Tuscan entryway photo in San Diego

Bedroom - large contemporary master dark wood floor and brown floor bedroom idea in San Francisco with gray walls, a standard fireplace and a wood fireplace surround

Family room - small contemporary porcelain tile family room idea in Miami with white walls

Concrete wall water features
Patio - contemporary patio idea in Salt Lake City with a fire pit

Arteriors Jarrod 1 Light Large Pendant Transitional 1-light hand carved wooden drum shade pendant in whitewash finish with tiny perforations for detail and texture. Topped with an interior mirror allowing light to disperse downward and through the holes across the surface of the shade. Additional chain CHN-947.

Elegant enclosed medium tone wood floor family room photo in Minneapolis with white walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

The random dispersion of color and granite particles creates the beauty of Umbriano’s unique mottled surface, which resembles the appearance of natural granite. Umbriano’s non-slip, stain-resistant surface is an ideal selection for driveways, pool decks, patios, commercial plazas and offices.

The homeowners also wanted to ensure the new sun shade pergola would feel like an extension of the home’s colonial style, while allowing then to move from the indoor space to the patio without getting wet. With no externally visible hardware, the clean exterior lines of the Azenco R-Blade blended perfectly with the home’s traditional colonial stylings. To ensure complete all-weather rain protection, the design team overlapped the pergola roof with the home’s roofline to provide the same seamless feel as a pergola attached to the house. Covering this massive patio also meant the captured rain waters needed to be dispersed to keep the patio below dry. To accommodate the heavy anticipated flow, the hidden internal gutter system split runoff from the six pergola zones and deposited it in numerous surrounding planter beds.

The concept of the garden was based on, “Brazilian Hummingbirds II”, a painting the MFAH has in its collection by the artist, Martin Johnson Heade. Heade travelled to the rainforest in Brazil between 1863 and 1864 and painted a series of small paintings depicting hummingbirds in the lush foliage of the Brazilian rainforests. His painting, Brazilian Hummingbirds, II, evokes the sultry atmosphere of the Brazilian rainforest with its misty quality and subtle lighting. His interest in ornithology can be seen in his detailed depictions of the hummingbirds. The garden location is adjacent to one of Buffalo Bayou’s steep, wooded ravines. The ravine, with its native plant communities and topography, is a perfect back- drop for a garden with a rainforest theme. Because the date for the garden opening coincides with the spring migration of hummingbirds into our region, the hummingbird theme seemed appropriate for this garden competition. The garden will include a variety of tropical plants native to the rainforests such as bromeliads, orchids, heliconia, and passion fruit flowers. In addition, native plants to our region such as the Sabal Minor and Southern Wood Fern will be included to integrate plants that are found nearby in the ravine. The Heliconia flowers produce considerable amounts of nectar, a high energy food essential for hummingbirds who are known to consume three times their bodyweight in a single day. In addition to nectar producing plants, there will be hummingbird nest materials dispersed throughout the garden. A misty quality to the garden will be provided by a misting system, and tropical colored lights will be lit at night for special events. Visitors to the garden will have a unique sensory experience reminiscent to that of Heade’s travels to Brazil’s rainforests.

Rock wall with annual and perennial flowers dispersed among the boulders. Private Residence in Summit County, CO Company: Neils Lunceford, Inc. Website: www.neilslunceford.com Phone: 970-468-0340 Photo Credit: Dan Skinner

The random dispersion of color and granite particles creates the beauty of Umbriano’s unique mottled surface, which resembles the appearance of natural granite. Umbriano’s non-slip, stain-resistant surface is an ideal selection for driveways, pool decks, patios, commercial plazas and offices.

The concept of the garden was based on, “Brazilian Hummingbirds II”, a painting the MFAH has in its collection by the artist, Martin Johnson Heade. Heade travelled to the rainforest in Brazil between 1863 and 1864 and painted a series of small paintings depicting hummingbirds in the lush foliage of the Brazilian rainforests. His painting, Brazilian Hummingbirds, II, evokes the sultry atmosphere of the Brazilian rainforest with its misty quality and subtle lighting. His interest in ornithology can be seen in his detailed depictions of the hummingbirds. The garden location is adjacent to one of Buffalo Bayou’s steep, wooded ravines. The ravine, with its native plant communities and topography, is a perfect back- drop for a garden with a rainforest theme. Because the date for the garden opening coincides with the spring migration of hummingbirds into our region, the hummingbird theme seemed appropriate for this garden competition. The garden will include a variety of tropical plants native to the rainforests such as bromeliads, orchids, heliconia, and passion fruit flowers. In addition, native plants to our region such as the Sabal Minor and Southern Wood Fern will be included to integrate plants that are found nearby in the ravine. The Heliconia flowers produce considerable amounts of nectar, a high energy food essential for hummingbirds who are known to consume three times their bodyweight in a single day. In addition to nectar producing plants, there will be hummingbird nest materials dispersed throughout the garden. A misty quality to the garden will be provided by a misting system, and tropical colored lights will be lit at night for special events. Visitors to the garden will have a unique sensory experience reminiscent to that of Heade’s travels to Brazil’s rainforests.

Cascade Mountain, made from the truly unique, visually stunning species called Kupay, provides an abundance of natural color variation that is sure to bring a whole new character to any home. This beautiful natural variation gives each color a whole different life with its light sapwood boards as the canvas married up with a natural dark to black mineral as randomly dispersed as each tree produced it. This highly unique species married up with a subtle timeworn surface texture on 4 proven industry-leading color options are easily compatible with a wide range of furniture, styles, and tastes. As mentioned before, this floor can have such vast natural color variation that it needs to be clearly communicated that the moldings aren’t designed to match to each color within the floor, but to the lightest shade in the varying pallet. In the flooring industry, there’s no shortage of competition. If you’re looking for hardwoods, you’ll find thousands of product options and hundreds of people willing to install them for you. The same goes for tile, carpet, laminate, etc. At Fantastic Floors, our mission is to provide a quality product, at a competitive price, with a level of service that exceeds our competition. We don’t “sell” floors. We help you find the perfect floors for your family in our design center or bring the showroom to you free of charge. We take the time to listen to your needs and help you select the best flooring option to fit your budget and lifestyle. We can answer any questions you have about how your new floors are engineered and why they make sense for you…all in the comfort of our home or yours. We work with designers, retail customers, commercial builders, and real estate investors to improve an existing space or create one that is totally new and unique...and we’d love to work with you.

This spa with specialty coping around it is every home owners dream. Walk out into your backyard to your very own retreat away from the hustle and bustle of the day. Equipped with an automatic safety cover and automatic heat/chemical dispersal this spa pretty much takes care of itself!

Our Demonstration Home allows clients to experience all facets of home lighting design and control from inside to exterior. Our Lutron Homeworks Lighting Control system automates the exterior areas and several interior areas for a consistent look, energy savings and safety. By integrating recessed lighting at the peaks of the roof and under soffit areas, we are able to showcase the architectural appeal & texture of the brick and stone. Support lighting is accomplished through an embedded up-light in the driveway to illuminate the address block. Several sconces and landscape lighting provide the final layer of lighting design.

This spa with specialty coping around it is every home owners dream. Walk out into your backyard to your very own retreat away from the hustle and bustle of the day. Equipped with an automatic safety cover and automatic heat/chemical dispersal this spa pretty much takes care of itself!

Brynn Burns Photography
Huge transitional carpeted basement photo in Kansas City with gray walls, a standard fireplace and a stone fireplace

This country estate was inspired by the stone cottages dotting the beautiful English Cotswolds. With a large parcel of land, the design of the house was stretched along the east – west axis to maximize the natural light and views of the serene setting. Main spaces were created with offsets to allow multiple walls of windows and combining this effect, tall ceilings with floor to ceiling windows allow the natural light to be dispersed throughout the house. After many discussions with our clients, we were able to understand the living patterns, likes and dislikes of the family. With this understanding, the design was articulated to best accommodate their lifestyle in a beautiful and uplifting manner.

Litchfield, Ct. 2020 This custom built tile stove /kachelofen / piec kaflowy, burns one load of wood (approx. 30 lbs.) every 12 hours to heat 1200 sq. ft. Warmth is dispersed throughout the home through radiant heating.