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Today we’re taking you northeast of our Berkeley studio to Crockett, a town nestled by the water near the base of the Ca...
10/09/2026

Today we’re taking you northeast of our Berkeley studio to Crockett, a town nestled by the water near the base of the Carquinez bridge.

We started talking to Duncan of Duncan Oja back in August of 2024, while construction at Rayburn House was just beginning to lift off. The languid trail of communication that followed struck me as a case study of how non-linear the workflow on design projects can be, and how necessary that is to the creative process. I understand the resistance to this - the pressure and expectation of flawless and efficient ex*****on is real, and our societal attitudes around “wasted” time (especially when money is attached to that time) are intensifying in so many different ways.

However, the ideas that didn’t pan out often inform the one that does. A pivot that throws another aspect of the design into question and necessitates a change can end up making the room stronger. Our best work happens when we are hired by folks who have enough trust in the discernment, instinct, and skill that we are consistently honing to let us cook.

Our initial inquiries to Duncan involved several pieces, with long periods of dormancy before the inquiry was reignited once again. Once the commitment to commissioning a coffee table from him became solid enough, Duncan procured some “big chunks of walnut” from Arborica / Evan Shively that he thought might work and chalked them up for us to have a chat about their shaping.

Eventually, Rebecca Muller and I visited him (and his dog Laika), and became enamored with the wonky undulation and, in part due to Duncan’s own enthusiasm, the underside - striated with tool markings - of the piece we selected. In the home stretch, we added his shaker end table to a small reading nook at the top of the stairs.

Our pieces were ready for installation in the fall of 2025. In a way, they are just a couple of the threads we wove into the tapestry of this home, but we couldn’t imagine it without them. There are more shots of Duncan’s shop (and home) toward the end!

Interior Architecture & Design: Landed Interiors
Project Team: Heather, Rebecca Muller, Tiffany Kim, & Luna Sibai
Construction: Cook Construction

Another year, another showhouse! Today marks the opening of the 2026 Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse which I was so ...
10/02/2026

Another year, another showhouse! Today marks the opening of the 2026 Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse which I was so thrilled to preview last night. It’s such a good one this year. I encourage you all to go in the month of October! I know I’ll be back.

Here are some scenes looking back on the Primary Bedroom that we designed for the last Brooklyn Showhouse. We had photos taken both digitally with Brett Wood and on film with Tatum Mangus, and I couldn’t be happier still with the atmosphere we captured. All the special pieces still live in my heart and memories - the copper Josef Hoffman pendant of my Viennese Secessionist dreams, the Hannah Kuhlmann floor lamp that brings this room into surrealist territory, a long-time-coming collaboration with our friend Jim Zivic Design on the leather link bed, La Maison Pierre Frey fabric with a transportive quality whisking you away to a chic hotel in Europe, and those unforgettable decorative plaster walls done with 𝐀 𝐑 𝐊 𝐀 𝐃 𝐀, among so much more.

Hats off to every designer who has pulled off a Showhouse room past and present, with every detail lovingly belabored. After all has died down, we find ourselves thinking about the next one!

Interior design: Landed Interiors
Project team: Lynn Kloythanomsup, Rebecca Muller,
Tiffany Kim
Photography: Brett Wood and Tatum Mangus

Welcome to the sectional at Rayburn House, a lengthy endeavor that involved two of our favorite collaborators - Rafi Ajl...
09/26/2026

Welcome to the sectional at Rayburn House, a lengthy endeavor that involved two of our favorite collaborators - Rafi Ajl who constructed our frame and Franciscan Interiors who made our cushions.

We wanted this piece to reflect our clients’ love of travel, so Heather and Luna referenced Moroccan mashrabiya screens and the chunky turned legs on charpai chairs from India to inform the design of the sectional’s frame.

We worked closely with Rafi Ajl throughout its construction and development, including a rough mock up for sizing and prototypes of the turned elements to make sure we were on the right track before everything went into production. Rebecca Muller and I had the treat of visiting his workshop to check progress with Shauna Kreidler Michels while she was in town for a wedding! Rafi also got the brass mushroom pieces fabricated and inlaid on the desk in the office.

Rafi also produces his own incredible designed works that explore and push the boundaries of process and materiality. We highly recommend checking out works from his recent showing at Marta in Los Angeles. He is a thoughtful and thorough collaborator and we were lucky to have him and his team engaged on this project with us.

Our friends at Franciscan Interiors artfully notched our seat cushions around the legs and covered in an extraordinary jacquard textile from La Maison Pierre Frey. The back cushions were upholstered in a soft green velvet from Rose Uniacke that calls forth memories of spring and new growth. We worked with Franciscan and our clients to make sure the sofa and cushions were ergonomically structured while still casual enough to encourage flopping down for a nap.

So much coordination goes into custom furnishings - from site verification to design adjustments to production checks. When we take on endeavors like this for our projects, we really try to make the investment worth it in the end, and we are over the moon about how this piece came together.

Interior Architecture & Design: Landed Interiors
Project Team: Heather, Rebecca Muller, Tiffany Kim, & Luna Sibai
Construction: Cook Construction

We’re back to round out this before & after series on our Alpine Meadows project by zooming out to its exterior, and bey...
09/22/2026

We’re back to round out this before & after series on our Alpine Meadows project by zooming out to its exterior, and beyond. It’s hard to believe this project was published in April 2025 (and construction wrapped in late 2022)! Time flies, and it’s rewarding to look back and feel like we’ve sent homes down a path where they can age gracefully.

This particular home reveals itself to you slowly. The expanse of glass shown in this exterior before & after is not visible unless you drive past it (it’s on a cul-de-sac), so what you mostly see on the approach are the garage, some smallish windows into some bedrooms, and (now) the window into the entry.

We wanted entry into the home to feel like cracking open a geode - quiet and unassuming on the outside while concealing a joyful celebration of color within. We needed to select stain for the siding and paint for other areas, so we settled on a soft, charcoal grey that was consistent between the two finishes. The dark coloring allows the home to recede into the trees.

While we were in Tahoe, we also took a moment for Yoshi to get some environmental shots, which help convey this home’s exceptionally beautiful location.

Thanks for following along with us - we hope you enjoyed witnessing this home’s transformation as much as we did!

Interior Architecture & Design: Landed Interiors
Project Team: Heather & Tiffany Kim
Engineering: MWATruckee
Construction: Casey Custom Builders
Photography: Yoshihiro Makino
Publication: ELLE Decor

Time off and travel have been in full swing for the Landed team lately, so a haring more from this transportive home in ...
09/19/2026

Time off and travel have been in full swing for the Landed team lately, so a haring more from this transportive home in the snowy mountains feels apropos!

In the second slide’s “before” photo, you can see a door behind the desk area. This led to the former laundry room we mentioned in last week’s post. We closed that off and moved the entry point to a hallway on the opposite end of the room.

The closets below the windows created an odd barrier in the room, so we relocated the storage to a couple of full-height cabinets - one directly opposite the desk, and another down the hall closer to the entry door. The both feature star cut-outs for ventilation that are seen in the entry door and echoed in the partitions.

Gaining that square footage back from the closets let us put the bed below the windows, which had to remain high due to the snow. This move also gave us space to reasonably wall off the zone where the desk and closet were. We created a large cased opening so the hallway didn’t feel overly tunnel-like, but added a slatted partition to give a little screening between the bedroom and hallway. This reinforced language from the kitchen and family room, and also allowed more light to pe*****te into the hall.

The wallpaper in the hall was a daring choice - orange, even in its more russet form, can be divisive, but we love that our clients went for it! This one from Casamance also has a foiled ground that glint softly in the light. We upgraded the folding table to a built-in desk - if you pinch in you may see a twinkle on the side splashes. And one of our favorite table lamps, from the talented Lindsey Adelman Studio, adding some glamour in the corner.

We toned things back down with a calming, dark blue grasscloth in the bedroom. A beloved painting from our buddy drew bennett graces this room, with art from Serena Mitnik-Miller on the ledge.

Interior Architecture & Design: Landed Interiors
Project Team: Heather & Tiffany Kim
Engineering: MWATruckee
Construction: Casey Custom Builders
Photography: Yoshihiro Makino
Publication: ELLE Decor

Welcome back to our Alpine Meadows project! We wanted each bathroom to have a unique palette, while maintaining a strong...
09/08/2026

Welcome back to our Alpine Meadows project! We wanted each bathroom to have a unique palette, while maintaining a strong throughline between them all.

We chose to create cohesion through materiality - wall tile from Pratt + Larson ✨ Tile Studio and floor tile from Zia Tile, keeping the same format and layout for each bathroom. Each bath also incorporates swooping curves, speaking to the playful spirit present in a lot of midcentury modern design.

The palette in each bathroom was mostly monochromatic, with the exception of the primary bath where we wanted to shake things up. Here, we designed a metal and glass partition that defines a wet room without blocking the light from a newly enlarged window. We had the partition’s frame powdercoated in a peachy coral tone in order to emphasize the division of space, which is long and narrow. We continued the secondary color story at the vanity to give the room more balance. Beautiful art from Rachel Kaye (via Sarah Shepard) fits in happily without being overly matchy with the space. Fittingly, this piece is titled “Mountain View.”

While the pink and yellow bathrooms retained similar footprints and layouts (we did relocate a door at the yellow bath to make it an en-suite), the primary bath underwent the most radical floor plan change.

To access the original primary suite, you went into the laundry room and the bath and bedroom branched off from there. The laundry room got the windows and the bathroom was windowless. While the bedroom’s location did not change, we essentially flipped the plan so the bath got an outside wall (and the new window), moved the laundry hookups into to the new mudroom, and created a hallway to access the bedroom and bath. I may try to get a floor plan onto our stories for y’all to see.

Special shout out to Yoshihiro Makino for suggesting the moody evening shot. I can hear him saying, “How about something like this?”

Interior Architecture & Design: Landed Interiors
Project Team: Heather & Tiffany Kim
Engineering: MWATruckee
Construction: Casey Custom Builders
Photography: Yoshihiro Makino
Publication: ELLE Decor

It’s Heather again, back with the second half of our Melanie Nead appreciation tour. Happy Friday! Today, we’ll be focus...
09/04/2026

It’s Heather again, back with the second half of our Melanie Nead appreciation tour. Happy Friday! Today, we’ll be focusing on one of the things Melanie and Sierra love to do. (Though, to be fair, I think they love a lot of what they do.)

I mentioned in our previous post that we presented an idea of gilded portal paintings in the kiddo’s room, with the concept of those portals being the source point of some glittery magic that extended into the rest of Rayburn House. Our clients have a shared love of children’s stories and fairy tales, so there was a lot of enthusiasm around this idea!

So, Melanie and Sierra went into nearly every room and added small touches, from hand-painting golden critters that hold special meaning or interest to the family, to gilding some of the blossoms and buds on the sculpted plasterwork. The critters are reflective enough that they aren’t super obvious depending on the light or where you’re standing, so as you walk through the home you end up catching glimpses of them out of the corner of your eye. It’s a brilliant way to spark curiosity and intrigue. And the gilding…it catches the light with such elegance and softly glows throughout the day.

Rebecca Muller and I had a blast dreaming about this project with Melanie, Sierra, and the rest of Team LP. We cannot speak more enthusiastically about how skilled, thorough, and brilliantly creative they are. We hope that these small and brilliant moments of whimsy are lending cheerful support to the wonderful family who lives among them.

All right, on to the photos. Don’t miss a cameo from one of our newest Landed designers, Anahy Navarro, who keeps us in stitches and was half-goofing when I snapped this photo of her (but it turned out too good to leave it out, so enjoy). The last photo is of the wild sunset we were greeted with on Melanie and Sierra’s last day of site work. ❤️

Interior Architecture & Design: Landed Interiors
Project Team: Heather, Rebecca Muller, Tiffany Kim, & Luna Sibai
Construction: Cook Construction

Our dear friends Melanie and Sierra, and their team at Melanie Nead, really did us proud, pouring heaps of their artistr...
09/04/2026

Our dear friends Melanie and Sierra, and their team at Melanie Nead, really did us proud, pouring heaps of their artistry, expertise, and fastidious planning and testing into a multi-medium site installation at our Rayburn House project. There’s so much to share that we’re spreading the love over two posts.

First up are these stairs, stenciled in metallic paint. We gave LP some notes on artistic direction and they designed a series of custom stencils for the treads and risers, working with us to determine coloring and the final design along the way. While the pattern repetition is obvious, when you look closely you can see how there are small changes they included to make it feel more organic. They also sprinkled smatterings of forget-me-knots on the risers - one of our clients’ favorite flowers.

Next up, hand-blocked Kudzu wallpaper, designed by the talented miraenggoetz for LP’s growing collection of beautiful papers. The version they launched is screen printed, but Heather saw an early prototype Mira made using a lino block and basically begged them to find a way to make this version, realized with the help of their friend Flowers and Prints by Olivia. Chattered Kudzu, as we informally call it, has a lush, mysterious, and curious energy and it would bring us immense pleasure to see its magic infused into more rooms!

Moving into the office, we have some extraordinary brass mushrooms, mycelium included, that they designed (h/t to kayla marie carlson), carefully fabricated and inlaid by Rafi Ajl into thick walnut slabs from Arborica / Evan Shively.

And last but not least (for now), a series of paintings, based on a concept we presented of portals that glimpse into gold-flecked worlds - you can see some of our look & feel imagery on the last slide. The original plan was to paint these directly onto the walls, but we opted for more flexibility in the future. Our idea was that these glittery portals would be the source point for some other golden elements that made their way into the home - more on that soon!

Interior Architecture & Design: Landed Interiors
Project Team: Heather, Rebecca Muller, Tiffany Kim, & Luna Sibai
Construction: Cook Construction

Hi, hello, we’re back at our Alpine Meadows project to reflect on the transformation that we helped realize with some mo...
09/01/2026

Hi, hello, we’re back at our Alpine Meadows project to reflect on the transformation that we helped realize with some more before & afters.

This zone of the house is the space for congregating, but the original approach was blocked off by tall cabinetry in a way that felt more obscuring and segregating than welcoming and connective. Curiously, the row of tall cabinets was also built above a low, partial void next to the original refrigerator, where an access door to a crawl space was located. (We moved this into one of the hallways.)

One major decision we made with our clients was to put everything into low cabinetry, including refrigeration, emphasizing both the ceiling height and the slatted partition we designed. We also wanted to keep things feeling airy and open with the new windows we extended into and around the corner. Their family is here most frequently during the ski season and when entertaining friends and family over holidays and weekends, so the need for significant and sustained food storage was unnecessary, and also unsafe because of the bears. We always learn to incorporate new layers of consideration when we work in new regions. Respect for the bears who live there, too, was one of these instances, affecting everything from door handles to windows to food storage!

The cabinets themselves are faced in walnut and feature exposed joinery at the edges, a detail inspired by the beautiful work at Garde Hvalsøe. We added some shine with unlacquered brass accents seen in the faucetry, lighting, hardware, and a very special patinated brass hood cover fabricated for us by our friends at Berlin Food & Lab.

While the turquoise laminate was replaced with hardy, soapstone countertops, we didn’t want the kitchen to be devoid of color, so we introduced some glistening oxblood-colored tile from Rookwood Pottery. A work table from UNION STUDIO that our studio has always loved is also wearing subtly-hued indigo feet.

Interior Architecture & Design: Landed Interiors
Project Team: Heather & Tiffany Kim
Engineering: MWATruckee
Construction: Casey Custom Builders
Photography: Yoshihiro Makino
Publication: ELLE Decor

We don’t know how your week has been going, but many of us on the Landed team have been on a roller coaster of emotion. ...
08/28/2026

We don’t know how your week has been going, but many of us on the Landed team have been on a roller coaster of emotion. We thought to leave you with a smattering of photos we took as furniture began to trickle in at Rayburn House - a small offering of peace and progress as we head into the weekend.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be shining our spotlight on some of the incredible artists, artisans, and makers who contributed to this home. Until then, there’s a sneak peek at one of several windows Theodore Ellison Designs and his team designed and crafted for us. We are excited to share more with all of you.

All right, hug your loved ones and enjoy your respective weekends, everyone. More soon. 💕

Interior Architecture & Design: Landed Interiors
Project Team: Heather, Rebecca Muller, Luna Sibai, & Tiffany Kim
Construction: Cook Construction

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