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Decor Elements Every Room Should Have - Love Your Home. Romantic Bedrooms - Home Design Ideas. Essential Organizing Tips for Small Homes. 6 Designer Tricks to a More Comfortable Home. Versatile ideas for a small live-work space. An R&D lab for living Every piece of furniture that Makoto Mizutani and Ben Luddy create for their design company, Scout Regalia, is a product of necessity. The couple needed a place to eat but had no dining room in their tiny Los Angeles cottage, so they designed one for their backyard. They wanted a built-in bookcase, so they came up with a movable one to look the part.
They pinpoint each new project, Luddy says, "when we're looking for something as customers, but can't find it in the marketplace. " In the process — whether they're test-driving a pair of bedside tables (and realizing that their original design doesn't work well for stacking magazines) or watching how the wood weathers on an outdoor table — Mizutani and Luddy have turned both house and garden into a research and development lab for living. "We do it all," Luddy says, "from designing the product to building it to getting it on the website, marketing it and shipping it ourselves. "