China Imitates Brick Urban House Plans

Known for their innovative use of traditional materials – namely brick – Atelier Zhanglei created this concrete urban design, the Slit House, as an ode to custom with an eye looking toward the future. This urban house design in Nanjing, China was modeled after the adjacent homes dating back to the 1920s, only with a cool, contemporary twist. In place of grey brick, the architect opted for concrete in an abstract form. Strips of wood two inches wide were used for the concrete formwork, giving the concrete a wonderful texture reminiscent of a fine textile. The 2,900-sq.-ft. house boasts a zigzag of glass that characterizes its urban exterior while illuminating the interior. Atelier Zhanglei

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Modern & Luxury Restaurant Design

Black is the new gold. The sleek and lavish interior is the blend of amazing concept where the dining experience is treated like an entertainment venue. World renowned chefs are invited to cook for their guests. Diners buy “tickets” to enjoy the food, theme, music, and even lighting all designed by the chef. There are even spots for live cooking demos by the chefs and even their sous. There are four main spaces on this Studio FRST design: the entrance, the bar for the first half of the show, the main dining room and back-stage are the kitchens and corridors. There is a great black staircase in the foyer which used as an enormous piece of furniture.

Modern School Architecture Design

Melbourne Grammar School Modern Architecture by John Wardle Architects

John Wardle Architects has completed a project of Melbourne Grammar School, located in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. It is a prominent Melbourne secondary school, sparsely built around lush sporting fields, where the student’s character is developed in competition. The architect received the brief as the objectives to create a new campus entry, consolidate the school’s library facilities and provide supporting lecture theater and seminar room spaces to forge a new campus heart focused on learning.

The architecture design comprised of a series of inter-linked pavilions, maintaining the continuation of the scale and rythym of the school’s frontage to Domain Road. Each link is glazed encouraging visibility through to the campus interior. Main entry provides a view of the Quadrangle building weaving the old and new together visually.

MINIMALISTIC MODERN BATHROOM DESIGNS

For a truly minimalist, almost Zen-like bathroom design, you cannot go wrong with these modern designs from Dornbracht. Inspired by the Tara line of faucets, these bathrooms look completely serene, unaffected by disturbance from any other decor elements. Pale colors in combination with the unclouded decor create this minimalist look. There is nothing extra, just a few necessary fixtures to turn these bathroom designs into an enjoyable experience. From Dornbracht ...

Valentin Small Apartment Design

French architects Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec have designed the sophisticating Valentin Apartment. The main feature of the small apartment design is a suspended room within the center of the apartment. Sleeping in the “flying bedroom” should be a fantastic sensation. Although, the safety of the structure is not overlooked since the suspended bos is made of a metallic structure covered with wooden panels. The cube, the floor, walla and ceiling has been painted with white polyurethane resin. Suspended right in the center of the appartment, leaving untouched the floor and the circulations around, it divides the space, reversing the perception of the atmosphere in the appartment by making private what is usually not : the living room. Wherever you stand below or above, it truncates the perception of the occupiers bodies of whom one only sees the legs sitting, crossing or walking around in the place. Via

Modern Meeting Room Office Interior Decorating

Modern meeting room office interior decorating by Bosch & Fjord Architecture

The collection is characterized by modern style and comfort. Bosch & Fjord architect have completed an interior design project for Lego Group’s Development Department in Billund. This is not about what is your conference or meeting room size, but this is about how to decorate your office room with ultra modern and new innovation style. The conference room office interior design gives an impression of the aesthetic sense of the management. In addition to the aesthetic qualities, a few other factors work in the back of the mind of interior designers. They try to design in a pattern which will make the conference participants comfortable as well as energizing.

The overall design included a reception area, café and group of meeting rooms. The cafe itself is divided into three areas: dining, café, and lounge, which each area is embed with its own character and functionality.

Rain Shower Modern bathroom

Modern bathroom with rain shower heads By Lacava

Rain shower heads are the epitome of modern bathroom cool. All these shower heads are perfect combination of functionality and beauty. Their unusual shapes are capable to amaze every person who likes modern and stylish things. Having a good shower head is one of the most important decisions you can make for your bathroom. Featuring contemporary styling, brass construction and a luxurious chrome finish, our selection of shower heads will look great and last for years to come.

Remodeling Kitchen Ideas with Modern Design

Great ideas for remodeling your kitchen with modern design

Remodeling or redesigning your kitchen should be fun and enjoyable. You can therefore completely change the look of your kitchen simply by changing the doors of your kitchen cabinets. Kitchen cabinets and complete kitchen remodeling have become some of the most popular do-it-yourself projects for homeowners. Kitchen cabinets can be made from dozens of woods including Oak, Maple, Pine, Cherry, Hickory, Poplar, Alder and Birch. There are three main types of kitchen cabinets: in-stock kitchen cabinets, semi-stock kitchen cabinets, and custom kitchen cabinets. The kitchen photos come from Scavolini as standard designs in their kitchen offerings that can be found here.

Modern Eco friendly Kitchen Decorating Ideas

Modern eco friendly kitchen decorating ideas by Valcucine

This elegant and simple ultra modern eco friendly kitchen design is presented from Valcucine. White kitchens look clean and inviting, and they’re often both modern and contemporary for decorating ideas and design kitchen at your homes. The use of special materials such as carbon, aluminum, steel or layered laminate, the very accurate planning of construction details. For cabinet doors in kitchens you can either dress up used cabinet doors by using a range of eco-friendly paints or you can use veneers that will give your cabinets a fresh look. For more info about Modern eco friendly kitchen visit the valcucine website .

Ethnic Living Room Interior Decorating

Living room with Marco Polo furniture will always look quite exotic like the traveler live there even though he never left home. Interior decorating involves anything that has to do with the interiors of a house and its furnishings. If you plan to revamp the decor of your house, you need to keep in mind several attributes that contributes to the design, like the layout, furnitures, color and the theme. The best thing about Marco Polo collection that it looks almost like usual contemporary wooden furniture but could make the living room to look ethnic. Visit: [Dall'Agnese] – Via.

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Tips on Home Earthquake Resistant ( TAHAN GEMPA )

The technology used was developed by various parties as a quick solution to build a house, usually made of simple construction with the structure of lightweight construction materials and cover a roof and walls are light. Buffer structure quickly build a simple house can be made from the framework of iron, wood, and bamboo. In principle, the draft can maintain rigidity of the structure and has the flexibility to move with the earthquake, and maintain the roof and walls of the cover in place with minimal damage.

Tips for arranging furniture and home accessories to keep them in place when the earthquake occurred (not broken or scattered everywhere): ( Rumah tahan Gempa )

1. Use the screws that can be used to attach objects such as cabinets, bookshelves and so on to the wall

2. Use the screws to put things like computer monitors, desk lamps and so forth in the table

3. Use the lock on the drawers so that when the earthquake did not come out and endanger the occupants

4. Ensure that the dependent objects, such as pendant lights, chandeliers, ceiling fans below, and so dependent and well embedded in a strong structure

5. Use safety security film or layer of glass to coat the glass windows and doors so that broken glass can be detained by this layer

Painted Kitchen Furniture & Refrigerators

Thanks to Trendir for bringing to our attention, colored kitchen furniture and refrigerator ideas from Coolors that really help make the kitchen stand out. Coolors offer custom printed panels for your kitchen appliances. You could have your favourite photo adorning your refrigerator or have it printed on a cooker hood. Check out these photos.

They offer refrigerators that sport the colours of a few Italian football (soccer, if you are on the other side of the Atlantic) clubs too. If you are a fan of Juventus, Inter Milan or AC Milan you would like these.

Italian Contemporary Beds Design By Fimes

Italian designers are always one step ahead in production of amazing beds. They manage to perfectly combine a beautiful design, a high quality and a practicality. Now we are pleased to show you products by one of such Italian companies, which proves this again. This company is specializing in production of bedroom furniture and called Fimes. It offers several excellent collections of wardrobes and beds. The presented beds are made of various materials, have different finishes and everybody could find something attractive to themselves among them. There are a lot of modern and minimalist designs available. For example white leather bed Attolo could become an awesome element of any stylish bedroom. No limits, is an another example with an original decorative headboard and built-in lights. It is also great and could easy create a charming ambiance in your room. If you like to store many stuff near to bed then you might like very practical beds with spacious headboards or even with round boxes, which are parts of the base. If you are interested in one of such Italian beds then you could find more information on Fimes site.

House Made of Wide Variety of Materials with Aesthetic Design

Gracia Studio designed this house in Tijuana, Mexico. House Becerril is optimized to be versatile for the family’s many members and pets by creating both open common areas, in which everybody could spend some time together, and private space, in which people could be alone. There aren’t strict border between indoor and outdoor areas because of a small courtyard with a small pool located in the middle of the house. This area is also great place to take a breakfast or a snack because a kitchen is separated from it only by glass doors. The house is also an experiment in using the wide variety of materials and structural solutions. Its total area is 3,300 square feets. [Gracia Studio]

House on the Hill Linked to the Landscape

The house is situated on the top of a hill on Antiparos, in the Cycladic islands, Greece. There was a lot of challenges in designing it related to its position. First of all there was a need to protect living areas from strong winds of the Aegean Sea and to hide them from the settlement at the foot of the hill. That’s why part of the house was dug into the landscape. In the result, the house is not only protected from wind but only its second store is visible from the village. Stone surfaces defines borders of the Krater house. A 25 meter long lap pool is located at the Krater’s west part which also features amazing sea views. The kitchen’s windows frame views of the pool and its infinity-edge. A courtyard is also protected from winds and is separated from living area only with large glass sliding doors that blur the boundaries between it and the interior space. [Deca architecture]

Cool and Ergonomic Children Bedroom Ideas

To furnish a kids bedroom isn’t very easy, because you should care about a lot of important things. You should to create a favorable atmosphere as for studying as for playing and sleeping for you child. For those people who are lucky to have several children this problem is even more difficult. If you are one of them then you should furnish kids common room in more ergonomic way and try to organize comfortable separate sleeping and working places for every child. You could make both of your children happy and create a beautiful room with cool furniture by DearKids. This company offers many clever solutions for two children bedrooms and this year its product range has been enriched by several very nice models. Thanks to their creative and ergonomic designs they are perfectly fit even to small bedrooms. Kids furniture sets by Dearkids distinguish by bright colors and various decorative elements. One of the most interesting their feature is safety railing, which is available in different versions and could help to personalize the bed. If you are interested by one of these bright kids furniture sets then you could find more information about it on DearKids.

Stylish Teenagers’ Rooms From Clever

The teenage mind is a like a sea sponge that is constantly absorbing new things. No wonder their cup of ideas is always running over! But these brimming minds need space. And their space needs to reflect their personalities!

Bedrooms top the list when it comes to teenager’s personal space. While designing spaces for teens, colors and layout hold much importance. The Italian furniture company, Clever seems to have their combinations right with their terrific showcase of rooms for teens. Most of these rooms use white as the base with one main bright color thrown in. Barring the couple of ones in pink the rest sport a unisex theme. Check them out here…

Cool Ideas For Girls Pink BedRoom

Pink color is timeless theme for girls bedrooms. For many people it is a symbol of tenderness and youth. This color is associated with fairy-tale princess or Barbie and almost every girl dreams about a charming pink bedroom. Pink color could perfectly fit as traditional bedrooms with classical furniture and amazing curves as contemporary, more severe ones. Combining this color with others you could get a various awesome designs. For example white and pink furniture looks very beautiful but if you want more bright bedroom then you might more like a combination of pink and green colors. Below you could see very interesting ideas to create the best pink kids bedroom. There are different examples of girls rooms which would be liked by as young as adult girls among them.