Decorating for the holidays is a fun family tradition that often denotes the start of the season. While some of us love the familiarity of using the same decorations year after year, others like to mix it up a bit and decorate with a fresh palette every season. For those of you who fall into . . .
Author: Hanna
20 Kitchen Island Designs
As the heart of the modern kitchen, the island revs up the room’s function factor with extra storage space, work surfaces and as a cooking station. Perhaps, one of the most important roles that many islands play is that of gathering place. Family and friends love to hang out in the kitchen, and the island . . .
Transformative YO! Home: Big Design in a Small Space
Using technologies that are usually relegated to car design and super-yachts, YO! Home’s founder, Simon Woodroffe created a modern, forward-thinking alternative to the small urban apartment. At the touch of a button or the pull of a handle, twelve moving parts transform the tiny apartment into a luxurious living space with all the amenities of . . .
Christmas Mantel Decor Inspiration
The fireplace mantel offers one of the most popular Christmas décor canvases in the home. There is nothing quite like a beautifully decorated mantel set above a crackling fire to add a festive warmth to a room. Popular decorative elements include garlands, ribbons, candles and stockings. We’re in love with the mantels shared below, we . . .
A Cluster of Creative Home Design
This mixed bag of attractive room designs is the inspirational work of Olga Kataevskaya whose portfolio is full to brimming with new home style trends for all tastes.
Modern Bathrooms with Spa-Like Appeal
We put together a list of modern bathrooms that provide a spa-like experience. These organic spaces, often minimalist in design, exude a relaxing and calming environment which rejuvenates the mind and body. Looking to improve your bath space at home? If you have a small sized bathroom, accessories are a great way by which you . . .
Japanese Style Interior Design
Japanese traditional Zen philosophy inspires the simplistic, natural essence found in minimalist architecture and design. Line, form, space, light and material are but a few of the essential elements central to this widely popular design aesthetic. Great value is placed on the absence of nonessential internal walls to open up a space and allow an . . .
Modern Semi-Minimilist Design
This modern example of an interior layout designed by a Taiwan company, WCH Interior Design, could be described as semi-minimalist decor, but with a feeling of warmth and welcoming. The strong linear lines of this home soften immediately with the neutral palette of blue-grey walls and the complementary textures of the floor and furnishings.
Living Rooms With Skylights
The architects of the homes below know the power of the skylight in harnessing the sun and flooding a space with dazzling natural light. Strategically placed, these stunning architectural elements bring the beauty of the outdoors inside while providing natural light throughout the home.
Modern Living Rooms
Here’s a splash of inspiration for your modern living spaces, fresh from a menagerie of exciting design talent. Ranging from calm and collected monochrome schemes, to cheerful setups filled with color blasts, there is sure to be something to float your boat! Recommended Reading: 20 Modern Sofas To Go With Any Type Of Decor
Green Office Inspiration: Where Line meets Lime!
This contemporary commercial space is the Neo Derm Medical Aesthetic Centre in Hong Kong, created by interior designers and architects Beige Design. Via Adelto
Super Small Space Living: Inspiration IKEA
When it comes to kitting out small spaces in our homes, IKEA is the place to go for oodles of inspiration on clever multifunctional storage ideas and brave layout choices for limited proportions. This selection of super small room designs by the Swedish firm is yet another set of excellent ideas to re-educate us on . . .
The Berge Winter Retreat
The ‘Berge’ manager-and furniture manufacturer-Nils Holger describes the getaway as “a place to find peace. There’s everything you need to feel comfortable, but it’s not a fancy spa parlor. The feeling of well-being comes from the inside.†So lets take a wintry stroll around the property to find out exactly what it has to offer. . . .
Toblerone House, Brazil
Designed by Sao Paulo based Studio MK27, the Toblerone House in Brazil has been shortlisted in the ‘villas’ category of the 2012 world architecture festival, and it’s easy to see why. With a ground floor surrounded by retractable glass walls, and the upstairs encased in a cocoon of wood slat screens, this great example of . . .
Inside Amazon
Though corporate warehouses aren’t the usual fodder for a blog like ours we just had to stop for a second and take in what we are seeing here. The insides of the belly of the world’s most popular commerce site. It is like something you aren’t supposed to see but now that you have come . . .
Modern Minimalist Decor with a Homey Flow
This stylish yet homey apartment design comes to us courtesy of Taiwan based Fertility Design, filling us with ideas on how to make a modest sized space appear roomy and high spec. Take a tour through bedroom, living room and dining spaces with a connected, cohesive atmosphere providing a perfect feeling of decor flow.
Sparkling Port Melbourne Apartment
This shiny home, designed by David Hicks, is located on the 10th floor of an apartment complex that juts out through surrounding ocean, under sunny skies, at Port Melbourne, Australia.
Small Spaces: A 40 square meter (430 square feet) Apartment [Visualization]
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This interior visualization, by Polish firm Pressenter Design, depicts the challenge of decorating a forty square meter (430 sq ft) flat, with the intended use of a mother with a 6-year-old daughter. The home was designed with particular attention to the growing needs of a child at the very beginning their school life who would . . .
Modern Rooms with a Feminine Touch
Whether a home has a male or a female owner, a little feminine touch can go a long way to making a harsh lined modern layout feel more like a cozy home; these five sets of room designs from Sava Studio show you the tricks of the trade on how to smooth things over with . . .
Open Air Inspired Fireplaces
This burning collection of new age fireplaces by Planika Fires was imagined under Ayers Rock in Australia, the creators tell us “The atmosphere created by the flames inspired the two (creators) to find an easy way to have the same fire in contemporary interiors. Their intention was to overcome the existing difficulties in the form . . .
A Light, Bright and Beautiful Home
This airy open plan living, kitchen and dining area is the visualization work of Triple D, and we love the bright white décor accented by an earthy run of clay gray along one side of the space. The accent wall illustrates how gray can be used to add depth and even unexpected warmth to a . . .