Architect Yoshichika Takagi has renovated a four-decade-old residence in Sapporo, Japan with a curved wall that helps bring light into the heart of the home. The project was completed for a couple who required more space than the previously existing structure could offer. With the project, the architect sought to provide more living areas for...
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Modern Custom-Built Farmhouse On Signal Mountain
If you love the style of the new modern farmhouses being built today, then Tennessee is the place you want to be as there are lots of such gorgeous homes there. This farmhouse sits on Signal Mountain with over 12 private acres. Take a look! This is a luxurious farmhouse style home situated on over...
Industrial House With Stripped-Back Aesthetic
Brazilian architect Rodrigo Simão has designed a house with a large scooped roof and circular swimming pool near Rio de Janeiro for himself and his family. A huge curved metal structure forms the roof and is covered in hardwood floorboards on its underside, an asphalt blanket and then shingles on top. Glass walls reach to...
Contemporary Double-Height Extension With Much Light
Originally built in 1876, this dark home got an extension with an open layout. Architecture practice Timmins + Whyte has added a double-height gabled extension to it illuminating its formerly light-starved living spaces. The owners wanted to live, cook, gather, lounge, read and socialize in one sunny, externally connected space. The studio created a contemporary...
Best Furniture And Decor Ideas of February 2020
In February 2020, we’ve shown you a lot of cool stuff. Here are the most interesting furniture and decor ideas among them. Dark interior doors are one of the hottest home décor trends this year and we’d like to share some ideas and inspiration to use them. 25 Dark Interior Doors For Instant Drama Californian...
1892 Historic Cottage Renovated Keeping Its Charm
This historic little house in Leiper’s Fork was decorated by Holly Williams and is called Sweeney Cottage. The style of the dwelling embodies a modern-day chic simplicity. Built in 1892 for the Carl Sweeney family, these walls and rooms are brimming with stories. Happiness and tragedy, laughter and tears; generations who loved and lost there....
Contemporary Geometric Sooke 01 House In The Forest
When it came time to design the Sooke 01 House, Campos Studio set up camp on the site as a way to gather inspiration from the land and surrounding forest. Instead of building the house on the edge of the forest as most would have done, they found a spot at the highest point of...
Ö Self-Sustaining Cabin In The Finnish Archipelago
Two years ago, spatial designer Aleksi Hautamäki and graphic designer Milla Selkimäki purchased their own 5-acre island on the edge of Finland’s Archipelago National Park with the idea of building a self-sustaining summer cabin complete with a sauna and workshop. The result is Project Ö, ‘Ö’ being Swedish for ‘an island,’ a two-cabin compound that...
Historical And Cozy Cedar Winds Farmhouse
Cedar Winds Farmhouse is an American Foursquare-style home built in 1898 in Columbia, Tennessee. It was constructed by hand by the Cooper family on land once owned by President James K. Polk’s grandfather. The trees that were cleared for the home were used to build the farmhouse, which includes handmade tongue and groove bead-board and...
Japanese Home With A Live-In Foundation
This house is called M and was created by Takeru Shoji Architects in the Japanese city of Uonuma. It features small rooms suspended above a double-height living space, which sits in a “live-in foundation”. The home eschews the conventions for building in Uonuma, which has a climate characterized by hot, humid summers and cold winters...