Shabby Chic style is a beautiful look and can be incorporated into any home for a fun and whimsy design aesthetic. The basic principle of shabby chic style is a look that is unstructured and lacking in formal rules; a timeless aesthetic which can add an effortless elegance to your home. With salvaged furnishings, handicrafts […]
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Contemporary property in London: Mapledene Road
Mapledene Road house is situated in a conservation area in Hackney, London. The property had been stripped of virtually all its period features and had become run down and used as a “crack den” leaving it ripe for modernization. Refurbishment was conceived of as a landscape of interventions and new components by London-based Platform 5 […]
Atrium House by MESH Architectures
Atrium House is a pre-existing one-storey garage transformed into a dynamic two-storey house with a central garden in Brooklyn, New York. Designed by MESH Architectures, the 2,100 square foot home fills a 22’x100′ where the 30′ rear yard requirement by zoning laws was avoided by building the home around a central courtyard. The result is […]
Fascinating and elegant Swedish interiors
This gorgeous home is situated next to Malarhusen, in the south part of Sweden with the cool waters and billowy sands. The landscape has inspired the design of the home with a bright and sociable space where the main building is comprised of 5,220 square feet (485 square meters). There is also a guest house […]
Incredible concrete house gets transformed
The Concrete House has been designed by Ogrydziak Prillinger Architects in Piedmont, California. The project is a complete renovation of an existing 1974 cast-concrete and brick house. The original 7,000 square foot residence was built for a single couple, a fluid open plan organized around a central courtyard. The objective of the remodel was to […]
Modern home integrated into historic neighborhood
Occupying an area of 3,800 square feet, Qb3 Design firm has completed a contemporary urban home design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Entitled the Split-Level house, the newly constructed house stitches itself into the neighborhood on a vacant corner in the Northern Liberties. Curved brick corners negotiate the irregular street grid, while the cadence of typical rowhouses […]