The very best artwork/style/type has rigidity—a push and pull between textures, colours, and shapes. This current challenge by a Remodelista favourite, LA-based Reath Design, has that coveted rigidity in spades. It’s a modest cellular dwelling, however sited in an unique Malibu Seaside neighborhood. It feels youthful but worldly. It juxtaposes somber, autumnal colours with extra spring-like lavenders and greens. It locations classic rattan stools subsequent to a luxurious, color-blocked velvet sectional.
And all of it in some way works. “I’m the happiest woman on the earth once I’m right here,” says Sofie Howard, a photograph producer who has labored for high-profile shoppers like Nike and Beats by Dre. Longtime pal and Reath founder Frances Merrill had already labored her magic on Sofie’s prior two properties (certainly one of which was a smaller cellular dwelling in the identical sought-after trailer park neighborhood of Paradise Cove), so Sofie knew she may belief her to redo her seashore shack—however make it style.
The entire challenge was seamless—”When the belief is already constructed up, it actually flies,” says Frances—however getting that easy look takes effort. The important thing? “Take a look at, check, check, check once more. After which make a leap.”
Pictures by Laure Joliet.
Above: The earlier proprietor, a well-known actress, had reworked the 1,000-square-foot trailer to be trendy, white, and glossy. Sofie and Frances’ imaginative and prescient for the house was the antithesis of this, extra bohemian-chic than Hollywood bling. First order of enterprise: line the ceiling with purple cedar planks that heat up the house and provides it a retro ’70s grooviness.
Above: Lavender kitchen cupboards are tempered by the brown Fireclay Tile backsplash. Hovering over the island are ceramic pendant lights by Kevin Willis. The classic rattan stools are from Amsterdam Fashionable.Above: An extended, custom-designed nook banquette gives ample seating for Sofie and her household. Nakashima chairs encompass Ilse Crawford’s Collectively Desk. The upholstery cloth used for the banquette bench is from Raoul Textiles.Above: Years earlier than, Frances had picked up the classic Seventies Italian resin pendant lamp—that includes actual stems of foliage and blades of grass—with the hope that she would discover a good dwelling for it in the future.Above: The multicolored sectional, a signature Reath design aspect, is Sofie’s favourite a part of the house. “All the household can cozy up right here and chortle and discuss,” she says. The upholstery cloth is from Knoll’s Intuition K2258 line.Above: The green-lavender-rust colour palette extends into the primary bed room. Right here, a Restoration {Hardware} mattress was given a bohemian makeover through layers of textiles (the rug draping the headboard was a present from Sofie’s son). Frances sourced the cheery deadstock Pikkudaalia patterned wallpaper from Helsinki-based Tapettitalo.Above: This fire and a sizzling tub have been the one options that Sofie selected to depart untouched. French membership chairs from the Nineteen Twenties present excellent seating in entrance of the fireplace.Above: “Calm and content material,” says Sofie, pictured right here, is how she feels when she’s in her Paradise Cove trailer.
