The Palm Beach Residence is an intriguing remodel of a family home in Sydney, Australia by Brooke Aitken Design. According to the designer’s, “this older style house is directly located on Sydney’s famous Palm Beach required a significant internal facelift. The house is used as a holiday home for up to 14 people and it […]
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Attic gets a bold and colorful facelift
A couple in the heart of Madrid, Spain wanted to create a home that catered to their intense social life with open spaces for entertaining. The 1,075 square foot (100 square meters) structure was re-designed by Bibit Interior Architectural Studio, who added a more playful distribution of the home. For starters, they suppressed most of […]
A beautiful transformation of an old dwelling
One of the oldest houses in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood, this 1860’s cottage sat in disrepair for years. Designed by San Francisco-based firm Feldman Architecture, the scope of the project entailed repair, expand and modernize the small, dark house while maintaining the rustic charm of the original building. To accomplish this, the firm kept […]
Sexy urban apartment interiors in Sao Paulo
This fabulous apartment called the FJ House is owned by a young and single businessman by day DJ by night in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Designed by Studio Guilherme Torres, the owner of this 1,453 square foot (135 square meters) apartment desired to continue living in close proximity to his company, yet at the same time […]
Riley’s Cove Residence by Olson Kundig Architects
This beautiful remodel and addition to a 1950s house in Seattle, Washington opens up the original floor plan and creates a new entry sequence, providing a view through the house and reinforcing indoor-outdoor connections. Designed by Seattle-based firm Olson Kundig Architects, who decided to keep the basic structure of the residence preserved. Existing wood siding […]
An absolutely fabulous renovation in San Francisco
This magnificent property has been painstakingly renovated and is located on a flat block in the fabulous neighborhood of Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California. The open and spacious entry is a preview to the spectacular contemporary renovation that awaits you on all four levels of this five bedroom and five-and-a-half bathroom residence. The main entry […]
Amazing transformation of a Sao Paulo apartment
The Panamby Apartment, designed by Guto Requena displays a stunning remodel in a neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The project aims to resize the spaces and make the floor plan flexible, amplifying and optimizing the collective use area. All the four original bedrooms were torn down to create space for two spacious bedroom suites. Besides […]
A floating bedroom in a cleverly designed studio
A floating bedroom, what a novel idea! The house is staged as a floating island suspended from the ceiling, an amazing transformation of a former artist’s studio in Montrouge, in the suburbs of Paris. With an area of 538 square feet (50 meters square), every square inch has been efficiently designed by ECDM Architects. From […]
Living in a vintage airstream trailer
Finding an ad on craigslist for a 1950’s Airstream led Andreas Stavroupolo to a deserted ranch in the Salinas Valley. There he exchanged some cash and towed his new humble abode, a 1959 Airstream travel trailer, up the Highway 101. The Airstream is only 150 square-feet of space, all of which was updated by the […]
DPR House by Method Design
The DPR House is a significant AIA Honor Award winning design by architecture firm Method Design, situated in the town of Pound Ridge, New York. The project was a 500 square foot addition and full renovation to an existing 1960’s modern house on a sloped site. The architects were asked to reconsider three major aspects […]