Dramatic Interior Architecture Meets Elegant Decor in Krakow

This beautiful Krakow home sparks the imagination with innovative interior architecture and a strong modernistic attitude, tempered in places by classic natural materials. Each perspective offers a unique visual experience with surprising details hiding around every corner. Designed by PLASTERLINA, this interior demonstrates the beauty of high contrast design – interior themes range from dark . . .

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Two Efficient Apartments For Families With Two Children

Designing a family apartment that meets the needs of parents, children, and future tenants is never easy but these gorgeous interiors rise to the challenge with style. The kid-friendly homes toured in this post accommodate the needs of two households with two small children each. Both feature minimalistic interior designs so the residents can fill . . .

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This Contemporary Apartment Pops With Turquoise Accents

This fresh modern home is the work of the interior design superstars at Polish creative agency PLASTERLINA. The project, titled U.S.S. Home, is an exciting concept for a housing project based in Kraków. The interior makes fantastic use of smooth white surfaces and matte black paneling, its contrast softened by the addition of wood elements . . .

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A Home With Formidable Architecture And A Light Interior

While the street-facing facade looks monolithic and imposing, its spacious interior actually reveals abundant windows with generous views of the property’s three private courtyards. Huston-based architectural firm Stern and Bucek designed this home for a multi-generational family – the sprawling interior meets the social requirements and privacy needs of each resident, and contains a number . . .

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An Open Home That Challenges Monolithic Architecture

With the intent to create a home that fosters interaction not only between family members but also with the surrounding environment and community, Austin Maynard Architects drafted up a creative three-volume structure and outfitted it with an ingenious interior layout to match. It’s only half the size of its neighbors – an attempt to avoid . . .

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An Amazing Cantilever Home With Brilliantly Integrated Courtyards

Do you love cantilever architecture? This home features a dramatic contrast between heavy forms and open voids, balancing its weight as if to taunt gravity while offering borderless interactions with the world outdoors. The architects and interior designers at NOTT visualized this concept for a residential property in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, and the result sparks a . . .

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2 Bright Homes With Energetic Yellow Accents

Is there a color more universally associated with happiness than yellow? It can represent energy, excitement, and strength too – but as far as cheerful accent colors go, yellow is possibly the strongest candidate out there. This post looks at two homes with otherwise neutral palettes effectively brightened by small yellow accents. The first home . . .

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Playful Ways To Brighten Neutral Color Themes

Neutral color palettes are among the most flexible out there. They’re easy to adapt to changing trends, they allow for colorful experimentation options, and they work well to emphasize the artwork or accents you want visitors to notice and enjoy. But perhaps the best part is the atmosphere they create – neutral interiors can be . . .

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4 Super Tiny Apartments Under 30 Square Meters [Includes Floor Plans]

Small apartments present several unique structural limitations – lack of storage, insufficient lighting, and cramped floor plans are just a few of the most common restrictions. The four apartments highlighted in this post turn those obstacles into sure strengths. They each carve out their own distinctive styles, no doubt influenced by the requirements imposed by . . .

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A Mid-Century Inspired Apartment With Modern Geometric Accents

Mid-century modern enjoyed a massive surge of popularity starting in the 30s and hasn’t left the home decor lexicon ever since – it’s been reworked, refined, reimagined and fully ingrained into the way the world interacts with design. This apartment captures part of that evolution by combining the clean lines and smart functionality of mid-century . . .

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A Pair Of Modern Homes With Distinctively Bright Color Themes

Some color themes are beloved classics, and others take a more adventurous approach. These two homes feature creative palettes consisting of a playful combination of bright color accents – mostly gem tones with a few lovely pastels mixed in for good measure. Dark grays and natural wood provide the neutral backdrop to help these colors . . .

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A Modern Scandinavian Inspired Apartment With Ingenius Features

Designed by the Polish creative agency PLASTERLINA, this Warsaw apartment takes an innovative approach to the ever-popular Scandinavian style. The open plan living space retains the natural materials and clean lines of traditional Scandinavian-inspired interiors, but the designers chose eschew the typical all white palette in favor of a more dramatic charcoal theme with striking . . .

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4 Inspiring Home Designs Under 300 Square Feet (With Floor Plans)

Are you looking for ways to make the most of your small floorplan? Each of these four homes occupies less than 300 square feet (27 square meters) but packs an incredible amount of personality, color, and inspiration into each space. You’ll see clever storage solutions and multipurpose furniture, smart organization tactics and plenty of must-try . . .

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A Calm And Simple Family Home With Neat Features

This delightfully streamlined family home makes the most of a neutral color palette and simple materials. Tiny colorful accents pop up here and there but they don’t dominate the design – it’s a brilliant blend of minimalistic and classic design sensibilities. Designed by Yevhen Zahorodnii for a growing family, this 86 square meter apartment in . . .

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A Warm Romantic Apartment With A Casual Feel

Designers at Svoya Studio crafted this beautiful apartment for their clients from Kiev. Words from the architect: “The customer wanted to convert the Kiev three-roomed apartment into two-roomed with a spacious area that combines the kitchen with the living and dining room as well as a bedroom with a shower room and a big closet. . . .

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A Stunning Apartment With Colorful Geometric Design

This modern apartment uses stylish blue and orange paint to transform the walls with optical illusions. PLASTERLINA recently completed the design of this colorful geometry-inspired interior in Poznan, titled #Technicolor to match its vivid palette. The overall style is undeniably contemporary but there are a few traditional elements used for emphasis throughout – nice inspiration . . .

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6 Beautiful Home Designs Under 30 Square Meters [With Floor Plans]

Interior designers are well familiar with the paradox where space constraints actually enhance creativity by requiring an approach that breaks a problem down to its most basic parts. These 6 apartments make 30 square meters look comfortable rather than limited – every piece of furniture makes a big visual impact but leaves plenty of legroom, . . .

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A Family Home With Different Styles In Every Room

Let’s have a look at a home that combines the best of modern and naturalistic themes, rich with sculptural furniture and surprising features. Designed by Oleksii Karman and titled Fedir House, this residence combines a variety of influences with each block of space unveiling something new. Every room is different from the one before it . . .

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A Bright White Home With Organic Details

This 180 square meter home, designed and realized by FORM architectural bureau, combines a number cheerful natural materials in contrast to perfectly modern textures and decor. It’s a striking bright white interior that looks warm and inviting rather than stark and sterile. Every room features distinctive lighting choices, and innovative spaces for socialization are carved . . .

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