Owners in the Untamed Spirit of the Wild West Share a Love for Disciplined Japanese Culture

by Emilie Froment | Mar 18, 2022 | Climate Control, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lighting, Posts, Smart Homes, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows, Wealth

  The four-bedroom home is arranged around a series of garden courtyards that complement the home’s sweeping views over a pond to the Tetons beyond, creating a setting the owner’s call Tengoku, Japanese for ‘paradise’. Tengoku Residence embraces its...

Yellowstone Residence: Like a Barnacle Clinging to its Precarious Perch in Big Sky, Montana

by Emilie Froment | Mar 7, 2022 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Lighting, Smart Homes, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  Perched at 2, 470 metres on the side of a mountain in Montana’s Madison Range, the massing and materials of this house are sourced from the powerful landscape – as is its mood. The exterior of the house is a composition of Cor-ten steel and board-formed...

Action Inspired Through Open Dialogue at a Labyrinth of 1950s-era Warehouses: Now a Foundation for Creative Communities

by Emilie Froment | Jan 11, 2022 | Art & Galleries, Design & Architecture, FOCUS Features, Garden Design & Decor, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  The NM Bodecker Foundation was established in 2017 by Sandy Bodecker to provide creative communities with a dynamic mix of in-person spaces for workshops, gathering, and collaboration. Housed in a collection of repurposed 1950s-era warehouses and a former...

Cues from the Sea & Sky in this Fusion of Two Styles that Celebrates a Site’s Natural Gifts

by Emilie Froment | Dec 16, 2021 | Art & Galleries, Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Smart Homes, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  The expansive vista of wildflower-laden bluffs meeting the churning Pacific where gray whales seasonally leap from the waves is the unique and dynamic setting of this home for a couple with nostalgic connections to their East Coast roots and a newfound desire...

A 1960s Residence is Reimagined and Hovers Over a Nature Reserve in California’s Bay Area

by Emilie Froment | Nov 19, 2021 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Climate Control, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

  Affectionately dubbed the ‘doughnut house’, it had an open area in the centre containing an internal courtyard – entering the home involved first walking through and underneath it, followed by a spiral ascent to the main level courtyard. ‘We’d never seen...

In the Business to Sell Lifestyles, Not Just Homes: Films Location Company Launches Property Investment Division & Equates ‘Normal’ with ‘Luxury’

by Emilie Froment | Sep 18, 2021 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lifestyle, Lighting, Posts, Smart Homes, Walls, Floors & Windows, Wealth

  The affluent real estate market in South Africa is vigorously competitive with over 60 estate agencies competing for sole mandates across the country. Buyers and sellers are looking for value-add, not only in the properties they purchase, but in the agency they...