Designer and architect Fernanda Marques describes, in a nutshell, her inspiration for this very unique, 1-story, 250 square meter house: “Being inside feeling like one is outside. I believe that to be a key issue in understanding the interior design being produced today. In times when environmental awareness is growing, and, of course, also the . . .
Category: House Tours
The posts in this section give a complete round up of great homes and try to include imagery from every possible room in the home.
Portuguese House Reveals Multiple Meanings
This vacation home came about as a result of a competition between three offices. Its official designer was Pedro Reis. This subtle two-story centers around the kitchen, in concurrence with the trend all over the West. Its program is divided into two, intersecting spaces: half is reserved for service and private areas; the other is . . .
Stunning Home in Hollywood Hills
Its asking price of $10 million holds a bit of contention amongst Hollywood area real estate junkies, but a few photos of this listed West Hollywood house offer a clue as to why. Savor the vast great room plan, three bedrooms, airiness and walkability. It also features a media room for those screening their own . . .
Rainbow House: House of Fun in London
Among some people, the inner child screams for release. Such people might live in London’s Rainbow Home, designed by Ab Rogers Design in collaboration with DA Studio. The project presents an other worldly cartoon-like feel made for those young at heart. Bibulous colors and designs compete with oversized furniture and an indoor playground for attention . . .
Unconventional House: VMX’s Minimalism Marries Ruralism
It’s not warm. It’s not inviting. And to a novice its aesthetics wouldn’t likely be considered attractive. The Sodae house by VMX Architects bears a vast floor plan that opens more like an urban loft than an island house. Some might see the Eastern European or Russian Communist austerity in its facade. The house was . . .
Japanese House in the Forest (Visualized)
Here is a neat little structure rendered by Israel based designers Ando Studio for TNA Architecture. The house set in a forest environment looks like the perfect kind of place to move in if you are planning to escape the noisy city life. We at Home Designing are big fans of these type of houses . . .
Vastu House
Bangalore-based Indian architecture firm Khosla Associates possesses an uncanny ability to forge high-contemporary composition with traditional Indian methods. One such recently completed project incorporates the 5000-year-old Indian design practice called Vastu. Vastu might be likened to feng shui. This design theory is no trend, however. It originated from sacred Hindu texts known as the Vedas . . .
Scandinavian Houses: Video Walkthroughs
We have all seen them. Those pretty little houses from Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway & Sweden in case you didn’t know) with milky white interiors that always seem to look awesome in images. We ourselves have been guilty of featuring them here over and over again and still continue to do so! But what makes this . . .
Safe House: The Brilliant ‘Transformer’ House That Can Become a Fort
If you have always been a fan of open house layouts and the security issue was the only thing holding you back have a look at this concept from architects KWK Promes. With the mere press of a button the open architecture transforms the house into an impenetrable concrete cube designed keep its inhabitants safe. . . .
Modern Swedish Family Home
We never get tired of these beautiful Swedish homes. Here is another that lies in the heart of the Swedish neighborhood KungsladugÃ¥rd. This apartment has been renovated multiple times which enables it to have a history which is shown through the various layers of finishes. The renovations still maintained its connection to its 1920’s roots . . .
House with the simplest of forms
On the outskirts of Leiria, Portugal architects Manuel Aires Mateus completed a project in 2010 that truly stands on its own. What looks like at first the typical silhouette of a house soon shows it to be something else entirely. Privacy was the order of the day here as can be seen by the lack . . .
Modern Medieval Apartment
Overlooking the Plaça de Sant Domènec lies the recently renovated property Alemanys 5 in Girona, Spain, by architect Anna Noguera. The property was renovated uniting its 16th century roots with the more practical and streamlined requirements of the modern lifestyle. It has sensitively integrated the modern and the medieval to create a unique living experience . . .
Mesmerizing Villa in the Spanish Coast
‘All that glitters is not gold’ certainly doesn’t apply to the Villa Colani on the Spanish island of Majorca. This house, which was inspired by the well-known designer Luigi Colani, went for a cool $28 million on eBay classified, after being completed in 2009. This ultra luxurious retreat has every comfort covered from the 1,230 . . .
Bizarre: House overlooking a cemetery
Okay, not a lot of people out there would love to call this their home, but travel photographer Richard Elliott doesn’t mind being in this rather quiet neighborhood! This enigmatic house, located in North London, overlooks a graveyard that is home to many famous names (Karl Marx, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot.. to name a few). . . .
Secluded Luxury House Sporting an Open Design
This exclusive house has been designed with privacy as the key priority. Despite its close proximity to its neighbours it exudes an air of secluded tranquility, utilising its internal simplicity and openness of the floor plan. The house has been renovated, altering the residence, which was originally built in 1928. This renovation has taken painstaking . . .
Beautiful Studio Loft of a Swedish Artist
Artist Carouschka Streijffert created the loft Studio in Stockholm by combining differing senses of geometry in order to heighten the experience of the user. The sculptural nature of the space plays with the observer’s feeling of expectancy. The playful changing forms of the windows seem somewhat random yet work together to create a cohesive livable . . .
A Victorian Gentleman’s Virtual Home
More visualization awesomeness! With gold gilding, green accents and opulent finishings TheeDex studio brings to life this classic abode of a Victorian gentleman. The details in the images just keep hitting you…. from the glimmer of the lighting to the shadows of the pool balls to the puckers of the diamond tufting on the leather . . .
Hemeroscopium House: Not your average neighborhood house
Okay, here is something you don’t see every day. The Hemeroscopium House by Ensamble Studios pushes the limits on what prefab architecture can be. The house is built from three giant concret I-beams, two concret segments of an irrigation canal and two steel girders, all anchored by a 20-ton granite slab. The entire structure took . . .
Cute and Groovy Small Space Apartment Designs
Sometimes we get accused of featuring spaces that are a little ‘larger than life’. The argument put forth is that such spaces are unrealistic and seeing them do not contribute to in any way for the majority of people who read this blog. Though we actually beg to differ here (we believe that inspiration can . . .
Unbelievable: Pixar’s Up Movie House Re-created in Real Life
This just in and it has knocked our socks off. If we are to use only one tag for this post, it would be #unbelievable. How else can you describe this stunning re-creation of the Pixar Up movie house? It was a project undertaken by the National Geographic Channel along with a team of scientists, . . .
Beautiful Modern House Rendered by Marc Canut
We were impressed by the work we came across of designer Marc Canut who specializes in 3D architectural renders. Marc’s rendition of home interiors using computer graphics is impressive and the command he has over light and form is very much on display in these images. With open architecture, designer chairs and tasteful minimalism, the . . .