It’s hard to imagine that not that long ago, this home was a dim, outdated California bungalow. But San Francisco-based designer Tineke Triggs helped it evolve into what you see : an open, airy, contemporary (although not too modern ), welcoming area. She’s friends of the owners, artist Tjasa Owen and Scott Kalmbach, who used to own a furniture shop and is currently a realtor. “The home had all old-fashioned wood cabinetry, and all the doors and windows were Doug fir,” Triggs states. “The goal was to make it feel like more of a modern bungalow.” She brightened the room with a great deal of white paint, added wood beams to retain a tasteful amount of rustic appeal, and repurposed and put some of the room to create the home more practical and free-flowing.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
The total Mill Valley, CA, dwelling is significantly less than 1,500 square feet, but a palette of mainly light neutrals makes it feel much bigger. “We opened the kitchen up entirely,” Triggs states. There used to be a wall separating it from the living area, but by removing that they raised the usable space. She included the overhead beams, made from reclaimed wood, to elicit a number of the home’s vintage character. The entire redesign took approximately six months, and Triggs says it had been done on a strict budget, forcing them to become more inventive without spending a lot of cash.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
They created a play area in the primary living room with a kid-sized dining table and chairs. The dining table has been bought at Maison Reve, a story in Mill Valley; operator Yasmine Mcgrane had found it in Avignon, France. Triggs explains with a laugh which the arrangement of these mark in this photo isn’t suitable for the purpose of staging — it is really always setup like that. The floor is walnut, and they played to make a personalized complete in a mirrored moderate gray-brown that will complement the home’s furnishings and the reclaimed wood of the ceiling beams. The fireplace facade is ceramic tiles from SpecCeramics which are rough cut to get an undulating texture and are designed for an easy locking installation.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
An oversize picture of the horizon creates the illusion of a sweeping view between two glowing windows. The communal dining table, 1950s Eames chairs, stools and bench are an eclectic combination. The dining table and chairs came from Kalmbach’s furniture shop, and the bench came from the owners’ buddy Jonathan Rachman. The stools were found at Crate & Barrel, as well as the ribbons are Robert Abbey.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
During the home, the owners needed a largely neutral palette, which enables the colors of Owen’s art to be noticed. Asked about numerous appearances of animal hides and artificial fur in the home, Triggs explains,”When you have to stay with neutral palette, the next idea is texture. They’re not the type of people who enjoy a lot of color, so the best way to deal with that is to add lots of textures. Another way we did that was with a tile that looks like horsehair on the floor and at the shower of the master bath.” That tile is also from SpecCeramics.The painting of the woman at left is by Mill Valley, CA, artist Eric Zener.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
A kitchen that has a small footprint feels spacious and free-flowing thanks to the elimination of the wall . A massive post marks where the wall used to be. Past the frame of this image at left is a hallway, in which they expanded some kitchen performance with the inclusion of a pantry.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
The master bedroom is right off the primary living room. “To make the entry more dramatic, we found sliding barn doors,” which they had the contractor custom-build, Triggs states. “We painted them white to make it more contemporary.”
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
More rich textures appear from the decorative cushions atop the bed, the sherpa throw and a plush rug at the foot of the bed.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
Triggs states that one problem with using genuine reclaimed wood is that it may introduce real pests to the home, in the kind of resident beetles. In the master bathroom, the vanity is made of new oak that has been stripped with metal brushes to give it texture and depth very similar to authentic reclaimed wood. In addition to becoming bug-free, the grain and density of it’s more consistent than with classic wood. This comparatively small toilet — the shower is at left and the toilet is at right — profits a illusion of spaciousness with a wall-spanning mirror over the sink.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
The drawers in the master bedroom closets — you will find his & hers (displayed here’s”his”) — are created by the exact custom-distressed wood as the bathroom vanity. The handles revealed here are all leather. In the”hers” cupboard, the agency top is used to display a more colorful jewelry collection.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
This family room is in a separate building, formerly a bare studio, supporting the primary property. A genuine rust-colored Eames rocker adds retro appeal into the space.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
The classic file cabinet is another relic from Kalmbach’s shop. “They love to mix uber-modern pieces with antiques, collected things from various areas and from Scott’s shop,” Triggs states. “All his stores were a mixture of new and reclaimed. He would do modern custom furniture and mix it with a lot of reclaimed antique pieces. He began doing this way before it became famous.”
Another element of the outhouse, this is the area where Owen’s artistic magical happens, and is the 1 area where they utilized authentic reclaimed flooring. The boards came from Black’s Farmwood at San Rafael, CA.
This boy’s bedroom combines vintage, modern, playful and stylish themes. The colorful lockers came from Kalmbach’s shop; the surfboard is actually a creative take on a growth chart. The clean, simple bedding is from Garnet Hill. Overhead, versions built from the room’s inhabitant add sci-fi-inspired character.
This bath is for guests as well as the owners’ daughter. The vanity top is Caesarstone, which Triggs states has a bit of motion in its texture and color.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
Triggs enjoys the story of the ladder at the kid’s bedroomshe and Kalmbach had liked the idea of stationing a ladder from the start, but Owen wasn’t so convinced. The one seen here was also purchased at Maison Reve, and all three agreed it had been fantastic. The bed is original to the home, but used to be in dark wood tones. They brightened it with white bedding and paint Garnet Hill, also chose one of Owen’s paintings which conveys through a touch of the bedding’s pink color. The lighting is from IKEA.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
Triggs added the custom built-in desk for your daughter, with a linen corkboard above for posting favorite art and photographs. Open shelving is used mainly for display but can be convenient storage because her demands change.
Artistic Designs for Living, Tineke Triggs
When the current owners moved in, the yard was pretty overgrown. They used a number of the trees which needed to be pruned to bring a little of the outside to this office, another region of the”outhouse.” The desk — which appears in keeping with the character of the wood during the primary home — is from Restoration Hardware.
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