High ceiling homes are impressive, but what are the tricks of the trade when it comes to decorating these vast, lofty expanses? We’ve gathered together some of the best examples to walk you through it… Recommended Reading: Sloped Ceiling Spaces
Category: General
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Studio Lofts
Open plan studio lofts provide a huge blank canvas on which to base your home layout, but sometimes a blank canvas can be a daunting prospect! Take a look at theses clever loft layouts that maintain a free flowing atmosphere whilst evoking feelings of cozy home comfort
Total Class From Total Environment
This beautiful work is by Bangalore based firm Total Environment, a company who claims to be “focused on creating spaces that you can be proud of living and working in”, and “to make living more comfortable and joyous.” We think they’ve got it pretty much spot on, but why not take a look through some . . .
IKEA 2013 Catalog
IKEA have always managed to keep bang on trend with their home design ideas and furniture ranges, and it seems that when it comes to keeping up with digital trends, the Swedish company shows the same dedication and easy breezy style. The IKEA catalog 2013 shows off the brand new range complete with exciting augmented . . .
100 Beautiful Bird Sculptures Made Out Of Paper
Take a flight of fancy with this flock of feathered friends! In fact, these colorful bird specimens are not so much on the feathery side as they are papery, because these winged beauties are intricate paper sculptures, painstakingly pieced together by talented artist and illustrator Diana Beltran Herrera, from Bogota, Columbia. Recommended Reading: Owl Home . . .
Attic Spaces
No longer deemed as dark and dingy storage spaces that time forgot, attic spaces are now utilized as valuable extensions of the modern home. However, the tricky ceiling angles and variable wall heights can still perplex a homeowner as to the best way to achieve a practical and stylish layout, so we have put together . . .
Library Designs
If you have been following Home Designing for long enough you will know that we have a thing(or two!) for books. Architectural visualization blog Ronen Bekerman recently organized a giveaway that invited users to upload scenes that ‘showcased books being scattered’. This interesting thread gave designers several options to play around with, and as you . . .
Beautiful Designs by Svetlana Nezus
These exquisite home design concepts come to us courtesy of architectural visualizer, Svetlana Nezus. If you are looking for a menagerie of great styles to set your creative juices flowing throughout the home, then this is the place for you.
Dreamy Spaces Rendered By Muhammad Taher
Ok, some of these designs may be considered a bit over-the-top for real day-to-day life, but when it comes to dream-like interiors and majestic home design, Muhammad Taher dreams bigger than many.
Photographing For Catalogs: Petra Bindel
Check out this beautiful work by photographer Petra Bindel, for Swedish brand Stringfurniture, her work is crisp, bright and showcases classic Scandi-style interiors at their best. Bindel’s work has consistently appeared in Elle Interiors and Elle Decoration magazines, popped up in Dwell, and appeared across billboards and book jackets. Recommended Reading: Home Decor For Photography . . .
Contemporary Exteriors in Nature [Visualized]
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This collection of exteriors shows highly contemporary architecture within nature rich surroundings.
Swanky Sales Office of Condominiums by the Sea
Standing tall by the beach at Hua Hin, Thailand, is the condominium development Baan San Kramm, designed by Somdoon Architects, and built by company Sansiri. The beach town complex has an adjacent sales office that acts as a front-of-house gateway, which provides potential homebuyers access to two impressive show units, and creates the opportunity for . . .
Courtyards
A courtyard, by definition, is an open space surrounded by walls, within a building. It is quite a unique spot if you think about it – one that has the airy open feeling of the exteriors yet provide adequate privacy by being within your home. The interior versions of these nature spaces are becoming more . . .
Fabulous Interior Photography By Favaro
These images by Favaro show an array of in vogue living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms and home office spaces in glorious technicolor and new bolder neutrals. Recommended Reading: Home Decor For Photography Lovers
Stunning Sculptures Made from Discarded CD Fragments
Australian writer, illustrator, and artist Sean E. Avery has created a collection of interesting mixed media sculptures of animals and insects, using shattered CD fragments arranged to form the illusion of fur and feathers. The reflective media gives an iridescent sheen to the modern art, resulting in silvery-blue rodent coats, and bird forms showing the . . .
Reading Corners
Let’s take a look at how Evermotion forum’s skilled visualization specialists have rendered out their takes on reading nooks, or on this grand scale, calling them as dedicated reading rooms may be more apt. Soft neutrals are popular in these spaces rendered by Blalank Studio, but striking slate gray, and bright striped schemes offer bolder . . .
Exquisite Interior Renders by BBB
We have no reservations in titling these images from BBB as some of the most exquisite interior renders we have ever come across. They have just bowled us over with their skill in crafting these visuals to such great detail(some of them would pass off as professional photographs) that we would now be keeping an . . .
Contemporary Architecture and Interiors, by Xoio
Take a look at this curvy contemporary architecture and stunning modern interiors, designed by the team at Berlin based company Xoio, a professional supplier on the German market for creative 3D images and animations. We have put together a small sample of images from their portfolio. Check out their showreel below:
Rendered Minimalist Spaces by Rafael Reis
These clean renders by Rafael Reis show minimalist designs where the contents of the home blend with the surroundings, with palettes of pale neutrals only giving way to a few select accessories. The CGI layouts show wide open plan spaces that are bathed in light by huge floor to ceiling windows, with views of the . . .
‘When A Stranger Calls’ Movie House
For those of you not in the know, ‘When A Stranger Calls’ is a horror/thriller movie directed by Simon West, back in 2006. The story unfolds in an impressive house known as the Mandrakis Residence in the movie where the protagonist, Jill, arrives to babysit. This contemporary masterpiece of a house is luxury through and . . .
Our Most Liked Posts Of 2011
Another year has passed us by and we look at our 10 most popular posts of 2011 chosen by *you*, the Home Designer. Click through any of the titles or images to see the full posts. A Dozen Spots That Make Us Say ‘Wow!’ Unbelievable: Pixar’s Up Movie House Re-created in Real Life Safe House . . .