With its tricolor facade (!) and glass-block fence (!!), this bungalow looks like it was pulled from someone’s wacky dream and plopped down in the desert of Joshua Tree, California. That’s not terribly inaccurate. Essentially, the house is a living design experiment, thought up by three creative masterminds: Helena Barquet and Fabiana Faria, cofounders of the quirky-cool New York City home decor boutique Coming Soon , and their friend iO Tillett Wright , an artist, author, activist, and recently self-taught furniture maker. After years of imagining a home where they could showcase their assortment of pieces by young designers in a real-life setting, Helena and Fabiana’s fantasy became reality in 2017. iO announced that he had bought a second house in Joshua Tree on the cheap—and he wanted to use it to help introduce the Coming Soon aesthetic to the like-minded city. Helena and Fabiana didn’t have to think twice about the idea. “ Coming Soon Land ,” as the home would come to be called, was born.

Depending on where you’re standing, Coming Soon Land is cerulean blue, pale lavender, or greenish-yellow.

It took about a year and a half to transform the bungalow into the design incubator it is today. It had sat empty for years, so neglected that Fabiana could only describe it as “scary-creepy.” She goes on, “It was a horrible-looking place, but it had a pool, so we were like, this has so much potential . Because out there, there are not that many places in the middle of the desert that have pools.” Needless to say, they overhauled pretty much everything. The trio turned the single master bedroom into the living room, created a den, expanded the bathroom into what was an old photography dark room, gave the kitchen a makeover, and added two more bedrooms to the mix. And the layout isn’t even the half of it. There’s the funky exterior, of course, and unconventional detail after unconventional detail inside (think: a bed made of pegboard, a fuzzy blue wardrobe, and a room covered floor-to-ceiling in cork).

A snapshot of the house mid-renovation. “Helena had the idea of making it a cubby wall,” says iO, so he built it to be 12 inches deep to accommodate the shelves.