Outdoor Spaces With Remodelista Team
Learn how to create outdoor rooms with Michelle and the Gardenista crew this week—and consider entering your work in the just-launched Gardenista Considered Design Awards contest.
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DIY & Remodeling With Julie Carlson
Friederike Deilius of Studio Berg, a recent graduate of the Berlin University of the Arts, is our kind of designer; interested in transforming the look and feel of everyday utilitarian household items. Case in point: her senior project, Foldwork, a brass folding drying rack. It's a prototype, but we hope it goes into production soon.
Above: "The initial idea was to transform disregarded functional products in our households and give them their own personality in order to get them out of the utility rooms into the central living areas," Friederike says.
Above L: The Foldwork rack unfolded. Above R: A detail of the brass framework.
Also see Drip Dry: 12 Kitchens with Wall-Mounted Dish Racks and 10 Easy Pieces: Countertop Dish Drainers.
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Design Travel With Alexa Hotz
Andrew Glenn and Jonathan Rutherfurd Best are two Brits who, fed up with their careers in marketing and event management, escaped to Waiheke Island in New Zealand to open a boutique hotel.
Glenn and Best enlisted the help of stylist and designer Katie Lockhart for the interiors and Special Group for graphics and branding. The result is the Oyster Inn, made up of just three guest rooms, a restaurant that seats 80, and a beach boutique. True to form, Lockhart's calm and minimalist interiors highlight some of our shared favorite designers, including furniture by Another Country and Falcon Enamelware in the guest rooms.
Above: The 80-seat restaurant offers veranda dining under the shade of surrounding palms, where worn metal chairs give a sense of the saltwater air of the island.
Above: Lockhart opted for cane seating in the main dining room with vintage Thonet Era Chairs and a few shelves displaying groupings of objects sourced from the sea: abalone shells, white coral, and seaweed.
Above: Era Barstools surround the bar where guests of the inn and wanderers from beyond can find sangria, lemonade, and a selection of wine chosen by sommelier Clare Dunleavy.
Above: A 20-seat private room called The Pearl is available for special events catered by chef Cristian Hossack (former head chef at London's Providores). True to its name, the Oyster Inn is the spot to find local Te Matuku oysters.
Above: Room One (of three) has a super king bed and a daybed from Another Country that can be converted to a child's bed.
Above: In the guest bath, white square tiles set into dark grout contrast with a large circular mirror and accompanying shaving mirror.
Above: Next to the apron sink, guests find white enamel Falcon tumblers and products from Aesop.
Above: Rattan ottomans and wicker furniture sit beneath a black barn pendant lamp and a wall-mounted Marlin.
Above: Graphics from Special Group add a whimsical note.
Above: The Shop at the inn is stocked with clothing and accessories for the beachgoer, including shirts from New York's Saturdays Surf, white-and-yellow Havaianas sandals exclusive to the inn.
Above: The Oyster Inn on Waiheke Island is located just 40 minutes from Auckland by ferry.
For more of Lockhart's work, see our post on her shop, Everyday Needs. On the hunt for more antipodean design? Find our other favorite places to visit in New Zealand and Australia in our City Guide section.
This post is an update; the original ran on April 22, 2013, as part of our Clean Sweep issue.
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Architecture & Interiors With Margot Guralnick
Karin Montgomery Spath of Auckland, New Zealand, is one of those designers whose name gets bestowed from one person to the next. We heard about her work from her son Matthew Williams (he's the Brooklyn-based photographer who shot all of the images in our book, Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home). Formerly a manufacturer of fashion textiles in Italy and Japan and founder of a bed linens company, Karin has an innate knack for pulling together rooms. Friends who admired her own house started asking her to reinvent their own quarters, and a new career was born.
Karin has designed projects in New Zealand and New York and a few points in between. While getting ready to overhaul a 1910s Auckland house, the owners, an ad exec and artist couple, had started looking for a place to decamp during the nine months of construction. "I suggested that I could make a loft apartment above the two-car garage for them to live in during the renovation, and that it wouldn't cost much more than a rental," says Karin. "They're busy people, so they told me to proceed and invite them to view it once finished." Here's what she unveiled.
Photography by Matthew Williams.
Above: The studio is housed above a still-in-use two-car garage that Karin says was likely built in the 1970s, and was conveniently appointed with a peaked roof, finished walls, two windows, and two skylights. After securing building permits, Karin installed the loft floor, which is 32 square meters (approximately 344 square feet). A column-like wall in the center is fronted by the kitchen, and divides the bedroom from the living space. Note that the setup looks orderly because of its controlled palette: "It's so small that I felt a very simple, clean Scandinavian look would be the way to go," explains Karin.
Above: Stairs made of recycled kauri, a New Zealand timber, lead to the apartment, where a small Artek Table and Stools, both Alvar Aalto classics, serve as "the dining area—if you pull out the table, it can seat four," says Karin. The pale floor is matai, another NZ wood. The space, including cabinetry, is painted "a soft, misty white" in a matte satin finish (Quarter Tea from New Zealand company Resene—see more in 5 Boutique Paint Companies from Down Under).
Above: The custom-built kitchen is equipped with a Corian counter and "small but fully functional appliances," including a stainless steel sink with a faucet by Methven of New Zealand and an under-the-counter fridge by Fisher & Paykel (another NZ company) concealed behind a cabinet door. The white tiles are leftovers that the clients had held on to from a previous house. Storage cupboards on the wall next to the stove hold pantry goods and tableware.
Above: "A low futon bed was the obvious answer to cope with the lack of height by the wall under the pitched roof." Tolomeo Lamps provide adjustable bedside lighting. A full-size clothes closet stands at the foot of the bed (and adjacent to the kitchen). No crouching necessary in the space—the center of the room is about 13 feet tall.
Above: The bathroom has a full-size shower lined with beige square tiles that Karin bought on sale from a tile shop for $1 NZD (about 88 cents) a square meter.
Above: "There's no feeling of being petite," says Karin of the bathroom, which she appointed with a Duravit sink and toilet. The bathroom's skylight is part of the original garage. Under it, Karin inserted streamlined storage cupboards custom built from a compressed chipboard and hand painted: "I prefer hand-painting cupboards rather than spray painting—spraying gives a shine I am not happy with."
Above: The custom painted-wood cupboards continue in the main room where they make masterful use of the low space along the perimeter (and are thoughtfully detailed with storage for suitcases; a cabinet even holds a pullout ironing board). They have reveal openings instead of hardware "to look like the walls, so that they disappear," says Karin.
Above: A pair of Artek Alvar Aalto 406 Armchairs with bentwood frames and webbing face a television tucked inside a cabinet. The lamp is the Italian Tzio Small Classic Table Lamp.
Above: The designer, photographed by her son. "I am so surprised more people don't do this with roof space," she says."it's so easy and makes not just another bedroom but a whole living space."
Above: The owners of the garage lived in the loft while their house was being remodeled, and it now serves as their guest quarters—"although they did say that they wondered why there were doing up a big house as the loft is all they really need," Karin says. She can be contacted at Karin Montgomery Spath.
For a similar project, see Backyard Bunkhouse, Hollywood Royal Family Edition. Also browse our archive of Storage & Organization and Small-Space Living posts, including 5 Favorites: Skinny Refrigerators and Little Giants: Compact Washers and Dryers.
This post is an update; it originally ran on February 3, 2014, as part of our Small-Space Living issue.
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