Innehållsförteckning för June/July 2022 från 5280 Home

There are two types of videos that always bring me to happy tears when they pop up on my social media feeds: military members reuniting with their dogs after a deployment, and people with monochromacy—complete color blindness—trying on corrective glasses and seeing green trees and blue skies for the first time. I may be a sap, but the latter videos are good reminders of color’s visceral, emotional impact on us. It’s why we yo-yo between paint samples—Blue-green? Gray-blue? How about deep navy?—and why I currently have six swatches of warm whites taped to my living room wall. Depending on the desired outcome, the right color can add a burst of energy to a space or have a calming, grounding effect—and if a hue is even slightly off, it can alter…

Christopher Caskey is a scientist by trade. So it’s little surprise that his flagship business, Delta Brick & Climate Company, was born of a passion for environmental sustainability and energy conservation. The Montrose-based company makes patio pavers, bricks, and decorative ceramic tiles—it recently rebranded the tile-manufacturing arm as Particular Tile—from excess clay sediment that clogs the Paonia Reservoir in western Colorado. Since the reservoir was constructed in 1962, its storage capacity has shrunk by more than a quarter, thanks to the settling mud, which drastically restricts critical water supply to farms, ranches, and orchards in the North Fork Valley. The reservoir also happens to sit near abandoned coal mines that leak methane, a greenhouse gas that traps 25 times more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Caskey, a former…

COVERS Newsstand: From “Room to Grow” Subscribers: From “Inner Beauty” WISH(ES) GRANTED Architecture: Katrina Eckelhoff, StudioHoff Architecture, studiohoff.com. Interior design: Angie Graham, Compliment Design Interiors, complimentdesign.com; Kate Carroll, HUT Collective, hutcollectiv.com. Construction: Brett Mosley, HIWA Development, hiwadev.com. Kitchen design: Lori Platte, Platte Designs, plattedesigns.com. Rear exterior: Rug, Loloi Rugs. Kitchen: Odyssey White honed dolomite countertops, the Stone Collection; Dacor appliances, through BAC; cabinetry manufactured by Concept 32 Custom Cabinet Studio; Ambit pendant lamps, Muuto; Loft counter stools, Muuto. Front exterior: Rug, Loloi Rugs. Dining room: Wishbone chairs, Interior Icons; Nodes chandelier, by Kelly Wearstler, at Lightology; custom art by the Worst Crew, Pedro Barrios and Jaime Molina. Bar: Odyssey white honed dolomite countertop, the Stone Collection; Sleepy Briar Rose wallcovering, Jill Malek, at Walltawk; art print, Strange Dirt. Powder room:…

Wander into the recently overhauled restaurant space attached to the hip Hotel Indigo in the North Union Station neighborhood, and you’re in for a sensory thrill: Three Saints Revival, which opened last fall, is unlike any place you’ve ever enjoyed a meal. Guaranteed. The brainchild of restaurateur Robert Thompson (of Punch Bowl Social fame)—who says he “wanted to create something to bring us out of the dark days of the pandemic”—features a menu of craft cocktails and shareable plates that draws on flavors from all corners of the Mediterranean. And here’s where the familiar evaporates into the surreal—in the loveliest way. Inspired by the idea of discovering food from different parts of the world, design team Megan Freckelton and Frank Mataipule of FAM Design began riffing on travel, which led…

1. REMOVE Annual reservoir-draining exposes mud flats, from which an excavator and dump truck can extract sediment and transport it to the factory. 2. MIX AND PREP Adding water and grog—a type of coarse sand—and processing the mixture in specialized machines forms the material while adding texture and increasing its durability. 3. CUT AND DRY Shapes are hand-punched (think: cookie cutters) into the clay, which is then hand-trimmed and stacked to dry for at least a week to avoid cracking and warping. 4. BISQUE FIRE AND GLAZE Kilns* fired to nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit fuse clay particles into water-resistant ceramic, which is then sprayed with glaze. 5. GLAZE FIRE The final kiln* heating melts the glaze into a colored glass adhered to the front of the tile. 6. SELL IN…

You might expect artist Meredith Steele’s workspace to be as colorful as the vivid abstract and mixed-media paintings that she creates. But the small studio in her Berkeley home is a blank canvas—for good reason. “I wanted to make this space as bright as possible,” says Steele, who is also half of the creative muralist team at Magik Studios. “My art is more on the vibrant and playful side, and [the room] allows nothing to compete with that.” ¶ Steele painted the walls Sherwin-Williams’ Westhighland White, which is brightened by natural light from a “perfect little window that looks out onto the backyard,” she says. Complete with a minimalist worktable that Steele built herself, a mod Ikea pendant light, and accessible storage bins for paints and tools, the room functions…

A Denver-born home stylist and the director of design for local home-staging company Guest House, Bret Sundberg has long known the healing power of a space that’s been configured with intention. She also knows firsthand that interior design services feel inaccessible to most people in her community. So, this February, Sundberg relaunched her design service side gig, the Fourth House of Homes, into a full-fledged creative network and affordable design studio. Here, Sundberg shares her vision for the rebrand and how she hopes to bring the benefits of design to all corners of Denver. 5280 Home: Why is accessible interior design important to you? Bret Sundberg: Interior design has always felt like a luxury. I grew up on welfare. I didn’t have the finer things. But at the end of…

We get it: Piecing together a cohesive look for a bathroom upgrade can be downright overwhelming. Allow us to help. Whether you're eager for a glamorous, Regency-style spa space or a pretty, preppy retreat, look to these materials palettes—inspired by local designers' work—for style ideas that make a splash. Plus, go behind the design of a globally inspired bathroom in Boulder.…

Karli and Nils Erickson love what you might call bold houses. About a decade ago, the couple hired architects Brad Tomecek and Kevin Sietmann and interior designer Andrea Schumacher—then emerging talents in the Denver design world and now in-demand leaders in their fields—to build an architectural stunner in Denver’s Lower Highland neighborhood. The resulting home (dubbed the Shield House for its curved exterior wall) was so noteworthy, it made the cover of the very first issue of 5280 Home in 2012. “That was an incredibly special project,” says Tomecek, principal of Tomecek Studio Architecture. “People still walk by the house, take a step back, and say, ‘Did I see that right?’” But in 2017, the Ericksons decided that they (and their two young sons) had outgrown their urban home and…