Example of an arts and crafts home design design in Melbourne

This project is a carefully designed addition to an existing home, created for a passionate gardener with the goal of seamlessly integrating indoor and outdoor spaces. Rather than treating the new structure as a separate element, the design dissolves hard boundaries, allowing the garden to extend into the home and become an ever-present part of daily life

The house dissolves the barriers between indoors and out by integrating sliding doors and operable windows to facilitate natural ventilation which also creates an uninterrupted flow from the shared space to the infinity edge pool. (Photography by Lance Gerber)

Living room - modern living room idea

A dining area wrapped on two sides by floor to ceiling white framed sliding glass doors that dissolve the boundary between interior and backyard.
Breakfast nook - transitional light wood floor breakfast nook idea in Houston with white walls

A soft ivory-white base subdued by a striking flow of grey veins that dissolve into the stone, accentuated by muted green and yellow crystalline layers for an authentic mineral effect, capturing the clouded translucency of marble, in Honed finish.

The OASIS bathroom dissolves boundaries, bringing the outside world indoors. Coming home: finding yourself, refuelling and recovering. At one with nature.

Light and open stair dissolves the boundary between the living and dining rooms.
Transitional open concept brown floor living room photo in DC Metro with white walls, a standard fireplace and a tile fireplace

Floor to ceiling and wall to wall glass dissolve the inside and outside worlds. Oversized lift and slide doors to garden. Pendant lights and dining room table designed by architect.

A tongue and groove wood plank ceiling that slopes across the room, sliders topped by a fixed clerestory transom that follows the ceiling's rise, dissolving the corner to the covered balcony.

A 6,000 square foot 2-story new home complex in Milpitas was designed to facilitate the owners’ large business parties and gatherings, to have rooms for the kids to come back to upstairs, and a ground floor master suite with a huge walk-in closet. Several separate structures make up the dwelling: The main house, 3-car garage with carport for overflow parking, and a separate entertainment and recreation building separated by a courtyard from the main house. The business activities include gatherings in the hundreds of people, so parking was maximized and guests can flow in through a separate gate to party in the courtyard and recreation building. Inside this structure is a wet bar, billiard room, workout gym and home theater. The main house ground floor has formal and informal living rooms, open kitchen and master suite with views and expansive windows in every direction. The house is sited on the crestline of a hill with views of the San Francisco Bay and private golf course below. The indoor-outdoor aspect of the house is further accentuated with outside living and dining areas. High ceilings and expansive glass walls dissolve the sense of enclosure taking advantage of the site’s openness and privacy. The owner’s suite is downstairs in anticipation of aging-in-place, and upstairs there are three bedrooms and four bathrooms plus a sitting area lounge and casual TV loft area. The house sits on one acre at the top of a low hill range overlooking Milpitas. The city was very cognizant of the importance of keeping a low profile at this crestline and required extensive story poles and photo evidence of the proper height and siting so as not to be seen from certain selected vantage points. GENERAL CONTRACTOR: JCD Builders Inc. LANDSCAPE DESIGN: Morf Chang Landscape Architecture / ODS Architecture PHOTOGRAPHS: Paul Dyer Photography

This indoor-outdoor lounge dissolves boundaries between nature and structure, with open walls revealing lush plantings and a marble-clad summer kitchen beyond.

A tongue and groove wood plank ceiling that slopes across the room, sliders topped by a fixed clerestory transom that follows the ceiling's rise, dissolving the corner to the covered balcony.

A tongue and groove wood plank ceiling that slopes across the room, sliders topped by a fixed clerestory transom that follows the ceiling's rise, dissolving the corner to the covered balcony.

The floor carries its own ornamental panel with fish worked into the field, laid so the design reads through the water rather than dissolving in it.
Pool - mediterranean pool idea in Phoenix

The Atherton House is a family compound for a professional couple in the tech industry, and their two teenage children. After living in Singapore, then Hong Kong, and building homes there, they looked forward to continuing their search for a new place to start a life and set down roots. The site is located on Atherton Avenue on a flat, 1 acre lot. The neighboring lots are of a similar size, and are filled with mature planting and gardens. The brief on this site was to create a house that would comfortably accommodate the busy lives of each of the family members, as well as provide opportunities for wonder and awe. Views on the site are internal. Our goal was to create an indoor- outdoor home that embraced the benign California climate. The building was conceived as a classic “H” plan with two wings attached by a double height entertaining space. The “H” shape allows for alcoves of the yard to be embraced by the mass of the building, creating different types of exterior space. The two wings of the home provide some sense of enclosure and privacy along the side property lines. The south wing contains three bedroom suites at the second level, as well as laundry. At the first level there is a guest suite facing east, powder room and a Library facing west. The north wing is entirely given over to the Primary suite at the top level, including the main bedroom, dressing and bathroom. The bedroom opens out to a roof terrace to the west, overlooking a pool and courtyard below. At the ground floor, the north wing contains the family room, kitchen and dining room. The family room and dining room each have pocketing sliding glass doors that dissolve the boundary between inside and outside. Connecting the wings is a double high living space meant to be comfortable, delightful and awe-inspiring. A custom fabricated two story circular stair of steel and glass connects the upper level to the main level, and down to the basement “lounge” below. An acrylic and steel bridge begins near one end of the stair landing and flies 40 feet to the children’s bedroom wing. People going about their day moving through the stair and bridge become both observed and observer. The front (EAST) wall is the all important receiving place for guests and family alike. There the interplay between yin and yang, weathering steel and the mature olive tree, empower the entrance. Most other materials are white and pure. The mechanical systems are efficiently combined hydronic heating and cooling, with no forced air required.

A full height shiplap fireplace surround framing a black trimmed direct vent firebox. The rear wall dissolves into a black framed multi panel sliding glass system with transom windows above.

A full height shiplap fireplace surround framing a black trimmed direct vent firebox. The rear wall dissolves into a black framed multi panel sliding glass system with transom windows above.