Given carte blanche by the owner, French interior and furniture designer Emmanuelle Simon approached the renovation of the 85-square-metre Haussmannian apartment in St. Germain as if composing a painting. Rather than using color though, she relied instead on a tactile vocabulary of natural textures and a visual language of abstract forms, manifested by an eclectic...
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Auckland’s Split House With Modern Interiors
Pac Studio recently completed a villa renovation in Auckland, New Zealand which added a new extension that steps down three levels in order to connect the living spaces with the outdoors. Now the villa is called Split House. High level windows and a faceted wooden screen round out the design’s custom look. While the extension...
Refined Long Island Home With Second Hand Finds
New York designer Athena Calderone has renovated her mid-century home in the Long Island town of Amagansett with plaster walls, linen fabric, marble and second-hand finds. The low-slung house is single storey and contains four bedrooms and three bathrooms. Wood floors, clerestory windows and ceilings covered in rope round out the interiors. The residence is...
London Townhouse Done In Contemporary Style
The five-storey Powerscroft Road townhouse is situated in the neighbourhood of Clapton and had previously been host to several “unloved” living spaces. A majority of the rooms were plastered in dated 1970s wallpaper and had worn, deep-pile carpet across the floor. Now you can see whitewashed walls, Douglas fir joinery and creamy furnishings appear inside...
Modern Attic Apartment With Built-In Furniture
MH.AP Studio designed an attic in Barcelona with clever built-in furniture and storage throughout making the most of the 70 square meters of space. The original flat was dark and compartmentalized with small rooms that missed out on natural light. To make the space work, they reconfigured the layout to include a hallway that does...
Modern Yet Cozy And Warm Euclid Residence
The Euclid Residence renovation was designed to modernize the early 20th-century property while keeping elements that allude to its history, and also provide ample space for entertaining guests. Canadian firm Ancerl Studio has teamed stark white-painted brickwork walls, weathered wooden beams and black steel windows. The client’s brief was to create a bright and fresh...
Contemporary House Addition With A Screened Facade
In the lush Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe, Julie Firkin Architects created a modern addition outfitted with a patterned facade screen. The Elphin House gained extra square footage in the back to house the new kitchen, dining room, and living room, all of which extend out to the garden when the almost 23-foot-wide doors are open....
25 Loveseats Perfect For Indoors And Outdoors
Loveseats first appeared in 1600s and were basically larger chairs, which noblewomen used to sit on to arrange their puffy dresses. Around that time they also became popular with couples which enjoyed the privacy these seats offered, so the pieces got their name – ‘loveseats’. A loveseat today is an alternative to a sofa, a...
59 Stylish And Dramatic Masculine Home Offices
If you are a guy and used to work at home, here are some cool ideas how to design a home office for you. You may choose any style you prefer and realize it in your home office, for example – classical, strict, minimalist, casual or any other. Usual masculine features are dark colors, squared...
Elegant Modern Extension For A Historical Home
Portland architecture firm Beebe Skidmore has inserted a cubic volume with large windows into the middle of a 20th-century home in the city to add more space and bring natural light inside. The original residence is a sprawling Craftsman-style house that dates back to 1907 and features decorative woodwork, trim, cross-gabled bays, shingle siding, a brick...