Posted in Design Projects, tagged accessory dwelling unit, ADU, Berkeley, cabinets, dining nook, drain rack, fir, kitchen, small buildings on December 8, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The builder (McBride Construction) is working his way through the punch list. We are both proud of how this rental cottage is turning out. Here are a couple of his snapshots:
The first one is the kitchen with built-in dish drying rack over the drainboard and apple-ply cabinets. The second is the little dining nook with storage benches and salvaged fir built-in table.
Posted in Design Projects, tagged cabinets, details, fun, Rockridge, whimsy on September 28, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Design Projects, tagged below counter microwave, Berkeley, cabinets, details, kitchen, metal, Oakland, patina, poet's corner, pot rack, process, storage, Temescal, tile, triangle shelves, zinc on May 28, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The builder sent me these first 4 snapshots…hopefully I’ll be able to photograph the finished project soon.
Zinc sheet with patina
Zinc panel installed
mahogony triangle shelves in the corner – lots of storage, clean and simple, counter still open for work
red heath tile backsplash behind the range (existing range to remain)
Another kitchen with a new very simple refrigerator side panel and high cabinet to hide the cereal boxes. The side panel is a great spot for a pot rack!
And another with a very simple under counter microwave
Posted in Design Projects, tagged Berkeley, cabinets, details, doorways, lighting design, Oak, redwood, wood on January 21, 2019| Leave a Comment »
This recent full house remodel and additions in Berkeley turned out great. I don’t usually use so much wood, but it makes this house very cozy. More photos soon!
Posted in Design Projects, tagged cabinets, cedar, construction process, Oakland, Rockridge, roof, Temescal, trusses on October 31, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Complex cabinetry coming together in a Rockridge Cottage
Roof framing in Temescal speeding along in advance of the forecasted rain
Posted in Design Projects, tagged ash, bathroom, cabinets, hex tile, island, kitchen, lighting design, mirror, Rockridge, skylight, subway tile, touchlatch, walnut on January 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Photo Credit: Nancy Kalter-Dills
Builder: McBride Construction
Here are a few before shots. The main impetus for remodel was to get the refrigerator out of the middle of the view to the back yard and to improve the strange, low-ceilinged laundry room addition at the back.
Posted in Design Projects, tagged cabinets, houses, monkeybars, Oakland, Rockridge, stained glass, wood on December 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I also realized that I never shared these photos of the dining room and hallway in that same project. So many great details.
I think I was waiting because the owner plans to recover the purple couch in a deep blue to match the windows. Might never happen.
Photos by Nancy Kalter Dills
Posted in Design Projects, tagged cabinets, closet, color, creative, details, furniture, lighting, lighting design, metal, Oakland, Rockridge, stained glass on December 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »
This bedroom was part of a recent full house remodel in Rockridge. I finally had a chance to publish a few photos. Due to the multicolor light, the colors are not perfect in these photos, but hopefully you can get the idea. Photos are by Nancy Kalter-Dills.
This one shows the pair of colorful stained glass casement windows – A collaboration with Sabina Frank of Berkeley. It also shows the steel bed designed by myself to go with the windows and fabricated by Frank Trousil in Richmond. Lights are from Metro Lighting in Berkeley and the flooring is ash.
The next few show the custom closet system fabricated by Martin Lee in Oakland. My favorite part is the picture frames built into the doors. This gives the owner the opportunity to personalize the doors that they look at from the bed every day.
Hard to see in this photo, but Martin created crafty little wooden levers to hold in the picture and the glass on the inside of the door.
Posted in Design Projects, tagged barn door, bathroom, cabinets, color, fir barn door, glass tile, houses, interiors, kitchen, lighting design, metal, stone tile, teak bench, tile, tin tiles, whimsy, wood, zinc on March 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
My Rockridge project is getting finishing touches slowly but surely. These are just quick snapshots of things I am excited about.
Teak Shower bench with glass tile walls and stone tile floor
Fir Barn Door
Kitchen
Tin Ceiling Tiles
Colorful diningroom
Posted in Design Projects, tagged Berkeley, cabinets, curves, kitchen, process on October 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »
This is the unfinished kitchen of a creative scientist. I helped him with many aspects of the design, including these shelves, but he and the builder are a creative force to be reckoned with. The shelves curve in plan and get bigger as they go up. The cabinet maker will return to rebuild the center three verticals with angles like the end panels. I will post another picture. Still to come a curvy peninsula and new countertop and floor. I will also get pictures of the whole kitchen when it is finished.
Posted in Design Projects, tagged cabinets, details, walnut, wood on October 22, 2014| 1 Comment »
I still haven’t had a chance to photograph this whole house remodel in North Berkeley, but I do have a picture of the beautiful custom walnut media cabinet designed by Sarah Deeds and fabricated by Freedman and Chesley Custom Cabinets.
Posted in Design Projects, tagged angles, cabinets, details, kitchen, Oakland, Rockridge on September 30, 2014| 1 Comment »
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