In a small beachfront community located in Llandudno, Cape Town stands proudly an amazing residential home that’s been very recently renovated by studios Bomax Architects and OKHA. The project was entitled La Belle Vue, emphasizing one of the best qualities that this retreat has: exposure to spectacular views. This was both a renovation and extension...
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Contemporary Geometric Sooke 01 House In The Forest
When it came time to design the Sooke 01 House, Campos Studio set up camp on the site as a way to gather inspiration from the land and surrounding forest. Instead of building the house on the edge of the forest as most would have done, they found a spot at the highest point of...
Ö Self-Sustaining Cabin In The Finnish Archipelago
Two years ago, spatial designer Aleksi Hautamäki and graphic designer Milla Selkimäki purchased their own 5-acre island on the edge of Finland’s Archipelago National Park with the idea of building a self-sustaining summer cabin complete with a sauna and workshop. The result is Project Ö, ‘Ö’ being Swedish for ‘an island,’ a two-cabin compound that...
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...
Black Timber Clad Contemporary House In Uruguay
This black house near La Juanita beach, Uruguay, was built of wood by FRAM Arquitectos and Delfina Riverti. The property is built on a slope near Jose Ignacio Lake, a coastal body of water that feeds into the Atlantic Ocean. Two wooden volumes with angled rooflines comprise the home’s massing. Different varieties and treatments to...
97 Cool Blue Bathroom Design Ideas
The whole world is wrapped in soothing sky and vibrant teal oceans, and blue shades are amazing for decorating spaces, they cooling, calming and soothing – I literally can’t name a better color for a bathroom. Why not to continue this theme in your own bathroom? We’ve gathered a large gallery of bathrooms in azure, turquoise,...
69 Sea-Inspired Bathroom Décor Ideas
Sea-inspired bathrooms are always pretty and enjoyable as they are usually done in water colors – dark blue, turquoise and all the other water shades. Such design reminds you of beaches, sunlight and holidays at the seaside. Just look at these turquoise tiles, a boat bathtub and pretty natural accessories – corals, starfish, sea urchins...
40 Stylish And Inspiring Garden Edging Ideas
Garden edging is an important part of your landscaping, it highlights you decor, it may add color and interest to the space and it helps to keep animals away from plants. The sculpting lines can be realized from pretty much anything, one could install them in a few hours, an effort that might beautify your...
47 Beautiful Blue And Gray Bedrooms
According to the psychological tests, the color that most of us love is blue. And what color combines best of all with blue? Gray, of course! A bedroom in the combination of these colors looks so comfortable and inviting that you’ll want to spend all your time there. Such a combination is especially cool with...
Contemporary French Seaside House With An Airy Feel
Bordeaux-based architecture studio Senecio has completed gGzouillis, a 70 sqm renovation project that comprises the interior design and extension of a 65 sqm house in the southwest ocean coast of France. Clad in perforated pinewood from the local forest, the residence includes a small, calm garden which has been conceptually extended by enabling access to...