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...
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Japanese Home With A Live-In Foundation
This house is called M and was created by Takeru Shoji Architects in the Japanese city of Uonuma. It features small rooms suspended above a double-height living space, which sits in a “live-in foundation”. The home eschews the conventions for building in Uonuma, which has a climate characterized by hot, humid summers and cold winters...
La Dacha Mountain Refuge With Cool Views
La Dacha Mountain Refuge is located in Las Trancas, a ski town within Nevados de Chillan. The house was created by Chilean studio DRAA, it’s a V-shaped cabin with exterior walls wrapped in charred wood and large windows that provide expansive views of the rugged terrain. Perched on a gently sloping site, the multi-storey cabin...
What Is A Modern Rustic Home And 25 Examples
Modern Rustic decor style is embracing rustic charm and warmth with modern amenities. The key to a modern rustic space is an open floor plan, modern furniture, and preserved and exposed natural architectural elements. The color scheme is very simple with large windows bringing the outdoors in. This style is ideal for comfortable modern living,...
Vintage Rural Cottage With Modern Furniture
How to integrate modern decor into a vintage rural cottage? Fashion designer Sun Min and architect Christian Taeubert showed how to do that renovating a neglected cottage and its courtyard in rural China. The dwelling is 76 square meter and was built in the 1970s but had collapsed perimeter walls and overgrown grounds. It retains...
Y-Shaped Summer Cabin In Norway’s Kvitfjell Ski Resort
Pine louvres cover the glazed sides of this cabin by Oslo studio Lund Hagem Arkitekter, which forks at one end to present two large windows towards slopes in Norway’s Kvitfjell ski resort. Lund Hagem Arkitekter set the cabin on one of the highest buildable plots in the resort, giving it clear views towards the southeast,...
Summer House With Scandinavian Design And Belorussian Touches
Minsk-based Zrobym Architects completed the design of a summer house in the village of Raubichi, Belarus. The 731 square-foot wooden cabin was envisioned as a cozy retreat for the client’s mother, and if you like modern design with lots of natural touches, you’ll be excited by this home! Trying to execute all the wishes of...
9 Modern Grills To Spoil Yourself With Tasty Food
Grilled food is always the best, and it’s high time to cook some outdoors, invite your family and friends and have fun together. But tasty grilled food can’t appear without a proper grill in your backyard or garden, and if you don’t have one, rush to buy it! We’ve already shared some portable grills that...
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...
Rustic-Industrial Residence In A Garage Extension
This is St. John’s Ambulance, a charming residence in Conduit Hill, in Rye, England. The original structure present on the site was built in the 1970s and an extension was recently added by Martha Nowicka & Co. The extension was rebuilt and designed to match the original structure. It has a pitched roof and is...