New Items in Shop

 Large Fu/Foo dogs - Lovely how they are, or could be made into beautiful lamps

 Louis 5th containers, two sizes

 Set of three smaller containers with tray, perfect for kitchen or perhaps a bathroom

 Large nest, would make a fantastic wall hanging

Paddywax Candles, in refreshing scents

Vintage teapot

New line of furniture for Piper Louie

Vintage bucket

Gearing Up For Fall

 We have a few handmade items in our shop.  These are a couple of those items.  The twig birdcage filled with a darling little primitive looking bird (created by Brenda Stires Lewis)-  fills our front window at our shop.

 Beautiful Swedish style desk with fold up lid...hides away any mess.

 Indoor/outdoor Dash and Albert rugs.  Affordable and beautiful.  Nice combo!

 

Our Fall Window Display. Along with Dash and Albert indoor/outdoor rugs, we have cotton rugs, bags and throws.

 Back by popular demand...the recycled  cotton/canvas pouf.  Stitched into a globe.  Very comfy seating for any room.

 Just in...Two's Company Pagoda lanterns in three sizes

 Sweet little hand carved birds - in two sizes

 Glass lanterns great for indoors or out. 

 We just received a new shipment of pillows.  These are linen with wool applique.  Many more to select from.

Great gift ideas for any time of year.  Pretty soaps.  Lovely for a powder room

Chevron and Herringbone Floors

The Chevron and Herringbone patterned floors make me crazy...in a great way. I absolutely love both of these patterns. They are very similar but with distinct differences. With a chevron pattern, the planks are set on the diagonal and meet in the center line. The herringbone pattern floor also has planks set diagonally, but the planks are interlaces.

Herringbone pattern

Via: Aggie Land Carpet One


Chevron pattern
Via: B & B Italia

Chevron pattern

Via: B & B Italia
The white walls and rich warm tones of this chevron floor enhance this sitting area. I love how the purple settee works on an angle.

Via: B & B Italia
This chevron patterned floor looks wonderful mixed with more contemporary furniture and ornate paneling on the walls.

via: B & B Italia


I found this picture in a furniture catalog. Wisteria Furniture. The light furniture and the dark chevron pattern floor are so very French. I love how the furniture and the floor work together to create this charming space.



This rustic floor is in a herringbone pattern and look so warm and inviting.

Via: Tilly's Cottage

It's all in the details......

While walking around the new "City Center" on the strip in Las Vegas, Julie and I saw many new interesting ways to use materials, and also custom design details both for interiors and exteriors. This light fixture that looks like an ordinary interior table lamp has been recreated into a playful 6' + exterior lamp.

In the lobby/check-in of the Aria Hotel and Casino, there are these partition walls made of recycled/ reclaimed wood with organic steel screens. Adding benches to the screens creates the perfect spot for their guest to rest and just sit and watch the action. But as ones feels air blowing around their legs you notice that there are big HVAC diffusers that access the air from below the floor.

This a a great alternative to placing the HVAC above since the ceilings are two to three stories high (and who wants to see big ducts up there or hear air movement above) this gives the ceilings a clean look with organic steel clouds and they are also free of noise and ugly vents. What a great idea and for seating and HVAC distribution......

Behind check-in low wall with real plants at top and HVAC grills, in front of multi-story glass wall, and reclaimed wood structure.

Seat/ Divider/ HVAC distribution

The use of new contemporary materials throughout all of these new structures helps add to the different designers interpretations of use, but also help the flow from one structure to the next. The Crystals retail area has a varied rich use of materials from one end of the mall to the other, as it houses high end shops.

The use of these bright semi-precious translucent stone that are back lit and used on the risers to a major stair at the south end of the mall. They work perfect with the rich natural dark stained hard wood steps and the face of the exterior walls with recessed lighting....

Stairs with wood and stone materials.Seating/ restaurant area above.

And some cool custom lights too.

Custom Light in Lobby of "The Hotel"

And a huge use of natural lighting, which is a huge departure from the standard structures in Las Vegas, in which they have all electric lighting and no light from the sun.

Natural Day lighting....

Something Special, an "Oldie"

What a little treasure I found on Craigslist. Periodically, I scan Craigslist for furniture “for sale,” like many people – I am always looking for a bargain, when I stumbled upon what I like to think of as “an old chair with really great bones.” I got so excited about this crazy old chair for $15.00. I could barely stand waiting for the reply from the seller if the chair was still available. It was, so I made arrangements to go take a peek.

The chairs cushions are shot and probably smell of years living at a retirement center, but in my mind this beautiful “oldie” will be part of my own collection in my home. I will transform it (with the help from “my” upholster) into a crisp, grass-green beauty with a monogram and new shinny black lacquered legs. The chair probably will cost as much as a new chair – maybe even a bit more, but I am left with a one of a kind….something I always find rewarding. This is true for all areas of the home. Why settle for something everyone else has????

New boutique hotel in Cerritos Mexico, north of Cabo

This project started out as a modest 18,000sf vacation home that we started designing couple of years ago, and is almost done, but it is open for business. Now it is a 30,000+sf boutque hotel up and running. It is located in a quiet off the main orad site, next to the only surfable beach on the Pacific Ocean side of the Baja.

What a amazing project to see come to life. This is Nordby Design Studio 's first major project built outside of the Pacific Northwest and it's first Hotel. As you can tell we are very proud of this project and hope many people can enjoy it and it's surroundings.

I love to see how a project comes to life, from the white pages and Cad machine screens to the final built project. To see it and feel it, is the most amazing feeling.

Check it out and you can see our cad images at our web site to see where it started....

go to: http://www.haciendacerritos.com/