Vlad Mishin’s ‘Transformer Apartment’ at 60 square meters (646 sq ft), is by no means the smallest apartment ever featured by Home Designing, but it may just be among the smartest. The one bedroom space is arranged either side of a living wall, a wall that moves, disappears, reappears and allows the space to breathe. . . .
Category: House Tours
The posts in this section give a complete round up of great homes and try to include imagery from every possible room in the home.
Scandinavian & Parisian Apartments In White
Within the fashion industry it is said that black hides all manner of sins. It must therefore be the case, that when it comes to interior design, white is the new black. Making dark spaces lighter, dull spaces brighter, small spaces appear larger and old spaces appear newer, white’s power to transform aids the evolution . . .
A Multi-Level Contemporary Apartment
Taiwan’s WCH Studio boasts a portfolio filled with refreshingly unique modern and contemporary urban spaces we love. These city dwellings are atypical in their architectural dialogue and decor sensibilities. The apartment we feature here reflects all of this boutique firm’s capabilities with its utilization of light and height in a multi-level format with rooms spanning . . .
Luxurious Duplex Apartment in Jerusalem
Completed in 2012 by Bridman Agmon Architects and visualized here by Studio Aiko, this luxury duplex apartment on HaNevi’im St. (The Prophets) Â in Jerusalem, is just minutes away from the hustle and bustle of Jaffa Road on one of the city’s most picturesque and serene boulevards which spans across its geography and leads straight to . . .
Dynamic Modern Designs From Igor Sirotov
Ukrainian architectural and interior design visualizer, Igor Sirotov, caught our eye with his unique modern and contemporary spaces. The four houses featured here span the spectrum of style and coloring. Some are warm and inviting while others are cool and calculating, each imbuing a different sense of what home means to each of us. View . . .
Apartment With Soft Hues That Inspire Futuristic Tranquility
One need only delve into recent history to recall the daring statements made by feature walls or the luxurious impression intended by the incorporation of an indoor water feature, but interior design is fluid by its very nature and today’s practitioners go to great lengths to cultivate their signature styles. A master of creating focal . . .
Sky Villa in Nanjing
Despite the James Bond 007 first impression created by Tao Sheng’s sleek sky villa in Nanjing, closer examination reveals a far more sensitive approach to design that promotes calm and a meditative atmosphere. The client’s trust in the design team is evidenced by the obvious freedom to allow a cohesive haute design ethos to resonate . . .
Skyhouse: An New York Penthouse With Climbing Column & Slide!
This multi-level penthouse sits atop an iconic skyscraper in Lower Manhattan (New York City) and is the product of a cohesive collaboration between architect, David Hotson and interior designer, Ghislaine Viñas, both of whom wished to pay homage to the historical significance of the building in a very contemporary way. Flawlessly executed, this wish produced . . .
Bangkok House With A Unique Take On Privacy
This modern private residence sits within a Bangkok neighborhood which has one prevailing rule: no fences or walls. The homes within the community must be boundless around their perimeters which means each house must be designed in a self-contained way to permit for optimal privacy. Thai-based architecture and design firm, The Department of Architecture took . . .
Magnificent Villa on France’s Bay of Villefranche
Built snugly into the French hillside above the Bay of Villefranche, this impressive, sweeping vacation villa tantalizes with panoramic water views offered through glistening glass walls of the home’s interior. Each of the villa’s spaces are light-filled, airy and open for a serene and relaxed holiday experience. Within its stone-clad and glass walls are five . . .
Three Modern Apartments: A Trio of Stunning Spaces
The three modern spaces we feature here are the work of Egyptian architect and CG artist, Mahmoud Keshta. Each of these urban dwelling visualizations feature quiet neutral palettes, innovative use of wood and texture, and layers upon layers of lighting. All tend to lend themselves to a more masculine repose with subtle hints of delicate . . .
Environmentally Innovative Greek Holiday Home
If Lamborghini built houses they might look a little like this spectacular holiday home on the island of Rhodes in Greece. In reality this visualization is the brainchild of Hornung and Jacobi Architecture from Hamburg in Germany. Most notable for their profound environmental understanding, Hornung and Jacobi demonstrate its application to an exemplary standard, incorporating . . .
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Millard House For Sale
Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s and perhaps the world’s most famous architect, is once again posthumously enjoying a flurry of attention with the listing for sale of his ‘Millard House’ (1923) in Pasadena, California. Having designed over 1000 structures, it is said that Wright stated he would rather have built the Millard House than St. Peter’s . . .
Traditional French Country Home
Dream homes such as this, exist mostly within the confines of our wildest fantasies, but a real-life look inside this beautiful French country villa is provided by JJ Locations. It is possible you might have caught a glimpse of this home before as the agency is in the business of sourcing unique homes for the . . .
Single Story Modern Cottage in Israel
This stunning cottage (visualized by Studio Aiko and designed by Orly Shrem) caught our eye and won our hearts with its open light-filled rooms, glass walls, interior glass-enclosed courtyards and comfortable mixed modern and contemporary furnishings. The color palette is one of neutrals with touches of rich earthy hues. The exterior boasts enchanting Koi ponds . . .
Historical Plantation Home in Paradise
Take a moment to imagine a week of waking up to a view of Half Moon Bay beyond manicured acres and fragrant floral gardens, a maid making her way across the lawn from the servants quarters to the two hundred and fifty year old Plantation Home to make a beautiful tropical breakfast accompanied by gentle . . .
Tiny Transforming Apartment in New York
Gizmodo has some fantastic coverage of Treehugger.com founder Graham Hill’s apartment in New York. This tiny house, with its eight transforming rooms, packs all the necessities of a full size home into a mere 420 square feet. Appropriately, the hyper-functioning space is called a “Life Edited” apartment. Essentially a square cube, the home features a living . . .
The Glass House: Displaying Furniture In Natural Settings
The Glass House Project literally sheds light (natural and abundant) on this stunning furniture collection by Molteni & C. Even for those designers and enthusiasts who do not subscribe to a modern philosophy, the impact generated by the site and layout is awe-inspiring. The individual pieces lend themselves to minimalist styling and this has been . . .
A Super-expansive House With Delightful Features
Yakusha Design, borne out of Ukraine and famed for breaking with Soviet tradition is responsible for this Dnepropetrovskian house. Delightfully surprising, the property was inspired by six people; its inhabitants (four of them children), and despite the impressive figure it cuts in the landscape, is a product of eco design, but it isn’t until venturing . . .
Shanghai Apartment With Modern Minimalist Flair
There are few cities more modern than old Shanghai . . . there are few cities more built-up. In such a dense, historic, metropolis this house is revered by the Chinese Interior Design Alliance as a modern oasis. ‘Qi,’ more than just the smallest high scoring play in Scrabble, is fundamental to the integrity of . . .
St.Tropez’s Luxury Villa, Peninsula 1
Amending the time-honored adage, ‘art imitates life,’ to ‘architecture imitates life,’ begins to give one a sense of St. Tropez’s luxury villa, ‘Peninsula 1.‘ Much like the beautiful bodies that frequent the nearby Nikki Beach, Peninsula 1 sprawls in the Southern French sun and gazes beyond a blue horizon to soft Alpine Peaks.
