3 Overlooked Spaces With Great Garden Possible
It is all very well for those of us with lovely, light airy spaces where we can create our ideal outdoor backyard, but what about others that have only a drafty side accessibility or a utilitarian stairway — how can you produce a semblance of a garden? Since many of these areas are initially unattractive, […]
Designer's Touch: 10 Beautiful Wine Storage Cabinets
Whether you have the space for a full wine cellar or just a tiny spare nook under your stairs, blend your hobby with interior layout and bring your love of wine to life inside your home. Get inspired by those professionally designed rooms and find the area for a wine cellar, wine room or even […]
Novel to Know: 'Barclay Butera: Sitting on the Coast'
‘The aesthetic of seaside homes reflect a magical alchemy between the native and the exotic, the traditional as well as the whimsical, the mysterious and the recognizable.” — Barclay Butera Butera captures this magical alchemy in his new book, Living on the Coast (Gibbs Smith, 2012) and reveals how to make it. He divides beachfront […]
Locate Your Architectural Design
The house you choose to stay in is an outward expression of your own personality. So it’s important to choose the right architectural design. A proper home design should fit you like a glove, so presuming that you’re Audrey Hepburn, because only she can pull off wearing gloves. And these gloves are resting on the […]
Layout Icons: Joseph Eichler
Joseph Eichler (1900–1974) made modernist architectural background as a real estate developer and builder who has daring artistic and social ideals for America’s postwar subdivisions. Though he never held a hammer, he achieved his unwavering wish to create stylish, practical and reasonably priced housing that advocated social acceptance. Inspired by the progressive architecture of this […]
Steel Connections Make Strong Impression
Anybody who appreciates modern architecture certainly appreciates exposed steel links, be they steel or steel to some other material. The material’s strength makes it perfect as a structural element in a variety of ways. Welding, bolting, bending and other fastenings and manipulations offer metal joints lots of character. This report concentrates on those links, looking […]
12-Step App for Architecture
Welcome to our weekly meeting for those suffering from an architecture addiction. It’s taken a while for us to come to terms with our addictions. But we are here today, publicly standing facing the group requesting one another’s perception, asking for patience as we work through this, requesting assistance. I see a new face in […]
Istanbul Apartment Does a Double Take
Divided right down the center in style and purpose, this joint Turkish apartment is a distinctive combination of contemporary and traditional styles, and private and public spaces. The owners, a middle-age couple, bought two apartment units to combine them into a single space. Designer Neslihan Pekcan of all Pebbledesign was faced with the challenge of […]