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Ways to Get Lighting Right

 

Check out “10 Ways to Get Your Lighting Right” on Houzz. This article includes a sexy little lamp from "Waterfront Grace", one of our residential projects designed by Jonathan Staub. This may be just the inspiration you need to help you find your own personal style or make a bold new statement in your home. Good lighting is an incredibly easy way to make a good room great!

 

08.05.2013 | Interior Design, Misc.

Thermador's Three-in-One Steam and Convection Oven

 

Thermador's Three-in-One Steam and Convection Oven provides a quick and easy way to prepare healthy meals in one single appliance. What was once only available to gourmet restaurants is now available for the home. It is the industry's first steam oven that combines three distinct cooking solutions - steam, true convection and combination (steam and convection). Its benefits outweigh stove top, oven and microwave cooking. Here are some of its features:

 

  •      -- Healthier way to cook because it retains more of the nutrients and moisture in food
  •      -- Typically cooks in half the time of stove top or oven cooking
  •      -- Will not dry out food when reheating but instead infuses the moisture back into the food
  •      -- Saves energy
  •      -- 40 automatic food programs
  •      -- Many advanced cooking modes to meet specific needs
  •      -- 1.4 cubic-foot oven cavity is large enough for a 14 pound turkey
  •      -- Self cleaning

 

For more on Thermador's Three-in-One Steam and Convection Oven, please visit their website. You may also download the Gingered Red Snapper recipe provided by Thermador. This recipe is for conventional oven cooking.

 

16.04.2013 | Misc., Food

SF Chronicle - Vacation Retreat Becomes Lanai Home

Written by Beth Hughes

Photography by Matthew Millman 

 

 

For a San Francisco native raised in the chilly, foggy Avenues, something close to heaven appeared decades ago off the bow of the SS Lurline, a posh Matson line steamer on the San Francisco-to-Honolulu run.

 

Hawaii - sunny with beaches of white sand lapped by water so welcoming a boy could swim year-round. Both grandmothers might be San Francisco natives, but Hawaii was his special place, a revelation where warmth caressed his soul.

 

Thus began a lifelong love affair with the islands. Throughout marriage and a move to sunny, warm Marin County to raise three daughters, the visits to Hawaii continued. Hawaii was not only his place; it was their place, the place outside the Bay Area.

 

And as retirement approached, the stars aligned when the couple spotted an advertisement for oceanfront property on Lanai in the Wall Street Journal. "We'd been there, and we'd seen it," said the boy's wife, a Larkspur native, who, like her husband, prefers to remain anonymous to protect the family's privacy. "We knew it was hard to find property on the water, so we thought we'll go and see what they had."

 

The let's-check-it-out trip turned into a let's-write-a-check moment as the Pacific Ocean provided a sparkling backdrop for views of Kahoolawe and the Big Island.

 

That was 1997. Today, the kid describes himself and his wife as "grandparent-type people," and the couple's second home on Lanai epitomizes the easy, unforced fusion of indoor and outdoor, Eastern and Western sensibilities that are the hallmark of Hawaiian style.



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14.03.2013 | Press, Interior Design

Congratulations Holly!

 

 

Philpotts Interiors is honored to announce our senior designer Holly Boling Ruiz was nominated by Theremador’s top dealers in Hawaii and the Pacific Rim to participate in Thermador’s special Design Council that was formed just three years ago. This council gives their input and recommendations on Thermador’s new product designs and brand. The design counsel includes industry leaders from America, Germany and Turkey. Thermador has named 2013 the “Year of the Designer”. 

 

The council took two-and-a-half days of intense brainstorming to review prototypes and design ideas for their 2015-2016 products. Council members were asked to comment on all design and parts of their appliances. You may view the profile of the council members at Thermador’s website.

 

Other lines of their product include Bosch, Siemens and Gaggenau.

17.02.2013 | Press, Interior Design, Awards, People, Misc., Buzz

Looking for ways to make your living environment healthier?

 By Anne Tanaka & Dawn Ching

 

 

Two of our designers, Anne Tanaka and Dawn Ching, recently attended the ReGreen conference in San Francisco sponsored by ASID & USGBC. While at the ReGreen conference, they discovered new sustainable products and learned of eye opening facts regarding green friendly products. 

 

For example, the average person spends one third of their day in bed. Did you know that there are healthier alternatives to your mattress selection?

 

Check out some websites below that offer environmentally conscious mattress and bedding options:

• Royal Pedic    http://www.royal-pedic.com

• Nature Pedic  http://www.naturepedic.com

• Life Kind  http://www.lifekind.com

• Coyuchi  http://www.coyuchi.com

 

You can learn more about the ReGreen approach by checking out the ASID / USGBC ReGreen website’s “Green Strategy Generator”.  Visit http://www.regreenprogram.org/resources and click on the “Green Strategy Generator” image on the left side of the page. This website is a wonderful tool for homeowners and designers to discover ways to achieve a more sustainable, healthy, residential project.

 

 

01.02.2013 | Interior Design, Misc., Buzz
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