If you have a view somewhere around the house and an opportunity to enjoy it, do it! Get this view for some of the rooms or at least one room and enjoy it all the time. Views are usually integrated into living rooms and bedrooms but I also love bathrooms and dining spaces with a...
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Stylish Contemporary House With Inner Courtyards
McGinlay Bell has completed a house in a leafy Glasgow suburb featuring a sequence of rooms arranged around compact courtyards that allow the natural surroundings to permeate indoors. The narrow rectilinear site sandwiched between existing houses presented several challenges, as it borders the road at the front and is lined on one side by tall...
Cabin On Stilts Deep Within A Brazilian Forest
When coronavirus broke out, Marko Brajovic took his wife, two children and dogs to live in ARCA, a house he designed in the Brazilian part of the Atlantic Forest. He built the Monkey House cabin in its grounds as a guest house for friends to stay. Brajovic decided to build the cabin up on stilts...
Contemporary Meadows Haus Clad With Blackened Wood
Blackened timber and quartzite wrap the exterior of this multi-story dwelling by US firm Klima Architecture, which was designed for a family relocating from California to a Utah ski town. The dwelling is called the Meadows Haus and is located along the eastern front of the Wasatch Mountains. The clients wanted a home that was...
Minimalist House With A Suspended Nest Inside
Japanese architects keep surprising us with their innovative approach to architecture and design stripping them down to minimal and making them ultra-practical. Japanese studio YAP architects renovates a compact apartment in Kyoto to suggest ‘a nest within a tree.’ The dwelling sees the revitalization of a fifth floor corner unit within a 40-year-old apartment building....
Best Room Design Ideas of December 2020
In December 2020, we’ve shown you a lot of cool stuff. Here are the most interesting room design ideas among them. Boho chic style seems to be everywhere so lets see how to rock it for home office decor. 45 Floppy But Refined Boho Chic Home Offices Kitchens with wooden beams look dreamy and just...
Modern Apartment Renovation In A Lively Color Palette
ESQVTA has completed yet another residential renovation of an apartment within a historic building in Lisbon, Portugal. The project is part of a larger housing complex of luxurious flats, which are available to the public for short-term rental. The apartment is part of a 19th century building with large rooms and generous ceiling heights. ESQVTA‘s...
Minimalist Yurikago House With Multiple Levels
Architecture studio Mas-aqui has transformed an apartment in Barcelona into a multi-level home lined with wood and ceramic tiles. The half levels were used to create more space on the upper storey and to start using a previously unused lower level. The project is called Yurikago House after the Japanese word for a cradle. The...
Camp O Retreat With Minimal Impact On Nature
New York architect Maria Milans del Bosch has designed a house and studio for herself in the Catskills with interventions that are mindful of the natural setting. The house is called Camp O. The home, which has a long and narrow footprint, is also nestled into a hillside to minimize the impact of construction on...
Imperfect Apartment Created Using Wabi Sabi Principles
Designed by Nelson Chow of Hong Kong-based architecture practice NCDA, “The Imperfect Residence” is a recently refurbished Hong Kong one-bedroom apartment. The title nevertheless succinctly references the designer’s guiding light, namely the ancient Japanese philosophy Wabi Sabi which is based on finding beauty in the imperfect and valuing simplicity. Translated into the language of interior...