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Deck - transitional deck idea in Portland
Deck - transitional deck idea in Portland
Jensen Architects
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Debbie
Farmhouse Kitchen Style In Your Home I've always dreamed of having a big open farmhouse kitchen, with a giant galvanized sink and butcher block as far as the eye can see. But since it looks as if we won't be moving to a farmhouse anytime soon, I've been contemplating simple ways to bring farmhouse style into the average home kitchen . Try these relatively easy ways to incorporate the details of farmhouse style in your own kitchen at home: • Use mason jars. Mason jars are inexpensive and pretty; use them as drinking glasses, as vases, as candle holders, or even as light fixtures . Or try this DIY and make a mason jar soap dispenser! The possibilities are endless. • Consider a farmhouse sink. Deep, wide farmhouse sinks are as practical as they are attractive, with lots of room for washing large pots and pans. • Vintage pots and pans. Stock up on vintage pots and pans at flea markets and hang them on an iron rack. Pots too beat up to use can be purely decorative, but durable materials like copper and cast-iron should still be functional, even if the pots are old. • Vintage (or vintage-style) appliances. Vintage stoves are often available on craigslist; just be sure to incorporate the cost of hiring a good repairman to give the stove a tune-up. For refrigerators, it's best to go with a new model that looks old (for efficiency's sake); check out some sources for retro-style fridges here . • Consider salvaged hardware. Salvaged hardware can give a new kitchen that nice worn-in farmhouse look. If your style is super-eclectic, you might even try a mismatched set. • Keep fresh flowers around. Nothing creates the relaxed, cheerful feel of a farmhouse kitchen more than a loose bunch of fresh flowers. Choose a simple container, like a galvanized steel pail or a watering can, to complete the look. What are your favorite details in a farmhouse kitchen? Feel free to add your own ideas below! Comments (7) i really like these! Much more my style than the modern or the HG
Debbie
Farmhouse Kitchen Style In Your Home I've always dreamed of having a big open farmhouse kitchen, with a giant galvanized sink and butcher block as far as the eye can see. But since it looks as if we won't be moving to a farmhouse anytime soon, I've been contemplating simple ways to bring farmhouse style into the average home kitchen . Try these relatively easy ways to incorporate the details of farmhouse style in your own kitchen at home: • Use mason jars. Mason jars are inexpensive and pretty; use them as drinking glasses, as vases, as candle holders, or even as light fixtures . Or try this DIY and make a mason jar soap dispenser! The possibilities are endless. • Consider a farmhouse sink. Deep, wide farmhouse sinks are as practical as they are attractive, with lots of room for washing large pots and pans. • Vintage pots and pans. Stock up on vintage pots and pans at flea markets and hang them on an iron rack. Pots too beat up to use can be purely decorative, but durable materials like copper and cast-iron should still be functional, even if the pots are old. • Vintage (or vintage-style) appliances. Vintage stoves are often available on craigslist; just be sure to incorporate the cost of hiring a good repairman to give the stove a tune-up. For refrigerators, it's best to go with a new model that looks old (for efficiency's sake); check out some sources for retro-style fridges here . • Consider salvaged hardware. Salvaged hardware can give a new kitchen that nice worn-in farmhouse look. If your style is super-eclectic, you might even try a mismatched set. • Keep fresh flowers around. Nothing creates the relaxed, cheerful feel of a farmhouse kitchen more than a loose bunch of fresh flowers. Choose a simple container, like a galvanized steel pail or a watering can, to complete the look. What are your favorite details in a farmhouse kitchen? Feel free to add your own ideas below! Comments (7) i really like these! Much more my style than the modern or the HG
The Garden Route Company
A Studio Garden retreat for the contemplative writter. Our goal was to make the most use out of this small San Francisco back garden. We restored an old garden shed which is now the clients writting studio. We used abundant plantings to shield the view of the other buidlings near by.
Griffin Enright Architects
Front entry showing arrival along custom window box.
This is an example of a mid-sized modern partial sun front yard concrete paver landscaping in Los Angeles with a fire pit.
This is an example of a mid-sized modern partial sun front yard concrete paver landscaping in Los Angeles with a fire pit.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & Design
This shade arbor, located in The Woodlands, TX north of Houston, spans the entire length of the back yard. It combines a number of elements with custom structures that were constructed to emulate specific aspects of a Zen garden. The homeowner wanted a low-maintenance garden whose beauty could withstand the tough seasonal weather that strikes the area at various times of the year. He also desired a mood-altering aesthetic that would relax the senses and calm the mind. Most importantly, he wanted this meditative environment completely shielded from the outside world so he could find serenity in total privacy.
The most unique design element in this entire project is the roof of the shade arbor itself. It features a “negative space” leaf pattern that was designed in a software suite and cut out of the metal with a water jet cutter. Each form in the pattern is loosely suggestive of either a leaf, or a cluster of leaves.
These small, negative spaces cut from the metal are the source of the structure’ powerful visual and emotional impact. During the day, sunlight shines down and highlights columns, furniture, plantings, and gravel with a blend of dappling and shade that make you feel like you are sitting under the branches of a tree.
At night, the effects are even more brilliant. Skillfully concealed lights mounted on the trusses reflect off the steel in places, while in other places they penetrate the negative spaces, cascading brilliant patterns of ambient light down on vegetation, hardscape, and water alike.
The shade arbor shelters two gravel patios that are almost identical in space. The patio closest to the living room features a mini outdoor dining room, replete with tables and chairs. The patio is ornamented with a blend of ornamental grass, a small human figurine sculpture, and mid-level impact ground cover.
Gravel was chosen as the preferred hardscape material because of its Zen-like connotations. It is also remarkably soft to walk on, helping to set the mood for a relaxed afternoon in the dappled shade of gently filtered sunlight.
The second patio, spaced 15 feet away from the first, resides adjacent to the home at the opposite end of the shade arbor. Like its twin, it is also ornamented with ground cover borders, ornamental grasses, and a large urn identical to the first. Seating here is even more private and contemplative. Instead of a table and chairs, there is a large decorative concrete bench cut in the shape of a giant four-leaf clover.
Spanning the distance between these two patios, a bluestone walkway connects the two spaces. Along the way, its borders are punctuated in places by low-level ornamental grasses, a large flowering bush, another sculpture in the form of human faces, and foxtail ferns that spring up from a spread of river rock that punctuates the ends of the walkway.
The meditative quality of the shade arbor is reinforced by two special features. The first of these is a disappearing fountain that flows from the top of a large vertical stone embedded like a monolith in the other edges of the river rock. The drains and pumps to this fountain are carefully concealed underneath the covering of smooth stones, and the sound of the water is only barely perceptible, as if it is trying to force you to let go of your thoughts to hear it.
A large piece of core-10 steel, which is deliberately intended to rust quickly, rises up like an arced wall from behind the fountain stone. The dark color of the metal helps the casual viewer catch just a glimpse of light reflecting off the slow trickle of water that runs down the side of the stone into the river rock bed.
To complete the quiet moment that the shade arbor is intended to invoke, a thick wall of cypress trees rises up on all sides of the yard, completely shutting out the disturbances of the world with a comforting wall of living greenery that comforts the thoughts and emotions.
Legal Eagle Contractors
Score a direct hit for this walk-in shower - with no curb it is ready for aging-in-place considerations. Decked out with Kohler's multiple body sprays, a hand-held shower head on a slider bar, and a Roma steam unit, this shower drains with a horizontal grate drain near the bench. Calculated to eliminate any possibility of water escaping, the same floor material was designed to slope gently and efficiently into the almost-hidden drain. A pivoting transom allows steam to escape at the appropriate time, when the high cfm vent fan nearby is activated. The beauty of the shower is enhanced by an illuminated marble wall mosaic and a marble-covered bench upon which to contemplate it (see other photo). Photo: Dan Bawden.
Mark English Architects, AIA
Example of a trendy bamboo floor and beige floor dining room design in San Francisco
Dickinson Cabinetry
Flush Inset Shaker Kitchen
Inspiration for a timeless medium tone wood floor dining room remodel in San Francisco
Inspiration for a timeless medium tone wood floor dining room remodel in San Francisco
Grandeur Hills Group,Inc.
As you can see, in this bedroom there are few furniture pieces including a small bench, luxury bed, and a miniature bedside table. Our interior designers placed there just the most necessary furniture pieces in order to make the room look spacious.
However, the bedroom has a great number of important advantages including a beautiful wide window that allows daylight and fresh pure air to easily enter the room space.
Contact Grandeur Hills Group interior designers as soon as possible and make your home stand out and surprise your friends and neighbors with its majestic views.
PMWArchitects
ROOFTOP HOUSE II (1986) A House at a corner behind a wall on a roof in a city THE PLAN... • A programmatically dense and complex 2600 s.f. top-floor renovation for a young couple in Manhattan's Chelsea district. It consists of four different functional zones including a new “pent-house” studio (designed as a terminus). • Each zone is particularized (yet linked to others) by the use and detailing of four materials manipulated within an off-white plaster/stucco envelope. The materials though constantly reiterated are encoded by the detailing (within, on, over, under, adjacent to, etc. one another) to specify notions of formality/informality; public/private; dark/light but, perhaps, most importantly: here/there. • The roof top structure itself is an object in the roofscape. Its primary role is to provide for a contemplative, enclosing and private retreat for the owner's writing room. An additional function was to provide a south-facing sun room and private access to the roof (half of which the owners controlled, the other half of which was available to the building at large). MATERIALS... • Wood: mahogany and maple • Metal: aluminum and brass • Stone: honed black slate and composite tiles • Glass: pigmented, wire, and block
Gray & Walter, Ltd.
James Yochum Photography
Example of a large eclectic guest carpeted bedroom design in Chicago with a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace
Example of a large eclectic guest carpeted bedroom design in Chicago with a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace
Rebecca Schnier Architecture
Rebecca Schnier Architecture, Oakland, California
Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary partial sun backyard concrete paver water fountain landscape in San Francisco.
Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary partial sun backyard concrete paver water fountain landscape in San Francisco.
R.S. Walsh Landscaping, Inc.
This unique 2.75 acre property, located on the Roosevelt Channel on Captiva Island, was transformed from a barren construction site into a tropical garden that would rival some botanical gardens. The homeowners are garden enthusiasts and collaborated closely with Bob Walsh and the landscape team to create a variety of lush landscape gardens including; a Tropical Flowering Tree Garden, Moonlight & Scent Garden, Citrus & Edible Garden, Specimen Palm Gardens, Tropical Shade Gardens, Butterfly Gardens, and Waterfall Gardens with lagoon pools for Koi fish. Outdoor living was of primary consideration as well. The Seminole Indian Chickee Hut overlooks a private Island Beach with hammocks to offer a retreat for entertaining and relaxation while a 42 foot circular Stone Labyrinth is a place for meditation and contemplation. Moon and accent landscape lighting allow the numerous pathways and gardens to be enjoyed well beyond sunset.
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The challenge of merging contemporary design with a classic traditional interior is emblematic of the vitality experienced in the evolution of Philadelphia’s urban fabric. The design of this Center City apartment engages a rich discourse between the new and the existing, focusing on areas of the residence that contradicted the new owners’ aesthetic and lifestyle.
The elevator opens to the center of the spacious living area that includes the foyer, kitchen and living room. The serene, geometric character of the foyer enhances the sense of arrival – offering a moment to contemplate the owners’ art, the interplay of the old and the new, and the subtleties of light.
The kitchen, while fully functional, willingly and quietly participates in the composition. Symmetry and asymmetry are seamlessly woven.
The depth and endurance of daily experiences are the ingredients that transform architecture into a vital framework for living. As it relates to a home, the framework requires a resonate balance of comfort and drama, achieved here with a cast of dynamic materials and details that subtly collaborate in simple composition.
Barry Halkin and Todd Mason Photography
Contemplative Construction, L.L.C.
Contemplative Construction, L.L.C.
Elegant bathroom photo in Denver
Elegant bathroom photo in Denver
Valerie McCaskill Dickman
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This is an example of an eclectic landscaping in Dallas.
This is an example of an eclectic landscaping in Dallas.
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