How would it feel to lie in a pool overlooking the cityscape in Hollywood, while enjoying your favorite movie projected on the walls of your house? Have about 86 crore rupees ($18 Million) ready, drop a mail here and you will get to know. :) Though this is not the first time that we have . . .
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Curved Stair Lifts
Climbing up and down stairs can be tiring for old people and not all houses and bungalows are equipped with elevators. Take a look at this Curved Stair Lift by French company ThyssenKrupp Monolift which provides an innovative answer to this problem. (Thanks, DigsDigs) Although home stair lifts aren’t very popular, they can be very . . .
Home Storage and Organization Furniture
Its surprising how spacious a house can look when you successfully eliminate clutter. Even small homes appear spacious when you put everything in order. In this post, we show you home storage furniture, cabinets and closets from Pottery Barn that could help you tuck away most of your things and yet remain stylish! Furniture that . . .
The Futuristic Car of A.D. 2040
It is not usual for a home design blog to feature an automobile. But I guess it depends on what your definition of an automobile really is. Ever wondered about a day when your entire home is nothing but an evolved version of the ‘automobile’ itself? Sure, we have all seen self driving cars with . . .
Klein Bottle House, Australia
It is easier than ever to ‘think outside the box’ for architects these days. With the use of technology (CAD), it is now easier to efficiently describe more complex shapes and spaces and communicate these to the build. In mathematics, the Klein bottle is a certain non-orientable surface, i.e., a surface (a two-dimensional manifold) with . . .
IKEA 2010 Catalog
The much awaited IKEA 2010 Catalog has been put up on IKEA’s official website now.(Thanks for the Tip AT!) As usual the designs are truly inspirational and an interesting point to note here is that many of the price points have been kept the same as last years. View Online | Download If you want . . .
Amazing balconies of Willis Tower (Formerly Sears Tower)
Willis Tower, formerly named Sears Tower, is a 108-story 1,450 feet (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. This tallest skyscraper in the United States has four glass box viewing platforms. These balconies are suspended 1,353 feet (412 m) in the air on the 103rd floor. As per reports, the inspiration for The Ledge came from . . .
Amazing Garage Door Art!
Seems like it is Garage Monday! We brought you the winning designs from the Maserati garage design contest earlier today but here is something different: Garage door prints that make it look like you own boats and jets! These utterly realistic images are printed on plastic sheets which are stuck on garage doors – the . . .
14 Insanely Cool Car Garage Designs
Italian sports car manufacturer Maserati, in partnership with Architectural Digest Magazine recently held a contest that invited applicants to design a dream garage fit for parking a Maserati. The garage design contest received many interesting entries and Maserati just now announced the winning design. The winning garage design was by Holger Schubert from LA in . . .
28 Red and White Living Rooms
Of late I came across so many attractive living rooms that use the red and white combination that I thought it was time to put in a post. Color-wise, White is subtle and Red is intense. Togethor these two colors seem to work really well. Not all the rooms that we feature today will use . . .
Yellow Kitchens
The color yellow instills optimism, enlightenment and happiness. It carries with it a feeling of something positive, something promising. What better place to be enlightened and stimulated than at the heart of your home? Yes, we are talking about yellow kitchens this time! Check out our handpicked set of beautiful yellow kitchen designs below: (BTW, . . .
citizenM Hotel Interiors, Amsterdam
A trip or travel is said to be perfect only when we find a home away from home. Any tourist destination would boast of hotels and resorts that cater to the needs of its tourists. Here we cover one such magnificent hotel by the name citizenM, located at Amsterdam. With the opening of this hotel . . .
Stunning Paper Crafts from Ingrid Siliakus
You have already seen the intricate paper castle designed by Wataru Itou that we featured before. It seems there are quite a few people specializing in paper crafts. Traditionally, Paper Architecture is the art of creating an object out of a single piece of paper. We came across an artist named Ingrid Siliakus who specializes . . .
Orange Kitchens
To continue with our series on kitchens by color, we bring you Orange kitchens today. Orange radiates fun, flamboyance and energy. Orange is considered to be an extreme colour and sometimes tend to evoke a ‘love it’ or ‘hate it’ attitude from people. Orange, like red, is also said to be appetizing. Scroll down to . . .
Sustainable Home Designs for Katrina Victims
Actor Brad Pitt has partnered with real-estate developer and philanthropist Steve Bing to create low-price, sustainable homes as part of the “Make it Right” project. A set of duplex designs were proposed by 13 of the world’s top architects to visualize and design green, sustainable houses for hurricane Katrina victims.The designs had to be flexible, . . .
Red Kitchens
Another round of kitchens sorted by color! The color that we will feature today is red and it is associated with passion, lust and generally used to signify intense feelings and emotions. Red is also said to induce hunger and want and it is a well known fact that most fast food companies use this . . .
Living Room TV Setups
For many homes, the living rooms also double up as entertainment centers. The overall entertainement experience you get from these depend a whole lot on the placement of your TV and speakers. We feature in this post a few excellent tv room setups we found in this rather interesting Swedish forum. It is not uncommon . . .
World’s Largest Barbie Store
Barbies and young girls. We will probably never understand the connection between them but that doesn’t make us not appreciate the creativity involved in this structure that is devoted to the world’s most famous and loved doll. Mattel, the parent company that own some of the world’s top toy brands, (including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fischer . . .
Dream Paper Castle!
Architecture and design intrigue us – whatever the scale, whatever the medium. And Wataru Itou, an art student from Tokyo just wins us over with this wonderful paper craft art installation he showed off at an exhibition in Japan. The installation is hand made, complete with electrical lights and a moving train, all made of . . .
Beautiful Cliffside Villa
There may have been times when we have drove past luxurious bungalows and beautiful villas and wished our dream homes to be similar or close to it. Here we take you through a tour of one such beautiful, modernist cliff side villa designed by Foster+Partners.The villa is situated on a steep site overlooking the Mediterranean . . .
Amazing 3D Immersion Technology!
It seems like some of the futuristic movie environments, that we showed you yesterday might become reality sooner than we thought. Check out EON Reality‘s immersive 3D visualization technology(video shown below) that is used by architecture firm WATG to provide clients a walkthrough experience like no other. Stereoscopic images are projected onto 3 white walls . . .