This beautiful cube of light is the main design element of this house. Everything else was created around its aesthetic. The small number of plants inside this indoor garden allow an uninterrupted view to other parts of the house.

Take an ultra-traditional approach and carve out a central courtyard within your home. Interior courtyards, or atriums, have been used for centuries. Such a treatment brings in light and nature, not to mention architectural interest and dimension. While many in-home atriums feel bright and minimal, I appreciate that this design employs a warm, Arts and Crafts feel.

A tunnel of sun piercing straight into the center of the house? Yes, please. I don't know what's cooler — looking in from the outside or looking out from the inside. Either way, this courtyard is pretty spectacular.

idea for a conservatory/greenhouse

stairs

off of dining area

stones

Dining room chairs match table, no contrast

Let's natural light in

Courtyard

little space

Big stepping stones among pebbles

ktgm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHAW8EEt_-Y

Stairs and courtyard

中間種竹子

Stairs

atrium

Small, not taking up too much space....

Courtyard/lightwell

small herb garden?

Narrow1

Courtyard is amazing

courtyard in middle of house

Chandelier

stairs

Close what I want

Outdoor into indoor

great sliding doors and windows

stairs and atrium

Big red/orange canvas on khaki wall

I don't want it to be a little room, but it would be great if we could somehow make a hallway this cool. . . .

floor

atrium

Interior courtyard

ski light

rocks with planters

lower level open court yard

internal courtyard idea

A tiny courtyard brings a tunnel of sun right into the center of the house.

Courtyard

Indoor lightwell in light woods

atrium, natural light, warm, wood, minimal

Green house

Atrium

Doors with windows inside

Opens all the way to the sky.

courtyard in the middle of the house/room with sunlight

internal glass/courtyard

pocket garden

courtyard

Floor and walls

pool redesign

beautiful indoor courtyard

atrium

The light

garden

Indoor courtyard

winter garden

C9

with light like monteritz

encased central courtyard

Send to client

Outdoor area at center of house, small courtyard

Light fixture

Open house at the Center

atrium

outdoor zen garden indoors

courtyard

cool

Love it!

courtyard

for me, this has too much wood

Courtyard

nice courtyard

Indoor Garden

More Indoor Garden

Greenhouse

Like this

Great idea for the frogs!

SMALL BUT BRIGHT

atrium

french door and a canopy inside house

Green house

atrium

simple potted plant on gravel

glass enclosure

Improving the quality of the windows and the ground plane would go a LOOONG way towards making the atrium an asset rather than a liability, or a place of visual relief rather than an eyesore... Reducing the number of windows and doing nicer custom windows would be a really nice way to improve the space and would be a more affordable than you might think.

SOMTHING I WOULD DO

JARDIN INTERIOR

Favourite - lets loads of light in and lovely timber tones to match floorboards.

Chandelier

Natural light

Small atrium right off of dining, i would have it facing outside facing the backyard however

atrium

Love the inner courtyard.

Love it! Just needs a Chair

Central glassed in courtyard.

atrium

Light

ic bahce 02 gunes isigi geliyor

enclosed atrium

Don't like wood frame

outside area

Nice to look

Love this glass courtyard

green house in the middle of house natural sunlight beautiful

Courtyard

Dining area

nuestra lampara

c

floor with stepping stones

indoor greenhouse

Black rock fill

brings outdoors inside

Lightwell

courtyard, nothing about the choices inside.

Courtyard

Indoor outdoor room

Atrium1

Lightwell

COURTYARD

townhouse

Courtyard so cool,

Courtyard

Stairs

frame atrium in wood

casa Cancún

Sun room

I love the middel part of the house

para el baño

Indoor garden

interior courtyard

dining table

Sunroom

placement of the stairs complents the garden perfectly

Dining pendant light.

Inner ct yard

Cool skylight green house

Patio interior

courtyard

Courtyard

Atrium

chandelier

great inernal courtyard

skywell + stairs

inside courtyard, cool

atrium

reminds me of my childhood home entrance

Interior atrium

A tunnel of sun piercing straight into the center of the house? Yes, please. I don't know what's cooler — looking in from the outside or looking out from the inside. Either way, this courtyard is pretty spectacular.

atrium

Light

yeah, Baby! THAT is what I'm talking about!

chandelier

too much regression, but would have liked to play with this idea at the beginning

Wood color

I love the inside garden/outdoor space concept

Dream

behoort niet tot de 'traveen weghalen' , wel probleemoplossend voor lichtinval

Atriumsbereich im Wohnzimmer.

mod 2

Cool

courtyard and table/chairs

atrium

courtyard

great source of light

My dream house includes a courtyard right in the center, where all the action happens.

courtyard

atrium

I love the way the atrium lets light into the interior of the house.

Courtyard in the center of the house!!!!!! Fantastic!!!

sunny courtyard inside of house

chandelier

Skylight

clever

The sun shining

Not sure this is successful, but I include it as a study in bringing a piece of the outdoors inside. Seems cut off and a little uncomfortable inside there. To go inside is to get into a fishbowl on display of the whole surrounding room. Would be more successful with an interior screening element of some kind, even if only offering a corner of hiddenness.

courtyard

court yard concept

inside outdoor room

Outdoors in

central courtyard

Underground

Neat sunlit room

Have always loved an atrium!

orange

is this possible above the attic stairs??

atrium

Center courtyard - kitties would love sunning themselves here!

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Love an internal courtyard

descendo da nossa varanda para o subsolo envidraçado...

atrium for cottage office

foyer

Chandelier