Jason Hulet
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Modern home front entry features a voice over Internet Protocol Intercom Device to interface with the home's Crestron control system for voice communication at both the front door and gate. Signature Estate featuring modern, warm, and clean-line design, with total custom details and finishes. The front includes a serene and impressive atrium foyer with two-story floor to ceiling glass walls and multi-level fire/water fountains on either side of the grand bronze aluminum pivot entry door. Elegant extra-large 47'' imported white porcelain tile runs seamlessly to the rear exterior pool deck, and a dark stained oak wood is found on the stairway treads and second floor. The great room has an incredible Neolith onyx wall and see-through linear gas fireplace and is appointed perfectly for views of the zero edge pool and waterway. The center spine stainless steel staircase has a smoked glass railing and wood handrail. Photo courtesy Royal Palm Properties

Along one of the Mission District’s most cosmopolitan blocks, an Italianate home is expanded with two substantial yet stealthy additions. Peeking out above the restored front façade, a new third story bedroom level hints at the comprehensively transformed spaces within. The project integrates modern design, bountiful natural light sources, high efficiency systems, and repurposed building materials with new and original hand-crafted detailing. Photographer: Bruce Damonte

Walls are Sherwin Williams Anjou Pear. Bedside tables from Hickory Chair.
Large elegant master carpeted and multicolored floor bedroom photo in Little Rock with beige walls

Inspiration for a rustic two-story wood exterior home remodel in Burlington with a metal roof

Tucker Design Awards celebrate the innovation and vision that designers bring to their projects through the specification and use of natural stone materials. For members of the Natural Stone Institute, acknowledgment as a contributor to a Tucker Design Awards winning project is a genuine tribute to their traditional values, physicality of work, and dedication to precise specifications required in the realization of such accomplished architectural design. Landscape Architect Design Workshop, Aspen, CO Landscape Contractor/ Installer Landscape Workshop, Carbondale, CO Stone Installer JD Masonry, Arvada, CO Stone Suppliers Coldspring, Cold Spring, MN Gallegos Corporation, Vail, CO Through a collective dialogue between landscape, architecture and interior design, a new vision reimagines the disturbed site into a livable landscape, emblematic of our American West. The residence – an ensemble of structures designed in a modern ranch vernacular – is effortlessly unified through layered, interconnected outdoor gathering spaces and regional materials that elaborates upon the experience of moving between structures, heightening and renewing one’s sense of place. Upon entering the courtyard, one is immediately aware of seamless and unfolding relationships between architecture and landscape through a sophisticated, regional palette of natural stone, water, and plants. Set upon architectural focal points, two perpendicular sandstone paths descend into the space and converge upon a monolithic, hand-carved granite fountain. The design of the fountain is purposefully quiet, both in its detailing and operation. The feature includes a recessed interior, allowing water to become still before it reaches the surface, with lightly cleft sides, allowing the water to delicately bounce as it descends into the geometric lower granite basin. The landscape architect’s selection of various stone material extends the tones of the home’s granite walls and contextual surroundings into the garden, but also be detailed in a manner that balances rural and modern qualities. The majority of the paving is constructed of rectilinear gray sandstone with a natural finish and snapped edges, laid in a staggered running bond organization. Throughout the garden, thoughtful attention was also given to the configuration and layout of terraces, pathways, and steps. In doing so, this ensured that the edges of the terrace and its interface to other elements were designed so that no “leftover” stone paver pieces would be found. Within the central courtyard, split-faced stone stairs descend into a rectilinear plinth of lawn, punctuated by a carved granite fire pit. Leveraging the property’s existing topographic relief, a shallow infinity-edge dipping pool abstracts the transparent and cavity-like pools found throughout the Rocky Mountains. The design purposefully achieves the illusion of a larger water feature with the distant pond and offers a refreshing recreational element. Containing the infinity edge, a designed granite escarpment emerges from the meadow, juxtaposing the geometric water feature and providing informal seating ledges. The site’s prior use required the landscape architect to incorporate a highly technical and complex sub-surface structural system. The initial geotechnical report identified the building envelopes rested on 12 feet of man-placed fill. Assuming a 1 percent settlement, the team faced concerns that the terraces would settle up to 12 inches. In response, a grid of structural micro-piles provides the necessary foundation for the construction of terraces immediately outside of the architecture, under the water features and site walls. The solution enabled the crisp detailing and design resolution of the architectural structures to seamlessly connect with the horizontal stone terraces.

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Contemporary metal gable roof idea in Austin

Hulya Kolabas
Farmhouse corner shower photo in New York with an undermount sink, flat-panel cabinets and white cabinets

An abundance of living space is only part of the appeal of this traditional French county home. Strong architectural elements and a lavish interior design, including cathedral-arched beamed ceilings, hand-scraped and French bleed-edged walnut floors, faux finished ceilings, and custom tile inlays add to the home's charm. This home features heated floors in the basement, a mirrored flat screen television in the kitchen/family room, an expansive master closet, and a large laundry/crafts room with Romeo & Juliet balcony to the front yard. The gourmet kitchen features a custom range hood in limestone, inspired by Romanesque architecture, a custom panel French armoire refrigerator, and a 12 foot antiqued granite island. Every child needs his or her personal space, offered via a large secret kids room and a hidden passageway between the kids' bedrooms. A 1,000 square foot concrete sport court under the garage creates a fun environment for staying active year-round. The fun continues in the sunken media area featuring a game room, 110-inch screen, and 14-foot granite bar. Story - Midwest Home Magazine Photos - Todd Buchanan Interior Designer - Anita Sullivan

Walk through shower to outdoor deck with outdoor shower and tub. Architect: Cathy Schwabe Architecture Interior Design: John Lum Architecture Landscape Architect: Arterra LLP, Vera Gates Lighting Design: Alice Prussin Color Consultant: Judith Paquette Photograph: David Wakely

Designed by Monica Lewis, CMKBD, MCR, UDCP of J.S. Brown and Co. Photography by Michael Houghton StudiOhio Total size approximately 7'4" x 6'6" Products: Kohler plumbing fixtures and faucets Hudson Valley H653PC light fixture Carerra marble vanity top and bench seat Shiloh Vanity cabinet Mosaic - Anatolia glass / stone blend in "Iceland" Walls - Pratt and Larson; 3x6 in R145, 1/2 x 6 stripe in C10, 1x6 Plaza Liner in RC1, Plaza base in RC1 Floor - Seneca Gregoriana 6x18 porcelain tile in "Cloud" honed finish, and Anatolia 6x6 Bianco Venatino polished marble 6x6. Paint Color: Sherwin Williams Spaulding Gray

This spacious bath/ shower takes full advantage of the area’s abundance of light with a bank of windows that looks out on a private courtyard. The Levity® shower doors, a HydroRail® shower column supports a Shift™ Ellipse handshower and a Moxie® showerhead + wireless speaker, so you can switch between sprays and play your music in the shower. The DTV Prompt® digital system lets you customize your experience and control your showering components.

Country French guest bath with dual sinks and hand glazed tile.
Inspiration for a timeless bathroom remodel in Houston

Photo by. Roger Williams, AIA
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Custom stone double vanity. Tiled shower
Example of a mid-sized trendy master white tile and subway tile light wood floor doorless shower design in Brisbane with open cabinets, white walls, an integrated sink, a hinged shower door, white cabinets, marble countertops and gray countertops

Beyond ArchiBlox’s speedy construction time of 6 weeks, prefab suited the clients desire to tread lightly on the land with the Avalon House project. With modular building the impact on the surrounding environment is heavily reduced during construction. The dwelling is outfitted with a number of green features, including a living roof that minimises rainwater runoff and solar penetration. The green roof also acts as a thermal mass, an east-west orientation that allows cross-ventilation. Avalon House is beautifully wrapped in FSC certified external blackbutt hardwood timber milled from sustainably forestry methods and Colorbond corrugated iron – marine grade. By fabricating off-site, ArchiBlox also had careful control over material usage with minimal wastage. KEY INITIATIVES • Lineal structure with east-west orientation allowing cross ventilation • Maximised North windows which allows the home to enjoy the northern sun • Green Roof which minimises rainwater runoff and solar penetration • The roof is double insulated by both a green roof and R6.0 Earthwool thermal insulation and reflective insulation sheet and insulation • FSC certified external timbers milled from sustainable forestry methods • Operable windows are only required to be opened marginally to completing flush the air in the house out after a long summer's day given the prevailing north westerly wind direction. Their positions are maximized to capitalize on this feature • Aluminium louvres to the windows along the northern façade have been used to reduce solar gain to this interface • Roof drainage runs to a large aboveground storage tanks • There's bulk insulation to walls: 90mm thick R2.5HD Earthwool walls and R2.0 in the floor • Windows are powder-coated aluminium with double glazing and 'Breezeway' louvre inserts and awning/casement windows • Effective cross ventilation removes the need for artificial cooling aside from ceiling fans in the living area and bedrooms. These fans are a combination of Beacon Lighting fans and Haiku 60-inch Caramel Bamboo from Big Arse Fans • Rainwater from all roof areas is directed to a 7,500.00 litre above ground tank, which provides water for garden irrigation. There is an elaborate storm water erosion scheme that is set up to protect the cliff face from further erosion which catches all ground surface water across the site and retains it within pits prior to it been dispersed within the ground • The house uses low energy LED lighting that are a combination of both bespoke Archiblox solutions and Beacon Lighting Tom Ross and Michael Wickham

Photographer Jack Lovel-Stylist Beckie Littler
Mid-sized trendy master gray tile gray floor bathroom photo in Melbourne with flat-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, quartz countertops and a vessel sink

Architect: James Russell Architect Photographer: Toby Scott
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Matt Clayton
Trendy master marble floor walk-in shower photo in London with an undermount sink, flat-panel cabinets, gray cabinets, marble countertops and white walls