On the south shore of Nova Scotia adjacent to Kingsburg Beach, the Treow Brycg residence was recently completed by Omar Gandhi Architect on a plot of land surrounded by tall grasses, visiting deer, and salty sea breezes. The dark structure appears fortress-like with a slanted roof that helps protect the residence from the harsh Nova...
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Minimalist Loft Converted From An Old Church
The Pape Loft resides inside a quirky church conversion project in Toronto that’s broken up into multi-story lofts. StudioAC was brought on board by the owners of this loft to help create a more minimalist way of living through a renovation and with less furnishings overall. The loft spans 1,143-square-feet with a double-height living room...
What Is A Minimalist Style Home And 20 Examples
Minimalism is the style that has recently conquered the world and keeps inspiring people more and more. In a nutshell, it’s design that’s stripped down to its essential purpose and identity by eliminating everything unnecessary, it’s quintessence is ‘less is more’. This pared-down aesthetic exemplifies simplicity at its best and inspires a simplified way to...
Minimalist Apartment With Unexpected Neon Lights
Sometimes minimalist interiors feel too cold or too boring but the apartment we are sharing today is none of that kind. This space in Kiev by Ukraine based interior designer Lauri Brothers is a gorgeous 100-square-meters home spruced up with bright green and pink neon. The interior start minimally at the entryway with a simple...
Minimalist Light-Filled Lake Cabin In Quebec
Cabins, cabins, cabins! Mountain, forest, lake, any other ones, they got extremely popular and we and many other blogs are posting a lot of them because people today are striving for nature, for connection with this beauty and for a feeling of freedom outside. Today we are sharing one more cabin: spanning a compact 915-square-feet,...
Colonial House With Minimalist Aesthetics
Located in Çeşme, the popular summer resort of Izmir, Turkey, Cesme House is a three bedroom residence by design studio Escapefromsofa. Inspired by the glorious Aegean summer, the designers have combined a modernist sensibility of light, neutral colors and simple, clean lines with a colonial style using natural materials and indoor plants, in order to...
Minimalist Two-Level Apartment With An Industrial Feel
One of the main dilemmas that architects face when renovating old buildings is how much, if any, of the original character to preserve. This apartment in Kiev, Ukraine, was renovated for a young professional and it shows an astutely tuned balance between old and new. 2B.group’s objective was to use the original building fabric as...
Creative Minimalist House With Inner Balconies
Takeshi Hosaka Architects has built a house for a couple and their child in downtown Tokyo where windows’ balconies are reversed and extruded towards its interior. The large and small platforms create a feeling of being outside, bringing life into the 73 sqm space and splitting activities in several levels, which is a trendy and...
Monochromatic Minimalist Residence In Paris
Looking at the images of this recently refurbished Parisian apartment, you will be surprised to learn that despite their monochromatic appearance they are not in fact black and white photographs but the result of the owner’s design ethos. The owner and designer, Guillaume Alan, chose a nuanced palette of white and grey shades in order...
Minimalist Residence With Wabi-Sabi Aesthetics
Located in the verdant Beitou Hot Spring area at the foot of Taipei’s Datun Mountains in Taiwan, “Din-a-ka” is a minimalist residence designed by Wei Yi International Design Associates. Its name is translated into English as a ‘covered walkway’, which used to be a space of social exchange found in rural areas. The architects incorporated the...