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Living room designs

7 Cool Tips To Easily Renovate Your Living Room

7 Cool Tips To Easily Renovate Your Living Room
Sometimes you needn’t waste much time or money to transform or spruce up your interior. Here are some designers’ tips to do that quickly and easy with your living room décor. Change the textiles. Curtains, pillows and rugs can give your living room an absolutely new look. Another idea is to reupholster your sofa and... 
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Modern home designs

Casa Chontay With Two Nature-Encircled Volumes

Casa Chontay With Two Nature-Encircled Volumes
Located within a beautiful rural plot south-east of Lima, Peru, Casa Chontay by Marina Vella Arquitectos is an example of modern sustainable building. The residence blends with the landscape, mainly due to extensive use of natural materials, and exudes an optimum indoor-outdoor relationship. The two wings of the house are both encircled by vegetation, loosing... 
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Modern home designs

Hocker Farm With A Traditional Exterior And Minimalist Interior

Hocker Farm With A Traditional Exterior And Minimalist Interior
Do you like striking contrasts? If you do, then this modern take on a traditional chalet will impress you by the contrast between indoors and outdoors. Donald Architecture completed the design of Hocker Farm, a charming stone cottage. Constrained in size by the original garage footprint, the challenge was creating the extra rooms within a... 
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Prefab home designs

Eco-Friendly And Efficient Prefab Assembled In One Day

Eco-Friendly And Efficient Prefab Assembled In One Day
Only 29 hours were required to install this “off-the-shelf” Seattle prefab home that packs a plethora of energy efficient features. The project features passive design strategies to maximize natural daylighting and temperature control. The home incorporates ductless mini-split heating/cooling units—one in every room—that use inverter-driven compressors to provide exact control 100% of the time. Perhaps... 
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Wood house designs

Halbhaus: 17th Century Modest Alpine Chalet Makeover

Halbhaus: 17th Century Modest Alpine Chalet Makeover
Halbhaus is a 17th-century timber-frame Swiss chalet located in the historic Swiss mountain village of Andermatt. Halbhaus (‘half house’ in German) originally stood next to a house that was its mirror image, but was lost to a fire several decades ago. The heart of the house is a double-height kitchen and living area. Whitened wood... 
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Desks

How To Customize Kids’ Desks: 29 Creative Ideas

How To Customize Kids’ Desks: 29 Creative Ideas
The new school year has begun. Have you found out that your kid needs a new desk? Don’t hurry up to the store – you can customize the desk applying some original ideas. A desk on usual legs isn’t always comfy, so substitute the legs with props. First, they can be adjusted, second, they can... 
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Beds Chairs

Bold Flop Armchair That Folds Out Into A Bed

Bold Flop Armchair That Folds Out Into A Bed
Creative and functional furniture is a must in every modern home, the more functional it is, the better. This Flop armchair by Russian designer Elena Sidorova is right one of these – it not only has a very creative and bold look but also folds open and becomes a bed. The chair is upholstered in... 
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Tables

Unique Nim Table Inspired By Lava Strata And Stone

Unique Nim Table Inspired By Lava Strata And Stone
Beautiful nature phenomena have never been closer to you than now! Nim is a limited edition coffee table designed by London-based design studio PINCH. Looking at lava strata, stone, and weather, the duo created the table using Jesmonite, which results in a texture similar to natural stone. The man made, sculptural table appears to float... 
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Wood house designs

Bachelor’s Tahoe Ski Retreat Wit Industrial Touches

Bachelor’s Tahoe Ski Retreat Wit Industrial Touches
Diverse and welcoming, the contemporary Tahoe Ski Retreat in Truckee, California, USA captured our attention with its many appealing design highlights. A large open-plan living and dining area serves as the social core of the retreat as it belongs to a bachelor who likes to invite a lot of friends. Stacked wood adjacent to the... 
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Wood house designs

Chalet Forestier Open To The Surrounding Nature

Chalet Forestier Open To The Surrounding Nature
The client’s requirements for a secondary residence in the Eastern townships of Quebec were modest; an easy-to-maintain residence with spaces largely open to the surrounding nature. A large volume composed of three programmatic subspaces – parent/living, loggia and children – requires its residents to step outside in spite of the harsh winter climate in order... 
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