Designing the Desert Oasis Luxury showhouse in Indian Wells, California was so much fun! I created design stories for both the powder which romanced a Tropicalia grotto and the laundry room which featured midcentury graphics. I highlighted both rooms with concealed lighting that highlighted details and created jewel boxes out of small spaces.
DESERT OASIS LUXURY SHOWHOUSE
In this Desert Oasis Show House, i was given the task to reimagine a classic, midcentury home into into a tropical Polynesian paradise.
Here, I take us back into a Technicolor Grotto that romances Post War Tropicalia in the Powder room, using an indigenous tribal wall and floor pattern carved in reclaimed teak by Teaki Tiles. The water running from the faucet reminded me of a small waterfall spilling into a lava rock on a remote island. sitting on a vintage, 60’s bamboo cabinet that could easily come from the South Pacific. the walls are Hula girls dancing on grasscloth.
The blue ceiling could be the color of the sky, or a reflection of a blue lagoon. Either way, the blue connects the captivating Polynesian Oceania art to the ceiling. Concealed Lighting highlights and floats the ceiling within the space. The switch allows the peremeter to be used as mood lighting . It's a feeling. You can almost smell the flowers, reminiscent of sweet fragrant plumerias in the lighting by Circa. It's a symphonic design story that allows you to escape where it’s exotic, tropical, and playful.
Here, I take us back into a Technicolor Grotto that romances Post War Tropicalia in the Powder room, using an indigenous tribal wall and floor pattern carved in reclaimed teak by Teaki Tiles. The water running from the faucet reminded me of a small waterfall spilling into a lava rock on a remote island. sitting on a vintage, 60’s bamboo cabinet that could easily come from the South Pacific. the walls are Hula girls dancing on grasscloth.
The blue ceiling could be the color of the sky, or a reflection of a blue lagoon. Either way, the blue connects the captivating Polynesian Oceania art to the ceiling. Concealed Lighting highlights and floats the ceiling within the space. The switch allows the peremeter to be used as mood lighting . It's a feeling. You can almost smell the flowers, reminiscent of sweet fragrant plumerias in the lighting by Circa. It's a symphonic design story that allows you to escape where it’s exotic, tropical, and playful.
Hula dancers are part of the Post War Tropicalia story. The wall sconce gives a tribal, exotic vibe with cone shapes and combed metal.
The blue ceiling could be the color of the sky, or a reflection of a blue lagoon. Either way, the blue connects the captivating Polynesian Oceania art to the ceiling. It’s a feeling. The blue ceiling could be the color of the sky, or a reflection of a blue lagoon. Either way, the blue connects the captivating Polynesian Oceania art to the ceiling. It’s a feeling. You can almost smell the flowers, reminiscent of sweet fragrant plumerias in the lighting and Hula dancers in the grasscloth wallcovering. It's a symphonic design story that allows you to escape where it’s exotic, tropical, and playful.The blue ceiling could be the color of the sky, or a reflection of a blue lagoon. Either way, the blue connects the captivating Polynesian Oceania art to the ceiling. It’s a feeling. You can almost smell the flowers, reminiscent of sweet fragrant plumerias in the lighting by Circa. It's a symphonic design story that allows you to escape where it’s exotic, tropical, and playful.
It's a symphonic design story that allows you to escape where it’s exotic, tropical, and playful.
It's a symphonic design story that allows you to escape where it’s exotic, tropical, and playful.
Tribal wall and floor pattern carved in reclaimed teak by Teaki Tiles.
The vintage bamboo cabinet was repurposed into a powder room sink cabinet that ties in the theme of post war tropicalia.
The sink and faucet reminds me of a waterfall in an island grottto.
You can almost smell the flowers, reminiscent of sweet fragrant plumerias in the ceiling fixture.
Vintage Post war Menu graphics that were framed.
A black painted wainscot separates the carved reclaimed teak tile and the natural grasscloth.
Walnut tambour cabints are reminiscent of a vintage TV cabinet.
Concealed Lighting highlights and floats the ceiling within the space. The switch allows the peremeter to be used as mood lighting in both the laundry and powder room.
Small button lights are reminiscent of submarine lights. It's as if you're underwater doing laundry.
Tribal cabinet pulls on walnut cabinets. Wallpaper is installed in the cabinet insets.
Concept Board that sold the laundry room story.
Material Board that sold the laundry room story with Alfred Shaheen wallpaper by Benda Houston and fish scale floor tiles by Teaki Tiles.