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- Modern Californian House Facing An Uninterrupted Landscape
- 11 Clever Ways to Maximize Space in Every Room of your Home
- Concrete Croatian Residence Adorning a Steep Slope
- Casual Apartment Design Caressed By Natural Light
- Best Earning United States Architectural Firms In 2012
| Modern Californian House Facing An Uninterrupted Landscape Posted: 27 Jun 2012 06:40 AM PDT
Designed to face an uninterrupted landscape exposed through large glass doors and windows, the Lima Residence in Calabasas, California, focuses on providing its inhabitants with spacious social and private spaces to enjoy alongside family and fiends. Rectangle-shaped, the structure of this 4,500 square foot modern house was designed by California-based studio Abramson Teiger Architects as two units separated by a courtyard – the main house and garage on one side, and the guest house on the other. Rising two stories in the air, the Lima Residence provokes the eye with 14 foot high ceilings displayed in the main social space. Here, the living and dining spaces were separated from the family room with the help of a free-standing cabinet. This space opens to the kitchen which runs perpendicular to the main space. A steel staircase in the back of the kitchen rests on a platform and provides access to the upper bedroom suites. An office space and a storeroom were also accommodated in the floor plan, and the outdoor patio was designed to offer plenty of relaxation zones. We featured another project completed by the architects, maybe you remember the Glamorous Villa on the hills of Los Angeles or have already drawn inspiration from its magnificent interiors. This residence too is an inspiring cluster of open spaces that can guide your thoughts towards a bright home adapted to its surroundings.
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| 11 Clever Ways to Maximize Space in Every Room of your Home Posted: 27 Jun 2012 04:36 AM PDT
In every home there is the need for more space. Regardless of how small your apartment or how large your mountain estate villa is, we all seek the need for maximizing space to make our homes feel spacious and welcoming. There are 11 rooms of your home that you spend the most time in and 11 clever ways to maximize space in every one of them. If you've been pondering how to fit more into your cramped bathroom cabinets or you can't figure out how your bedroom could possibly share a desk to create a home office too, here are 11 tips to help. 1.) Opening up your entryway: The first area of your home that welcomes guests and sees your family off safely to school everyday should be functional and have area to maneuver quickly and efficiently. Maximize space by placing a bench or sitting area to remove shoes and place kids' backpacks when rushing off to school. Don't have space for a bench? Ensure you have wall mounted hooks, open shelving to place knick knacks and place a large mirror on the wall to reflect the rest of your home. 2.) Make your kitchen easy to cook in: The kitchen is the busiest room of your entire home. For it must be functional, welcoming, and be enjoyable to cook meals, make snacks, and prep for entertaining guests. Maximize space with vertical storage shelving in your pantry, use drawer organizers for dry goods and food storage containers. Purge old food, half- eaten dry goods and install overhead pot and pan storage to free up space below you counters.
3.) Bathroom essentials: The room you wake up first to in the morning and see late at night often has the worst storage. Your bathroom can be maximized by assessing who uses the bathroom and for what. Shared bathrooms with kids can utilize open shelving and baskets under the sink and behind the door can house small electrical beauty appliances when not in use. A shoe organizer can turn into a life-saving space saver that holds makeup, combs & brushes, jewelry and even accessories such as scarves and belts. 4.) Public rooms need space! Have you ever realized your living room and family room get the messiest without even trying? These rooms get the most traffic from friends dropping over, family watching television and you sprawling out on the sofa to watch the game! Maximize space with multifunctional furniture such as ottomans that hold video game accessories and coffee tables that have drawers and open shelving below. You will love having hidden space when your busiest rooms are packed with people.
5.) Kids' rooms aren't just for sleeping: Whether your child is a newborn or a teenager their rooms should be a reflection of their dreams but still be utilized for studying, playing and daydreaming! Create zones for playing, sleeping and quiet time or studying. Maximize space by hanging artwork and assignments on bulletin boards, art wire or other organization accessories to keep desks and surrounding spaces free of clutter. 6.) Make the most of your bedroom: Every bedroom in your home should be a refuge from the world and a place where you renew in the evening and wake up rejuvenated in the morning. Maximize space in your bedroom by ensuring your closets are used properly. Store out of season clothing in underbed storage containers and invest in closet organizers that separate type of clothes, accessories, shoes, and more. Every closet can use functional organizing.
7.) Productivity in your home office: Many family homes are using their home office for computer use, doing homework/bills, crafts and more. Maximize your home office area with effective storage for all. Visit office supply stores and seek out coordinated office supplies, desk organizers and file drawer accessories for kids, teenagers and adults in your favorite colors and patterns. You will love how much more space your home office has when it looks good too! 8.) Love your laundry room: While it may be the least loved room of the house, maximizing storage in your laundry room can mean the difference in you getting your clothes done and not! One of the best ways to maximize space is with counter space for folding, shelves or cabinetry at arm's length for detergents and a hanging area for laundered clothes to dry, get ironed, etc… 9.) Small interiors don't have to be a challenge: Studio apartments, college dormitory rooms and small homes don't have to be a storage nightmare. In fact, living in a smaller home ensures you only keep what you absolutely need! Maximize storage by taking advantage of hanging bicycles from the ceiling, installing bookshelves over doorways, and installing built-in shelving in bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens.
10.) Don't hide junk in the garage: While many think the garage is for storing items you don't want to see ever again, think again! Your garage space can be maximized by purging outdated furniture, broken appliances and more. To maximize the space you do have, install overhead ceiling racks for luggage, recreation equipment, and seasonal decorations and lawn equipment so you CAN fit your cars in the garage. 11.) Your outdoor home should reflect the interiors: Space saving outside isn't as big of an issue but ensuring your landscaping isn't overgrown and unkept can give the illusion of a cramped and unwelcoming home on the inside. Speak the same welcoming 'language' in your outdoor home by keeping your curb appeal looking great. Keep your lawn cut, flowerbeds tidy and weed free and ensure your front entry is welcoming with a colorfully painted front door!
These 11 areas of your home can get the maximum storage out of them without you having to renovate your entire home. Whether your family is getting larger or you just have more stuff, maximizing space is essential in every home! Do you need 100 more ways to maximize space? Take a look at 111 Simple Tips for your Everyday Home. A guide to help you beautifully decorate, organize and maximize space in every room of your home. You're reading 11 Clever Ways to Maximize Space in Every Room of your Home originally posted on Freshome. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Freshome on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ |
| Concrete Croatian Residence Adorning a Steep Slope Posted: 27 Jun 2012 02:58 AM PDT
Occupying 400 square meters of the 1,000 square meter property, this flat roof house follows the steeping slope of the terrain. Located in in Zagreb, Croatia, and named Our House, this modern residential construction showcases flexible interiors separated by sliding doors. Local family run architecture studio DAR612 imagined this concrete residence pierced by windows as a dynamic collection of spaces that can be closed or opened depending on the owner’s needs: “The site’s slope is utilized for optimal design of residential units: on each level of the house there is a flat oriented on three sides, with an access to a terrace or a balcony. The office space is located and designed in order to function independently from the residential part of the house. On the north side, the attic is pushed back in respect to the ground floor, which, along with the lowering of the house in relation to the street level, makes the house visually lower and unobtrusive to its surroundings. The three residential units have their living areas south and west oriented, which enables good quality views unobstructed by nearby buildings. The interiors of the units are made flexible with the use of sliding doors: when doors are fully opened and retracted within closets, individual rooms are connected into one integral area; when closed, the sliding doors divide the flat into separate spaces.”
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| Casual Apartment Design Caressed By Natural Light Posted: 27 Jun 2012 12:22 AM PDT
Basing the residential concept on the need for natural light, interior designer Mireia Pla of Studio Vuong imagined a crib where styles collide in a seemingly effortless way. By combining windows, large sliding doors and three large skylights that flood the kitchen with light, the designer conceptualized an almost open space that holds the courtyard responsible for its charming flow of energy. Featuring a neo-hippie corner and a Balinese-inspired chill out spot, this informal residence features a “buried” relaxation corner with low ceilings, followed in the floor plan by high ceilings and culminating with the lack of ceilings in the colorful courtyard. Beech floors lay the ground for an unsophisticated, casual furniture layout, captured in-between white walls. The bedroom merges nuances of purple softened by the same pure white that offers the whole space a dreamy composition. Spot your favorite decorative element and share it with us – mine is the fantastic lamp in the bedroom – love the color, texture and shape!
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| Best Earning United States Architectural Firms In 2012 Posted: 26 Jun 2012 09:42 AM PDT
Interested to know which architectural studios made it on this year’s Top 250 U.S. Architectural Firms from Architectural Record? Well, the big winner is Gensler – a global architecture company working on more than 3,000 projects every year. This year, they reached $764 million in revenue, making them number 1. Published in the annual list of the "Top 250 Architecture Firms" in the United States, companies rank based on architectural revenue from the prior year. Replacing AECOM, who had a record at $445 million last year, the winner’s impressive 632-meter Shanghai tower is one of the projects that proves the firm is capable of an extensive creative and architectural outlook. All the firms gathered together earned $10.4 billion in revenue in 2011, surpassing last year’s number by $1 billion. The firms are classified by:
This is the list for the top 10 U.S. Architectural Firms, for the complete list visit Architectural Record.
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