Having previously worked with Los Angeles-based interior design firm Bells + Whistles, Jillian and Tim enlisted them again to renovate a home in Rancho Mirage, California, near Palm Springs. The original house was built in 1957 by iconic architect Donald Wexler as part of Thunderbird North, a community of 10 homes designed by noted Palm...
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100-Year-Old Balinese House Turned Into A Zen Retreat
Rumah Purnama, which in Bahasa Indonesian means “The House of the Full Moon”, is a 100-year-old Balinese wantilan home that Bali-based designer Maximilian Jencquel brought back to life two years ago, thoughtfully renovating and turning it into a holiday retreat. Restored over a period of one year though an adaptive, sustainable design approach, the pagoda-like, two-storey...
38 Farmhouse Sunrooms You Will Never Want to Leave
A sunroom is all we need in spring and fall, but especially in early spring because we are so tired of gloomy winter days! Design a sunroom or a sunroom space in farmhouse style and you’ll feel the real warmth and coziness, exactly what we want for colder days. How to pull off such style...
Bold Shanghai Apartment With Mix-And-Match Galore
When it came to renovating the waterfront apartment for himself, interior architect and art collector Chasing Wang eschewed fashion and trends for a more personal and lasting interior. Rather than selecting the furnishings in accordance with an overall aesthetic, Wang turned the design process on its head, assembling a diverse collection of art and design...
Sandy Point House: A Coastal Home With A Nordic Aesthetic
This family holiday home is gracefully embedded in the natural landscape, which is coastal dunes of eastern Victoria, and is built by Kennedy Nolan Architects. The house is primarily built of timber suitable to its bushfire prone setting, with the exterior designed in grey in order to be eventually camouflaged amongst the rolling sand dunes....
London Townhouse Done In Contemporary Style
The five-storey Powerscroft Road townhouse is situated in the neighbourhood of Clapton and had previously been host to several “unloved” living spaces. A majority of the rooms were plastered in dated 1970s wallpaper and had worn, deep-pile carpet across the floor. Now you can see whitewashed walls, Douglas fir joinery and creamy furnishings appear inside...
Eclectic Apartment With Bright Colors In Berlin
Berliner Zimmer is a recently renovated apartment in the elegant neighborhood of Charlottenburg in Berlin that lavishly channels the building’s architectural heritage while reveling in contemporary finesse. Meticulously detailed and exquisitely crafted, the apartment is a treasure with intricate interventions and bespoke furnishings whose understated sophistication belies a focus on functionality and a passion for...
25 Biophilic Home Decor Ideas That Inspire
The word ‘biophilia’ means ‘love to nature’ and it appeared for the first time in 1984. It’s logical that very trendy today biophilic design is incorporating nature with decor. It includes natural light, vegetation, natural materials, natural colors, natural shapes and animals. This idea to fuse design with natural elements is considered to have a...
25 Easy Ways To Expand Your Living Room
Your living room is often the heart of your home where you gather with your family and friends, spend long and cozy evenings and much, much more. While making the space physically larger would involve expensive remodeling, there are many ways to make the room look bigger that are simple to execute and budget friendly....
Small Brazil Apartment With No Inner Walls
When asked to redesign the entire interior of a 45 square meter apartment in Brazil, studio Renato Mendonça Arquitetura made sure to turn this space into a dream home for its owner. The main goal was to create a design that reflects the apartment owner’s personality, so it had to be a bachelor pad with...