Home Design Ideas
Blackband Design
This Coastal Inspired Farmhouse with bay views puts a casual and sophisticated twist on beach living.
Interior Design by Blackband Design and Home Build by Arbor Real Estate.
Overmyer Architects
Landscape
Photo Credit: Maxwell Mackenzie
Photo of a huge mediterranean side yard stone garden path in Miami.
Photo of a huge mediterranean side yard stone garden path in Miami.
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Crisp Architects
Rob Karosis
Inspiration for a country alcove shower remodel in New York with recessed-panel cabinets, green cabinets and beige walls
Inspiration for a country alcove shower remodel in New York with recessed-panel cabinets, green cabinets and beige walls
Inspiration for a rustic kitchen remodel in Burlington with a farmhouse sink, beaded inset cabinets and beige cabinets
Austin Patterson Disston Architects
Tria Giovan
Example of a french country dark wood floor dining room design in New York with blue walls
Example of a french country dark wood floor dining room design in New York with blue walls
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & Design
A local Houston art collector hired us to create a low maintenance, sophisticated, contemporary landscape design. She wanted her property to compliment her eclectic taste in architecture, outdoor sculpture, and modern art. Her house was built with a minimalist approach to decoration, emphasizing right angles and windows instead of architectural keynotes. The west wing of the house was only one story, while the east wing was two-story. The windows in both wings were larger than usual, so that visitors could see her art collection from the home’s exterior. Near one of the large rear windows, there was an abstract metal sculpture designed in the form of a spiral.
When she initially contacted us, the surrounding property had only a few trees and indigenous grass as vegetation. This was actually a good beginning point with us, because it allowed us to develop a contemporary landscape design that featured a very linear, crisp look supportive of the home and its contents. We began by planting a garden around the large contemporary sculpture near the window. Landscape designers planted horsetail reed under windows, along the sides of the home, and around the corners. This vegetation is very resilient and hardy, and requires little trimming, weeding, or mulching. This helped unite the diverse elements of sculpture, contemporary architecture, and landscape design into a more fluid harmony that preserved the proportions of each unique element, but eliminated any tendency for the elements to clash with one another.
We then added two stonework designs to the landscape surrounding the contemporary art collection and home. The first was a linear walkway we build from concrete pads purchased through a retail vendor as a cost-saving benefit to our client. We created this walkway to follow the perimeter of the home so that visitors could walk around the entire property and admire the outdoor sculptures and the collections of modern art visible through the windows. This was especially enjoyable at night, when the entire home was brightly lit from within.
To add a touch of tranquility and quite repose to the stark right angles of the home and surrounding contemporary landscape, we designed a special seating area toward the northwest corner of the property. We wanted to create a sense of contemplation in this area, so we departed from the linear and angular designs of the surrounding landscape and established a theme of circular geometry. We laid down gravel as ground cover, then placed large, circular pads arranged like giant stepping stones that led up to a stone patio filled with chairs. The shape of the granite pads and the contours of the graveled area further complimented the spirals and turns in the outdoor metal sculpture, and balanced the entire contemporary landscape design with proportional geometric forms of lines, angles, and curves.
This particular contemporary landscape design also has a sense of movement attached to it. All stonework leads to a destination of some sort. The linear pathway provides a guided tour around the home, garden, and modern art collection. The granite pathway stones create movement toward separate space where the entire experience of art, vegetation, and architecture can be viewed and experienced as a unity.
Contemporary landscaping designs like create form out of feeling by using basic geometric forms and variations of forms. Sometimes very stark forms are used to create a sense of absolutism or contrast. At other times, forms are blended, or even distorted to suggest a sense of complex emotion, or a sense of multi-dimensional reality. The exact nature of the design is always highly subjective, and developed on a case-by-case basis with the client.
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Trendy walk-in shower photo in New York with an integrated sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, a one-piece toilet and white walls
Trendy walk-in shower photo in New York with an integrated sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, a one-piece toilet and white walls
Morrison Interiors
Photo by Rod Foster
Mid-sized transitional master gray tile and marble tile light wood floor and beige floor bathroom photo in Orange County with recessed-panel cabinets, gray cabinets, white walls, an undermount sink, marble countertops and a hinged shower door
Mid-sized transitional master gray tile and marble tile light wood floor and beige floor bathroom photo in Orange County with recessed-panel cabinets, gray cabinets, white walls, an undermount sink, marble countertops and a hinged shower door
Normandy Remodeling
This traditional white bathroom beautifully incorporates white subway tile and marble accents. The black and white marble floor compliments the black tiles used to frame the decorative marble shower accent tiles and mirror. Completed with chrome fixtures, this black and white bathroom is undoubtedly elegant.
Learn more about Chris Ebert, the Normandy Remodeling Designer who created this space, and other projects that Chris has created: https://www.normandyremodeling.com/team/christopher-ebert
Photo Credit: Normandy Remodeling
Flagg Coastal Homes
This is the ocean view second story living room which opens to the ocean view deck, dining room and kitchen.
Example of a beach style open concept living room design in San Diego
Example of a beach style open concept living room design in San Diego
Historical Concepts
Side porch at the 2012 Southern Living Idea House in Senoia, Georgia, with a traditional "haint blue" ceiling.
Photo: Laurey W. Glenn (courtesy Southern Living)
Interior Design: Tracery
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Laura Moss
Inspiration for a large timeless master drop-in bathtub remodel in New York with raised-panel cabinets and gray walls
Inspiration for a large timeless master drop-in bathtub remodel in New York with raised-panel cabinets and gray walls
Benvenuti and Stein
Curved Pantry with lateral opening doors and walnut counter top.
Norman Sizemore Photographer
Inspiration for a timeless u-shaped brown floor kitchen pantry remodel in Chicago with open cabinets, white cabinets, wood countertops and brown countertops
Inspiration for a timeless u-shaped brown floor kitchen pantry remodel in Chicago with open cabinets, white cabinets, wood countertops and brown countertops
Mary Cook
Taylor Photography
Elegant dark wood floor living room photo in Philadelphia with gray walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace and a wall-mounted tv
Elegant dark wood floor living room photo in Philadelphia with gray walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace and a wall-mounted tv
Cutting Edge Construction & Woodworks, Inc.
The completed project, with 75" TV, a 72" ethanol burning fireplace, marble slab facing with split-faced granite mantel. The flanking cabinets are 9' tall each, and are made of wenge veneer with dimmable LED backlighting behind frosted glass panels. a 6' tall person is at eye level with the bottom of the TV, which features a Sony 750 watt sound bar and wireless sub-woofer. Photo by Scot Trueblood, Paradise Aerial Imagery
Richard Leggin Architects
Anice Hoachlander/Hoachlander-Davis Photography
Inspiration for a large rustic backyard stone patio remodel in DC Metro with a fire pit and a roof extension
Inspiration for a large rustic backyard stone patio remodel in DC Metro with a fire pit and a roof extension
Home Design Ideas
Randy Angell Designs
Pool fountain - mid-sized contemporary backyard rectangular pool fountain idea in Dallas with decking
Mimi & Hill interiors
Toni Deis
Inspiration for a mid-sized transitional master carpeted, gray floor and wall paneling bedroom remodel in New York with blue walls and no fireplace
Inspiration for a mid-sized transitional master carpeted, gray floor and wall paneling bedroom remodel in New York with blue walls and no fireplace
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