Re-envisioning The Dining Room

Beach Style Dining Room by Lakeville Architects & Building Designers allee architecture + design, llc For many of us, our dining rooms sit vacant and unused, sometimes for many months during the year. Some people only seem to use it for Thanksgiving or other holiday dinners. With the popularity...

What Designers Can Expect From The Year of The Sheep

2015 The Year Of The Sheep   Today we welcome the advent of the Chinese New Year 2015 symbolized by the elegant and peaceful sheep. Tranquility, harmony and creativity are in store for us in many aspects. The qualities of the sheep will usher in a sense of elegance,...

Happy New Year!

We hope you had a wonderful holiday season! With renewed vigor and vitality we are ready to approach 2015 with fresh inspiration, new ideas, and open minds.  January is always a time for contemplating what our goals and intentions are. Some of those goals will be tangible ones whose...

Modern Kitchen In Silverlake

What began as a simple kitchen ‘face-lift’ turned into a more complex kitchen remodel when it was determined that what the client was really seeking was to create a space which evoked the warmth of wood. The challenge was to take a dated (c. 1980’s) white plastic laminate kitchen...

A Fresh Take on Vintage French Powder Room

My client was adamant about the direction for the remodel of her powder room; ” It must look vintage French and I want one of those old fashioned porcelain washstand lav sinks,” The other direction she gave me was….”keep it all white”, a nod to modernism and the essence...