Showing posts with label house of the week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house of the week. Show all posts

Monday, January 4, 2010

Elegant Bedroom

Elegant Bedroom, interior design

There's nothing like a four-poster bed to add theatrical impact to a bedroom. Here we've chosen a bed with a simple frame and partnered it with rich silks and velvets in violet, grey and taupe with touches of deep purple. Mirrored bedside tables add to the sophisticated feel, while the bench and mirror echo the subtle, oriental lines of the bed. homesandgardens.


Saturday, January 2, 2010

Home builder in Sydney

Cottage in Sydney

What is the repair? Universal accident or a way at last to see habitation of the dream in a reality? Once building of houses from the base to a roof was quite on forces to several people. And the so-called design of an interior and at all was an exclusive prerogative of owners, instead of a highly paid field of activity. In general, and today nobody forbids to repair independently apartment, to erect a garden small house, and even a cottage which becomes habitation for a family. Forces on it will leave much, but all will be made by the hands. And money it will be spent less, after all it will not be necessary to pay to designers, intermediaries and workers. Sometimes, thinking in a similar way, the person manages to forget about an ultimate goal. And after all the main thing not to save, and to create convenient and beautiful habitation.

Any activity requires preliminary planning, and building in particular. That doubts have not crossed out pleasure from complete business, it is necessary to weigh, consider and plan all carefully. It, instead of attempts to make all is independent, will allow to save time and money.

Sydney home builder

Even if construction of a summer garden small house or cosmetic furnish of a room is planned, it is necessary to answer itself some questions. First of all, whether there is at you time for independent repair of apartments, then — whether enough you are competent not to miss annoying trifles which will spoil all subsequent life, and whether forces, at last, will suffice to finish business.

If cottage building without attraction of additional forces, as a rule, does not manage is planned. Sydney home builder — the highly professional and reliable building company in Australia.

Entrust repair to professionals!

Think, if you are an excellent bookkeeper or the talented journalist why you should be able to carry out qualitative Bathroom renovation Mosman or to glue wall-paper in a drawing room? Observing of harmonious actions of professionals, necessarily you will reflect, instead of whether to call to the aid professional builders? Quite probably, that it will be a little bit more expensive, but faster and more qualitatively!

Bathroom renovation

It is time to agree that repair of apartment which was carried out exclusively by the hands earlier, from intrafamily process has turned to work for professionals to whom trust so that suppose even on protected territories. What to speak about repair of offices or other uninhabited premises where speed and quality of work, first of all, is important.

Thus the owner at all does not lose feeling of participation to arrangement of the house in spite of the fact that other people repair. Actually, applying a minimum of efforts and spending has some time, the owner receives the full control over an event - and materialised dream as a result. Home builder Sydney will help with repair of your cottage!

Bathroom Renovation — Before & After


Thursday, December 31, 2009

Create an Elegant Style of Home Decor

create an elegant style of home decor
create an elegant style of home decor
create an elegant style of home decor

If you are looking to create an interior decor that's elegant in style, then here are some ideas that you can use to help you achieve the results you're looking for.

When it comes to deciding on the finishing touches for your new home or renovation, it depends not only your budget, but more importantly, knowing what you want. Many people try to perform a renovation without knowing what they really want when it comes to interior decor, and as a result, find it more difficult to turn their ideas into reality.

So here are some tips that you can use to create an elegant style of home decor, and to find out the various ideas that are available when it comes to interior decorating in this style.



Sunday, December 27, 2009

Instant House by H3AR architecture and design

 
Hugon Kowalski of Polish firm H3AR architecture and design recently created 'Instant House' for an international student competition in Milan. The theme was that of a temporary residential mini unit, linked to the presence of young people with high levels of territorial mobility connected to particular metropolitan events.the concept includes concrete cylinders, made from styrofoam concrete (which increasesthe acoustics and insulation and is twelve times lighter than normal concrete). This concretecontains TI02, which will reduce air pollution. In 2014 it will be possible to produce concrete from rice husks which reduce carbon dioxide emissions during the making process.


Friday, December 11, 2009

Xeritown






X-architects, architecture office from Dubai, have design huge blocks for new city in the city Dubai. Main difference is that this project is not vertical, but is classical horizontal town. This multifunctional space is also minimising energy consumption. So this project is try to bring to Dubai something new with principles of old.


Thursday, December 10, 2009

House in Japan







Kochi architects interestingly solved problem of privacy in closely build colony of houses. House KN is designed for a suburban area of japanesse city Kanagawa. It is a classical concrete box slited to originate intimate, private garden. The patio oin the second floor is opened and at the same time saved from eyes from surroundings. Very impressive.

House on a coast






House OS is build on beautiful coast of spanish Cantabaria. The house by its connection to the nature it arrange under itself useful covered place, covered from sun and wind. The house has a green roof, that even more maintain integration of the house to the place. OS is absolutely luminous, opened, but also properly covered, with a lot of private atriums.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Building of Swatch in Tokio






Shigeru Ban design building in the heard of Tokio for the company Swatch. Building is separated into 4 parts, by Swatch´s luxury labels. Single parts are break up by superfloors with a hanging gardens. Others floors are anchorage and so the hanging gardens have visuale dominantion.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

House of the Week 046: Heeren Shophouse



The shophouse is an important element in the study of how the Malay streetscapes evolved demonstrating the negotiations between the strict Dutch planning regulations of the 17th & 18th Century and the commercial and domestic needs of the urban population. Singapore architect Chan Soo Khian (SCDA Architects) renovated this historic site in 2002 on a meagre budget as a meditation centre that sympathetically recalls it's previous use as an urban residence.

house of the week 47: Tubac House


In the desert of Arizona, architect Rick Joy has created a rough weathered steel exterior form that contrasts with the refinement of the soft white, steel and maple wood interior palette. The house, defined by retaining walls burrowed into the hillside, is punctuated with openings that frame articulated views of the landscape.
No house should ever be on a hill [...] It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other

Frank Lloyd Wright

House of the Week 048: Sorrento


Perched on a large elevated deck, this low key beach house by Marcus O’Reilly Architects, sits on an eucalyptus tree filled site in the Mornington Peninsula in Australia. This eco-responsive dwelling utilises passive means to limit the effects of the environment and uses local materials, in the sandstone walls and tea tree stake sunshades in a nod to the local vernacular.

images by Dianna Snape

House of the Week 049: the Spaghetti House


Originally designed as a graduate thesis project, architect David Baker built and resided in the Spaghetti House in the 1980s. Built in San Francisco, California the house is actually the renovation of a dilapidated 1911 stucco duplex that used every inch of available lot space. The house smartly and quietly uses alternative energy sources integrated into architecture.