches of space on either side—but has a long hallway. Deciding to "embrace and exaggerate the unusual proportions," Keck ingeniously put the hall to use as an extra-long, custom closet. Its white linen curtains can be pulled closed and backlit to create some drama. At the end of the hall, the space is closed off by a sliding door.
Above: Along the bedroom/closet hallway, minimalist lights by Davide Groppi accentuate the aged beamed ceilings.
Above: In the bathrooms, Keck used an affordable marble tile for the showers and floor, the same black Corian counters that are in the kitchen, and minimal fixtures from Cifial. "The simple composition of genuine materials and clean forms works in these small spaces," says Keck.
Above: White Corian shelves are incorporated into the marble shower tiling, so no hardware is visible. And full-height mirrors make the bathrooms feel bigger than they are.
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