Displaying posts from August, 2024

This stunning Spanish-style home in Westwood, Los Angeles needed a major update. Cola Studios transformed the kitchen, five bathrooms and bedrooms, preserving its original essence while adding a contemporary touch. The renovation emphasized natural materials like clay tiles, plaster and oiled oak. With sophisticated yet playful colour use and attention to custom woodworking details, the home was revitalised ensuring its timeless appeal.

Photography by Madeline Tolle.

This iconic 1830s “Charleston single” house in downtown Charleston underwent a two-year renovation. Originally featuring two main rooms, a centre hallway, an attic with dormers and fireplaces in every room, a double-tiered piazza shades the western side with an addition to the rear. Modern updates blend with history through custom tiles, William Morris wallpaper and antiques, creating a comfortable, stylish home for the family. Pitt Street, Charleston, SC by Project Basics.

Photography by Nicole Franzen.

Toad Hall in Buckinghamshire is an Edwardian home that, according to this feature in House & Garden, is the backdrop of a children’s book by Kenneth Grahame. The homeowners wanted to maintain the history of the home and do it justice by ridding it of most of the white walls and adding lots of colour and pattern through wallpapers (with monkeys, fish, toads, birds), fabric on some walls and ceilings, Moroccan plaster ceilings….it is full of whimsy and character and the result is pure magic. Designed by Lucy Cunningham. Photos: Harry Crowder.

Two guest cabins designed by April Tomlin. The first one is really a mood with lots of dark grey/light black and the other is much brighter. While both are beautiful I will always take dark over light, particularly whe it is a small cabin because I find it so much cozier/enveloping. Which would you prefer staying in? Photos: Joseph Bradshaw.