Wood is your friend—a welcoming, forgiving surface that instantly warms up a room. This week the Remodelista editors rekindled their romance with larch, walnut, and reclaimed barn siding (stay tuned for upcoming photos of Justine’s newly refinished floors). Here are five of our editors’ favorite ways to use wood to warm a room:
Home Spas
Above: The Badkast, an enclosed version of a bathtub, is handmade from a single larch tree from the Netherlands. Studio Anna van der Lei’s bathtubs are inspired by Van der Lei’s fascination for bathing and recalling her Dutch and Finnish background and cultural bathing experiences. See more in The Home Spa Reimagined, from a Dutch-Finnish Designer.
Night Tables
Above: The Mash Studios LAX Series Night Table in English walnut with a natural oil finish is $400 at Horne. Alexa rounds up her favorite ten modern wood bedside tables (plus three bonus styles) in this week’s 10 Easy Pieces post.
Above: Nightstand, seating, side table—the question is what can’t the Alvar Aalto 60 Stool with a black linoleum top do? (It is $275 at Design Within Reach.) See the Alvar Aalto stool in action in this week’s Steal This Look post.
Reclaimed Wood Flooring
Above: A mix of reclaimed original face Gray Barn Siding and Brown Board installed in a chevron pattern in the lobby of 1 Hotel Central Park, designed by AvroKo. Meredith had a lot of questions about reclaimed wood flooring: “Is it really eco-friendly? Where exactly does the wood come from? Is reclaimed wood flooring a trend that’s already had its day?” For the answers, see this week’s Remodeling 101 post.
