Art House in the Birthplace of Silicon Valley: Back to Front & Inside Out with all Entertaining Spaces Connecting to the Courtyard

by Emilie Froment | May 16, 2022 | Art & Galleries, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

When the lot adjacent to their house came on the market a few years ago, the owners saw an opportunity to expand beyond their small house in Palo Alto (leader in cutting-edge technological development) where they had lived for 20 years, raising their four children....

‘Let Nature Dominate & Use Architecture to Frame the Experience’

by Emilie Froment | Apr 11, 2022 | Design & Architecture, Dining, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows, Wine & Spirits

This resort-style guest venue is dedicated to wine, food, & the natural landscape breathes life into a cherished local landmark in California. Located minutes from downtown Healdsburg, in the heart of Russian River Valley, and originally built as a winery in the...

Yellowstone Residence: Like a Barnacle Clinging to its Precarious Perch in Big Sky, Montana

by Emilie Froment | Mar 7, 2022 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Lighting, Smart Homes, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  Perched at 2, 470 metres on the side of a mountain in Montana’s Madison Range, the massing and materials of this house are sourced from the powerful landscape – as is its mood. The exterior of the house is a composition of Cor-ten steel and board-formed...

Action Inspired Through Open Dialogue at a Labyrinth of 1950s-era Warehouses: Now a Foundation for Creative Communities

by Emilie Froment | Jan 11, 2022 | Art & Galleries, Design & Architecture, FOCUS Features, Garden Design & Decor, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  The NM Bodecker Foundation was established in 2017 by Sandy Bodecker to provide creative communities with a dynamic mix of in-person spaces for workshops, gathering, and collaboration. Housed in a collection of repurposed 1950s-era warehouses and a former...

Cues from the Sea & Sky in this Fusion of Two Styles that Celebrates a Site’s Natural Gifts

by Emilie Froment | Dec 16, 2021 | Art & Galleries, Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Smart Homes, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  The expansive vista of wildflower-laden bluffs meeting the churning Pacific where gray whales seasonally leap from the waves is the unique and dynamic setting of this home for a couple with nostalgic connections to their East Coast roots and a newfound desire...

A 1960s Residence is Reimagined and Hovers Over a Nature Reserve in California’s Bay Area

by Emilie Froment | Nov 19, 2021 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Climate Control, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  Affectionately dubbed the ‘doughnut house’, it had an open area in the centre containing an internal courtyard – entering the home involved first walking through and underneath it, followed by a spiral ascent to the main level courtyard. ‘We’d never seen...