Fab Prefab House Overlooking Panoramas of Sonoma’s Rolling Hills

Fab Prefab House Overlooking Panoramas of Sonoma’s Rolling Hills
Minimalist Furniture Duo Enhancing Modern Spaces: Oslo Chair & Valentino Bench
Light-Flooded Stylish Home Sculpted in the German Hillside

Posted: 25 Nov 2014 12:37 AM PST

Chris Pardo Design: Elemental Architecture‘s latest project is this Cloverdale prefab home design resting in Sonoma’s hilly landscape. This prefab home is model “Element 3″, with a square footage of 2,280 and a spacious, open nature. Built by Method Homes, this prefab home shelters three bedrooms and three bathrooms, an open living/dining/ kitchen space, an office overlooking green plains, a ground level patio and sunny roof deck to connect it to the outdoors.

With a reversed floor-plan featuring the living room upstairs, inhabitants can enjoy sweeping views across the rolling hills. How long do you think it took to build and furnish it? Only four months and the new owners had a luminous, prefabricated home on the hills of Sonoma, California. A modified version of one of Pardo's Elemental line of prefab designs, the Cloverdale prefab home photographed by Jaime Kowal rests on a two-and-a-half acre plot.

This is pretty much all you need to call a place your home, don’t you think?

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Minimalist Furniture Duo Enhancing Modern Spaces: Oslo Chair & Valentino Bench

Posted: 24 Nov 2014 01:00 PM PST

We know most of you Freshome readers have a soft spot for minimalist design. In today’s post, we would like to introduce you to an interesting furniture duo. Spanish creative consultancy Masquespacio presented their last art direction project for upholstery company Missana. After the celebration of the crazy twenties with their The Twenties collection, this new proposal from Missana called The Novelties aims to present a new more vanguard and contemporary range of products. The first unit developed in the collection is called The Oslo chair, a minimalist design combining Mediterranean freshness and Nordic functionality.
The Oslo chair is accompanied by the Valentino Bench, an item which brings a cheerful vibe to the collection with its five cushions of different colors. Slim wooden legs add elegance, making the project easily adaptable to various modern needs. Both items display a simple, yet sturdy structure, with high precision craftsmanship. We would love to know your thoughts regarding these minimalist furniture designs. Would you consider having them in your home? [Photography by David Rodríguez and Carlos Huecas]

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Light-Flooded Stylish Home Sculpted in the German Hillside

Posted: 24 Nov 2014 09:18 AM PST

Stylish home decor displayed within a modern skin challenges more and more individuals to dream of contemporary architecture. This elegant home in the German city of Waldenbuch presents a harmonious link to nature as it unfolds social and private spaces in an open floor-plan. Designed by modern architecture studio Leicht, this stylish home is built on a hillside. Allowing the design to take the shape of a terraced collection of volumes, the landscape helps develop panoramas throughout the home through generous floor-to-ceiling windows facing West and South.

Eastern and northern sides of the home were dressed in a warm collection of wooden slats. With the entrance at third and top level, the home boasts an inverted floor plan with the library, an office and a large outdoor terrace on the top floor, sheltering the living room, kitchen, dining room and master bedroom right underneath. The children’s bedrooms and fitness room are on the bottom floor, connecting all levels with the outdoors.

As the “heart of the home”, the modern kitchen takes center stage, providing owners with a strong visual appeal and functionality at the same time: “Designed by the architect as a two-sided open block placed in the room, the kitchen has the effect of a self-contained architectural element. It gives structure to the main living level without restricting or obstructing the view. The block is closed towards the living room area in the South so as to provide space for the floor-to-ceiling cupboards and housing for appliances.”

We’ve seen the studio design some beautiful private homes, like this black and white beauty in Ahlen, Germany, and we can’t help wondering which of these two home designs you would choose for your own home.

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