Home Inspiration With Remodelista Team
Could you use a few heirloom pieces at home? If so, here's your chance: Global home decor brand The Citizenry is giving away a $1,000 gift card to one lucky Remodelista reader. To enter, follow The Citizenry on Pinterest and sign up for emails from The Citizenry and Remodelista by entering your email address in the box at the bottom of this post by Monday, August 24. The winner will be chosen at random and notified by email by August 26. See Official Rules for details.
New to The Citizenry? The Dallas-based company works with artisan partners from around the world to design and produce useful, highest-quality home goods. Because The Citizenry is the direct link between its customers and makers, the company ensures fair wages, labor practices, pricing for raw materials, and environmental sustainability in the production of its goods. The Citizenry works with three workshops in Uganda, four in Peru, three in Argentina, and—coming soon—new partners in Mexico.
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Above: The Citizenry's teak Nyumba Round Trays—made in collaboration with design studio Rose & Fitzgerald—are carved and sanded by hand in Uganda, made of wood grown in the center of the country. We like them as entryway catchalls or coffee table accent pieces; $80 each.
Above: A cooperative of 15 employees in Kampala, Uganda, makes the round trays along with complementary planters, lamps, and desk accessories. Workshop employees replant teak trees to ensure their natural resource is a sustainable one. Click to read more about The Citizenry's collaboration with the Woodworkers of Nakawa through Rose & Fitzgerald.
Above: The Citizenry's classic Palermo Chair now comes in an expanded range of colors, including the natural leather with gold-toned frame shown here. Each chair arrives with a hand-numbered tag and is priced at $650 to $875, depending on finish.
Above: A master leatherworker at the Palermo Leather Workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, stitches a natural-hide Palermo Chair. Each chair is hand-dyed, cut, and sewn in this workshop in Argentina—the birthplace of the butterfly chair—and takes three days to complete. Learn more about the Palermo Leather Workshop.
Above: The Tripolina Camp Stool, the companion to the Palermo Tripolina Chair, is made of lightweight but durable guindo wood with thick polo saddle leather, dyed by hand. Like the wood-framed chair, the stool folds up for easy storage; $235.
Above: The Tripolina stool is made in the same Buenos Aires workshop as the metal-framed Palermo collection. Here, one of five workshop craftsmen cuts the vegetable-tanned Argentine leather by hand.
Above: The Citizenry's handmade throws and blankets are made of 100 percent baby alpaca wool and range in price from $135 to $275. Shown here, from top to bottom: the San Pedro Throw, which features a traditional Peruvian weaving pattern composed of 65 different hues ($195); the La Brisa Throw in cream and black stripes ($155); the Diamanta Throw in Sky Blue ($135); the Diamanta Throw in Indigo ($135); the Viento Throw ($155) in cream and gray ombre stripes; and finally the Diamanta Throw in Dove Grey ($135).
Above: The Citizenry's blankets and throws are made by two weaving cooperatives in Peru: the San Pedro Weavers, a group of 20 men whose art-driven textiles win national competitions, and the family-based Weavers of Huancavelica, located in a remote Andean mountain village. Each blanket takes the craftspeople about one week to complete, from spinning the yarn to weaving the blanket to finishing it with hand-knotted or macramé fringes.
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Home Inspiration With Michelle Slatalla
I didn't have to get tough on houseguests until word got out a few years back that I was moving to New York City. When you live in Manhattan, suddenly you become a destination. "I'm coming to you next month," people email, as if you are the Observation Deck on top of the Empire State Building, rather than an old friend from college.
It's not that I don't love my friends. Or my children's friends. Or my children's friends' parents, or their friends. It's just that I don't want to see most of those people at breakfast. Much less cook it for them. I am very much of the "teach a man to fish" school of guest management. I encourage their independence and believe that being a good guest, like everything else in life, is something everyone must learn. It is the host's duty to teach.
Here are my top 10 tips for surviving house guests.
Above: House guest rules, via Scandinavian Deko.
1. If they ask if they can "bring something," say, "Yes, very dry white wine."
2. Greet them at the door by saying, "Let me put your things in your room," so you can corral all their stuff and keep them from littering their shoes, sunglasses, sweaters, handbags, and car keys around the house.
Above: Photograph by Cade Martin.
3. Show them the coat closet so they will hang up their jackets and fleeces instead of draping them across couches and chair backs. Blame yourself for being a "neat freak" and say you don't expect them to line up their shoes perfectly in the closet, although you do.
4. Tell them the best places in town to walk to for breakfast and say "Don't worry that you might wake me—I'll sleep through anything."
Above: Photograph from The World's Most Beautiful Bicycle (It's from France, of Course).
5. Give them a street map; circle all the museums, subway stations, and liquor stores where they can buy wine for you. If you live in the country or near the beach, tell your guests, "Feel free to use our bikes."
Above: An outdoor shower designed by Bureau Bernaskoni for a home in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, via Arch Daily.
6. Put everything they need in their bedroom so they don't pester you for towels, water glasses, water, shampoo, or a toothbrush. Use this as an opportunity to get rid of all the tiny toiletries you've brought home from hotels. If you have an outdoor shower, encourage your guests to "make it their own." And if you live near the beach, encourage them to bring their own beach towels so you're not left with a pile of damp sandy towels at the end of their stay.
Above: Photograph from 10 Favorites: Scandi Midsummer Essentials.
7. Serve cocktails at 5 p.m. sharp to put everyone in a good mood. Serve a snack—hummus and crackers are filling—to hold them over until dinner.
8. Give them specific jobs. When they ask if they can help with dinner, don't say vaguely, "That would be great." Say: "Thanks, here's a knife and a cutting board that you can use to strip the kernels off these eight ears of corn."
Above: Photograph via Ikea Family.
9. If guests are staying for more than 36 hours, invite other friends over for dinner one night so no one gets bored.
10. If guests are staying for more than 36 hours, ask why.
Are you preparing for summer house guests? Here are 5 Essential Items for Every Guest Room.
N.B.: This post is an update; the original story ran on July 29, 2013, as part of our Entertaining: Summer Edition issue.
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Architecture & Interiors With Margot Guralnick
Back in June, we featured an 18th-century Catskills farmhouse that wunderkinds Tara Mangini and Percy Bright of Jersey Ice Cream Co. overhauled for a New York family to use as their creative escape: See Channeling Wes Anderson: A Country House Reinvented. The designer-builder couple spent eight months on the project—and after they were done, they returned for a four-week, cost-conscious overhaul of a small guesthouse on the property, which we're visiting today.
Keeping to a budget of $30,000, they not only gave the guest quarters a new kitchenette, bath, and built-in bunks—the one-bedroom house now sleeps five—but fully furnished it down to the potted plants and bedside reading. Says Tara, "We're suckers for the creative speed challenge."
Photography by Tara Mangini.
Above: We wanted the guesthouse to feel breezy and light, sort of the West Coast bohemian cousin to the main house, which is filled with rich colors and bold patterns," Tara explained to us. The approximately 800-square-foot structure opens to a tiny entry with the bedroom on one side and living room on the other.
Above: Tara and Percy don't know the guesthouse's provenance, but say "despite the amount of dead insects and cobwebs, it had a lot going for it: high vaulted ceilings, exposed beams, and pretty decent original wood floors." After the initial cleanup, the couple plastered all of the walls using raw uncolored plaster that lends a subtle texture and depth.
Percy built the living room's daybed to introduce an extra bed. The Indian Linen Netting Curtains here and throughout are from ABC Carpet & Home.
Above: The couple sourced most of the furnishings, including the live-edge coffee table and hanging wicker chair, at flea markets and vintage stores. The woodstove was already in place. The sheepskins came from Overland and the rug is from West Elm.
Above: The living room leads to a compact kitchen. Tara bought the brass table lamp and striped pouf at Target and the Kilim Pillows from Etsy seller Decolic. All of the trim is painted in a warm pale gray (leftover paint from a forgotten source). The cow skull came from a shop going out of business in Philadelphia, the couple's hometown.
Above: "The kitchen is a lesson in the beauty and money/time-saving possibilities of attacking two projects so close together," says Percy. "The base cabinet, butcher-block counter, and cabinet pulls were all leftovers from the big kitchen that might have gone to waste. And the faucet was something we ordered for the bathroom in the main house that ended up being not quite right for that space but perfect for this one."
The three-by-six Polished Marble Tiles came from Home Depot—$5.69 a square foot—and they found the Kohler sink at the local Restore shop. The cabinets are from Conestoga Wood and Percy made the open shelf from barn wood.
Above: The marble tile continues in the bathroom, which along with the kitchen, required the most work: "It was like the remains of a bathroom—crusty hole of a shower, maybe a sink, maybe a toilet, and lots of spiders," says Tara. "We redid the entire thing and learned the power of fresh tile." A leather-hung mirror—a discontinued design from Anthropologie—hangs over a $97.99 Duravit D-Code Sink ordered from Wayfair. The Marble Hexagonal Floor Tile is from Home Depot.
Above: The kitchen includes what Tara and Percy refer to as the eating nook: "It probably won't see much food, but it's a great space to have a cup of coffee or a glass of wine." They decorated the wall with a tree branch from the yard and some holiday ornaments. Tara found the Eames'-style table online at a since-forgotten source (Replica Furniture carries a design just like it). The floral rug is from the Brimfield Flea Market.
Above: "When a space is this tiny, you can't afford to have a weird closet that doesn't make any sense," says Percy, by way of explaining the biggest structural change: He replaced the long entry closet with shelves and cabinets that front the bedroom's custom bunks, all of it made out of mushroom board from another project. "Mushroom board looks like extremely weathered wood, almost like a topographical map with the knots standing highest and the wider grain most beaten down by the elements—and it retains a really rich brown color instead of getting grayed out."
Above: The privacy curtain is a Magical Thinking Macrame Wall Hanging, $169, from Urban Outfitters. The linen sheets are from Pottery Barn and the horse pillowcases came from Zara Home, one of Tara's sources for well-priced, quick-to-ship accessories.
Above L: A look at the entry built-ins. The cactus pot is by Portland, Oregon, ceramic artist Martina Thornhill. Above R: Each of the bunks has a shelf and reading light; Percy incorporated an old drawer into the base.
Above: The setup is perfect for families.
Above: A macrame hanging—"a $20 flea market mega score"—hangs over the bed. Percy made the headboard and pegboard from barn wood. "We like to think the place feels like just the right blend of rustic boutique hotel and actual home," says Tara.
Tour the main house here, and see its Screened Porch Before & After on Gardenista.
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