• Painting

    On the Market: An ’80s Time Capsule, a Minnesota Cabin, and More Great Homes for Sale This Week

    646 Alta Vista Drive Drive in Sierra Madre, California, is currently listed for $1,698,000 by the Webb Martin Group of DPP Real Estate.  “Welcome to Cedarhawke, a contemporary masterpiece perched on an overlook with unparalleled views of the city lights and the canyons of Sierra Madre. Designed by R. Nilsen in a style reminiscent of the architecture of Sea Ranch in Northern California, this home is the manifestation of a love story that started in the late 1940s when two high school sweethearts would park on this very spot, gaze at the stars, and plan their future. They married and…

  • Home Décor

    my scandinavian home: Tiny cabin update: Our Outdoor Sitting Room

    Thank you to Brafab for a great collaboration  Hello friends. I thought I’d share a small update from our cabin in the Northwest tip of Skåne today. As many of you know, we finished the build last spring (full tour here). And we’d been so busy counting down the days until we could move in that we hadn’t thought about the garden. So much so, that when we arrived the cabin was like an island surrounded by mud! Eager to rectify this before the summer, we rapidly had a deck built and set about sowing the lawn. Admittedly the grass…

  • Painting

    Shipshape and Refreshed: A Considered Renovation of an 1898 Cabin on Maury Island

    This week we’re combing through the Remodelista archives for some of our all-time favorite summer stories. Here’s one: Maury Island, in Washington’s Puget Sound, is small. You’ve likely never heard of it before, but you may have heard of its larger neighbor, Vashon Island, to which it’s connected via an isthmus built by local homeowners in 1913. (Before then, the two islands were linked only during low tide.) Both are accessible only by ferry, the inconvenience of which has kept commercial growth at bay—and that’s how its residents like it, including designer Tim Pfeiffer (of Seattle-based architecture and interiors firm…