Graced with an abundance of windows, Alexandria’s modern meets traditional exterior boasts stylish stone accents, interesting rooflines and a pillared and welcoming porch. You’ll never lack for style or sunshine in this inspired transitional design perfect for a growing family. The timeless design merges a variety of classic architectural influences and fits perfectly into any neighborhood. A farmhouse feel can be seen in the exterior’s peaked roof, while the shingled accents reference the ever-popular Craftsman style. Inside, an abundance of windows flood the open-plan interior with light. Beyond the custom front door with its eye-catching sidelights is 2,350 square feet of living space on the first level, with a central foyer leading to a large kitchen and walk-in pantry, adjacent 14 by 16-foot hearth room and spacious living room with a natural fireplace. Also featured is a dining area and convenient home management center perfect for keeping your family life organized on the floor plan’s right side and a private study on the left, which lead to two patios, one covered and one open-air. Private spaces are concentrated on the 1,800-square-foot second level, where a large master suite invites relaxation and rest and includes built-ins, a master bath with double vanity and two walk-in closets. Also upstairs is a loft, laundry and two additional family bedrooms as well as 400 square foot of attic storage. The approximately 1,500-square-foot lower level features a 15 by 24-foot family room, a guest bedroom, billiards and refreshment area, and a 15 by 26-foot home theater perfect for movie nights. Photographer: Ashley Avila Photography

Clean invigorating home office is set across from the matching wallbed and aside the grand window-seat making this the perfect multi-functional space; A wonderfully dual functional use of both office space and quest room.

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As a cottage, the Ridgecrest was designed to take full advantage of a property rich in natural beauty. Each of the main houses three bedrooms, and all of the entertaining spaces, have large rear facing windows with thick craftsman style casing. A glance at the front motor court reveals a guesthouse above a three-stall garage. Complete with separate entrance, the guesthouse features its own bathroom, kitchen, laundry, living room and bedroom. The columned entry porch of the main house is centered on the floor plan, but is tucked under the left side of the homes large transverse gable. Centered under this gable is a grand staircase connecting the foyer to the lower level corridor. Directly to the rear of the foyer is the living room. With tall windows and a vaulted ceiling. The living rooms stone fireplace has flanking cabinets that anchor an axis that runs through the living and dinning room, ending at the side patio. A large island anchors the open concept kitchen and dining space. On the opposite side of the main level is a private master suite, complete with spacious dressing room and double vanity master bathroom. Buffering the living room from the master bedroom, with a large built-in feature wall, is a private study. Downstairs, rooms are organized off of a linear corridor with one end being terminated by a shared bathroom for the two lower bedrooms and large entertainment spaces. Photographer: Ashley Avila Photography Builder: Douglas Sumner Builder, Inc. Interior Design: Vision Interiors by Visbeen

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A neutral office composes this wonderful office design. Blacks, whites and beige set the tone for a light, bright, and airy home office perfect for those who work for home or those who just need space to study. A custom built in serves the purpose for both function with an abundance of storage on top and below but also is aesthetically pleasing. Inspirational quotes line the walls and fill in the built in for added decor. A pop of green and the area rug from Urban Outfitters gives this space the modern bohemian vibe.

This cozy lake cottage skillfully incorporates a number of features that would normally be restricted to a larger home design. A glance of the exterior reveals a simple story and a half gable running the length of the home, enveloping the majority of the interior spaces. To the rear, a pair of gables with copper roofing flanks a covered dining area and screened porch. Inside, a linear foyer reveals a generous staircase with cascading landing. Further back, a centrally placed kitchen is connected to all of the other main level entertaining spaces through expansive cased openings. A private study serves as the perfect buffer between the homes master suite and living room. Despite its small footprint, the master suite manages to incorporate several closets, built-ins, and adjacent master bath complete with a soaker tub flanked by separate enclosures for a shower and water closet. Upstairs, a generous double vanity bathroom is shared by a bunkroom, exercise space, and private bedroom. The bunkroom is configured to provide sleeping accommodations for up to 4 people. The rear-facing exercise has great views of the lake through a set of windows that overlook the copper roof of the screened porch below.

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Modern Kids Bedroom Set WEB 09 by SPAR. Web Junior Furniture Collection by Spar impresses both parents and children with innovative solutions, making a super functional bedrooms for girls and boys, small kids and teenagers. Colorful, modular amazing and imaginative WEB Bedroom Collection gives satisfaction to room furnishing. The original design is dedicated to amusement and study of your child. Featuring endless customization opportunities and pieces for all occasions and needs, this italian kids bedroom line helps you to organize the space on different levels and use every place in its best way, providing wide freedom to organize and create. Please contact our office regarding customization of this kids bedroom set. The starting price is for the "As Shown" bedroom set that includes following elements: - 1 Twin Size Storage Bed (bed fits US standard Twin size mattress 39" x 75") - 1 Desk - 3 Horizontal Hanging Door-Units W23" - 1 Vertical Hanging Bookcase Unit H23" - 1 Wall Shelf W47.2" - 1 Wall Shelf W53.2" - 1 Corner Wardrobe Composition Please Note: Room/bed decorative accessories and the mattress are not included in the price. MATERIAL/CONSTRUCTION: E1-Class ecological panels, which are produced exclusively trough a wood recycling production process Used lacquers conform to the norm 71/3 (toys directive) Structure: 18 mm thick melamine-coated particle board Shelves: 25mm thick melamine-coated particle board Back panels: medium density coated fibreboard 5mm thick Doors: 18 mm thick melamine-coated particle board finished on 4 sides Hardware: metal runners with self-closing system and double stop; adjustable self closing hinges; quick-mount and braking systems Dimensions: Twin Size Storage Bed: W49" x D84.7" x H41.3" (internal 39" x 75" US Standard) Full Size Storage Bed: W64" x D84.7" x H41.3" (internal 54" x 75" US Standard) Desk: W59" x D25.6" x H30" Horizontal Hanging Door-Unit: W23" x D13.7" x H12.7" Vertical Hanging Bookcase Unit: W12.7" x D13" x H23" Wall Shelf: W47.2" x D10" x H1" Wall Shelf: W53.2" x D10" x H1" Corner Wardrobe Composition: W(75.5" x 57.8") x D22.8" x H89.8" or H102.4"

A thoughtfully designed transitional home office featuring custom built-in cabinetry, a warm wood desk surface, and elegant brass hardware. Soft neutral tones and clean lines create a calm, inviting workspace, while integrated storage keeps the area organized and functional. This cozy office nook blends seamlessly with the surrounding home, offering both style and productivity.

A neutral office composes this wonderful office design. Blacks, whites and beige set the tone for a light, bright, and airy home office perfect for those who work for home or those who just need space to study. A custom built in serves the purpose for both function with an abundance of storage on top and below but also is aesthetically pleasing. Inspirational quotes line the walls and fill in the built in for added decor. A pop of green and the area rug from Urban Outfitters gives this space the modern bohemian vibe.

Builder: J. Peterson Homes Interior Designer: Francesca Owens Photographers: Ashley Avila Photography, Bill Hebert, & FulView Capped by a picturesque double chimney and distinguished by its distinctive roof lines and patterned brick, stone and siding, Rookwood draws inspiration from Tudor and Shingle styles, two of the world’s most enduring architectural forms. Popular from about 1890 through 1940, Tudor is characterized by steeply pitched roofs, massive chimneys, tall narrow casement windows and decorative half-timbering. Shingle’s hallmarks include shingled walls, an asymmetrical façade, intersecting cross gables and extensive porches. A masterpiece of wood and stone, there is nothing ordinary about Rookwood, which combines the best of both worlds. Once inside the foyer, the 3,500-square foot main level opens with a 27-foot central living room with natural fireplace. Nearby is a large kitchen featuring an extended island, hearth room and butler’s pantry with an adjacent formal dining space near the front of the house. Also featured is a sun room and spacious study, both perfect for relaxing, as well as two nearby garages that add up to almost 1,500 square foot of space. A large master suite with bath and walk-in closet which dominates the 2,700-square foot second level which also includes three additional family bedrooms, a convenient laundry and a flexible 580-square-foot bonus space. Downstairs, the lower level boasts approximately 1,000 more square feet of finished space, including a recreation room, guest suite and additional storage.

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## I. Spatial Composition & Architectural Volume This is a compact urban salon organized with almost Miesian discipline around a single, decisive gesture: the L-configuration of low, tuxedo-armed banquette seating that hugs two perimeter walls and turns the room inward upon itself. The plan reads as a conversation pit without excavation—the seat heights are deliberately suppressed, the backs held low, so that the horizon of upholstery never competes with the aperture behind it. Above, a flat, unadorned plaster soffit-plane is held tight to the wall line, its perimeter reveal drawing a crisp shadow-gap that lets the ceiling appear to float free of the fabric-wrapped walls. The architectural protagonist is the millwork: a deep-jambed picture window recessed within a wide, radiused casing of pale rift-sawn oak, its returns thickened into a continuous window seat and low credenza that transitions seamlessly into flanking cabinetry. This joinery performs double duty as tectonic frame and furniture, resolving the corner where the sofa arm meets the wall with a fitted oak console rather than a leftover void. On the right, a taller oak portal—part case-goods, part passage—houses a monolithic dark media volume, its recessive blackness anchoring the composition's east edge and countering the pull of the glazing. Sightlines are carefully triangulated: the low furniture, the horizontal blind valance, and the parapet railing beyond stack into a series of registers that push the eye out over the rooftops, borrowing the cityscape as a fourth wall. ## II. Materiality, Color & Texture The palette is a study in warm neutrality calibrated across a very narrow tonal band, where interest is generated by texture rather than chroma. Walls are sheathed in a woven grasscloth or linen-weave wallcovering in oatmeal-taupe, its subtle grain absorbing light and lending the envelope a matte, tactile softness that reads almost suede-like in raking illumination. Against this, the oak millwork supplies a honeyed mid-tone with visible cathedral figure, satin-lacquered rather than glossed, so the wood glows without reflecting. Upholstery is a heavy natural linen in flax, deeply channel-tufted and biscuit-quilted—an insistent geometry of dimples and seams that catches light and prevents the mass from flattening. The textile program is where the room permits itself wit: indigo-and-ecru ikat or resist-dyed pillows introduce the only true saturation and the only irregular, hand-made mark; a wool blanket-stripe cushion in wheat, dove, and slate mediates between them; and the tailored roman shade and pinch-pleat drapery, in a subtly striated ombré weave of bronze, sand, and pewter, act as a tonal bridge between wall and wood. Below, the field shifts cool—an abrasi or silk-and-wool rug in ink and petrol blue, overlaid with a sinuous ogee lattice in muted gold, whose viscose sheen produces directional shimmer against the room's otherwise matte disposition. Leather appears twice, in caramel-toned saddle upholstery on the twin benches and ottoman, its topstitched panels and strap-pull detailing offering the crispest edge in the room; the espresso-stained coffee table and plinths supply the necessary chromatic bass note. A single celadon-and-blush ceramic vessel, with its banded, glazed belly, functions as a deliberate polychrome accent—an object of arrested attention within a rigorously restrained field. ## III. Lighting, Atmosphere & Style Profile Daylight is the primary luminaire and it is meticulously managed. The roman shade is dropped to roughly one-third, cropping the sky and glare while framing the mid-ground rooftops—a device that converts an ordinary window into a horizontal, cinematic panorama. Concealed cove or integrated LED lighting within the oak jamb washes the reveal from within, so the window surround reads as a self-illuminated frame and the transition from interior brightness to exterior daylight is softened rather than silhouetted; the same strategy grazes the wall panel behind the sofa, producing a gentle vertical gradient. Artificial light is otherwise almost entirely decorative and directional: a swing-arm wall sconce in antiqued brass with a domed, spun-metal shade cantilevers over the corner console, its low placement establishing a task-scaled pool of warmth and reinforcing the room's insistent horizontality. The resultant atmosphere is hushed, enveloping, and distinctly crepuscular—a lounge tuned for late-afternoon light and low conversation. Stylistically, the project synthesizes a mid-century modern armature—low-slung planar seating, tuxedo arms, brass and dark wood—with the tactile restraint of contemporary Warm Minimalism and a discernible strain of Japanese-influenced spatial editing: deep reveals, floating planes, an appreciation for the void, and objects placed with ikebana-like economy. One might classify it as Refined Urban Modernism, or a bespoke Warm Minimalism, in which luxury is expressed not through ornament but through the precision of joinery, the depth of the material palette, and the discipline with which the view is framed.

This is a quintessentially urban prewar-into-modern hybrid: a broad, laterally organized reception room whose principal architectural gesture is the corner glazing that dissolves two walls into a panoramic register of treetops and distant skyline. The plan reads as a series of soft, overlapping conversational precincts rather than a single axial arrangement — a pair of swivel-capable lounge chairs anchoring the window wall, a facing pair of high-backed tub chairs, and a deep tuxedo-profile sofa closing the composition toward the viewer — all orbiting an organically contoured cocktail table that performs as the room's centrifugal keystone. The ceiling is treated with a recessed reveal and shallow soffit that traces the perimeter, a device that both conceals drapery hardware and lifts the plane visually, granting the low-slung modern floor plate an unexpected sense of loft. A blade wall carrying a single framed canvas performs critical spatial work, terminating the living volume while permitting an enfilade sightline through to a secondary dining zone beyond, where a glazed wall of ivy-clad courtyard reads as a green tapestry. The geometry throughout is deliberately curvilinear — barrel-backed seating, amoeboid tabletops, splayed tapered legs — set against the orthogonal discipline of window mullions, drapery pleats, and rectilinear millwork, producing a productive tension between architectural rigor and furnishings that behave sculpturally. **II. Materiality, Color & Texture** The palette is a study in tonal restraint calibrated for maximum textural incident. Walls are finished in a matte, faintly striated plaster or grasscloth with a warm ecru undertone that absorbs rather than reflects light, establishing a neutral field against which every surface differential registers. Seating is upholstered in a lustrous chenille or crushed velvet of pale greige, whose short pile catches raking daylight and reads almost pearlescent, while the foreground sofa introduces a coarser boucle in an oatmeal register and the opposing sofa shifts decisively into a saturated tobacco-and-umber channel-tufted chenille, its French-polished rosewood or macassar ebony frame supplying the room's darkest, most reflective note. Stone is deployed with connoisseurial precision: the cocktail tables are honed alabaster or backlit-quality onyx, their translucent creamy strata and honey veining offering a warm mineral counterpoint to the cool, ink-washed abstraction of the hand-knotted area rug, which functions as a painterly ground — a gestural silver-and-charcoal wash pooling beneath the furniture. Bronze, patinated brass, and stainless accents appear in table bases, the vessel-form vase, and the sconce, providing metallic punctuation without gleam. Drapery in a heavy sand-toned linen, edged in a beaded or embroidered tape, softens the glazing perimeter and reinforces the room's tactile vocabulary of nap, weave, slub, and polish. **III. Lighting, Atmosphere & Style Profile** Natural light is the dominant luminous strategy: the corner glazing admits a soft, diffuse northern wash under overcast conditions, which the designer has intelligently accepted rather than resisted — the flat, shadowless quality flatters the velvet piles and plaster walls, and the drapery is stacked to admit maximum daylight while modulating glare at the jambs. Artificial sources are almost entirely concealed or decorative: a slim architectural sconce on the blade wall, a sculptural biomorphic table lamp in white lacquer or ceramic in the dining zone, and an extraordinary petal-form pendant in patinated metal that reads as an art object first and a fixture second. The resulting atmosphere is hushed, cerebral, and quietly patrician — a room of low chroma and high material intelligence, where drama is supplied by silhouette and surface rather than by color or ornament. Stylistically, the project synthesizes into what might best be termed **Modernist Salon** or **Warm Continental Minimalism**: the DNA of mid-century French decorative arts — Royère, Frank, Adnet — filtered through a contemporary sensibility of tonal layering and soft geometry, with an Art Deco undertow in the ebonized woods and channel tufting. It is a scheme of curatorial discipline: nothing is decorative for its own sake, the view is treated as the primary artwork, and every material is selected for how it behaves in light.

Andrew Snow Photography A barn style sliding door hides the mechanical room, laundry room and spare washroom from the main recreation space. A small work-space flanks the main open recreation room, providing a homework area for adults or kids.

Study with a glimpse of the bedroom Photo Credits: Jignesh Jhaveri
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