Sometimes referred to as the heart of the home, the kitchen is a place to prepare and cook food and, depending on the size, can be used to eat and entertain guests. In Ancient Greek homes, this room was a central open air patio but it was not until around 1800 that the stove, which enclosed fire completely, made cooking indoors possible.As technology advances, so do kitchens' design and
for those of you who want to build a house a palace, and longed for the exterior design that looks glamorous ...above is an example of a house exterior was designed by famous designers.
Global Architectural Development have recently come up with an architecture design that left us speechless. Located in Bodrum, Turkey, an important tourist attraction during the summer season, this amazing home comes with two original surprises. Most residences stick to a common roof built out of tiles, shingles and so on. Not this particular home, though. Instead of a regular house covering
Pottery Barn is a design company founded in 1949 in Manhattan and planned on their work reflecting the idea that” home furnishings should be exceptional in comfort, style and quality.” We don not know much about their comfort and quality, but one thing we can say for sure: their furniture looks absolutely amazing! Perhaps it is the vintage touch or the original letters and numbers embedded
NminusOne may not be the most innovative name for a design office, but the creativity of the architects definitely got us sold. Commissioned for Marc Morisset— a professional snowboarder, the five storey house is built like a shredder following the line of a steep mountain. Perfectly blending with the green environment, the Khyber Ridge Residence adds a tinge of “floating” and a bunch of
How do you like quality design mixtures? These fascinating interiors belong to an 1840’s Greek Home located in New York’s Greenwich Village, USA. The company in charge with the rehabilitation was Axis Mundi, a creative design firm whose portfolio we enjoyed checking out. The challenge was to redesign the place while still preserving its historical style. Another important aspect was the
Gautier is a design company founded in 1958. We found some really nice bedroom arrangements on their site which we hope will give you fresh decorating ideas. Most of them are simple, sober and elegant, with wooden furniture and stylish carpets to go with it. The color mix goes from mild to fresh, but the overall effect is always pleasing. You will rarely see strong colors – the green and
This modern 220 squared meters apartment with 3 child bedrooms, a master bedroom, a large living room with fire place including a piano area, a full bath, and a modern kitchen was designed by TECTUS DESIGN Interiors and is located in Heraklion, Greece. The main concept of this project is to create a relaxing environment for the owners. The interior of the apartment follows the same colors
We had a recent post here on Freshome about Scandinavian kitchen designs. They were all about color and let out a peaceful feel. Today we would like to show you a few Italian kitchen interiors from Ernestomeda. In comparison, these designs look more sober, but that does not make them any less captivating. The color and freshness of the kitchens in our previous post is replaced here by
The sustainable suburban living, ‘Beacon’ is the sustainable home design that located in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on an elevated, south facing site with expansive views over the City of Glasgow to the south, and the hills to the north. Beacon house was designed by Don McLean of McLean Architects is a new-build house for his family, along sustainable home design principles on a tight, challenging
Remuera, a quiet suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, is the home of this contemporary, glass house – a modern beacon among its natural surroundings. This sleek design by Hillery Priest Architecture features expansive windows outlined by bold frames that punctuate their contemporary, geometric shape. The window walls seem to float beneath a vast angled roof, and held together by a balcony that runs
The White Extension was designed by Urban Architecture that located in Dublin, Ireland, is a house extension for a photographer and his family. When Urban Architecture first met the homeowners of this house they were house hunting for a new home. However, through sketch designs it quickly became apparent that the transformation of this small two bedroom red brick terraced house to a family home
If you are planning to give your home a classic Italian look, we suggest you consider the Florence based Savio Firmino’s collection. Though they are a bit expensive on the price side, their designs really capture the old Italian essence.
How do you tell if a particular kitchen is Japanese or not? Hmm… when you have robots to watch over what you cook and have trendy cartoons adorning the wall, you KNOW it’s Japanese. The above images are of the 2 freshly released ones from the Core line of kitchens from Japanese kitchen maker Tokyo Kitchens. The core concept is based on ‘Living in the kitchen’ and it brings togethor the concept
We know we have been featuring a lot of kitchens of late at Home-Designing. But nice designs like these just keep hitting us. These scandinavian kitchens from Swedish maker Marbodal make use of the typical pale and cool color palettes that you normally associate with kitchens from this part of Europe. Most kitchens are predominantly white, with the surfaces sporting a matte and soft finish. The
These Sheer Spherical Kitchens are a very handful and handy piece of kitchen furniture. It neatly packs into it a table top, gas burners, a washing basin and utensil holder. When not in use it covers up easily and make the kitchen look neat and tidy. These spherical kitchen also come in remote controlled features. When the lid is closed it glows with soft intimate light which surely gives
The eye catching design and functionality are amazingly combined in the contemporary kitchens collections presented by Skyline collection and designed by Snaidero. Kitchens from this Italian company are characterized by inspiring and comfortable. Kitchen designs designed by this company stand out with curved shapes of the tables and working tops. These types of tops not only look unusual and
Modern Architectural Design of Emory University Few and Evans Halls, United States by Ayers Saint Gross
Here are the pictures of modern architecture of Emory University Few and Evans Halls, United States by Ayers Gross.
Located in Atlanta, United States, Emory University has been a champion of sustainable design practices for decades. And the Emory University Few and Evans Halls by Ayers Saint Gross architects is also freshman dorms that designed to teach residents about sustainable living. This architectural design is on that truly takes green to heart, from the selection of a sustainable site to incorporating features that reduce water and energy consumption and atmospheric impact. Emory University’s Few and Evans Halls consist of 293 beds inside resident hall unit types and community sizes. They have been designed to house communities in traditional double units and a few single units, each with one Resident Advisor and two Sophmore Advisors per floor. Each community is comprised of two ‘clusters’ with their own study lounge located at each end of the corridor and a common floor lounge located in the middle.
the Decoration of Interior Design lounge of Emory University Few and Evans Halls
Building amenities include an entry foyer, lounge, kitchen, laundry, and hall director apartments. The buildings also provide spaces intended to serve the Emory community at large, including a welcome desk, smart classrooms, offices, demonstration kitchen, student work rooms, seminar and multi-purpose rooms, an academic advising suite and a learning community support suite.
Elegant Interior Stairs Design of Emory University Few and Evans Halls
Exterior building facade of Emory University Few and Evans Halls
Completed in Autumn 2008, these residence halls are currently under review to receive LEED Gold certification. In order to achieve this, the halls have employed a variety of sustainability strategies. Treatment and detention of storm water occurs on site, using visible components of the landscape design, whilst collected rain and condensate water is used for toilet flushing. Photovoltaic panels power the pumps that send the harvested water back into the building and low flow plumbing fixtures and dual flush water closets have been installed to boost water efficiency. Also included in this project are metering facilities and the display of water and energy use to increase student awareness of sustainability issues.
Decorating living / family rooms. The living room is the first place guest’s initially see and form a lasting impression about the home and/or occupants. Impressive living room should be well festooned and giving an inviting aura. It should create a homey and comfortable image. Create space and depth for living room by positioning a mirror on a wall. Choose lighter and neutral colors for it
Designing the space in your home can be some of the most rewarding work that you can undertake. Your decor can reflect your spirit and style, and done correctly, it can speak to your very soul. The most intimate space, and perhaps the most important, is the bedroom. Unfortunately, it is most often overlooked as it is not regularly seen by visitors to your home. Too often the rooms meant for
Interior design ideas these days are dime a 12. If you watch a television show that is dedicated to interior designing for one hour, once you come out, you would have enough knowledge that you can design for complete home. The main drawback of a television show when compared to applying these ideas in life is these are tough to document. If you don’t sit next or in front of the TV and scribble
New best modern interior mini pool was designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba,Promising to give you a spa-like experience right at home, the Faraway interior mini-pool is made from fiber glass and is compact enough to fit within the confines of a home.The pool is at a sunken level with the floor with steps which descend into it. It demonstrates an asymmetrical shape with a fissure flush,
This is a modern furniture for your beautiful Living Room has presented by Hülsta, Mento is one of them and is created to bring the clarity and simplicity to any modern living room. The combination of white lacquered cabinets and areas of different shades of natural wood creates a visual impact and look very harmonic. You will find much wit and eye catching solutions with spacious TV units,
This Modern Contemporary House was designed by Gudmundur Jonsson in rural Iceland. The main purpose of this house is to capture all the beautiful scenery around in all directions: southward view of the sea and islands north of the typical triangular mountains, glaciers to the east and west River and valley. Exterior glazing consists of a large wood, bricks and natural stone. What makes the house
Would you not like to rent property like the luxurious villa or resort shown below and go for a long vacation? Obviously once you see the images below you surely would be in a hurry to pack your bags. The resort or villa shown below is the famous lavish Azur Villa located in New Zealand. A single look at the cozy rich and traditional bathroom and bedroom would want one to go off on a holiday
Celebrity homes are the most viewed homes and why not they surely make you stare at the gigantic farmhouses and villas with an open mouth. The Hollywood celebrities really know how to live in style and most of them have houses that are stretches over acres of land. One another common factor in most of their houses is a huge open swimming pools either in the backyard or on their terrace. These
Great news on the home front, it seems like everywhere we turn there is GREEN news linked to the 2010 Olympics. Our goal to be the greenest Olympic is definitely ours! With the intent to become the green envy of eco-mind Olympic we are making headlines everywhere."The 2010 Winter Olympics Athletes’ Village will be built to a remarkably high level of sustainability and meet the LEED standards."
A French shipbuilding ship company joined with one in Monaco to build this yacht. It's enormous, the WHY 58x38. (58 meters long by 38 meters wide), and released these pictures. The yacht, an area of 3400 m2 with seating for 12 passengers and 20 crew.This is a "green" yacht. Wally et Hermès use green energy for 20 to 30% fuel savings and 40 to 50% electricity consumption on board. There are 900 m2
We're loving this floral chandelier from DK Living. It is made of several clear glass florets attached together to form a sphere chandelier. We saw it in person at the Las Vegas show and we thought, whoa, it looks so much better in person. We can see it in a powder room or an entry way, perhaps? The chandelier is priced at $1025 including shipping. The diameter is 27.5" and it weights
The LA Times has an article on loft living that's worth checking out. It features four lofts in the Toy Factory building, done four different ways. The one shown below is our favorite. It's so unique!Image via LA Times.
We found a really great rug line that we just have to share with you. Despite the clunky name, they make wonderful modern rugs that are stylish yet clean-lined and simple. That's so hard to find, don't you think so? Many contemporary rugs are a bit too austere, too severe perhaps.Here are some of our favorites:The rugs runs between $500 for a 5x7 to $1500 for a 8 x 12. They are very well-made
There are many ways to decorate your living room. As this is usually the room where a family entertains guests and spends time together, much thought usually goes into the design. Sometimes, however, inspiration is hard to come by. Here are a few living room decorating ideas to help get your creative juices flowing. 1. Determine your design style. Look through home decorating magazines and see
Are your bathroom wall tiles rather dated? Does your shower cubicle lack sparkle? Grubby grout lines in your kitchen? In these credit crunchy times you can still decorate with ease when you “do it yourself”. Plastic wall tile panels offer a quick and easy solution to your tiling problems. You don’t have to chip off your old ceramic wall tiles or call in a professional tiler. Plastic tile panels
As well all know the bedroom should be one of the most relaxing areas in our homes and those whose bedrooms feel disordered may find it difficult to sleep. In fact when redesigning your bedroom it should be a place of peace and relaxation and the ideas provided below for your bedroom interior decorating design should help you to achieve this. In fact the biggest problem you have may when looking
Bamboo home decor has quickly emerged as the premier material for not only African home decor, but other home decor as well. It’s a material whose time as come. I’ll explore the many benefits and inroads bamboo continues to make in the home decor industry. Thanks to modern processing methods, literally every room in your home can incorporate some form of decor using a bamboo theme. Whether it’s
Welcome to my refrigerator door series. This series will consist of several posts showing options for the design of the refrigerator door. My first post of this series focused on hiding refrigerators in a kitchen followed by my second post on single door refrigerators. Click here and here to see those two posts. In this post, I will focus on pairs of refrigerator/freezer doors; some are
One thing you need to decide on when changing the interior of your house is what style you want the theme to be in. Heck there are tons of choices like Southwest, Country, Oriental, and even Medieval. Yes all of those themes have been used before and will surely be used again. Interior decoration is up to the person who owns the house and who will be living there for however long they own the
Even though the bathroom is the smallest room in most houses, having beautiful bathroom decor can have an enormous impact on the overall design of your home and how your home feels overall. A well designed and decorated bathroom can add thousands of dollars in value to your home - believe it or not. Your bathroom offers space for personal convenience and personal pampering before you step out
We were looking for an interesting, cool, and most importantly, cheap desk for a small home office and came accross this one. It's similiar to the one at Williams Sonoma but it's less expensive. It's so adorable in person too...The desk is small (about 60W by 30H), which makes it perfect for a small space. It costs $850 including shipping. It is manufactured by Bailey Street. You can find it
Decorating your kitchen can be truly invigorating for you and your kitchen. Your guests will notice the changes you have made and ask how you did it. Many of us spend a large chunk of our days in the kitchen and it is fantastic to have one that looks like it was professionally decorated and organized when you know that you did it all by yourself. There are so many businesses out there that are
Interior decorating for quite some time has been a concept or task left to the interior decorator. But because people nowadays are becoming more and more aware and involved in the interior decorating aspects of their homes, there are many homeowners that are forced into adopting their own interior decorating techniques and processes. Home or interior decorating, as wrongly perceived by people
Welcome to my refrigerator door series. This series will consist of several posts showing options for the design of the refrigerator door. My first post of this series focused on hiding refrigerators in a kitchen. Click here to see it. This post will focus on matching single refrigerator door panels with the cabinet style and cabinet hardware. Depending on the style of the kitchen, I usually
If you have a really sleek & modern kitchen and you want the right kitchenware to go with it, check out the line from Rosendahl. Based in Denmark, they make contemporary European kitchenware that are very, very cool..Here are some samples:
In search of an inexpensive housewarming gift? Are you planning to give home accessories for friends who are about to tie the knot? If you’ve begun to realize that the new ceiling fan you’ve just bought for your neighbor appears to be a prime candidate for regifting, we’re here to provide some cheap home decoration gift ideas which may just be worth your while. Table Accents Tables offer great
One of the biggest challenges we face as a small online retailer is finding good stuff to buy. It's so hard, let us tell you. We have to find things that are inexpensive enough, pretty enough, and nice enough in person so when the customers receive them, they'll be happy.You think it's easy?Ha!Fortunately the lamps from Robert Abbey fit those criterias. They are so well-made and well-priced,
You are probably familiar with Thom Felicia from "Queer Eyes for the Straight Guys". Do you remember that show? We kinda miss it from time to time. We don't know any straight guy who watched it though, only straight girls, hoping to fix up their men...Anyway, Thom Felicia is getting to be a major licensing house. He's doing rugs for Safavieh, fabric for Kravet etc. The latest is a furniture
Coming up with interesting window treatment ideas that bring out the best in your windows as they bring in the sunshine, is a challenge to anyone with a yen to decorate. There are tons of non-traditional options and tips to make the most of what you have, and give your windows that million dollar look on a mostly discount budget. How about recycling old items? If you inherited lace tablecloths
You've probably seen this chair quite a bit. It's very popular with the Hollywood Regency crowd like Jonathan Adler or Kelly Wearstler.You can find similiar chair in black and other colors at Guildmaster. They are priced at around $1150 per pair plus shipping...
We just uploaded a ton of new home accessories on our store. Here's a quick sampling:All can be found on the home decor section on the front page. If you have time, please come visit!
We found this adorable line at the Las Vegas Market a couple of years back and we thought we share it with you. They make really cute, adorable furniture that are smaller in scale --quite perfect if you have a small apartment or condo to furnish. The furniture usually comes in neutral colors, which makes it easy to accessorize. They are quite stylish and inexpensive.Here are a few samples:The
Welcome to my refrigerator series. This series will consist of several posts showing options for the kitchen door design and the placement of refrigerators in a kitchen. Part One- Disappearing Refrigerators Depending on the style of your kitchen and your personal taste regarding the look of a refrigerator, you have the option of making it appear to disappear. Today’s design and the cabinet