Posts by James

Jory Brigham began woodworking with his father at a very early age. He learned a lot and has reached incredible heights in craftsmanship and that allows him to concentrate on his unique style without compromises. His original custom stands are really of a perfect quality – every line to the last inch and every detail is clean and accurate; only the best timber is utilized. Take a look at the stand with a crack on the top surface – I don’t know if it’s done on purpose or is it a cleverly hidden defect but I think that it looks great. Overall style is easily recognizable and organic – some might not like that there are too many details, but Home Reviews is not the case :) Check out Jory’s webpage for more great things he makes.

This house has been built to replace the old owner’s building on the site. The client’s wish was to make a two storey opened area connecting the living room and the garden and it was successfully fulfilled. The house has been planned and constructed with effectiveness and economy in mind – there is a water tank to collect and reuse water, a lot of opening windows for good ventilation, mostly light and practical finishings used for all surfaces to reduce sun heating. This is a very practical residence for one family, plus there are guest bedroom and bathroom on the main level.

This beautiful modern house was built it Juarez, Mexico by Arquitectura en Movimiento. It’s name “The Cubo” sounds absolutely natural when you see it – the house has strict and sober exterior with sharp geometric shapes, actually reminding a couple of intersecting cubes. The house has a lot of big windows, most of which a looking towards the back yard since the building is U-shaped, so it is very light inside. Generally, the Cubo’s interior is very modern, practical and well-planned. In our opinion it looks more friendly and comfortable inside than outside and would be perfect for a young progressive family with two kids. There is also a little pound in the middle of composition. We would probably prefer to have Jacuzzi there, but it would not look as harmonic as this pound does.

This is a very good example of effective space managing that looks great. Book and CD shelves are piled on each other and make up a steep and very compact staircase. There are two rows of shelves for each foot –that’s why it look more like a ladder, but it is actually very comfortable. You wouldn’t have to climb this thing; the consequent steps are on favorable height. The creators thought of safety and attached side nets and metal bars to prevent user from falling.

The idea is very interesting in general – you can put literally anything on those shelves, starting from your family pictures to plants or something else that you have to store somewhere. Even if you don’t need the staircase in your flat, you can still think of building such wall of piled shelves instead of a regular cupboard. Apart from keeping your stuff it looks good and visually partitions your room to multiple zones.

This is a first post in our brand new blog and to start with lets imagine how all the modern things we are going to review here will look… suppose in a hundred years. To do that better, take a look at this grizzly-chair that has been once presented to the US president, and so obviously was considered very cool. Nowadays only a few people would put anything like this in their living room, not only because of it’s archaic design, but also because it’s made of murdered bears and doesn’t fit into the green concept. We still don’t know weither it is made of one mutant bear with 6 paws, or two handicapped three-pawed bears. The second chair has a similar idea and even though it’s not as old as the first one, it would probably still shock the witnessing Greenpeace participant to death.