I Finally Found a PREFAB HOME that Combines Affordability and Style!

The world has been struggling with a pandemic for months now on a scale that has not been seen in over a century. It is a time when we all had to put non-essential things aside as we focused on staying safe and healthy. Yet, with summer already here, many of us also want to […]

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This 1961 Alexander home in Vista Las Palmas has been thoughtfully updated and is looking for a new owner.

Located on a rocky hillside in Menorca, Spain, Stone House blends traditional and contemporary architecture using…

The idea with decorating the powder room is most often influenced by the limited amount of space on offer. Since we tend to generally prefer neutral colors in small spaces, most homeowners feel that a similar approach works best in the modest powder room as well. Yet, more often than not, the opposite seems to […]

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This project was a full renovation of a 1970’s ranch house. The original house was chopped into multiple small, disconnected spaces. In the nineties a large and awkwardly placed addition was built to capitalize on the lake view. FORWARD was tasked with trying to navigate the constraints of the existing condition along with negotiating the desires of the artist clients, one of whom wanted a contemporary minimal interior while the other, a collector, was more interested in the distinct rooms of the turn-of-the-century houses. The finished house is a series of discreet rooms that are continuously linked. The entry space acts as a gallery and has been widened to create a clear relationship to the addition. What had been the original house has now been divided into kitchen, a combined living/dining room, and an office/guest bedroom. In the bedroom wing, a new master was created out of two smaller existing bedrooms. The house acts as a container for the owner’s collections. It is contemporary, minimal and spatially open, but at the same time affords the distinction of traditional rooms.