we’re rounding out our week of sneak peeks with writer and former editor-in-chief of craft magazine, tina barseghian. after ten years of san francisco living, she and her husband lloyd decided it was time to move their family to the sunny foothills of oakland where the crafts-style architecture better fit their personalities (the great sunlight and views were nice too) and “mish-mash” style of new, vintage reproduction and “made by llyod” pieces. click here for tina’s full photoset, and here for all our fantastic sneak peeks. we’ll be back monday with even more to look forward too! [thanks, tina!] -anne
[above: I love all the windows in this room, and I had the inside panes of the one above the bed painted a deep orange. The full-size bed was built with planks of redwood by Lloyd many, many years ago, and reminds me of a picket fence.]
The entryway separates the living and dining rooms, and we decided to spruce it up a bit with some vintage wallpaper I found online. I love the original paned-glass French doors, which is as artistic as anything else I have in the house. I can’t believe that none of the owners who’ve lived in this house, from the time it was built in 1923, have painted over the original gumwood-panel walls and windows and door frames in any of the public rooms, including the dining room.
Breakfast nook – We spend most of our time here, which is now a part of the kitchen.
Someday I may be able to afford the real thing, but until then I will appreciate the reproduction of the creamy white leather Eames chair I snatched up for one-sixth of the price of the real thing! It’s officially my knitting chair, but it’s also a comfortable perch for napping in the afternoons. The twig sculpture in the wall is made by my friend Shoshana Berger, founder of Readymade. The standing lamp, which was originally meant to be a pendant lamp that I modded into a shade for this vintage teak pedestal, comes from Designpublic.com.
CLICK HERE for the rest of Tina’s sneak peek after the jump…
It took me a while to appreciate this huge limestone fireplace that takes up most of the wall, but I do now. The art on the mantle is a mix of my own photography (the big print is one I shot in the French Riviera last summer), and silk-screens from different artists.
My friend and next-door-neighbor Natalie Friedman painted this beautiful mural in Lucy’s room, which has appeared in nearly every magazine I’ve worked at! I will never get tired of looking at it.
Lloyd and his brother-in-law took out the wall between the breakfast nook and kitchen to open up the space, and added this butcher-block counter and built-in bookshelf. All the cabinets are original (thus slightly crooked). We had the back wall of the cabinets painted orange, which can be seen through the glass cabinet doors.
