Month: November 2018

Portable, durable and 100 percent recyclable, cardboard decor is a cheap way to your house’s ecofriendly factor — and update your look, also. With design fashions going beyond the normal box shape, there are lots of design options to pick from nowadays. When you are ready for a seasonal decor swap-out, the furniture under could be folded flat stored away. While you have the option of decking out your entire home in cardboard, you certainly don’t need to. Ease into cardboard with a few important bits that update a space without overwhelming it.

KARTON

The Paperpedic Bed – AUD 194

Start with a few bits. The robust and sturdy bedframe and drawers within this bedroom could be bought as a set or separately, in case you feel like easing into cardboard decor with only one or two pieces. The Paperpedic bedframe from Karton also doubles as a storage device: It’s eight pullout drawers and assembles in just a few minutes. The mattress is ideal for a guest space because it can morph from one into a king-size mattress and gets the load capacity of close to a lot.

SPACE Architects + Planners

Lighting the way to responsible living. The homeowners of this Queen Anne–style home in Chicago’s trendy Lincoln Park area do their part in creating a more environmentally friendly future, and it shows in their decor options. Case in point: Their entryway’s honeycomb pendant lighting by Gray Pant are handmade in Seattle from salvaged corrugated cardboard.

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Dickens and Georgia Cardboard Bookshelf

Make a bold statement with colorful cardboard. This contemporary storage solution produces a splashy, practical and ecofriendly addition to any living room or home office. Reinhard Dienes made his Georgia sideboard and Dickens bookshelves from fully recyclable cardboard in seven distinct colours. Lightweight and sturdy, every snazzy shelf has an edge strength of around 190 lbs, which makes it a desirable accessory for contemporary decor fans and bibliophiles alike.

Kathryn Waltzer

Invest in an contemporary cardboard icon. Frank Gehry did the impossible by alternating the instructions of many sheets of cardboard and gluing them together for durability and strength, eventually creating the iconic Wiggle Chair. It could throw a curve into a sitting room that is overwhelmed with angles and straight lines.

KARTON

The Paper Play Set – AUD 119

Use cardboard in strategic locations. Anyone with children knows that all of furniture surfaces are open to scrawls, doodles and spontaneous art — making kids’ bedrooms or play places a wonderful spot to have graffiti decoration.

KARTON

As you can see, these children understand how to make the most of their cardboard furniture. This Paper Play Set, including a table using a storage pit and a set of six stools, triples as a flat work surface, storage unit and foldable canvas. Reuse the surfaces time and again using erasable markers and crayons.

sarah & bendrix

Dress it up. Want to use cardboard in your home but don’t enjoy the — pardon the expression — stale-as-cardboard appeal? Take cues from this DIY mom, who coated each cardboard letter with scraps of fabric to make a lively and colorful alphabet wall inside her little girl’s room.

Studio Zerbey Architecture + Design

Get crafty with cardboard shapes. This gorgeous piece of wall art is constructed of the most unattractive of substances: toilet paper rolls. Architects Lauren and Kyle Zerbey utilized an online tutorial by DIY blogger Tali Buchler to craft this whimsical bit of wall art in their Seattle home; they colored the insides of a few bits yellow to give splashes of citrine amid a sea of brown shapes. If you want to have a stab at making the wall artwork in your home, protect the natural expression of the exposed cardboard and make the artwork piece water resistant by spraying semigloss polyurethane on the cardboard.

KARTON

The Berlin Method, Eins – AUD 91

Solve storage issues with cardboard. The five iterations of Karton’s Berlin Method storage system can stand solo or be grouped to create an easy way to keep everything organized.

The shelves are extra strong and capable of carrying the weight of your vintage magazines or stacks of dishes.

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With a concentrated summit on top and a roof which slopes downward on each side, a gabled dormer creates usable space in the roof of a house, adding headroom, ceilings and architectural attraction. Built in a variety of sizes, gabled dormers can accommodate a single window and behave as an architectural punctuation mark or feature three windows within an whole second-story addition.

Brooks Ballard

The dormer with this gabled roofline brightens the face of this traditional-style house while providing headroom and natural lighting in the next narrative.

Avenue B Development

A gabled dormer provides a front-and-center focal point for this Craftsman house.

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Emerick Architects

Knee braces support both the side and front gables with this Northwest shingle house.

Duxbury Architects

A house may comprise multiple dormer styles. This shed dormer and gable dormer unite to make a striking roofline.

Heartwood Corp

A view from inside shows how gabled dormers allow for light-flooded rooms and extra living space.

Noel Cross+Architects

A gabled dormer combines with knee straps, squared-tapered columns, a shed dormer and a Craftsman-style front door to make an exterior rich with architectural attraction.

Plattner Custom Builders, LLC

The front facade of this home features three front gables and a Sherwin-Williams color scheme, with the siding in Chatroom 6171, both the board and batten accents in Hardware 6172 and the fascia and trim board in Dover White 6385.

The Design Build Company

Centered over the entry, a gabled dormer draws the eye upwards with this San Diego house.

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While my ideabooks have a tendency to check at the big picture, the overall form of a home or sometimes particular elements that go into a layout, every now and then I love to zoom in and focus on stuff. Here is another attribute with close-ups of substances, a number of them fairly typical but most of them anything but. Exterior applications are the focus of this ideabook, but a future one will take a step indoors.

Bauhaus Custom Homes

Astute and frequent readers probably know I am a big fan of rust. Cor-Ten steel are located in dishes but also corrugated bits, like on this residence in Dallas. I’ll acknowledge the look and texture isn’t right for everybody, but the juxtaposition using the cactus inside this picture — quite appropriate, actually — makes the rust quite attractive.

WA Design Architects

More rust. This undertaking by WA Design utilizes thin sheets of weathering steel punctuated by exposed fasteners. When using any metallic skin, it’s important to think about how it is secured — exposed, hidden, fitting, contrasting, gridded, irregular and so forth. The grid of screws here is clearly intentional.

Jobe Corral Architects

Steel can also take different endings, for example gray-blue look. The natural variation within the tiny panels is a wonderful touch, as would be the flat wood dividers.

MICHAEL HENNESSEY ARCHITECTURE

Here is a functional construction in Sonoma, California, that is coated in vertical metal siding. A mesh grid situated a few feet before the metallic surface is an armature for climbing plants, softening the whole building.

Resolution: 4 Architecture

Gray cement board panels cover part of this house in New York’s Catskill Mountains designed by Resolution: 4 Architecture. The grid of fasteners breaks down the scale of these panels. The gray-blue finish is a wonderful contrast with the wood.

Resolution: 4 Architecture

Another Res: 4 project uses cedar siding, a more typical direction of cladding a home than cement panels. Regardless, the variant found in this small area at the bottom corner of a window is striking; This really is the type of natural variant that fiber cement can not reach.

Bauhaus Custom Homes

We can see a similar type of variation in the wood siding, exactly the same project as the corrugated rust that starts the ideabook. In a sense the two substances complement each other: They are both flat and possess their own kind of natural variant.

Delta Lumber & Millworks

The wood edition of weathering steel (that the oxidization of steel to provide a protective barrier) is that the Japanese tradition of shou-sugi-ban. Burning cedar or another wood gives it a charcoal barrier that is rot and fire resistant … and very distinctive looking.

Mell Lawrence Architects

Last is the superb scaly outside of this aptly called Concrete Studio by architect Mell Lawrence. The cast-concrete building is similar to a monolithic mass that is broken down in scale throughout the texture; the shadows accentuate it. The holes left by the formwork also give the walls a distinctive look.

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Many people would regard a white couch as an impractical choice, and if it’s an upholstered version, they’d be correct: The bad snow-hued couch will probably seem dingy ahead of its time. However, if this couch has a slipcover in a machine-washable cloth, it may be the most practical choice whatsoever.

That’s correct, a white couch can be simple to maintain.

Fans of white slipcovers know that white is secretly simple to keep pristine. As Shabby Chic founder Rachel Ashwell once told Victoria magazine,”White denim is great if your kids are young, and as they age you can switch to white linen. White is always good, as it could be bleached.” That’s correct, the not-so-secret weapon is bleach.

Whether you acquire a piece of furniture using a white slipcover or you add you to an older piece, a white slipcover is a traditional look that spans many decorating styles. Slipcovers are not just for the couch either: Dining room chairs, headboards and other upholstered pieces may also benefit from a slipcover. Here are 12 rooms to inspire you to offer white slipcovers a go.

Dreamy Whites

Can you imagine that this living room belongs to a mom of five who lives on a horse ranch? Maria of this site Dreamy Whites has figured out that white is a practical selection for homes with children.

Amoroso Design

This living room by Amoroso Design showcases two different fashions of slipcovers: The couch and easy chair have covers that touch the ground, hiding the pieces’ legs. The armchair beside the fireplace is dressed in an quick cover that shows off its slim legs.

Olga Adler

White is a fantastic alternative for an indoor-outdoor space like this sunroom by Olga Adler — just make sure you make family members eliminate muddy shoes.

Studio Marcelo Brito

Should you worry that white will seem too stark, take a cue from Marcelo Brito Design, who jazzed up a set of chairs with white slipcovers using matching patterned throws. The look is casual yet coordinated.

Tamar Schechner/Nest Pretty Things Inc

A white couch does not need to mean too little colour. This vibrant room by Tamar Shechner demonstrates that a collection of colorful throw pillows may make even the snowiest sofa seem festive.

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Bosworth Hoedemaker

If you elect for white-covered pieces, you can still warm things up in winter. This living room by Bosworth Hoedemaker shows how a few comfy textiles can provide ivory-hued pieces a hot, autumnal look.

A Beach Cottage

White slipcovers are a simple way to provide a breezy feel to your dining room in warmer months. This white-on-white space belongs to Sarah of this site A Beach Cottage.

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IKEA

Henriksdal Seat – Blekinge White, Birch – $89.99

Love the look of Sarah’s beach cottage dining room? Borrow her fashion with the Henriksdal seat by Ikea using all the Blekinge white slipcover alternative.

Within this country-cute dining space, a pair of rounded-back dining seats have slipcovers with brief casings. Short casings are a playful way to change up your dining room without having to change the furniture.

Van Wicklen Layout

While a simple chair in a bedroom is likely to get less wear and tear than just one in a family room, white denim is still a wise selection for a kid’s room. This ottoman and a seat are both sheathed in feminine pleated covers.

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Within this elegant bed chamber, a white-covered loveseat sits at the foot of a stunning bed. When choosing drapes to get a canopy-style bed, make sure you choose a machine-washable fabric.

Tracery Interiors

Headboards are another piece of furniture that may be granted the slipcover therapy. Within this cute bedroom with Tracery Interiors, every twin mattress has a very simple headboard using a white slipcover for a casual, crisp finish.

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Here we go! The boys of summer are back, as the 2012 Major League Baseball season starts now. This also means lazy days playing catch, fielding grounders and hitting clinic. It means sitting out from the bleachers to catch some sun, see the folks walk by and take in a game. It means hot dogs, peanuts and suds to wash it all down.

However, most significant, it means we’re all equivalent, beginning out exactly zero games supporting. Could this be the year my beloved Cubs finally overcome the curse? Let us hope so.

By the way, if you have never had a opportunity to listen to James Earl Jones reciting”Casey at the Bat” or Harry Caray singing”Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” you’re in for a real treat.

TRG Architects

Perhaps this kid will be another Roy Hobbs (the baseball prodigy in The pure ). As he or she lies in bed staring at the skies, dreams of hitting that game-winning house run can fill his or her head. How sweet and inspirational is that?

LMR Designs, LLC

Lucky child who gets to sleep every night in their personal Field of Dreams.

DKOR Interiors Inc.- Interior Designers Miami, FL

My favorite catcher of all time must become Yogi Berra. Maybe there were better catchers, but Yogi’s ability to convey was his true strength. Who can forget lines like”It’s déjà vu all over again” or even”The games not over till it is over.”

IN Studio & Co.. Interiors

Just because we’re grown up and our room decor is more sophisticated doesn’t mean we do not still enjoy the sport. In reality, a few prized bats as well as other memorabilia, or…

A framed portrait of a baseball fantastic keep us forever young. How suitable for a sport that is not tied to your clock and time.

Tell us Please share your favorite baseball story! It seems that we all have themfrom presidents to Doris Kearns Goodwin. Even better, post a photograph of your baseball home decor in the Remarks section below.

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There is that something in most rooms, that one component that occupies the show and makes a statement. When it’s an expected element like a light fixture or a great part of artwork, or an unexpected choice like the floors, ceiling or banister, that all-important wow bit is more accessible than you might think. Listed below are a couple of of our favourite ways to integrate delight in any decor.

Andrea May Hunter/Gatherer

Among our favorite trends, along with also an idea we hope has staying power, is using lighting to make the major statement in a space. If you’d like a light fixture which wows but are not certain where to begin, here is a good rule of thumb: Add the measurements of your space, and that is the number of inches your fixture ought to be. Therefore a 12-foot by 15-foot room, for instance, would have a 27-inch fixture. Of course, we’re never opposed to moving a little larger!

Meg Adams Interior Design

Considering that the table is usually the major part in a dining area or breakfast area, accessorizing with fashion can be tricky. A stunning light fixture makes making a statement a cinch. If you’re seeking the fixture to be the focal point, try hanging it 30 inches off the table, somewhat lower than the 40-inch recommendation if a different focal point is supporting it.

186 Lighting Design Group – Gregg Mackell

If there is one thing that always leaves a space, it is the artwork. It’s tempting to stick with paintings in the palette of the space, but occasionally finding a piece you love is the most crucial thing. It’s remarkable how easily those bits frequently work with the layout you currently have.

Art that defines a room doesn’t have to be prohibitively expensive. Locating a brand new, local artist who is simply getting started is often a good way to snag a one time piece. Function by supertalented artists for each budget is also constantly emerging on Etsy. Or, if you’re so inclined, pick up a couple of paints and a canvas and channel your inner artist. Who knows what you could create?

Grizzly Iron, Inc

It’s easy to get caught in the joys that artwork applies just to paintings. These iron musicians really are a fantastic case of three-dimensional artwork the eye can not help but be attracted to. Hats, sailboats and plates are other great examples of easily accessible three-dimensional artwork.

So frequently the floors are something which fade in the background, requesting to be covered by a rug. Not so with this vibrant black and white pattern. This classic color combination can be re-created in marble, tile or linoleum for any style room and any budget.

Another oft-forgotten surface, the ceiling, is an excellent place to make an impression. In case a custom-made layout is out of the question, patterned ceiling tiles, some stunning medallion and even background are easy ways to give the ceiling punch, no artist required.

LDa Architecture & Interiors

The stairway is another place that can easily fade into the background. Make it pop by painting banister and spindle surfaces using opposing colors, like the traditional black and white. For the exact daring, a glowing pink, green, blue or orange is incredibly eye catching. On the reverse side, if you are not wild about the banister and spindles on your stairs, paint them the exact same color as the walls and watch them fade in the background.

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This motivated manor is home to a retired couple who have a severe passion for animals. They wanted to build a house where horses, dogs and cats had room to roam till they found permanent homes.

The home sits on a 1,000-acre slice of land in the Green Springs Historic District, a shielded agricultural landscape sprinkled with historic farmhouses and manors, and the couple wanted to make sure their house would blend in. Joel Barkley, John Ike and Thomas Kligerman of Ike Kilgerman Barkley Architects worked with interior designer Renée O’Leary to create a colorful, cheerful and light-filled house that looks as if it’s been there for centuries.

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Who lives here: A couple and their nurture horses, dogs and cats
Location: Louisa, Virginia
Size: 5,000 square feet on 1,000 acres
That’s intriguing: The home is an irregular H shape to allow for maximum all-natural light.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

The entire Green Springs Historic District is a protected agricultural arena. It is composed of more than 14,000 acres of exceptionally fertile land (a sharp contrast to this poor soil surrounding it), and historic manors and farmhouses.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

Since this was one of the biggest homes built in the area since the late 19th century, it was critical that the home mix in with its environment. Barkley and his team wanted the home to keep inside the individuality of the historic district but nevertheless reflect the design style of their customers.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

A columned entry portico greets the homeowners in the end of a long drive round the 1,000-acre home. The home is within an irregular H shape, which made in part to allow for the constant flow of light.

Windows: Marvin; columns: Chadsworth; chairs: Weatherend

Ike Kligerman Barkley

The steady was a very important portion of the couple’s wish list. Since part of the reason they constructed this home was to take care of retired horses, they needed enough space to house the animals and their caretakers. Ike Kilgerman Barkley made the layout based on a classic English profile they admired for its timeless and functional look. The stable can accommodate up to 28 horses, and its own center peak has living quarters for its horses’ keepers.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

Indoor-outdoor living proved to be a big priority on this project. A “service” porch with a fireplace and a screened-in dining porch allow the couple to enjoy the grand grounds yearlong.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

Interior designer Renee O’Leary needed the house to feel traditional but have a pleasant, open, colorful and relaxing vibe that would signify its farmhouse roots. Earthy tones, exposed forests and large windows in each room help achieve this look. White and black marble floors give the entry a dab of formality.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

The bunk hallway bridge across the porte cochere (the arched structure over the driveway, also referred to as a carriage porch) is Barkley’s favorite room in the home. Here, daybeds are placed at the end of this space with bookshelves tucked below and in each end. “The manner by which the measures in the hallway isolate this area make it comfy, protected and nap causing,” says Barkley.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

A country-style kitchen feels current but reflects the timeless quality of the house. Granite countertops were installed for ultimate durability, and glass-faced upper cabinets offer more storage without restricting the open quality of the space. A huge window over the sink opens into a beautiful view of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

“The single-room depth of the floor plan lets sunshine all day to the home. The triple-hung windows allow you to push the sash and walk out everywhere you would like,” says Barkley.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

A casual living room area bathed in oranges and yellows sits outside the kitchen. A fireplace keeps it comfy in winter, while open access to the back porch allows for an indoor-outdoor living space during the summertime.

Loveseat cloth: Nobilis; armchair cloth: Bergamo; orange carpet: Odegard; lamp: Holly Hunt

Ike Kligerman Barkley

O’Leary was passionate about her color choices. “She knew the living room and library had to be Clydesdale Brown by Benjamin Moore,” says Barkley. “She loves horses.” The boxed white and bay bookshelves within this room create a bright focus contrary to the earthy brown paint.

Couch: Donghia; carpeting: Stark

Ike Kligerman Barkley

An upstairs gallery alongside the master bedroom hallway allows for clear views into the Blue Ridge Mountains. A gold grass-cloth wall covering maintains the warm inside vibe and overlooks the brilliant greenery outdoors.

Artwork over mantel: Ted Larsen; curtains: Cowtan & Tout; wall covering: Decorators Walk

All pictures by Durston Saylor

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Are you a person or a person that is shower? Or, like me, does it depend on your disposition? If the invigorating feeling of a full body spray, the gentle fall of hot rain or the soothing, muscle-relaxing pulse of an oscillating spray sounds great, this ideabook is for you.

Luxurious materials, magnificent settings and the latest in technology brings to the experience in these sensational shower designs. Once you go in, it may be a lengthy time until you come out.

Moroccan Design

This Moroccan-inspired shower makes my fantasy record for its sheer dazzling magnificence of this jewel-like mosaic tile, the colours on the wall and that fairly fuchsia cupboard. In addition, I adore the raised platform of this shower surrounded with a hardly there frameless glass enclosure. What a fashion!

Garret Cord Werner Architects & Interior Designers

When I watched this clear, totally tubular shower, my first idea was “Beam me up, Scotty.” Then I understood Scotty could not actually beam me anywhere much better than this. It’s a movement sensing door which opens automatically, which is fairly space era.

This ought to appeal to wannabe go-go dancers; nothing like a little exhibitionism to begin daily. It is the Transtube 360 from Roca.

DigitalProperties.ca

Large glass doors using a curbless transition into the outside in conjunction with a skylight and back-painted glass the colour of water and skies create an experience that is like showering out in the open. A very free atmosphere and one which requires a secluded site.

Speaking of dreams, this shower nevertheless is only that: a fantasy. This is a photorealistic 3-D rendering done to conceptualize the entire space before building. The designer has envisioned a wood floor that continues in a curbless fashion from the main tub to the shower. River stone outside the floor-to-ceiling windows is continuing indoors around the shower stage. This is like showering out in the jungle with no bugs.

Many designers are operating with 3-D modeling applications to give a flavor of what the room will really look like before the customer commits to building the layout. The more photorealistic the manufacturing, the more it costs to get it generated, but it sure beats the hell out of a floor plan in pencil on chart paper for visualization.

Tracy Stone AIA

What could be dreamier than showering in a warm rain when gazing up at a blue sky? What a great idea for getting sun in your shower whilst still maintaining your privacy.

The Grene Group

A luxurious stone texture fills one wall of this shower. The handheld showerhead is as sleek as they come, but it’s the rain showerhead that will make me feel like I was in a secluded, natural grotto.

Combining sauna and shower is another luxury idea. The rough-hewn granite and hefty logs create a grounding environment in which to sit back and unwind.

This shower is simply pure opulence, with the walls and floor covered in beautifully colored stone. Just being in here would make me feel like a million bucks.

Flüff Designs & Decor

A very dramatic look is achieved with book-matched marble with a striking vein pattern. When you look closely you’ll realize there are body spray fixtures set in the wall into the left as well as a square rain showerhead in the ceiling and the other showerhead on the wall. Setting fixtures to the wall allows the rock’s beauty stand out with minimal interruption.

Savio & Rupa Interior Concepts (Bangalore)

A shower pillar is another way to bring the luxury of body spray fixtures and several showerhead features without needing to run pipes.

At first glance you notice this shower shares a beautiful tile wall using the vanity. But what is not so noticeable is the high-tech character of this shower. It’s the Kohler DTV ll digital showering system, which controls the temperature, steam, spray, sound and lighting of your own shower all from one controller. It also has Kohler’s SoundTile speakers plus a rain-shower panel on the ceiling that offers mood lighting. Watch the end of this ideabook for the product links.

Phil Kean Designs

This shower gets exactly the same DTV ll controller, and here you get to realize that mood lighting in actions. Pretty slick.

SCHLUEBarchitecture

This is one of the most whimsical and artistic showers I have ever seen. All those blue glass plates create a shower display reminiscent of big bubbles. 1 commenter notes that all you would need to do to wash them is pop them in the dishwasher.

Christopher Scott Homes

This is a shower worthy of a castle. Creamy rock, graceful arches and a vaulted ceiling all create ambiance fit for royalty.

James Patrick Walters

An indoor shower right next to an outdoor shower would have me saying, “Eeny meeny miney mo.” They are both so pretty; I don’t know if I could handle having to create such a hard decision first thing in the afternoon.

John Lively & Associates

For those who like to sing in the shower, this one has speakers all the way round. The view and amazing wood-beam ceiling give you something to sing about.

John Kraemer & Sons

The sensual lines of this undulating shower seat offer an inviting spot to perch.

Stockett Tile & Granite Company

Showers for 2 really are a terrific attribute, whether the objective is for 2 people to prepare at the same period in the morning or only keep each other company.

Helen scott

Occasionally an extremely lovely tile is enough to make a shower feel like a fantasy. This metallic damask is simply lovely.

PLAN architecture | layout | strategy

A shower does not have to be enormous to be fantastic. I adore this light-filled shower-and-tub combo. The gossamer-thin white shower curtain onto a ceiling track is a fairly look, plus it accommodates those who are modest.

Who says humans are the only ones who should have a fantasy shower? A handheld showerhead and custom tile create a shower which will make any pooch feel positively pampered.

Kohler

DTV II Digital Showering System – $1,882.65

Control sound, steam, temperature and more at the touch of a button.

Kohler

SoundTile Speakers – $378.25

These SoundTile speakers give you music to accompany your singing and will not get in the way of you shaking your booty.

Contemporary Showers – $3,508.95

This rain showerhead glows with coloured mood lighting for a truly sensual shower.

Pangaea Interior Design, Portland, OR

Skyline Showerpanel | Hansgrohe US

One of my favorite shower panels, this one by Hansgrohe sports two fold-away showerheads at different levels, plus a fold-away nonslip footrest so ladies have a place to set their foot whilst shaving their legs. Insert the five body sprays and neat hose handling and this is a real winner.

Inform us : Did you see the shower of your dreams here? Is there anything that these photographers left out which you’d include in yours?

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An extremely important consideration when designing a new house is discovering the materials for your exterior. Glass is a certainty for windows, but solid areas can be clad in brick, concrete, stone, metal, wood or even a combination of these and other materials.

This ideabook requires a peek at some homes that are covered in wood or predominantly feature wood on the exterior. The focus is on the design impact of the substance and its articulation on the facade, rather than on its technical characteristics.

Frank / Architects

This little house in the redwood forest of Sea Ranch in California is a great example of a construction that integrates itself through the utilization of wood over the entire exterior. Little windows predominate on the upper exterior, but a large window off the living room attracts the forest inside.

Frank / Architects

Another view of the house in the forest accentuates the integration which comes not only with covering the construction in wood but also from articulating it vertically, parallel to the redwood tree trunks.

Frank / Architects

Inside the same house, more vertical wood planks, combined with hardwood flooring, ceilings and construction, further the integration and create the spaces hot and extremely inviting.

chadbourne + doss architects

Wood is also a great material to use selectively. It can be a suitable contrast with other exterior materials, especially when the colours are dark and light. This wood cladding is shaped to frame the huge window and dark surface below.

chadbourne + doss architects

Another look at the same house makes it clear this framing is three-dimensional. Apart from raw cedar, cement and steel panels are used for the exterior. The three materials seem to interlock, accentuating the home’s quantity and imparting some verticality into it, especially with the wood.

christopher jeffrey architects pllc

The top two floors of the house in New Jersey have vertical boards of a grayed wood involving various-size windows in placements that are irregular. The big window on the floor wraps the corner towards a cantilevered balcony, a bit that brings the most attention.

christopher jeffrey architects pllc

A nearer view of the wood skin demonstrates how the dimensions of the bits is an important factor in the way the construction appears.

This exterior uses horizontal wood planks, and it is clear why. The long and low construction exudes the landscape, accentuated by the flat lines of the ground and roof, and from the orientation of the wood.

From the other side of the house, the flat pattern of the wood also strengthens the management of the home’s volume. But the articulation of the various forests — a mixture of browns and grays — lets the house also integrate itself with the landscape.

Randy Bens, Architect AIBC

Given its lightweight nature, wood can also be used for screens that filter daylight as it enters inside spaces. Wood Cabinets add interesting detail layered over glass and other materials. The angled display hung in front of the building is particularly striking.

Randy Bens, Architect AIBC

Note the difference in impacts between daylight (this photo) and following the sun goes down (previous photograph ). During the daytime the display looks almost solid from the exterior, but in the day the glow from inside is filtered, the opposite of if the sun is out.

Randy Bens, Architect AIBC

This display and its construction are closely detailed: Painted white slats are mounted to paired vertical supports which are bracketed into the roof above and horizontal framing below.

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You may need to be living under a rock not to have heard anything about Jeremy Lin and his rise to fame, a Cinderella story this New York Times reporter calls “the most infectious grassroots movement since the Tea Party.”

By means of a series of situation, Lin now finds himself because the unlikely star of a much maligned New York Knicks team — a situation so sudden, seeing as just a week ago, he was sleeping on his brother’s sofa (let’s hope that it was a Togo), unsure whether the Knicks would guarantee his contract for the rest of the season and reluctant to discover a permanent residence on the East Coast.

But following a series of play and also a stellar performance against the L.A. Lakers last night, Jeremy Lin is now in the market for a home. This report confirms that a agent has shown Lin two properties: a Manhattan apartment owned by a teammate, and a house in Westchester County.

My vote is for the Westchester County house. An sweet pad in the city beside the likes of Jay-Z and Beyonce would be nice and all, but nothing makes me happier than the idea of Lin — whose parents crashed at a relative’s spot in Elmhurst, to watch his game against the Lakers last night — hosting his whole extended family at a sprawling home just outside the town. And the New York Post reports that the Westchester house is near the Knicks’ practice facility in Greenburgh.

ers, let’s know in the Comments section which land you think Jeremy Lin must select: apartment or house? And while you’re at it, don’t hesitate to share photos which you think his soon-to-be hired interior designer ought to include in her or his sourcing.

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The Bachelor Pad

This duplex penthouse is a healthy to get a highly-coveted expert athlete’s lifestyle. But Lin, a devout Christian who considers the NFL’s Tim Tebow an inspiration and role model, leads a life that is far from that of a stereotypical profile.

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The House in the Suburbs

Can not you just picture him welcoming his parents and two brothers in a house that is comparable to this Colonial Revival?

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Goodbye, Couch Surfing

The instantly NBA sensation can look forward to a room of their own for the rest of the year. I really don’t think he will miss the sofa too much.

Tell us : Which kind of house should Lin select, and how do you style it?

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