This home, in the San Francisco Bay area, is a mid-century modern aficionado’s dream. When Carolyn Piotroski and her husband Joseph found this 1964 custom Eichler, it was so neglected that Carolyn didn’t even want to get out of the car. But when Joseph persuaded her, and she found herself entering the home through a…
Melanie Blodgett, her husband, Ryan, and son, Beck, purchased their first home in Denver, Colorado, 11 months ago (a big step up from their old, dark and cramped apartment with popcorn ceiling). Melanie has about five different jobs related to blogging and social media but can frequently be found at You Are My Fave. She’s…
Sara, Travis and their dog, Cash, live in this Austin, Texas, home built in 1905. The couple met in New York City, where Sara started working as a fashion stylist and Travis was attending grad school at Yale. The couple moved west to Los Angeles where Sara’s work began to grow, but her heart was…
Native Chicagoan Liz Cook lives in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood. She loves the process of apartment hunting, but this was the first place she visited three years ago, and she was immediately sold on its vintage details, open layout and view of the nursery that neighbors the building. Liz grew up going to garage sales with…
Furniture industry veterans Brin Reinhardt and Nathan Ursch have lived for two years in their Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, home, which is outfitted with decor and furnishings that exemplify their modern and eclectic tastes. Like many of the pieces they own, the space has a lot of history, having been a former sand factory in the…
Canadian-born photographer Philip Newton traveled the world shooting fashion, portrait, travel, sport and personal photographs before opting to settle down in Seattle to raise three kids. When he found this house, it was slated to be torn down and replaced by a McMansion. Philip was able to save it, and after a nine-month reconstruction job and…
Chris and Stephen Harris-Smith have lived in this Joseph Eichler-designed home in San Rafael, California for nearly four years. Joseph Eichler built airy and modern homes in Northern California between 1950 and 1974, and his close relationship between the interior and exterior is evident in Chris and Stephen’s home – the front door is a…
Industrial designer Brian Everett, who also created a line of wall art for CB2, 2Modern and Design Public, and his wife Lori, an architect, found this mid-century modern home in Shawnee, Kansas, three years ago with the help of a local realtor who specializes in mid-century homes. The previous owner lived here for 46 years…
Born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, photographer Roland Bello has called New York City home for the past 20 years. He currently lives in the Financial District and regularly shoots for magazines like Dwell and Martha Stewart Living. If you find yourself captivated by the Antropologie catalog, you have Roland to thank (or…
it seems that in nearly every one of our chicago peeks lately, the homeowners mention shopping at post 27 – so we’ve all been curious to get a little peek into the home of post 27 founders – angela finney-hoffman and barkley hoffman. post 27 opened in 2008 – the store pair mid-century vintage pieces…
michael and sara hunter live in a two-bedroom apartment in the ukrainian village neighborhood of chicago – they live just below good friends emily and jacob anderson (see their peek here!) sara is a development editor at a publishing company and is in grad school studying literature and michael is a painter/sculpture and also works…
photographer max wanger, and his lovely fiancee, margaux (who works for giant robot magazine and shoots with max on the weekends) searched for over a year before they found their bright & colorful 1940s art deco apartment in west hollywood. now, after 5 very busy months of work and travel, it’s finally starting to come…
in our continued look at some of the homes of professors at pratt, today we have a sneak peek into the home of graduate communications design chair jeff bellantoni. he and his wife, ceramist kim westad, along with their pit-mix maddy, live in this attached 3-story 1950s brick house located in the pelham bay/country club…
i’ve always dreamed of living an apartment that originally served another purpose, and kate and ryan white – catalog merchant and watch designer for fossil – are living my dream. this couple that got married last september found their first home in a 1920s building that used to be the department store tiche-goettinger [in dallas]….
lately we’ve been lucky enough to have a handful sneak peeks into the beautiful homes of the team at fossil (don’t miss shay’s incredible place here!). today we’re looking into the dallas of creative director, jill elliott sones who works with the collaborative team that works on the brand direction. jill recently got married and…
in 2006 furniture and textile designer tanya aguiniga moved to this charming little LA bungalow with her husband and sister in search of off-street parking and a studio space. the location is great in a quiet, tree-lined section of LA, nestled between silverlake and glendale, where they have views of endless mountains and wonderful galleries,…
today’s special tuesday sneak peek belongs to dave and surya of wee gallery and shop worthy. this designing duo creates art card and wall graphics for little ones, in addition to completing some lovely before & after projects in their spare time. today they’re sharing they’re beautiful 1920s st. petersburg, florida bungalow with us so…
proud mary is a wonderful textile company run by molly and harper (you may remember this post from their debut line). their line of home and personal accesories is designed by these talented ladies stateside, and then are each hand-sewn by artisans in guatamala (with the help of nest that helps connect designers to developing…
missi pawlecki and brian caviness met in ohio and migrated to california to start birds of ohio. their collection of vintage print and pattern swatches was created help provide inspiration for designers. and beyond being big fans of their work, we’re also huge fans of their home! the house was built in 1962 by joseph…
in keeping with last week’s national stationery show coverage, our latest sneak peek comes to us from letter press designer olivia san mateo of olive-route. her 1950s bungalow is located in walnut creek, about 20 minutes east of berkeley, ca. besides being a charming place they love that the house is surrounded by lots of…
