Interior design & architecture
It is nearly Christmas, and your house should be as beautiful as possible. Pottery Barn has released its Holiday 2010 catalog that will help you to select all the decorations. Christmas is associated with beautiful wreath, garland, sparkling light from the tiny lamp, charming candle light, colorful ornaments, Christmas stockings and nice things, which you’ll find in the collection. And don’t forget, that it’s time to be original and create a comfortable feeling for everyone. Also these decorative elements can be useful not only for Christmas but for celebrating Hanukkah or New year as well.
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Colorful wallpapers with funny images have always been a popular trend for kids room, and that’s not surprising – they look fun and don’t depress your children. Nowadays you can create even better looking play room with those wall stickers by Acte Deco. The stickers can be applied to any surface, it doesn’t necessarily have be a wall, and they resemble the cartoon characters and funny animals your kids love, all with bright vivid colors. There is a large selection of stickers of any size and shape apart from those that you can see on the images below.
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It becomes popular to live on water in the Netherlands, but the houseboats shouldn’t be ordinary appearance. The water house, I’m going to describe, has modern and elegant look. It situated in The Amstel River in Amsterdam and was designed for the specific needs of owner. His desire was to have an open plan and the best view of the water. The curved lines of the facade are followed by this requirement. The kitchen is open and gives a panoramic view over the Amstel River and cozy terrace. On the ground level there is also a living area and a bedroom. Going upstairs you’ll find bathroom, study and other necessary rooms. To accentuate the round front lines of the exterior it is decorated with shiny aluminum. The white-plastered interior walls and ceilings create a seamless passage from outside to inside.
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Do you like to change your life every day? If you want to say yes, the DreiX Balanced Shelf will help you. This cool idea comes from German designer Christian Kim, who has presented an innovative shelf system inspired from the process of movement and balances. The DreiX Balanced Shelf consists of several cube shelves which could be positioned horizontally, diagonally or even randomly. And it’s easier that you think, metal system allows you to move shelves and achieve the desired look. Christian Kim says imbalance of the shelves creates balance in your room.
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This building isn’t exactly a house for living, this Conservatory House in Bulgaria is intended to host small music events. But it has so many original architectural solutions, that we just couldn’t leave it without review. Diagonal and horizontal intersecting lines in it’s exterior make it look futuristic and yet remind of the tree branches to help the building blend with the surrounding nature. But that the main purpose of those beams is to be building’s frame to resist tectonic activities. This project in many aspects recalls Ignatov Architects’ other projects – this studio’s style is easily recognizable.
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This contemporary compact house is located in South Africa. It was built in about 4 days and at quite a small price. Impossible? Not with the new Ecomo technology of modular construction which allows to build the house in any place and of any size using as many modules as you need. The modules are custom made and mostly of wood so the resulting houses are green to the environment not to mention the solar panels on the roof. During the summer or in the hot geography this house is absolutely autonomous and doesn’t even needs the power line. Building a house from blocks affords high efficiencies – there almost no waste, eliminating of which is usually expensive. For more information check out the Ecomo’s web site here.
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The Brick House is a web blog started by Morgan Satterfield and her boyfriend Jeremy Chlebik. They are writing about their own house and what they do to make it better. Remodeling began back in 2008, still goes on and to Morgan it seems like she would like to do that forever. And why not if this hobby makes her house better and doesn’t costs too much – she has a rule of $100 which means that she doesn’t spends more than that on one item. But most of the thing they do themselves and with the help of their family and friends. It’s hard to believe all that when you look at the pictures – the interior Morgan created is great and it’s amazing how many great ideas she found. If you are going to remodel your home in near future you should definitely refer to her blog here.
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