Architects Robert Arlt and Charles MacBride and a group of students in South Dakota have completed an experimental gabled Passivhaus, which they claim is the first in the area to sell energy back to the grid. As there is currently no statewide energy code that residential buildings must meet in South Dakota, the project is...
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Contemporary Lawless Retreat In A Natural Reserve
How does your perfect weekend home look? As for me, this Lawless Retreat in Michigan is perfect – it’s a beautiful contemporary home right in the forest. The house with a high level of transparency and craftmanship is built by architecture studio Searl Lamaster Howe right in a nature preserve. The clients also desired a...
Modern Rural Home With Plenty Of Color
Australian architecture firm Archiblox, has designed and built a small, off-the-grid holiday home in Fish Creek, Victoria. To fit the client’s brief, it was essential that the design enabled its inhabitants to recharge and reconnect with nature. The architects did this by creating a modern shed-like structure with a partially covered porch, that features Woodland...
46 Beautiful Thanksgiving Pumpkin Decorations For Your Home
There is no Thanksgiving without pumpkins as they are a real symbol of this cozy family holiday. Get a pile of pumpkins and decorate your table, mantel, porch and everything you want. You can decorate pumpkins with paints, stencils, letters and various patterns. Mix them with other veggies to get a traditional edible centerpiece; put...
Alpine Noir Chalet Influenced By Amsterdarm Homes
This is a small, modern-style cabin that requires minimal maintenance, that was a request from the owners, a family with two young children. The project was fulfilled by Keystone Architecture, which designed the building, and Casework, which oversaw the interiors. A source of inspiration for the design was the city of Amsterdam, where the family...
Gallery House With Historical Heritage Preserved
Barcelona-based architect Carles Enrich has completed Gallery House, a residential renovation of an early 20th century apartment. He has reformulated the historical property into a modern dwelling well-adapted to the Mediterranean climate. The home acts as a gallery that connects the street with the inner courtyards. A former storage room was repurposed into a music...
Game On Home With A Sense Of Victorian Elegance
This white, slender home by US studio Rowland + Broughton is called Game On, it is located in a Colorado mountain town. The historic home was picked up and placed on a new foundation, the studio conceived a home with white, fibre-cement siding, a traditional front porch and a gabled roof – all meant to...
Cost-Effective Prefab Summer Home In The Pyrenees
Architects and designers are increasingly considering how prefabrication techniques can be used to build speedy and cost-effective yet aesthetically pleasing housing. That’s why they keep creating more and more such dwellings, and today we are sharing one of them. Spanish architect Marc Mogas created this prefabricated cottage in Spain’s Pyrenees mountains as a cost-effective summer...
38 Outdoor Christmas Trees That Wow
We can’t imagine a Christmas without a tree, and we’ve spoken a lot about Christmas trees and their décor but never about outdoor ones. Outdoor Christmas trees can make a statement on your porch or become a focal point of your garden, and there are many ideas to decorate them, not speaking about different types...
Bold And Fun Westhampton Beach Playhouse
The New York based design team of Chango & Co. blew our minds with this spectacular beach house. This is an escape from the city and the restraints of apartment living; from the front porch, this home looks like any other house in the quiet family neighborhood that surrounds it. When the door you enter...