The Brick House Clever (and often profane) documentation of the restoration of a home on Hemet California (which is near Palm Springs).
ModApple Casie's Etsy shop full of neat and affordable Mid Century Modern wares... definitely worth a visit.
Why the name? Because ModOrange was taken. Seriously.
ISO50 San Francisco designer, Scott Hansen, and his crew keep kicking out nice stuff.
GrainEdit A fun resource for MCM-inspired visual design.
When driving through Vallejo one afternoon, we discovered Moschetti — a small, independent coffee roaster and supplier. That day, we bought a pound of their Mélange a Trois, a medium bodied blend, that has become a morning staple.
We've been back a few times and tried a number of their varieties, but this morning, we stopped by to try a lot more — every Saturday they host a coffee tasting from 9AM-1PM featuring more than a dozen and a half varieties. Today was our first time, so we didn't know what to expect, but we found a great social scene with a small backdrop of craft vendors... and great coffee (at great prices).
So, if you're in Vallejo on a Saturday morning, it's definitely worth checking out.
I posted this a while back, but we still have a few pieces left. Any takers? We'd love to see them go to good homes (and the last would be good to go to a Wilmore-side family member).
Since the major renovations are mostly behind us, the posts sometimes might become a bit random, here's one:
Growing up in the antebellum South and going to art-school in the shadow of Edgar Allan Poe gives one a certain aesthetic point-of-view — at least until they move to California and into a Mid-Century Modern home. We've traded Faulkner for Eames and patina for polished.
And since the move, we've toted much of my college-art around and are now hoping to find good homes for these pieces. Maybe that's you! If you happen to be a friend on the east coast (Kate? Erin? Dana? Rob?), I'll even box them up and ship them to you knowing that they'll have a warm home to reside in. Otherwise, they'll end up in my mother's barn.
A while back, Jenny and Peter stopped by with Max to take some pictures in the house. Max has created some great lamps called Lumio — both the lamps and the photos turned out well. Keep up with Max's project on the web and Facebook.
Our friend, Michael, asked for a few shots of the house. We were behind a bit in documenting the spaces, so it seemed like a good time for a few updated shots.
After taking on one of the most unloved homes in the neighborhood, Blaine and Tom are winning the war against bad renovations and green carpet. They just had new VCT floors installed and are now living through that awkward "in between" stage in a renovation.
Blaine is our local absurdist and it is somehow fitting that a single image features a washing machine, a pair of shoes and a glass-eyed statue of a random saint. I'm helping with the window install next week and wanted to grab these shots for posterity. They'll be fun to look back on when I get a chance to shoot the "after" pictures.
Power through, Blaine and Tom — it's looking great.
When Bhargavi contacted me last week about consulting on some design decisions for her home in Lafayette, the last line of her email was: "Our house is not a Eichler. I am sure when you see it you'll have a better idea what it is." ... After "Hello", my first words upon meeting she and her husband, Devin, were... "This is fantastic". And it is.
The house is built in 1964 by Ralph Carlson. Whether or not Carlson was the builder or architect is still unknown, but the house definitely takes inspiration from the modernists of the era. Not much in the house has changed since 1964. Bhargavi and Devin replaced all of the single pane windows with perfectly finished dual-pane inserts (unlike mass-market retrofits, these are block fit as the originals for a seamless look); they refinished the wood flooring; solved an exterior drainage problem and have done a few spruce-up projects like painting... but otherwise, it is as the original owners left it. It seems that a wood stove and wallpaper were installed in the 80s, but otherwise, it's almost a time capsule with wonderful built-ins, paneling and laminate-counter kitchen.
Many thanks to West Elm for their feature of this site and the project itself. It's always nice to see folks outside of the immediate Eichler community taking an interest in the things we wax on (and wax off) about here on RedneckModern.
