The main challenge during the renovation of this apartment was preserving the existing layout, and Xue Jin Architecture Network kept it as the owners wanted. The clients wanted the apartment to become more comfortable, more spacious as well as brighter and they wanted the kitchen and the bathroom to be relocated. They wanted the ventilation to...
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IKEA’s SPÄNST Collection For Active Young People
If you are a young person with active lifestyle, you should have a look at this new furniture collection by IKEA and Los Angeles-based designer Chris Stamp. The range is called SPÄNST meaning elasticity in Swedish, and this is for a certain reason. Integrating street culture in an fluid way, SPÄNST features the designer’s signature...
Renovated And Modernized 19th Century Home
This 19th century home in France was completely renovated by architect Sophie Lallias; she added black, dark wallpaper and some more stuff that is wroth seeing, let’s do it. The living room features a black ceiling with beams, a hearth, some chic modern furnishings and a jute rug that adds a textural touch. There are...
A-Frame House With Minimal Decor And An Airy Feel
A family bought an A-frame residence in St Adolfe d’Howard, Canada, which was originally built in the 1960s near the Laurentian Mountains, and asked Jean Verville architecte to renovate it to better fit the family needs. The home is rather small and complex to wrok with due to that A-frame but Verville agreed to take...
Pantone’s 2018 Color Ultra Violet And 25 Ways To Rock It In Decor
Every year Pantone agency announces colors of the year, one or several for various seasons. According to them, the color of the coming year is ultra violet. We are head over heels about this color, it’s bold, mood-raising and cheerful, and may add a lively feel to any space, from a luxe to a boho...
Books House With A Sandstone Rock On The Site
This house on the northern side of Sydney’s harbor is called Books House because its design is stacked volumes that remind of stacked books. The house was designed for a calligrapher and his wife, and the couple loves Eastern cultures, meditation and nature, so all these things were reflected in the design somehow. The Luigi...
Lithuanian House With A Contradictory Mix Of Styles
This Lithuanian house by Prusta doesn’t have the typical characteristics of contemporary structures. The house combines contradictory trends and contrasting design elements and they look absolutely harmonious together. Th materials used throughout the house include aged wood and natural wood with a gray tint, marble, stainless steel, glass, black metal as well as a variety...
Modern Fun Home With Colorful Touches
This home in Westlake Village, L.A. designed by Amy Elbaum of AE Designs will make you fall in love with it! It is very bright and spacious and some fun artwork and doses of bold colors via some of the accent furniture and accessories – what can be better for modern living and having parties?...
Chic Modern Residence With Bold Blue Touches
Metaforma Architects completed the design of a modern residence in Poland that displays an interesting geometry. The body of the building consists of two intersecting cubes. The living area is located in the larger one, while the garage and the gym occupy the smaller section of the house. The facades have been covered with black...
Brooklyn House Designed For Booklovers And Their Cats
When two booklovers with two cats were looking to renovate their newly purchased row house in Brooklyn’s Windsor Terrace neighborhood, they hired BFDO Architects to bring their vision to life. They desired a home that incorporated cool ways of bringing color and light into the space, while also giving each one a place to work....