March Giving

For our March Giving, the LCD Team gathered and donated items to the YWCA in San Pedro. The YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. racism and empower women.

Photo: YWCA Harbor

The New Mountain Style Master Suite

Entering into the New Mountain Style Master Suite transports you to a mountain cabin retreat. The design goal was to create a getaway reminiscent of the homeowner's favorite vacation destination that they could enjoy every day. To create this mountain spa, the LCD Team combined elements of stone, wood and modern lines mixed with elements of metal to bring the vision to life. For more photos of the New Mountain Style Master Suite scroll below. 

The master bath is complete with tobacco stained wood dual vanity, linen cabinet, and rustic floating shelves. The mocha Caesarstone countertops pair well with the accent stone wall by highlighting the softer tones in the rustic color palette.

Drawing a bath in the soaking tub is a perfect way to end the day. Flanked by a water closet and walk-in frameless glass shower, this master bath is filled with luxurious amenities.

The LCD team added finishing touches to a fresh color palette was added to the walls, bedding & draperies. In addition, lighting and bronze finish were added to the mirror pulling all the elements together.

This joint walk-in-closet was thoughtfully designed to create organized storage for the homeowner’s wardrobe. A built-in vanity was incorporated to provide additional space and storage for the morning routine. 

For more images of the the New Mountain Style Master Suite click here.

3 Years Running Best of Houzz

Lunada Consulting & Design, Inc. is honored to announce our third consecutive win of "Best of Design" & "Best of Service" on Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design! LCD was chosen by more than 40 million monthly unique users that compromise the Houzz community from among more than one million active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals.

A special Thank You to all of our past and present clients, and our amazing team of vendors, suppliers and subcontractors for helping to make this possible! Click the image below to visit our Houzz profile.

The Art of Living: Fall in Love with Your Wine Display!

Last year Lunada Bay welcomed a new local magazine to its doorsteps, the Lunada Bay Living Magazine. This community driven magazine features articles, photos, and local business ads for and by the community. Being a resident and local business owner, Jane Biggeln started writing a monthly article for Lunada Bay Living, called “The Art of Living.” It highlights a space in the home and gives tips and considerations on design. For February, with Valentine’s day in mind, Jane focuses on your wine cellar! Read the full article below for tips to create a wine space of your own. 

DIY with LCD: Acrylic Paint Pouring

The LCD Team kicked off their first DIY of 2018 with Acrylic paint pouring! This painting project is easy and fun! Everyone selected a color palette of their own and created a unique masterpiece. It was amazing to watch the paints transform the canvas. The shapes and swirls that the mixture of paints created resembled far off galaxies, natural stone granite, and aerial views of the world. Scroll below to see the beautiful art pieces created by the LCD Team and a step by step guide on how to create your own.

The Overall Look

Paint pouring by the LCD Team.

Step 1 - Gather Supplies

What you’ll need: acrylic paints, canvases, plastic cups, gloves, popsicle sticks, glue, silicone lubricant,  handheld torch & butane fuel, and a water mist sprayer.

Tip: Protect your work surface with plastic or an old sheet. We recommend wearing clothing you don’t mind getting paint on either!

Step 2 – Prepare Paints

Select paint color palette. Add equal parts glue and paint to separate cups. Add three drops of silicone lubricant to each cup. Then add water to each cup to create a flowing consistency. Lastly, mix each paint using a wooden stick until the paint is smooth, but not too watery.

Tip: If there is a color you don’t want predominantly showing on your canvas, use less of it. Otherwise, it may take over your masterpiece.

Step 3 – Layer & Mix Paint

In a separate cup, layer your paint colors, by pouring one color at a time into mixing cup. When you’re finished layering, take the wooden stick and stir the paint just once.

Step 4 – Pour Paint & Rotate Canvas

Place canvas (face down) on top of mixing paint cup.

Flip the canvas right side up with paint cup on top.

Lift cup and see the beautiful colors spill over the canvas.

Lift canvas and rotate to mix and swirl your paints together!

Step 5 - Torch Canvas to create paint cells

Use your small hand torch to create paint cells. This allows hidden paint colors to shine through, as you can see in the painting below. The vibrant turquoise color bursts through the top layer of golds and greens.

Step 6 – Let Dry for several Days

Place canvases on top of plastic cups to help excess paint drip off sides on top of drop cloth.

Modernism Week

It was our first time attending Modernism Week and we had such a wonderful experience! Thank you, Ferguson, for inviting us on the Modernism Week VIP Experience Bus Tour. It was inspiring, informative and so much fun!

The mission of Modernism Week is to celebrate and foster appreciation of mid-century architecture and design, as well as contemporary thinking in these fields, by encouraging education, preservation and sustainable modern living as represented in the greater Palm Springs area. The tour highlighted and showcased just that.

We visited the historical Palm Springs Visitor Center, four showcase homes, attended seminars at the Modernism Week Base Camp, and concluded the day with a poolside cocktail reception at one of our favorite showcase homes, the Moroccan Modern.

Scroll below to tour the showcase homes and experience Modernism Week through our lens. 

Our First Stop | Palm Springs Visitor Center

This unique building was originally built in 1965 as a gas station and is now considered a Palm Springs landmark. It’s soaring, kite-shaped roof, designed by co-designers Albert Frey and Robson Chambers, is the Visitor Center’s signature design element and a true example of Palm Springs modern architecture.

Second Stop | Home Tour of Hollingsworth Tennis Estate 

Designed by Albert Frey and dubbed the Hidden Frey. It is sunken from the street and truly hidden from view. The story, as it’s told, is that since Hollingsworth wanted to build a tennis estate adjacent to the Racquet Club, Charlie Ferrell is said to have protested the development because he did not want the eyesore of the chain link fence, commonly associated with the tennis courts, in proximity to his Racquet Club. Therefore, Hollingsworth had the means and vision to excavate the lot below street level, so as to minimize visibility of his estate and tennis court and thereby gain the necessary permits and approval from the city of Palm Springs. Hollingsworth then hired Albert Frey, who at the time was working with Ferrell on his Schiff House at the Racquet Club, to design his new tennis estate.

One can easily recognize a few quintessential Frey characteristics: rolled roof, cantilevered carport, and an elevated pool. Desert Modernism as it was intended. 

Third Stop | Camp (Modernism Week Headquarters)

Camp was set under a vast white tent housing some of the newest products at Ferguson including Thermador, Corian, and DXV. We were immediately drawn to the Thermador cooking demonstration where Chef Michaela was cooking a Moroccan dish on the newest Freedom Series Induction Cooktop (revealed earlier this year at the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show, KBIS, held in Orlando, FL).

After the demonstration, we moved into another tent for a lunch & learn with Mike Hetherman. He gave a brilliant presentation on “The New Consumer”, consumers who are inclined to purchasing items they care about and connect with on a personal level.

Fourth Stop | Home Tour of West Elm House

This home's interiors and exteriors were designed by the West Elm Design Crew in Palm Springs! The crew did an outstanding job on selecting furniture, textiles, lighting, wallpaper and paint color. The beautiful contemporary wall art, by Richard Prescott and Bryan Boomershine, and photography pieces by Ryan Chesla, were truly the icing on the cake, and brought the walls to life. Another art element we loved were the eclectic art murals in the backyard by Shawn Savage and Robert Landry.

Before heading to the next stop, we couldn’t leave without stopping by the photo booth to take a picture with the gorgeous back drop of desert mountains and palm trees!

Fifth Stop | Home Tour of Steel & Glass House

Truly a work of art. This newly constructed home, designed by the late Donald Wexler and built by Yann Debonne of Hoffman Yann Builders, is entirely made from steel. Donald Wexler drew up the plans for this sophisticated post-and-beam more than ten years ago. The legendary modern architect, nicknamed “the Man of Steel” for his steel-and-glass houses, returned to update the project prior to his passing in 2015. This home takes full advantage of the desert views, with the vast glass windows and doors, bringing the outdoors in. It features some of our favorite art we saw at Modernism Week by Donald Wexler’s son Glen Wexler along with Cybele Rowe, Paul Ecke, Tom Burns and James Shilaimon.

Sixth & Last Stop | Home Tour & Poolside Reception at Moroccan Modern
Casa Estrella, a beautiful masterpiece that intertwines the iconic Palm Springs style with Moroccan elements. Designed in 1974 by architect Hal Lacy, this home features gorgeous entry doors in bold fuchsia on the front and charcoal grey on the back. The pop of color seen on the door is an iconic feature seen throughout the mid-century homes in Palm Springs, and truly pops against the white exteriors! Moroccan style tiles, rugs, and bold colors filled the home creating colorful corners throughout. The Moroccan Modern was the perfect way to end the day poolside with drinks, appetizers and live music by The Dreamboats! This wrapped up the perfect Modernism Week VIP Tour. We’d like to express our gratitude to Ferguson for the invitation to share in this extraordinary event and we are so looking forward to next year.