In the desert, living walls work best inside. They are maintained by a computerized automatic watering system or by hand, but living walls still require professional maintenance weekly.
Dream Kitchens
These appliance design trends are starting a feeding frenzy.
Everyone, it seems, wants a new kitchen. Michael Rhodes, senior director of retail at Pacific Sales Kitchen & Home, reveals some of the trends.
Your Papers, Please
When and why wallpaper works.
Mark Nichols Interiors used wallpaper where the intention is to deviate from the main narrative of this Rancho Mirage home — used sparingly but intentionally to highlight or surprise.
The Artist and the Architect
In sync with William Krisel, a couple draws a new framework for life inside a 1960s home.
Architect Stan Boles and artist Wendy Kahle weren’t new to vintage homes when they found their second Palm Springs vacation property by William Krisel.
Modern Family
Playful colors and durable materials meet grown-up sensibility in this Interio designed for all ages.
Interior designer Jeff Valenson, of Los Angeles–based Jeff Valenson Design, has created a home at Toscana Country Club that unites traditional elements with a clean, modern aesthetic.
Cooking with Gas
This kitchen puts the pedal to the metal.
This Bighorn Golf Club kitchen is sleek, shiny, and sophisticated, with all the masculine edge of a modern sports car and the tools to make it purr.
High-Minded Dispensary Design
A desert-inspired color palette mixes with midcentury accents to create a unique, boutique-style marijuana dispensary in Desert Hot Springs.
Recreational marijuana will be legal in California as of Jan. 1, 2018, and the proliferation of dispensaries and proposed retail pot shops (one has even been approved for the tony El Paseo shopping district in Palm Desert) means that business owners are getting more competitive with architecture and design to attract clientele. Desert’s Finest Medical Marijuana recently opened in Desert
Working at Home
Interior designer and showroom owner Richard Read shares three concepts he pulled off in his own spaces.
“Whether it’s a pillow, fabric, or artwork, find something that inspires your palette. This room (top right) was designed using the antique French poster as an inspiration for color selection. I chose charcoal blue for the sofas, a beige rug for contrast, and pops of orange, yellow, and gold to create a consistent color theme throughout.” Mongolian fur barstools from
Do What Comes Natural
Homeowner vision and designer intuition converge on organic materials, midcentury bones, and a modern splash of orange.
Nothing says retirement like a colossal, 12-by-5-foot custom door that pivots into your new dream home. Cindy and Roy Raftis never tire of swinging open that glass-and-wood beast to greet a stream of arriving family and friends. For this pair of Canadians who recently retired to Rancho Mirage, that door, with its oversize drama and clean-lined beauty, represents the experience
A Spy in the House of Love
Embrace a residence that both reveals time and transcends it.
The call came one day in 2009. Los Angeles–based art dealer Kay Richards phoned her other half, Cooper Layne. “Coop, you’ve got to come to Palm Springs and see this house.” Drawn to the desert as well as the home’s architectural pedigree and potential, the couple knew this diamond in the rough was seduction in the making. Built in 1959