Backwater by London-based Platform 5 Architects sits on a small promontory in a secluded lagoon in the Norfolk Broads and offers a contemporary counterpoint to more traditionally designed neighboring houses, while respecting the peaceful natural setting. The house consists of several volumes with gable roofs, they are all connected in one and remind more of...
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38 Edgy Cable Railing Ideas For Indoors And Outdoors
Cable railings or wire rope railings are safety rails that use horizontal or vertical cables in place of spindles, glass, mesh etc. for infill. Cable railings are often desired in place of traditional pickets to achieve nearly unobstructed views as the cable is much thinner than traditional pickets. It is also a more modern aesthetic...
30 Cool Ideas To Use Big Mirrors In Your Bathroom
Big mirrors in bathrooms have become a cool decorating trend, mainly for two reasons: first, such a mirror makes a cool décor statement turning even the simplest bathroom into a very eye-catching one and giving it a hotel feel. Second, such a mirror will visually expand the space, which is great even for a big...
Decorating With Retro Wallpaper: 32 Eye-Catchy Ideas
Retro will never go out of style: whether we are speaking of fashion or home décor, it’s always actual and its flavor and unique ambience attracts many people. How to bring this retro feeling to your interior? With furniture, accessories, materials, prints, of course, and retro wallpaper is among those popular ideas that can easily...
30 Spacious And Airy Open Plan Kitchen Ideas
Open layouts are super popular today because they let to use all the potential of the space, make advantage of every inch of even a small apartment, besides, it will feel airier and more spacious. Open kitchens united with dining or living spaces have become a norm already, even if the rest of the home...
28 Brilliant Ideas To Divide Open Layout Into Zones
Open layouts are a very popular feature in modern interiors, both in small apartment and in large houses because they visually enlarge the space and bring a feeling of freedom. However, such a floor plan may look badly disorganized. Small apartment may look cluttered and in big spaces you may get inappropriate emptiness, so how...
Hideaway Pill Wall Mounted Desk
In the conditions of frequent lack of space today we are looking for more and more space-saving solutions, and hideaway desks are among them. A hideaway desk allows you to organize everything you need for your small home office and still have enough space for all the rest. Here’s one of such items, the Pill...
London Flat With A Cast Concrete Bathtub In The Center
The London-based architecture studio the Klassnik Corporation was asked to create the loft-like home on the sixth floor of a former printing works in Clerkenwell, known as the Ziggurat Building. The team used an assortment of architectural features to add personality into the home. Surfaces, transparency, varied opacities, reflection, liquids and motion combine in the...
1920s Vertical Loft With Modern And Airy Interiors
Westway Architects, in collaboration with Stefano Pavia, turned a railway workers housing building into a vertical loft in Milan. The exterior, which has been maintained, looks to be built sometime between 1920 and 1924, while the interior has dramatically changed. Inside, the building was gutted and had to be rebuilt, from the foundation, roof, attic,...
Historic Three Cusps Chalet In Portugal
Located in Braga, Portugal, a historic building ‘The Three Cusps Chalet’ has been renovated to serve as an annex for a small neighboring palace. The distinctive building analyzes its context and combines typical 19th century Portuguese architecture and urban design with an unexpected Alpine influence. The project was overhauled by Tiago do Vale Architects and...