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Charming Modern Mid-Century House In Mercer Island

Originally built back in 1951, this private house was renovated in a whole to be given a contemporary taste and feels both indoor and outdoor.

While keeping its rustic tradition of mid-century feels here and there, it's been heavily remodeled to have today's modern and contemporary style. You can check them from the white pristine walls to twin Bosch dishwashers to luxurious master plus spa bath to Ann Sacks paved floors. (more...)

Outstanding Concrete And Glass House In Ragusa Italy

Agricultural blended neatly with fluent contemporary architecture as a reinterpretation of Mediterranean home style. That's how we'd depict this outstanding modern concrete and glass house named Villa T. A work of art by Architrend Architecture, which is situated in Ragusa, Sicily, Italy.

This house literally standout as a bold statement with precise barriers, while the margins itself are not folded inward but fully open outside in. Nifty ways to uncover the hunt of a feasible Mediterranean fashion which focusing on native history, refuse to imitate and prepped for some fresh possibilities experiment. Outstanding! (more...)

Villa VH In T: Excellent White Modern Villa In Belgium

Another monumental work by Beel and Achtergael Architects is the Villa VH In T, a white contemporary villa in Flanders, Belgium. Guarded with this fort-like exterior, privacy is one factor that's being fully accommodated.

While actually, just behind that entrance there's this openness in every part of the house awaits. Totally plain openness.

Wide area glass walls as well as windows commanding the courtyard, contrasting the open areas with the lighting makes it streams freely inside out. Pond's reflection, plants, large areas of the yard, balancing nicely with almost all-white contemporary interiors utilized with enchanting art pieces and iconic chairs. (more...)

700 Palms Residence: Indoors Outdoors Barriers Melter

This residence, hence the name, is located at the 700 Palms, Venice, California. The purpose of this house is to melt the indoors and outdoors barriers.

So, it has all things needed by a contemporary house to be green – which is referring to nature friendly, quietude plus concordance feels, which emphasized by contrast of its fluent and flexible spaces. (more...)

9 Elmstone: Fresh Modern House In New Zealand For Young Family

Modern house, designed for young family. How would you like that? Daniel Marshall Architects have done a marvelous work accomplishing that very factor, with this 9 Elmstone House in Auckland city, New Zealand.

Daniel Marshall Architects, explains :

A suburban context – the site splays out from the end of a quiet Auckland cul-de-sac and slopes steeply away towards the North.

The brief was to provide a family home for a young family. It was important to maintain open ground for the boys to play on and to allow for a vegetable garden. The house was to be as economic as possible considering it’s 400m2 floor area.

The architectural strategy that developed was to arrange house volumes as densely as possible in such a configuration, which dealt with the steep site, and to ensure that ample ground was left in play for the boys. Spaces are arranged vertically over three levels, each with its own distinct outlook toward the garden and pool. The primary form is en- closed beneath a single sloped roof, which allows variation of floor and ceiling levels to individualise the spatial experience throughout the home.

Industrial materiality; precast concrete walls and simple concrete floors, play against the sophisticated yet subtle detailing of more traditional residential finishes. The placement of concrete elements within the home contributes to a thermal mass to absorb the heat from plentiful northern and eastern sun to regulate internal temperature of the house.

Contemporary style in a whole, open ground and highly economic. Check the 25 photos in the gallery to look deeper.

City Center Penthouse Extravagant Interior Design By Mark Tracy

So here's the main ingredients: Las Vegas, Penthouse, Mark Tracy, Calle Henzel. What you could possibly get from the mix of those four? An awesome bluish penthouse suite in Las Vegas Veer City Center that is.

A collaboration work between Mark Tracy and Calle Henzel resulting in a design which bold, extravagant, cosmopolitans oriented and full of freedom spirits.

Chemical Spaces official descriptions :

Mark Tracy started the design of this project with the intent to use the finest materials on every surface to create a friendly, inviting, colorful, and extravagant design for a penthouse unit in the Veer tower of Las Vegas’ modern City Center development.

This penthouse‘s primary features include a 13’ tall by 13’ wide floor-wall-ceiling glass mosaic in an ocean blue color scheme with embedded images and bordered by a glass veneer tile. In the middle of the centerpiece mosaic hangs a chandelier encased in a blue glass cube.

A “Blue Louise” granite table floats off the kitchen island acting first as a bar elevation and then seamlessly dropping to a lower elevation where it serves as the units primary dining area.

The color palette of light greys blues and greens is accented by 120 linear feet of RGB LED lighting embedded around the perimeter of ceiling throughout the entire penthouse. Mark Tracy, the principal design consultant notes, “this is a very elegant unit which can easily transition into party mode with its custom lighting features.”

The master bedroom shows off a 13’ tall c-shaped bed of Italian porcelain tile complete with its own chandelier. Beside the bed hangs a custom chain curtain featuring Banksy’s signature tag which divides the bedroom from the master bath.

The living and main party area is crowned with a one-of-a-kind mirrored ceiling made of triangular shaped mirrors each separated by ceiling beams reflecting the lighting effects of the unit and the neon shining through the windows from the Las Vegas strip outside. The space also features a custom rug by HZL Henzel atop metallic white hardwood floors.

Design began from drawing before completion of the tower in February 2009. Construction began in June of 2010 and was completed in March 2011.

Spring Themed Interior Design Inspirations: Spring 2011

Something pretty for our inspiration this spring, these 13 Spring themed interior design inspirations. As the flowers start to grow, these designs are inevitably use flowers as the main elements.

Luxuriant feels could be tasted in its utilized fabrics, which strongly portray this very season. Flowery and fresh.

Here's Arvie Calimlim poem to accompany us browsing through the gallery, enjoy.

Its spring its spring, Oh I just can’t wait
To find fruits on the vases, And flowers on my plate

I want to hear the warm sun, And feel the robin singing
Watch the scent of the flowers, And smell the butterflies flying

Excellent Indoor Designs Rendered By Iceci3

These twelve are inspirational work of Iceci3 who utilizes every fashions and techniques in designs with one same focus, incredible details depth which resulting in its richness.

There's no specific fancy barrier being put so we can obviously see the variety of the designs. Aesthetically, they're all definitely worth to look at for fresh inspirations. Props to Iceci3. Enjoy.

Appealing Modern Kitchens With Personal Concept Design

Yep, it's the round for kitchen again, whereas numerous design firm specializing nowadays. But today, we're here with Logoscoop work which not always following the trends path, as they are more into what each individual require them to create to, to specifically resound each person's character deeper.

They collaborate functions and contemporaneity with client's routines and behavior to create incomparable design, to explore more depth into its details yet keeping its usability remains.

Color play and constructive answers on storage mixed neatly with other areas, in a unique creation as a whole.
Enjoy the gallery!