Architect Louis Beliveau of La Firme studio has overhauled a decrepit barn in Quebec by turning its hollow core into a holiday home for two city dwellers. The architects disassembled an old shed and moving it to a new location on a farmhouse property. Because the foundations had to be reworked, every salvageable piece of...
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Contemporary Holiday Retreat For Social Interaction
FGMF Arquitetos recently completed Casa Jordão for a family in Monte-Mor, São Paulo that longed for a holiday retreat. The single-story structure is located on a stud farm that dictates building codes for the area. One of the main rules required that they use clay for the roof, a common sight in Brazilian architecture. With...
Contemporary Home On Stilts To Enjoy The Views
Called Kawakawa House, this home was built in Piha, New Zealand, by studio Herbst Architects. The house is raised on a concrete plinth and steel stilts to give views through the dense woodland (pōhutukawa trees) to the beach. The site is extremely sun-challenged, and the concept for the design developed out of the need to...
Japanese And Danish Mid-Century Modern Home
Created as a weekend getaway for a family that lives in New York City, the 3,000-square-foot house is set between woods and a meadow, and complete with a patio and pool. It was created by New York interior designer Magdalena Keck to create a “harmony” between Japanese minimalism, mid-century design and American crafts. The studio...
Mountain Home Clad With Wood Sunshade
Z House is a holiday home situated on a steep slope that presented many challenges for geza studio during the design process. Located in Tarvisio, Udine, Italy, the mountain house design required two volumes that are sectioned out with different heights that flow down with the slope. The house is modest in size as not...
Multi-Generation Container Home Built From Scratch
Ever since shipping container homes became a thing architects, designers and even private home owners have made incredible progress in making this sort of projects more accessible, customizable and simpler overall. There’s this one shipping container house that stands out. It’s a home built by a Colorado firefighter for himself and his family, who collaborated...
25 Stylish Dutch Doors With Pros And Cons
A Dutch door is a door, which is divided into two parts horizontally, so the bottom half can remain closed while the top half is open. When the connecting hardware is locked, the two halves act as one, posing as a solid door. Such doors were common in the Netherlands in the 17th century. They...
25 Easy Ways To Personalize A New Home
A new home or a rental isn’t only joy but also a lot of problems and cares. How to place old furniture in a new home? What to change at once and what to renovate a bit later? How to create a cozy ambience in every room of the house? All those changes may take...
Pastel Vintage Home With A Scandinavian Aesthetic
We are used to see monochrome Scandinavian homes with minimal detailing but this home is none of that kind. This house belongs to Stockholm home designer Amelia Widell, and it’s decorated skillfully in subtle pastel hues with a soft, Scandinavian aesthetic. The living room is done neutral to become a perfect backdrop for colorful furniture...
How To Rock A Vintage Cupboard In Your Interior: 25 Ideas
If you love vintage, shabby chic and just Provence or Spanish style, you’ll agree that a vintage cupboard is one of the most important functional and decorative elements of the dining room in such styles. This item can emphasize the beauty of dishes and plates, of various small stuff and even separate the dining zone...









