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- 20 Cheerful Nurseries To Inspire Your Baby’s Room
- Cleverly Linking Two Homes in One Single Structure: The Avenue Residence
- Sculptural Geometric Architecture Playing With Light
- The Trend for Using Concrete in Interior Design
- How to Warm your Holiday Home with Festive Lighting
- Modern Home Showcasing Imposing Architecture Details in Israel: Bauhaus Residence
- Painful Decorating: Crashed Ferrari Coffee Table by Molinelli Designs
- Transforming a 60s Bungalow Into a Two Story Modern Home
| 20 Cheerful Nurseries To Inspire Your Baby’s Room Posted: 22 Nov 2011 06:07 AM PST
Our list of 20 Cheerful Nurseries To Inspire Your Baby’s Room will help you consider a change in attitude and finally start the makeover you were dreaming about for some time now or will help you guide your searches for the perfect nursery that will comfort the most important person in your life. You need to know what you’re searching for when it comes to a nursery: a perfectly balanced color palette or a joyful mix of materials and textures? Will your crib be placed in the middle of the room or will it rest under a dreamy canopy? From details like the choice of whether buying organic baby bedding to which baby boy or baby girl nursery curtains should you choose, everything can be designed by a talented interior designer to make sure what you want is also what you need.
When the child will grow and learn to appreciate the surroundings, the memory of the first baby room will be responsible for many nice dreams. Some details can help create a stunning modern nursery where colors, patterns, textures and lines intertwine to shape the baby’s first memories about the first space he or she belonged to. Modern baby nurseries are not only fun to look at and spend time in, but they teach the child from early ages about the value of carefully planned, good designed spaces. Experiencing life in a carefully designed nursery could be the start of a beautiful friendship between your child and great interior design.
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| Cleverly Linking Two Homes in One Single Structure: The Avenue Residence Posted: 22 Nov 2011 04:43 AM PST
The Avenue Residence was designed by Neil Architecture and is a multi-residential building located in Melbourne, Australia. Seen on Architizer, the project responds to the challenge of linking two homes in one single structure without the ubiquitous garage taking up a large part of the facade. According to the architects, “as a rejection of this prevailing model, the project sought to sensitively provide a high quality infill development as a modest and discreet intervention to the street-scape. The key element in the development of the concept is the rammed earth wall, which serves at once as a party wall and boundary identifier, and as an anchor grounding the dwellings and holding them in the landscape. One of our primary aims was the development of a sensitive typology for urban consolidation in what is an established outer suburban fringe setting. The lack of defining boundary elements along the street preserves the original landscape features and serves to unify the street-scape appearance and reinforce the prevailing neighborhood character”. The solution found by the architects in this particular case comes with no compromise in comfort. Just have a look at the photos and convince yourself.
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| Sculptural Geometric Architecture Playing With Light Posted: 22 Nov 2011 03:37 AM PST
Sculptural and fascinating, the Ramat Gan House 2 sits at the confluence of transparency, geometric architecture and the flow of natural light. Designed by Tel-Aviv-based architect Pitsou Kedem, the residence displays a facade made of stripes of transparency and opacity that do a rhythmic dance of light and shadow. The closed white box has very few ornaments, relying on voids and architectural details to construct a sense of playfulness in a minimalist space. Light breaks the simple interiors in a multitude of prism-like moving shadows that use sunlight to transform the house during the day. There was no need to burden the interiors with unnecessary objects – the architects simplified the design but offered inhabitants an ever-changing design. The quiet interiors become alive and dynamic whenever sunlight passes through the slits and mellows down in cloudy weather. Perfectly adapted to changing light, the Ramat Gan House 2 will strike at least a cord in your heart.
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| The Trend for Using Concrete in Interior Design Posted: 22 Nov 2011 02:37 AM PST
The industrial look in interior design has been around for a while now and whilst we aren't all lucky enough to live in an old converted warehouse that is brimming with authentic industrial elements, there are ways to give our homes a distinctly urban feel. One of the easiest ways to achieve an industrial look at home is to use industrial materials. Concrete is an obvious choice and in recent months we have witnessed a huge rise in the use of concrete in interior design. Many designers are now using concrete in unexpected and unusual ways and it would seem that there is nothing that can't be made using this versatile material.
Lighting made from concrete has really made its mark this year as numerous designers have taken advantage of the hard-wearing, utilitarian properties of the material to create minimalist lighting designs.
Italian lighting manufacturer Foscarini jumped on the bandwagon with the Aplomb suspension light designed by Paolo Lucidi and Luca Pevere.
Heavy is a collection of thin-walled, cast concrete lights by Benjamin Hubert available as a pendant, desk or wall light.
German designer Tim Mackerodt's Falt.Serie features a suspension lamp that has been produced using fibre-reinforced concrete that has been rolled out and manually folded on flexible moulds.
An unlikely product to make from concrete is seating due to the hardness and density of the material, which makes it pretty unforgiving where comfort is concerned. This has not deterred designers though who have forged ahead, creating some interesting unusual furniture.
Stitching Concrete is a project by industrial designer Florian Schmid who uses the revolutionary concrete canvas to create a set of durable stools ideal for indoor and outdoor use.
Dutch designer Dik Scheepers used papercrete – an experimental, low cost, versatile, light-weight material – which is more often used in the construction industry, to create a collection of furniture named UnPølished.
Other concrete furniture came in the form of Wahid, Florian Kallus' storage cubes, which have a wood veneer on the inside that slightly softens the overall impact of the concrete.
Johan Forsberg is a Swedish designer who experiments with concrete for a number of applications. From wall art, clocks, and tables, Forsberg's concrete creations have a minimalist and modern design language and are certainly made to last.
Wallcoverings have not avoided the concrete craze either. Daniel Ogassian's tile designs in concrete are a stunning reminder that this mundane material can be transformed into a tactile and decorative surface for interiors.
The dramatic Dune wall tile by Urban Product is available in concrete as well as walnut wood and gypsum and leaves you just dying to reach out and touch it.
Even those designers who do not work directly with concrete have been getting in on the act. Norwegian company Concretewall creates unique and realistic wallpapers designed to look like concrete.
The Concrete Collection is designed by photographer Tom Haga who photographs raw and refined concrete walls, raw cinder block walls and even graffiti, in locations right across Norway. The high-resolution images are then transformed into wallpaper.
Kitchens too have undergone an industrial revolution as designers have selected concrete as their material of choice. Austrian design studio Steininger Designers has created an innovative concrete kitchen made of ultra-thin 8 mm concrete, which is sturdy, light, heat-resistant and hygienic.
Bathrooms too are making use of the advantageous properties associated with concrete. Glass Idromassaggio‘s Concrete Soft bathtub is made from DuctalR concrete and bears the signature of the designer Gigi Rossi.
Whilst all these concrete products look pretty impressive and add a touch of industrial chic to interior spaces, I'm still not convinced that concrete is a material I would want to use in my home. How about you? |
| How to Warm your Holiday Home with Festive Lighting Posted: 22 Nov 2011 01:34 AM PST Every year the desire to decorate your home for the holidays evokes a sense of togetherness and tradition. While the beautiful colors and ambiance of the season are inspiring, nothing comes to life without the addition of inspiring lighting. From your Christmas tree to your exterior home, holiday lighting is the reason your home sparkles at the holiday. Try these lighting ideas around your home this season to make it a memorable holiday for you and your holiday guests.
Whether you're celebrating the holidays in a one-room apartment, or a sprawling estate, holiday lighting can make any place feel like home. Festive lighting can create a wintery scene in your hot desert home, or it can warm up your blustery freezing loft. Regardless of the temperature outside, lighting has the ability to tempt your senses with memories of holidays gone by, and the power to start new traditions with your family. Use these holiday lighting ideas, and bring in some ideas of your own. After all, the holidays only come once a year, make it special! What creative ideas do you have for lighting this holiday season? |
| Modern Home Showcasing Imposing Architecture Details in Israel: Bauhaus Residence Posted: 22 Nov 2011 12:36 AM PST
The Bauhaus Residence is a project envisioned and implemented by the Israeli architectural design office Pitsou Kedem and located in Haifa, Israel. According to Yatzer, the total living area of this building is 450 square feet, on a lot that measures no less than 1000 square feet. Built in a historic neighborhood, the residence is in tune with several others existing structures, designed while paying tribute to the Bauhaus style. However, the project presented today combines this architectural manner with a highly modern approach. As the project team stated, ‘the sophistication and the minimalism that existed at the heyday of the Bauhaus period have been translated, in this latest reincarnation, into a property with spatial purity and prestigious restraint”. The residence impresses due to an optimum indoor/outdoor connection, a generous and welcoming pool and a minimalist, contemporary interior design. Find it appealing?
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| Painful Decorating: Crashed Ferrari Coffee Table by Molinelli Designs Posted: 21 Nov 2011 09:11 AM PST
What can you do with a crashed Ferrari? I wish none of you out there will ever be confronted with this question. Ever! Taking this idea to another level, Charly Molinelli of Molinelli Designs created a disturbing crashed Ferrari table using a totaled Ferrari and a coffee table. I went with “disturbing” because few people have the satisfaction of seeing a very expensive wrecked car. And you have to admit the idea of taking the remains and placing them inside a coffee table is not less sadistic. But for some, this may just be the next best thing to owing a Ferrari. The designer did not mention anything about the costs of this design on the official website. But we are curious: what do you think of this wacky design idea? Would you consider integrating this type of table in your home? – Found via NotCot
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| Transforming a 60s Bungalow Into a Two Story Modern Home Posted: 21 Nov 2011 08:26 AM PST
Initially built in the 60′s by architect Wilfried Hilger for his family, House S was recently redesigned by German studio CHRIST.CHRIST.Associated Architects. The existing single-level bungalow was cleverly transformed into a two-story contemporary residence. Located in Wiesbaden, Germany, the modern dwelling is a masterpiece of contemporary urban developments, creating a balanced volumetric architecture that allows further building if necessary. The roof line creates new opportunities in residential dwelling, especially since the new family of four living here needed more space, but did not have enough room on the property to build more.
Architects decided to raise the residential structure and build a second floor consisting of three boxes placed on a cantilevered flat roof and connected via a glass corridor. These words from the architects will describe the new floor plan and aditions: “The new structure creates zones with different qualities: in the south-west a meadow with a small apple tree, in the north a stone paved courtyard with a pine tree and in the east a roof terrace with a magnolia. In one of the new boxes the master bedroom, dressing room and bath room is located. The two other boxes function as personal living room and home office for the landlords. In the first floor nearly all walls and installations were removed, so that a large living room could be created. An open kitchen was placed in the midst of that living area. This floor additionally includes the children's rooms with dressing room and bathroom. In the ground floor a guest room and an additional apartment is located. By the usage of triple glazed windows and highly effective insulation an energetically optimized building could be realized.”
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