Over time, so lots of our favourite “renovations” have had one method in widespread: They let the house lead, usually stripping again greater than is added. A lot tougher than slapping on the brand new.
So this lament, by photographer Laura Muthesius and Nora Eisermann—speaking about an condo in a historic constructing in Germany earlier than they lovingly redid it—spoke to us. “It was utterly over-renovated,” they wrote to us. “All the unique particulars had been changed through the years, sadly. Picket doorways had been changed by plastic ones, a blue carpet was glued over all of the flooring, even the format of the rooms was completely different to the unique floor plan.” A case of extra just isn’t at all times higher.
Longtime Remodelista readers may acknowledge Laura and Nora’s names—or bear in mind them as Our Meals Tales. We first featured their collaborations in Kitchen of the Week: Making the Leap from Darkish to Gentle, then once more in A Darkly Good-looking Frama Kitchen in Berlin, and but once more in A DIY Ikea Nation Kitchen for Two Berlin Creatives. (You’ll be able to see they’ve a specific penchant for designing singularly beautiful kitchens.) And now they’ve finished it once more, in a historic former financial institution, with residences obtainable for “vacation friends, workshops, pop-up dinners, pop-up cafes, and as a location for manufacturing corporations.”
We requested the duo to catch us up on life since we final featured them in 2018—and the way they discovered the house:
“A lot has modified! And what a stupendous, intense, and loopy journey it was,” they wrote. “We began working collectively as a pair, obtained married in between, and after 13 years of being collectively broke up this yr. However we’re nonetheless mates and love working with one another. We created @_designtales_ for enjoyable, once we had been renovating our first condo within the countryside and didn’t need to spam our food- and recipe-loving followers with inside and renovation content material on a regular basis.
“We at all times had this dream of doing our personal vacation rental. And Laura’s dad had the dream of shopping for this constructing for over 20 years; when he actually may make it occur, he purchased it three years in the past and requested us if we need to make a vacation rental challenge collectively right here. We had been fairly sceptic to start with, as all of the residences wanted a significant renovation. However we instantly fell in love with the sturdy presence of the highly effective oak tree in entrance of the constructing. It’s simply so beautiful how from some views the tree is nearly taking up the constructing. The constructing and the tree really feel so interwoven with one another in such a stupendous and distinctive method. Once we did some analysis, we discovered that it was the one tree of three oak bushes in town sq. that survived an enormous fireplace. That’s why we referred to as the vacation and placement rental St. Oak.”
Be a part of us for a take a look at the studio condo—one other superb collaboration.
Pictures courtesy of Our Meals Tales, besides the place famous.
