John Cox

Blogs · @wyome · Now · Shelf

Tagged interior · everything

Interesting

Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

This Tiny Home Wraps Its Living Room in Glass and Keeps the Main Bedroom Downstairs - Yanko Design

Vagabond Haven's Leah is a 12 by 3.45 meter modular tiny home (about 52 square meters including a loft) that sleeps four, with a glazed living area, a separate downstairs bedroom and bathroom, and a low-ceilinged loft reached by stairs. It's a wheel-less timber-on-steel-chassis build that needs a low-bed truck and crane for delivery, and it's well insulated with 20 cm of mineral wool and triple glazing. The piece's main point is that putting daily living and the main bedroom on the ground floor makes the loft optional, and it flags that the $66,300 unfurnished price (versus $77,500 furnished or $93,100 off-grid, excluding VAT) doesn't cover the furnished interior shown in the illustrations.

Permalink designarchitecturehomeinterior

IKEA

GULDDRAGARE storage combination, beige/with 4 doors with shelves, 623/4x143/8x847/8" - IKEA

This is an IKEA product page for the GULDDRAGARE storage system, a traditional-style cabinet with panel doors below and open shelves above, built from fiberboard and particleboard with solid ash legs. The one substantive piece of content is a customer review warning that it wobbles badly side to side unless anchored to the wall, which most buyers won't do, so many will be returned. The reviewer's fix is to add metal cross supports from the Ivar cabinet at the door level, where they stay hidden when the doors are closed, and to consider bracing the visible upper section too.

Permalink furniturestoragehomeinterior

Camille Styles

Primary Closet Organization for Every Season's Wardrobe

The author describes redesigning her primary closet at Casa Zuma in Malibu after initially planning it for a vacation home, then moving there full-time. She worked with California Closets to maximize a modest footprint by inventorying her actual wardrobe (editing down 75%), using floor-to-ceiling storage, incorporating deep drawers and double hanging rods where most useful, adding integrated LED lighting, and prioritizing a vanity as a focal point for her morning routine. The design approach prioritizes how the space functions and feels rather than maximizing storage capacity, creating an organized, calm room that connects visually to the adjoining primary bathroom.

Permalink organizationclothinghomeinterior

Bob Vila

What to Do if Your Home Has Little or No Closet Space

This article provides 14 practical storage solutions for older homes with limited closet space, ranging from traditional furniture like armoires to modern alternatives such as portable closets and wall-mounted systems. The suggestions emphasize both maximizing existing closet space through organizational tools and creating new storage through repurposed rooms, built-in structures, and creative use of often-overlooked areas like door backs and under-stair spaces. The piece also recommends decluttering regularly and storing seasonal items off-site to manage the reality that old homes require more intentional storage strategies than modern houses with built-in closets.

Permalink diyorganizationstoragehome

British Vogue

A Beginner’s Guide To Buying Art For Your Home | British Vogue

Georgia Spray, founder of Partnership Editions, has written a practical guide for novice art collectors that challenges the myth that collecting requires wealth or expertise. The book combines her decade of experience democratizing art acquisition—her gallery represents over 80 emerging artists with prices starting at £50—with intimate photographs of seven real collectors' homes and five core principles: trusting your instincts, prioritizing personal meaning over investment potential, exploring exhibitions and fairs freely, investing in quality framing, and using analogue moodboards to resist algorithmic taste-shaping. Rather than treating collecting as a rarefied pursuit, Spray presents it as an accessible form of self-expression accessible to anyone willing to visit galleries and pay attention to what genuinely moves them.

Permalink artbudgetinterior

Food & Wine

Dwell

www.bhg.com

Better Homes & Gardens

www.apartmenttherapy.com

This Stylish IKEA Bookshelf Looks Like Custom Built-Ins for Way Less (Yes, Really)

IKEA's LÅDMAKARE is a $270 shelving unit that combines open display shelves with lower closed cabinets, offering flexible storage that blends seamlessly into rooms thanks to its open-back design and minimalist oak finish. The interior shelves are shallower than the side boards to accommodate cables, and the side panels have cutouts for baseboards, allowing the unit to sit flush against walls. The piece can be styled individually or combined with others to create custom built-in looks, used as an entertainment center or room divider, and configured in advance using IKEA's customization tool.

Permalink diyfurnitureorganizationstorage

www.article.com

sunbeamvintage.com

www.homebunch.com

Beachfront Condo Interior Design Ideas - Home Bunch Interior Design Ideas

W Design transformed a Connecticut couple's Naples beachfront condo by blending West Indies color with mid-century modern minimalism, creating a sleek yet approachable aesthetic throughout. The project showcases custom elements like a rosewood feature wall in the entry, porcelain countertops and nearly transparent cabinetry in the kitchen, and strategically mirrored closet doors in the guest bedrooms to maximize limited space. Each room balances neutral palettes with selective pops of color in textiles and artwork, while architectural details like box-beam ceilings, herringbone marble floors, and a high-gloss navy lacquer bar serve as visual anchors in the contemporary design.

Permalink minimalismmid-century modernhomebeaches

www.livingetc.com

I Think These 'Spa Shelves' Are the Best Storage You Can Put in a Guest Bathroom (or Almost Any Bathroom, Now That I Think About It)

This piece centres on the Bilton Towel Rack from Rowen and Wren as a solution for small guest bathrooms, praising its vintage train-luggage-rack design and open storage, which an editor argues is key for guests who won't want to rummage through closed cupboards. It rounds out with several alternative towel racks and shelving options at different price points and styles, from modern gold ladders to Scandi wooden holders, plus a nod to a six-week holiday organising schedule for pre-hosting prep.

Permalink small spacesstorageinteriorshelving

mossandfog.com

Creating a Yoga Sanctuary at Home | Moss and Fog

A practical guide to designing a home yoga corner, covering location and lighting, decluttering, calming color palettes, natural elements like plants and salt lamps, aromatherapy, noise control, and personal touches such as altars or vision boards. It also flags post-practice recovery tools—foam rollers, CBD rollers, straps, massage balls—as part of building a complete, spa-like practice space rather than just a spot to unroll a mat.

Permalink designwellnessrecoveryhome

eternitymodern.com

Gardenista

The Ultimate Garden Shed

Byró Architekti designed a small wooden pavilion near Prague that functions as a library, guest bedroom, and social space within a garden setting, with the key innovation being a folding panel that opens one entire side of the structure to blur the boundary between interior and exterior. Built on the foundation of a demolished cottage using blackened spruce cladding and a simple two-by-four timber frame, the pavilion demonstrates how compact spaces can achieve multiple purposes through thoughtful architectural details like built-in bookshelves and a sleeping loft. The architects were inspired by the garden loggia form, creating what they describe as a seamless transition where the garden visually and physically penetrates the building's interior.

Permalink designarchitecturediyhome

Angus Thompson

landscape and garden design - angus thompson design

This appears to be the homepage for Angus Thompson Design, a landscape and garden design practice based in Oxford. The site showcases their work on various projects across the UK and emphasizes their collaborative approach to creating thoughtful, multilayered gardens and landscapes that reflect each site's unique character. Without full access to the detailed content, the page primarily serves as a portfolio introduction highlighting featured works like "The Cart House" and projects involving glass, concrete, and stone elements.

Permalink designgardeninginteriorlandscape design