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I have always wanted to live in house with mid-century architecture, and I have a huge girl crush on Jessica Helgerson, so I absolutely had to share this home. This project was a thorough remodel of a 1950s house by prominent Portland architect Saul Zaik. We thoroughly reworked the interior floor plan, relocating the master bedroom and bathroom to the rear of the house, creating a mudroom, office, and laundry room, changing the proportions of a family room that had been expanded and was out of scale with the other rooms, upgrading the windows throughout, and vaulting the ceilings in the addition. (Photos: Lincoln Barbour)

This home, on Carnation Street in Silverlake, California is another doozy of a project by design firm Commune (I featured others here and here). Gawd they create the coziest yet stylin’ living rooms! And again, stunning colours and textures in the textiles they use. I can honestly say I would move in and not change a thing – except maybe make the kid’s room an office of cat hangout. 🙂

It seems the holidays are over and it’s time to get back to work. Nose to the grindstone, bum up. Excuse me while I escape the drudgery of the workaday on day one of my return by slipping between the pages of latest fab book to land on my coffee table. Down the long driveway, you’ll see it.

“… a book of pictures of modernist, mid-century New Zealand homes. The houses aren’t new, they’re old and lived in. They can be a little dusty, slightly worn around the edges and all have what antique dealers like to call “patina”. But they’re perfect in the minds of the people who live in them because of what they represent, which when designed, was a better way of living.”

Photographer Mary Gaudin, along with writer Matthew Arnold, hasn’t so much documented the architectural details of the homes but explored their being through her evocative images. It’s about house and site and home and life and aging and fulfilling promise. My copy is dog-eared already. So if you still have some of the money Santa gave you or even as a belated present to yourself then Down the long driveway, you’ll see it is a must.

Jo featured a really lovely beachy pad several months back by Georgia-based interior designers Rethink Design Studio and today I bring you some more projects by this super talented team. This is a home for a family of four was once traditional and is now edgy with a mid-century vibe. I love that they took such a classic-detailed home and brought it into this decade. I bet the kids are proud to bring their friends home now! (They should consider a kitchen redo though – bleh).

I have some eye candy for you to ease you into the new week, and to break up the monotony of chores, Christmas decorating, laundry and whatever else you do on a Sunday. From a few of the latest spectacular homes featured on one of my favourite sites, on The Socialite Family.