New Scout Regalia Headquarters Coming Soon

 

Big news for our little office. We'll be moving to our new headquarters soon! Stay tuned for more. Opening 2014.

Working Out of the Box: Scout Regalia

We are so honored to be featured on Archinect as part of their "Working Out of the Box" series.  We've been avid readers since our architecture school days and we're so excited to be interviewed for the site. Take a moment to check it out!

Scout Regalia in Sunset Magazine

Our home/office is featured in the April 2012 issue of Sunset Magazine! We are so excited to share the story with everyone.  It's a peek into our headquarters and a look into how our live-work space is a laboratory for designing and testing new SR prototypes. Pick up a copy on newsstands now, or read the story online.

Summer at Headquarters

We've had a pretty busy working summer so far, so our posts might be a bit more sporadic than usual. Lots of fun things coming up!

Our SR garden products will be available at Product Porch starting this month at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Check out the store from the masterminds behind Specific Merchandise and The Vitrine.

We'll also have an installation as part of the HDTS 2011 weekend at High Desert Test Sites in October.  Stay tuned for updates!

SR Headquarters featured on design*sponge

We are so excited to share our home+office with everyone!  Our "headquarters" were featured in the Sneak Peek section of design*sponge this past week.  Check out the full story here.

Re-Upholstering an Old Chair

Before

After

We've been meaning to upgrade our dining room chairs for a while now, and finally got around to it this past month.  We had a couple of strict and challenging criteria for the chairs, the first being that they had to look great, and the second being that it had to cost less than $50/chair.  Impossible?

To begin with, we knew we had to find chairs that we could repair/refinish to stay within our budget.  Thankfully, we live near of one of the best second hand stores ever, across the bridge in Lincoln Heights over at Saint Vincent de Paul.  We found a couple of old chairs (made in NY) with good bones and lines for $20/chair.  It was a steal, but there was still some work that needed to be done, primarily reupholstering the seat and replacing the deteriorating foam.  After scouring the fabric district in Downtown LA, we found some great tweed over at Mood Fabrics, along with some dense upholstery foam.

If you've never reupholstered a chair, its shockingly simple, and there are a ton of resources online including a really helpful video by ReadyMade Magazine.  With a few cuts of fabric and some upholstery staples, we were done in no time.  Final tally: $45/chair.  Success!

More pics of the project on our flickr page.

Why Revit When You Can Rivet?

Introducing our new favorite office tool: The Paper Riveter!  When we first saw this online, we immediately knew that the 'ole stapler needed to be replaced by this awesome tool.  It first punches a hole through the stack of paper and then rivets them together. We are currently resisting the urge to rivet everything (up to 1/8" thick) in sight.  You can find one for yourself at Garrett Wade, our new favorite tool site that seems to have read our minds about what we like and need here at headquarters.

Scout Regalia Headquarters

We have a modest space but we are making the most of our limited space and resources. We view our live-work space as an inviting and inspirational space that serves as both home and laboratory for our various Scout Regalia designs.

Scout Regalia Office

Working from our home office, we’ve adapted our living room to utilize it more as a work space, but also made it comfortable enough to host get-togethers and accommodate friends (our Hans Wegner sofa turns into a day bed). We designed and built our bookcase along with our linear work table, which is made of solid core doors over plywood storage boxes. We clad one entire wall with homasote to serve as a work board to quickly pin up and review ideas, or place inspirational images for new work.