In the modern world privacy seems to be unobtainable: urban housing reduces personal space. Don’t worry, there’s a way! Screen your garden or backyard with some fences or other stuff and make it private to enjoy your free time there. Privacy screening is a useful tool, not only to avoid your neighbors but also to...
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Garden Layers Collection Inspired By Indian Culture
It’s summer and it’s definitely outdoor time, so it’s high time to look for cool outdoor furniture if you haven’t chosen any. The Garden Layers collection, designed by Patricia Urquiola, was inspired by a visit to India and traditional Mughal culture and architecture. The gardens and terraces she saw jumpstarted the idea and the result...
LeGrow Modular Home Garden/Eco-System
Let’s face it: every big city inhabitant dreams of having a personal garden to grow natural herbs for cooking, some fruits or even flowers just for pleasure. Not everyone has enough outdoor space for one, and if you don’t have it either, there’s a way to go! The LeGrow is cleverly named after its inspiration, the...
Villa Jardin With Several Terraces And Gardens
The thing that people are usually missing in big cities is a touch of nature but this apartment in Mexico City is none of that kind. It features several terraces and gardens interwoven in its design so that the spaces seem to be flowing one into another. The apartment creates a dialogue between the building...
Minimalist Mushroom House With A Garden
Japanese designers and architects continue surprising us with stylish and very functional and practical solutions. Today we are featuring one of such homes, it’s located in Osaka, Japan, it’s built by architecture studio SPACESPACE. The house is built of timber (which is also widely used in the inner decor) and features a generously proportioned garden....
Yin & Yang House With A Vegetable Garden On The Roof
Here, on digsdigs, we’ve seen a lot of unique homes with a history, a character and unusual design and furniture but believe me – you’ve never seen anything like that! Penda’s Design studio has created a fantastic Yin & Yang House in the German countryside, and its special feature is a vegetable, herb, and fruit...
Contemporary Home With Wooden Screens And Garden Walls
MF+Arquitetos has completed the design of a residential oasis in São Paulo, Brazil. The Brazilian architecture firm has utilized a signature contemporary feel by focusing its efforts on establishing formal purity and an integration between interior and exterior spaces. The design for the ‘collector’s nook’ uses warm, textured wood throughout — especially in the structure’s...
Picturesque Retreat In Italy With A Lush Garden
American-born art historian and curator Peter Benson Miller has been collecting seriously since he was 13, so it’s no surprise that, many years later, he and his partner Giovanni Panebianco were beginning to find themselves squeezed out of their Rome apartment. They eventually found the perfect home in Puglia, where the hundreds of objects collected...
Sustainable House Built Around A Vertical Garden
Feeling connected to nature is what everybody wants, and houses with a strong connection to outdoors or with disappearing borders between indoors and outdoors are a hot trend. This MeMo house is one of such homes, it was built by BAM! arquitectura. It’s located in Buenos Aires, in Argentina and it only offers a total...
Relaxing Garden With Lots Of Ivy Growing Up The Walls
If you are puzzling over how your garden and backyard should look, what design to choose, I have a great one to get you inspired. This garden in South Yarra, Melbourne by Kate Seddon Landscape Design, is a gorgeous space that looks so relaxing you’d never want to leave it. The hardscaping is done with...