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Tag: interior design
June 29, 2022
A High Ceiling Covers The Living Room And Kitchen Inside This New House
Architecture and interior design firm Hacker has completed a new modern home with noticeably high ceilings near Bend, Oregon. An exterior of cedar, steel, and glass gives the house a bold presence in the shrubby landscape that surrounds it. A path leads between the different volumes of the house to guide visitors to the front […]
June 22, 2022
Black Stained Wood Siding Covers The Exterior Of This New Home In Maine
Caleb Johnson Studio has sent us photos of their recently completed project, a new home in Portland, Maine, for a couple in the design industry. The house, surrounded by trees and grass, has a bold exterior clad with black stained wood siding and a standing seam metal roof. At the rear of the home, there’s […]
June 17, 2022
This Dramatically Elevated Cabin Sits Among The Treetops
Kariuok Architects have designed a modern cabin in Quebec, Canada, that’s elevated to be located within the treetops. Local zoning rules required a 100-foot (30-metre) setback from the lake, while a cliff face at the 100-foot mark was incorporated into the design, removing the need to blast the rock. To minimize harm to the hillside […]
June 14, 2022
A Creative Idea For Painting Walls And Floors Gave This Office A Unique Personality
Architecture and interior design firm mode:lina completed a new office design in Poland. One very noticeable design element that’s been featured throughout the interior, is the use of bold and bright colors. The new office design, which travels over three floors, was treated as a three-dimensional canvas for abstract paintings and includes colors like turquoise, […]
June 5, 2022
This Small Apartment With A Loft Bedroom Has Clever Design Solutions
Karolina Howorko of Studio HOKA designed this small apartment with a loft bedroom. With little floor area to work with, most of the ideas are about hiding things away and making one element do two jobs. A kitchen built into the stairs The front door opens straight into the kitchen, which has plain white cabinets […]
May 27, 2022
This Restaurant Interior Design Was Inspired By A Beach Sunset
May 27, 2022 Clap Studio has sent us their latest project, a restaurant in Valencia, Spain, that’s designed to recreate a sunset on the beach. Named ‘Baovan’, the restaurant is broken up into three different areas. The light green facade represents “the forest”, with a porch full of ropes that fall from the ceiling to […]
May 25, 2022
This Home Extension Covered In Vertical Wood Slats Includes A Picture Window Overlooking The Garden
Christian Brailey Architects has designed this renovation and addition for a house in England, that transformed a studio flat into a home for an architect and landscape designer duo, Christian Brailey and Faye Johnson. The extension, which is clad in Canadian Douglas Fir slats, forms a new L-shaped space that maximizes the light for the […]
May 21, 2022
This Café Was Designed Like A Wood Box That Opens To Allow The Coffee Shop To Interact With The Street
May 21, 2022 Golucci Interior Architects has completed a small café in Shanghai, China, that’s been designed to interact with the street. Working with a limited space of 322 square feet (30m2), the designers created a wood box as a facade that can be opened and closed. The cafe is often open to the street, […]
May 18, 2022
The Wavy Roof On This House Also Has An Exposed Wood Structure On The Interior
Photography by Bicubik Photography Leppanen Anker Arquitectura has completed a new house in Los Chillos, Ecuador, that takes inspiration from the surrounding environment. The architects decided to bring back the use of wood, stone, and clay but with a contemporary mindset, resulting in a home that would feel light and airy. This strategy resulted conceptually […]
May 15, 2022
Cacti Were Used To Create Privacy For This Home In Los Angeles
Architects Annie Barrett of aalso architects and Hye-Young Chung of HYCArch have completely transformed an existing Spanish-style house in Los Angeles for a couple anticipating semi-retirement. Working together with Landscape Architect David Hocker of Hocker Design, the front garden has been created with a dense screen of San Pedro cacti, replacing the need for a […]
May 10, 2022
The Post And Beam Wood Structure Is On Display Throughout This Home
Karlikova Architects has sent us a new project, a modern house in Kyiv, Ukraine, that has the post and beam structure exposed throughout the home. Inspired by the form of a Bavarian chalet, the house was designed to host events, such as parties for large groups of people and biker club meet-ups (50+ people). The […]
May 2, 2022
This Home Extension Allowed For A Wrap-Around Window Bench And New Kitchen
Loader Monteith Architects has completed the reconfiguration and rear extension of a 1980’s cottage in a Conservation Village in Scotland. The ground floor plan of the existing cottage was composed of small, dark rooms which closed the house off from the expansive rear garden. The clients requested that the architects upgrade the home and bring […]