When entertaining friends and family is a key part of your lifestyle, that has to be built into your space. This apartment from the design at 2Bgroup incorporates the owner's own comfortable modern style with her desire to play hostess for anything from dinners to sleepovers. For it's sophisticated and eye-catching style, the team has termed it the oh!dessa apartment. Le...
When it comes to designing a home that is situated near an incredible landscape, it is always a challenge to ensure the home is beautiful in its own right without detracting from its natural surroundings. The family home, located in Pezula Private Estates outside of Knysna in South Africa not only takes on this challenge, but succeeds spectacularly. Architects from Stefa...
These apartments, each visualized by Archivizer, have so much more than some pretty paint and a cozy sofa. Specifically, these apartments use color and texture to bring a new dimension to the designs. From cool, smooth tile to playfully patterned throw pillows, these apartments take into account all the senses. The results are welcoming, stylish, and far from simple. ...
There is a distinct luxury in simplicity. This Luxembourg house from architect Katarzyna Kuo Stolarska takes this idea to the extreme. With a simple grayscale color palette and the best materials, from furniture to flooring, the house is beautiful and relaxing. Lofted ceilings have their appeal but the long and low lines in this house are simple but not simplistic. ...
But in the instance of this house from the team at LINE Architects, the house was inspired by the homeowner's passion for cars. That passion is carried through each choice in the design, even to the extent that the homeowner's cars are visible from many different areas of the space. The house, designed by architect Dmitry Petrov and located in Chișinău, Moldova, measu...
This residence in Brazil, covered by Casa Vogue and built by architect Alessandro Sartore, manages to do just that by allowing trees that were already growing on the plot of land to continue up and through the new structure. The results are a house that is certainly modern in its design, but also unique and deeply personal. The house was created for dentist and art co...
When a family is living in an apartment together, it is essential for each family member to have his or her own space. At times, it may not be possible for every child to have his own room or every parent to have a private office, but each person must have at least some space that is their own. In this family apartment in St. Petersburg, from the designers at Art Studio ...
It brings along with it vibes of the mod era, complete with go go boots and short blonde bobs. It's timeless in its stylishness and no one does it better than the designers at Poland's Tamizo, who we have featured before. In this post we have five more examples of glorious high contrast. The first design is a house located in Torun, a city in northern Poland along the...
With sleek lines and neutral color palettes, modern design can sometimes stand in stark contrast to surrounding nature. However, when a designer like Anton Biytsev is able to take the most important tenets of modern beauty and bring in natural elements as well, it can really bring a space to life. The five Kiev apartments here were each designed by Biytsev. They include ...
Designers Natasha Janson and Dmitry Kirsanov of I Am Home Studio have created a playful and modern space in this 166 square meter (1786 square feet) apartment that would be sure to help any couple find their own corner of heaven in St. Petersburg. A sociable young couple not only wants to spend comfortable time in their home with each other, but should be able to ente...
When your home is beautiful, everything in your life becomes a little bit easier. But beauty comes in many forms. These apartments, with interiors by Koj Design, are beautiful and sunny. Each has comfortable living areas, cozy, simple bedrooms, and welcoming dining spaces that are perfect for entertaining. These lovely designs comes as no surprise, since our previous cov...
When most of us dream of a luxury home of our own, our mind may wander to a penthouse in Manhattan, a villa in the South of France, or a private tropical cabana. But it takes a special kind of person to find their own sense of luxury in the solitude of the desert. For example, the type of person that might not want to be found? Once you look inside this incredible organi...
By combining sleek modern elements, such as exposed concrete and low profile platform beds, with playful colors and surprising splashes of fun, architect Sergey Makhno has successful turned this Kiev apartment into the perfect sanctuary for a small, urban family. It doesn’t take a lot of pieces to decorate a modern living room successfully. Just a few stylish ones, st...
Ideal for small-scale cultivation and storage, the Green Shed combines the functions of a storage shed and a greenhouse, and is made of Finnish wood and toughened safety glass. Although the shed comes in several prefabricated designs, its individual modules can be combined in any way, allowing the client to create the ideal structure to suit their needs, no matter how u...
The loft-style apartment has been filled with a mix of second-hand objects and contemporary pop pieces in a style that reflects the owner’s personality as well as his love for the American Industrial Era. Most of the objects have been found by Houssein and Ana in flea markets and vintage shops in Brooklyn — finding overlooked treasures in piles of used stuff seems to be ...
In this Lithuanian home renovation, interior designers Ramūnas Manikas and Valdas Kontrimas from the Ramūnas Manikas firm streamlined and simplified an existing house, giving it an entirely new life. From the open floor plan they created on the ground floor to the sunny and sleep spaces dedicated to the upstairs bedrooms, the minimalist home became a place of easy relax...
When making that important life transition from young married couple to new parents, it can be difficult to figure out how to incorporate your old sense of style with your new needs. This apartment, from visualizer Natalia Tsetsulina, uses playful colors, open spaces, and plenty of natural light to create an apartment that is efficient in its use of its 50 square meters ...
The seven apartments featured in this post use pops of yellow - some subtle and some bold - to take the best that the color has to offer without making their living rooms look like th side of a school bus. Take a look inside these stylish, modern homes and get some ideas about how to incorporate this joyful color into your house. The first home is a sleek and simple a...
All In Studio is a Bulgarian architecture, interior, and product design firm. The team at All In Studio is extremely talented in creating spaces that are beautiful, sleek, and most importantly that meet the needs of their clients. The three homes features in this post do just that. Each is uniquely modern in its own way and representative of the impressive work coming ou...
The three microloft designs in this post have their small size in common but each manages to create its own personality. Yes, designing a space this size and including all the necessary functions from a kitchen to a bathroom is certainly a challenge. But once you embrace the idea of keeping things small, it is almost liberating to be able to see just what a designer can ...
But interior designer Pavel Voytov manages to create spaces that feel as bright, sunny, and welcoming as any warm summer day. The designer uses many elements of modern design, including clean simple lines and limited color palettes, to create beautiful homes that are beautiful, modern, and also livable. In this post we will take a look inside eight of his designs for a b...
While ancient castles hung elaborate tapestries to cover the cold, barren stone of their walls, today many modern designers celebrate the aesthetic of bare concrete. What once indicated a desolate warehouse or unforgiving artist's loft can now be used in conjunction with sleek, modern, stylish choices for a finished look that is anything but dank. Take a look at these ap...
Villa Sawarin, located just 20 minutes outside of Phuket International Airport in Thailand, has the luxury features that even the most persnickety of travelers require, all contained in a beautiful design that has none of the generic feel that some resorts may fall victim to. The completed eight bedroom villa is the results of a design collaboration between Jean-Michel G...
In this 47 square meter (505 square feet), as visualized by Pavlova Oksana, the young man who the designer had in mind has plenty of space for all his daily activities. From a small dining nook that's flooded with morning sunlight to a cozy sofa for a comfortable night in, every space is used perfectly in such a way that the minimalist space feels much bigger than it act...
This apartment, from designer Anton Medvedev, manages to quite literally rise above this atmosphere. The stunning interior is perfectly minimal with calming materials, smooth, clean lines, and a color palette that is so neutral you can almost hear the silence of the apartment. The living room and kitchen are open to one another and both utilize a white, gray, and natu...
This home outside of Moscow, from the architects at Pana, actually takes its inspiration from a snake. The design of the house is based on the straight but flexible line of a python's body, which is why the architects refer to is as Python house. Each room was placed on a straight line, and then the line was folded in half, resulting in a ground floor of common areas and...
But not many people will have the chance to live in a house from one of the foremost architects of the mid-century design movement. This house in New Caanan, Connecticut was designed by German-born architect Ulrich Franzen. Many of Franzen's buildings have been described as "fortresslike" and this home, known as The Dana House, could certainly fit that bill. Take a look...
Situated on the first floor of a 1893 building, the so called ‘Três Marias Loft’ is owned by a married couple of engineers with two small children. The designers chose to intervene upon the existing space as little as possible, preserving much of the apartment’s old wooden floor and the existing layout of the rooms, with the only exception being the installation of two ...
Sited at the entrance to Quinta da Boavista, a vintage wine producing farm in Mesão Frio in Portugal’s spectacular Douro Valley, it is the residence of the farm’s caretaker. Winemaking in the Douro Valley can be traced back to Roman times in this region where the land has been cultivated, reshaped and tamed by human hands across many centuries in order to produce hearty...
Which probably explains the entire exhibition during Milan Design Week last April dedicated to just that! This particular residence in Miami Beach, Florida, has been designed by architect Chad Oppenheim as his own family home, by taking an existing nondescript house and adding extra rooms and spaces to it. Dubbed 'Villa Allegra', the approximately 800-square-meter house ...
Very contemporary in its sleek timber and glass design, the lodge has a unique split-view design and is a veritable sanctuary. Located in central Norway close to the village of Geilo, a popular skiing destination in the valley of Hallingdal, the 130-square-meter Split View Mountain Lodge comprises a main wing of bedrooms that splits off from the kitchen into two living ...
That is, a beautiful home often starts with a stunning skeleton, a structure built from the ground up to house a family of real people. The exteriors featured in this post each come from the architects at Fedorova, who certainly have shown themselves able to create both gorgeous exteriors and sleek, modern interiors. Today we will focus on what makes these homes beautifu...
A grey day is dreary and cool and can put you into a bit of a funk. So why would you want to bring that drizzly, damp color into your home? Because it can actually be a beautiful and seductive neutral. After all, it's no mistake that the hit book-turned-film 50 Shades of Grey uses the color right there in its title. There are so many different shades and textures that ca...
Designing a home for a creative person can be an exciting challenge. Artists, writers, and creators have their own tastes and ideas about how their homes should look and feel which can provide helpful guidance as well as welcome freedom to the designer. The two homes in this post take that creative spirit and run with it. Each includes numerous clever and whimsical nods ...
This apartment, with an interior designed by Duc Jimmi at Talenti Design, holds true to many of the elements that are so important in Scandinavian design including beautiful functionality, natural materials, and a creative use of color. While this particular apartment does not have the strict minimalism that many Scandinavian-inspired designs do, it still gives the impre...
With impressive large-scale projects already finished or approaching completion (including an iconic new university building by Zaha Hadid and a translucent mixed-use tower complex near the city’s port by Renzo Piano), as well as smaller scale projects (one cannot ignore the work of the people behind the Carwan Gallery, or the ingenious lighting design of .PSLAB), the L...
