Karuna Passive House designed by Holst Architecture and built by Hammer & Hand. This high performance home meets the world's most demanding green building certifications. Photo by Jeremy Bittermann.

A rock bed was created on the outside of the planting bed to direct the water away from the house.
Inspiration for a large traditional partial sun backyard stone water fountain landscape in DC Metro for spring.

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Design ideas for a traditional landscaping in DC Metro.

Dry stack rock walls, dry creek stream for spring melt
Inspiration for a small traditional full sun backyard stone formal garden in Boise with a fire pit for spring.

Living Room
Living room - mid-sized transitional formal and open concept dark wood floor and brown floor living room idea in Miami with white walls, a standard fireplace, a concrete fireplace and no tv

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Color, textured concrete patio is surrounded by a stone clad seat wall allowing for expansive views of the surrounding Oak studded hillside.
Inspiration for a mid-sized transitional full sun and drought-tolerant backyard landscaping in San Francisco.

Welcome to our Houzz profile! We specialize in creating stunning modern living rooms with beautiful balconies that perfectly complement your living space. Our designs feature sleek and stylish furniture, including comfortable sofas with living sofa cushions, floor lamps, and glass tables that enhance your home’s modern appeal. Enjoy natural light streaming through glass windows and glass slide windows, offering a seamless view of the outdoors. Our custom homes are designed with attention to detail, from the calming influence of palm trees on your balcony to the functional elegance of wooden side coffee tables. With glass and steel coverings for a contemporary touch, the space is brightened by ceiling lights and a ceiling fan, ensuring comfort year-round. Whether you are considering remodeling ideas, interior design updates, or general contracting services, we are here to help. Located in Clearwater FL, Tampa, and the 33756 area, we specialize in custom homes, home additions, and turning your dream spaces into reality. Let’s create a space that fits your vision.

Modern Retreat | Safety Habitat, Perched at Heart. Living in solitude is the lofty ideal of ancient and modern human. The source of Chinese Seclusion Culture is streamed from far away: “As I pick chrysanthemums beneath the eastern fence, my eyes fall leisurely on the Southern Mountain." A paradise-like life lets innumerable people in longing. Looking at current day, privacy has become the expression of an attitude, a lifestyle choice. The real privacy is not about where one lives, but in the internal, physical and mental fatigue that can be placed in a home. Modern Retreat should be hidden in the heart. For modern people, if one maintains a self-sustaining practice of perseverance, follow morality and good conscience, abstinence, one can also be retained out of a pure world without being in a deep secluded valley . Real privacy is not to hideaway. The most essential element is the freedom of mind and tranquility. If people can do the things they enjoy, they are quite complete in a perfect world of their own. The spiritual world, is self-purification, under certain conditions, as long as their individually initiated. The environmental impact can be changed on their own, and can be found everywhere in the joy of life. In each city, people have a heart over normalized horticultural habitat. Enjoying the quality life does not mean deliberately escaping from the city, across thousands of miles. In the most cosmopolitan cities, it is a bucolic refuge in the midst of a great bustling city. The comfort of a home will expand into the neighbourhood when you meet acquaintances everywhere around where you live. Modern Retreat should be hidden within the city. The architectural design would have an indoor planting garden of choice. People would go to work, but once they are home and close their doors, it is their own private life where they can pretend that they are sitting in the mountain forests. For a Yin Yang disposition, ambition and pursuing righteousness fit together perfectly. One house is one world. “Home” is where we can stop to rest and relax, the place one can return to. For home design, it must go beyond being livable, the concept of the “Happy Home” is advanced to the peaceful realm. To live comfortably and privately at your own home, it is necessary for the modern home to be arranged in a "less is more" philosophy. Home goods should be simple and elegant yet practical, but without losing the taste and style, so that residents of the home can find clear air and quiet freedom. No matter how busy or tiring work is, we will be able to find peace and quiet from your home to heal and release the pressure. Modern Retreat is not the Valley of Orchards, the seclusion is not free, personalized, romantic and the ideal of Walden, but it is conceptual to the peace of mind and family atmosphere.

Family Room
Mid-sized beach style enclosed medium tone wood floor and red floor living room photo in Miami with green walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace and no tv

Disappearing or Pond-less Waterfalls allow you to enjoy the look and sound of moving water in your landscape without the maintenance of a pond. A waterfall is undoubtedly the most beautiful and coveted feature in a landscape. The eye is naturally drawn to the shimmering movement of the water. The sound of falling water soothes and relaxes you like no there sound in nature. It's a great alternative for those who are just trying to 'get their feet wet' or looking to fit a little piece of paradise into a small backyard. If your landscape lacks the space or if you have safety concerns about an ecosystem pond, then a Pond-less Waterfall is perfect for you. You can also add a stream to a pondless waterfall to add to the size and create the sense of a creek running through your landscape. Texas Ponds and Water Features creates some of the most natural-looking water features and pondless waterfalls in the state. Using only natural stone, our specialists create waterfalls that look as is nature had carved them over hundreds of years. We serve both the Austin and Central Texas area as well as the Houston and Southeast TX areas and just about anywhere in between. Contact us today to get your backyard water feature project started.

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Dining room - contemporary dining room idea in Mumbai