Mecca will soon be home to a 3 Billion dollar hotel which will house a chocolate room for those with a sweet tooth, 24 hour butler service for those who cannot imagine life without help and beauty salons for people to get decked up in before they offer their prayers! Estimated to stand at 1,591 . . .
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Living Rooms From Zalf
Throwing a party or just hanging out with friends? Staying in and watching a movie or playing on your Xbox? Relaxing after a hard day of work or lazing around on a Sunday? Living rooms from Zalf become a platform for much more! Contemporary living, neutral shades and modern fixtures accentuate the theme of the . . .
Classy Kitchens From Schiffini
Schiffini puts together a set of kitchens that are modern and trendy. The designs are tasteful and minimalistic but are not restricted to any one particular genre of design. While most kitchens maintain a neutral look, a few of them stand out for their bold colors and fancy use of textures. Take a look. If . . .
Space Saving Ideas for Small Kids Rooms
We have featured Spanish designer Sergi‘s kids’ rooms concepts before at Home-Designing, but he is back with more! Having worked to create rooms that are individualistic and unique in their own right, this designer has once again created magic with colors. Working with less space and creating more out of it has been the USP . . .
Google’s offices from around Europe
Google work places are known to be fun! These pictures below, are from different offices around Europe. The work places in Milan, Madrid and Munich were designed by DEGW, a company that usually designs for various Fortune 500 companies, while the one in Zurich was designed by the swiss firm Camenzind Evolution. Google Madrid The . . .
Rotating Sea Side Hotel in Croatia
Ever wondered how it would be to be enveloped by nature on all sides? Wake up with the sunlight in your eyes and end the day nestled in the trees? If you did, it’s time you stopped because this rotating sea side hotel in Croatia lets you do just that. This is a three storey . . .
Beachside villa with a stunning view
Situated in the Bukit Peninsula on the southern cliff of Bali, Indonesia, this beachside villa is built as an ecologically sustainable edifice. With locally available materials like coconut and bamboo timbers, this lodge was constructed keeping the topography of the area in mind, to avoid drastic construction procedures. Rainwater harvesting, recycling water, naturally vented public . . .
Super Car Museums
These may not be ideas that inspire home designs, but they are breath-taking none the less! A post different from all others, these super car museums situated in different parts of the world all achieve the ultimate goal of bringing together machines that have left a mark in the auto-world, either for their designs or . . .
10 Beautiful Living Room Spaces
Creating living spaces that are beautiful, trendy yet comfortable may not seem easy, but a look below will come in handy. Here is our Friday round up of some cool living rooms that we have come across lately. If you come across other pleasant living spaces like these, which you think need to be featured . . .
Bomb shelter house designs!
You may have thought of living in luxurious homes that cost millions, but never in your worst nightmare would you have imagined staying in the houses shown below! You were probably told when you were young as to what was to be done in case a natural disaster struck your area. But did anyone ever . . .
30 Crazy Cool Halloween Pumpkins
Halloween is almost here, and it is that time of the year when it is not unusual for people to hit up Google to find some whacky weird ideas for carving pumpkins. This time, we took a look around and have compiled a list of ones that could be of interest. As with any list . . .
Concept Earthquake Resistant Homes
We live in an uncertain world where natural calamities like earthquakes cause more havoc than they did before. The staggering magnitudes of the the earthquakes which recently struck Indonesia and Samoa Islands give us another painful reminder of this. The physical loss amounts to millions and no price tag can be attached to the emotional . . .
Luxury Villa Overlooking the Ocean
Luxury comes at a price but when it comes with astounding, breathtaking view on all sides, it becomes hard to resist. Designed by architect Julia Palmer, this villa in Mallorca has a 180 degree view of the bay outside and a Mediterranean theme to go with it. Built on land that receives plenty of natural . . .
Architectural Vision of Rio De Janeiro, Olympic City 2016
If you haven’t been under a rock the past one week or so, you are probably aware that Rio De Janeiro has been chosen to play the host city for the 2016 Olympic games. It competed against Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid for the final run before being chosen as the winner. The fact that Rio . . .
Live in Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece
Recognized as ‘the greatest American architect of all times’, Frank Lloyd Wright was an acclaimed writer, educator, interior designer and an architect. While he worked on various designs for schools, hotels, museums, churches and offices, he also promoted organic architecture and was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture. An architect who worked . . .
Modern Kids Room Furniture from Dielle
To fill a child’s world in one room is a tough job! Creating room for the toys, books, sports equipments, shoes, clothes, computers, tables and all their imagination can become daunting, but thanks to Dielle, this task is now much simpler. Manufacturing minimalistic furniture that is accommodating and takes little room for itself, the company . . .
Clingstone House: A Home On an Island!
This house on an island looks straight out of a fairy tale. And 79 year old Boston Architect Henry Wood gets to call it his home. In 1961, Wood and his then wife, Joan bought the island home for a mere $3,600. Situated on Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay in US, the house was built by . . .
Painted Kitchen Furniture & Refrigerators
Thanks to Trendir for bringing to our attention, colored kitchen furniture and refrigerator ideas from Coolors that really help make the kitchen stand out. Coolors offer custom printed panels for your kitchen appliances. You could have your favourite photo adorning your refrigerator or have it printed on a cooker hood. Check out these photos. They . . .
Long Barn Studio: Another Cool Architect’s Office
You got to hand it to these architects. Maybe it is the absence of the normal you-design-clients-approve process that inspires them while they design spaces for themselves. Whatever be the reason, as we have seen before, the results usually turn out really good. Check our this office by Nicolas Tye Architects that they designed for . . .
Awesome Holders!
Here are some really cool holders that will not only draw in a few ‘wows’ but will help you keep you home organized. Toothpick overload? Check out the Porcupine toothpick holder from designer Rafael Morgan. You can buy it here. More than the functionality aspect, designer Joung Myung Lee’s fruit holder is all about adding . . .
Are You Not Entertained?
If you would forgive the dramatic heading and the image, we are looking for a bit of a feedback here at Home-Designing! It’s been about an year since we started bringing you inspiration and we thought it was time to turn back and do a quick ponder. As a blog that is focused on connecting . . .