Detail close-up displaying the core craftsmanship of Shaker-style cabinetry: iconic recessed five-piece door panels, smooth moisture-proof paint finish, and neatly fitted metal pull handles. Durable cabinet structure and precise edge sealing are optimized to adapt to West African tropical humid climate, ensuring long-term service life for residential apartment kitchens.

This home gym design offers a sleek, modern space that promotes fitness and relaxation. Strategic lighting ensures even illumination across the space for comfort and safety. Designed for functionality and style, the gym’s clean lines, open layout, and durable materials are designed to optimize at-home fitness. The adjacent bathroom is designed with relaxation in mind. The spa-inspired finishes and natural textures make it the perfect complement to the gym space, tailored for daily routines and self-care.

This home gym design offers a sleek, modern space that promotes fitness and relaxation. Strategic lighting ensures even illumination across the space for comfort and safety. Designed for functionality and style, the gym’s clean lines, open layout, and durable materials are designed to optimize at-home fitness. The adjacent bathroom is designed with relaxation in mind. The spa-inspired finishes and natural textures make it the perfect complement to the gym space, tailored for daily routines and self-care.

The Forever Patio Edgewater Loveseat by NorthCape International is a beautifully crafted piece of furniture that blends contemporary design with optimal comfort, ideal for smaller spaces or as an addition to a larger outdoor ensemble. Its compact yet spacious design comfortably accommodates two people, making it perfect for intimate conversations under the stars or enjoying a quiet morning with a cup of coffee. The clean lines and modern silhouette of the Edgewater Loveseat ensure that it complements any outdoor decor, bringing both style and functionality to your patio or garden.

This home gym design offers a sleek, modern space that promotes fitness and relaxation. Strategic lighting ensures even illumination across the space for comfort and safety. Designed for functionality and style, the gym’s clean lines, open layout, and durable materials are designed to optimize at-home fitness. The adjacent bathroom is designed with relaxation in mind. The spa-inspired finishes and natural textures make it the perfect complement to the gym space, tailored for daily routines and self-care.

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This home gym design offers a sleek, modern space that promotes fitness and relaxation. Strategic lighting ensures even illumination across the space for comfort and safety. Designed for functionality and style, the gym’s clean lines, open layout, and durable materials are designed to optimize at-home fitness. The adjacent bathroom is designed with relaxation in mind. The spa-inspired finishes and natural textures make it the perfect complement to the gym space, tailored for daily routines and self-care.

Windows reaching a grand 12’ in height fully capture the allurement of the area, bringing the outdoors into each space. Furthermore, the large 16’ multi-paneled doors provide the constant awareness of forest life just beyond. The unique roof lines are mimicked throughout the home with trapezoid transom windows, ensuring optimal daylighting and design interest. A standing-seam metal, clads the multi-tiered shed-roof line. The dark aesthetic of the roof anchors the home and brings a cohesion to the exterior design. The contemporary exterior is comprised of cedar shake, horizontal and vertical wood siding, and aluminum clad panels creating dimension while remaining true to the natural environment.

This home gym design offers a sleek, modern space that promotes fitness and relaxation. Strategic lighting ensures even illumination across the space for comfort and safety. Designed for functionality and style, the gym’s clean lines, open layout, and durable materials are designed to optimize at-home fitness. The adjacent bathroom is designed with relaxation in mind. The spa-inspired finishes and natural textures make it the perfect complement to the gym space, tailored for daily routines and self-care.

This home gym design offers a sleek, modern space that promotes fitness and relaxation. Strategic lighting ensures even illumination across the space for comfort and safety. Designed for functionality and style, the gym’s clean lines, open layout, and durable materials are designed to optimize at-home fitness. The adjacent bathroom is designed with relaxation in mind. The spa-inspired finishes and natural textures make it the perfect complement to the gym space, tailored for daily routines and self-care.

Less formal and more comfortable than a living room, and ,more importantly, optimized for family fun and social gatherings—there's a reason the family room is the most popular spot in the house. To ensure that the family room was a space everyone could use and relax in, The Design Firm decorated with grownup accents, kid-friendly colors, and durable staples. The result? A space that is both cozy and timeless, yet fun and contemporary.

Welcome to our latest kitchen renovation project, where classic French elegance meets contemporary design in the heart of Great Falls, VA. In this transformation, we aim to create a stunning kitchen space that exudes sophistication and charm, capturing the essence of timeless French style with a modern twist. Our design centers around a harmonious blend of light gray and off-white tones, setting a serene and inviting backdrop for this kitchen makeover. These neutral hues will work in harmony to create a calming ambiance and enhance the natural light, making the kitchen feel open and welcoming. To infuse a sense of nature and add a striking focal point, we have carefully selected green cabinets. The rich green hue, reminiscent of lush gardens, brings a touch of the outdoors into the space, creating a unique and refreshing visual appeal. The cabinets will be thoughtfully placed to optimize both functionality and aesthetics. Throughout the project, our focus is on creating a seamless integration of design elements to produce a cohesive and visually stunning kitchen. The cabinetry, hood, light fixture, and other details will be meticulously crafted using high-quality materials, ensuring longevity and a timeless appeal. Countertop Material: Quartzite Cabinet: Frameless Custom cabinet Stove: Ilve 48" Hood: Plaster field made Lighting: Hudson Valley Lighting

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Design: Shoichi Uchiyama Concept: The fixture emits glare-free, soft, comfortable downward light. The shade design ensures even illumination of the surface. The matte upper surface diffuses the light, while the glossy lower surface ensures optimal reflection. Finish: Aluminum, brushed and lacquered. Matte acrylic. Material: Cone: Cast aluminum. Shades: Matte acrylic. Pendant stem: Extruded brushed aluminum. Mounting: Canopy: White (Hal) or brushed aluminum (HID). Cord type: 3-conductor, 18 AWG white PVC power cord. Cord length: 12’ (Hal) or 8' (HID). Weight: Max. 8.7 lbs. Label: cULus, Dry location. IBEW.

Welcome to our latest kitchen renovation project, where classic French elegance meets contemporary design in the heart of Great Falls, VA. In this transformation, we aim to create a stunning kitchen space that exudes sophistication and charm, capturing the essence of timeless French style with a modern twist. Our design centers around a harmonious blend of light gray and off-white tones, setting a serene and inviting backdrop for this kitchen makeover. These neutral hues will work in harmony to create a calming ambiance and enhance the natural light, making the kitchen feel open and welcoming. To infuse a sense of nature and add a striking focal point, we have carefully selected green cabinets. The rich green hue, reminiscent of lush gardens, brings a touch of the outdoors into the space, creating a unique and refreshing visual appeal. The cabinets will be thoughtfully placed to optimize both functionality and aesthetics. Throughout the project, our focus is on creating a seamless integration of design elements to produce a cohesive and visually stunning kitchen. The cabinetry, hood, light fixture, and other details will be meticulously crafted using high-quality materials, ensuring longevity and a timeless appeal. Countertop Material: Quartzite Cabinet: Frameless Custom cabinet Stove: Ilve 48" Hood: Plaster field made Lighting: Hudson Valley Lighting

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Design: Shoichi Uchiyama Concept: The fixture emits glare-free, soft, comfortable downward light. The shade design ensures even illumination of the surface. The matt upper surface diffuses the light, while the shiny lower surface ensures optimal reflection. Finish: Aluminium, brushed and coated. Matt acrylic. Material: Cone: Brushed & lacquered aluminium. Wire: Stainless steel. Shades: Matt acrylic. Pendant tube: Extruded brushed aluminium. Mounting: Suspension type: Cable 2x0,75mm². Canopy: Yes. Cable length: 3m. Weight: Max. 1kg. Class: Ingress protection IP20. Electric shock protection II w/o ground.

Welcome to our latest kitchen renovation project, where classic French elegance meets contemporary design in the heart of Great Falls, VA. In this transformation, we aim to create a stunning kitchen space that exudes sophistication and charm, capturing the essence of timeless French style with a modern twist. Our design centers around a harmonious blend of light gray and off-white tones, setting a serene and inviting backdrop for this kitchen makeover. These neutral hues will work in harmony to create a calming ambiance and enhance the natural light, making the kitchen feel open and welcoming. To infuse a sense of nature and add a striking focal point, we have carefully selected green cabinets. The rich green hue, reminiscent of lush gardens, brings a touch of the outdoors into the space, creating a unique and refreshing visual appeal. The cabinets will be thoughtfully placed to optimize both functionality and aesthetics. Throughout the project, our focus is on creating a seamless integration of design elements to produce a cohesive and visually stunning kitchen. The cabinetry, hood, light fixture, and other details will be meticulously crafted using high-quality materials, ensuring longevity and a timeless appeal. Countertop Material: Quartzite Cabinet: Frameless Custom cabinet Stove: Ilve 48" Hood: Plaster field made Lighting: Hudson Valley Lighting

This modern green home offers both a vacation destination on Cape Cod near local family members and an opportunity for rental income. FAMILY ROOTS. A West Coast couple living in the San Francisco Bay Area sought a permanent East Coast vacation home near family members living on Cape Cod. As academic professionals focused on sustainability, they sought a green, energy efficient home that was well-aligned with their values. With no green homes available for sale on Cape Cod, they decided to purchase land near their family and build their own. SLOPED SITE. Comprised of a 3/4 acre lot nestled in the pines, the steeply sloping terrain called for a plan that embraced and took advantage of the slope. Of equal priority was optimizing solar exposure, preserving privacy from abutters, and creating outdoor living space. The design accomplished these goals with a simple, rectilinear form, offering living space on the both entry and lower/basement levels. The stepped foundation allows for a walk-out basement level with light-filled living space on the down-hill side of the home. The traditional basement on the eastern, up-hill side houses mechanical equipment and a home gym. The house welcomes natural light throughout, captures views of the forest, and delivers entertainment space that connects indoor living space to outdoor deck and dining patio. MODERN VISION. The clean building form and uncomplicated finishes pay homage to the modern architectural legacy on the outer Cape. Durable and economical fiber cement panels, fixed with aluminum channels, clad the primary form. Cedar clapboards provide a visual accent at the south-facing living room, which extends a single roof plane to cover the entry porch. SMART USE OF SPACE. On the entry level, the “L”-shaped living, dining, and kitchen space connects to the exterior living, dining, and grilling spaces to effectively double the home’s summertime entertainment area. Placed at the western end of the entry level (where it can retain privacy but still claim expansive downhill views) is the master suite with a built-in study. The lower level has two guest bedrooms, a second full bathroom, and laundry. The flexibility of the space—crucial in a house with a modest footprint—emerges in one of the guest bedrooms, which doubles as home office by opening the barn-style double doors to connect it to the bright, airy open stair leading up to the entry level. Thoughtful design, generous ceiling heights and large windows transform the modest 1,100 sf* footprint into a well-lit, spacious home. *(total finished space is 1800 sf) RENTAL INCOME. The property works for its owners by netting rental income when the owners are home in San Francisco. The house especially caters to vacationers bound for nearby Mayo Beach and includes an outdoor shower adjacent to the lower level entry door. In contrast to the bare bones cottages that are typically available on the Cape, this home offers prospective tenants a modern aesthetic, paired with luxurious and green features. Durable finishes inside and out will ensure longevity with the heavier use that comes with a rental property. COMFORT YEAR-ROUND. The home is super-insulated and air-tight, with mechanical ventilation to provide continuous fresh air from the outside. High performance triple-paned windows complement the building enclosure and maximize passive solar gain while ensuring a warm, draft-free winter, even when sitting close to the glass. A properly sized air source heat pump offers efficient heating & cooling, and includes a carefully designed the duct distribution system to provide even comfort throughout the house. The super-insulated envelope allows us to significantly reduce the equipment capacity, duct size, and airflow quantities, while maintaining unparalleled thermal comfort. ENERGY EFFICIENT. The building’s shell and mechanical systems play instrumental roles in the home’s exceptional performance. The building enclosure reduces the most significant energy glutton: heating. Continuous super-insulation, thorough air sealing, triple-pane windows, and passive solar gain work together to yield a miniscule heating load. All active energy consumers are extremely efficient: an air source heat pump for heating and cooling, a heat pump hot water heater, LED lighting, energy recovery ventilation (ERV), and high efficiency appliances. The result is a home that uses 70% less energy than a similar new home built to code requirements. OVERALL. The home embodies the owners’ goals and values while comprehensively enabling thermal comfort, energy efficiency, a vacation respite, and supplementary income. PROJECT TEAM ZeroEnergy Design - Architect & Mechanical Designer A.F. Hultin & Co. - Contractor Pamet Valley Landscape Design - Landscape & Masonry Lisa Finch - Original Artwork European Architectural Supply - Windows Eric Roth Photography - Photography