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10 February / Residential

Designed by Knob Modern Design, this black 2 bedroom a bathroom house features a new smooth stucco exterior, new asphalt shingle roof, exposed block walls inside and polished concrete floors. Most rooms in the house are separated by glass walls/doors.

03 February / Residential

Located on the 39th and 40th floors of one of the tallest mixed-use skyscrapers in New York City, this duplex has edgy yet sophisticated interior. Designed by Axis Mundi Design, this project has many impressive features, such as attention to detail, careful selection of artwork, daring use of color, and integration of material and texture. But one of the most daring decision is the leather walls that distinguish the social areas of the household. Besides that, the same leather is introduced on the handrail of the dramatic feature staircase.

06 January / Residential

This minimalist urban flat designed by InArch Studio is renovated for a young couple. The apartment has an area of 91 square meters and is situated in the center of Vilnius, Lithuania. The interior features bold, clear line solutions and complete the artworks of large-scale paintings.

23 December / Residential

Designed by Bogdanova Bureau, this 630 sq.m. house is a family nest for a a young couple and their children – two boys and a girl, located in a countryside of Kyiv, Ukrain. Natural wood in contrast to the cold marble slab are the main materials used in the interior. This approach gave warmth and at the same time brought chic into this house.

14 December / Residential

Who said bathrooms had to be boring and in solid colors only? Everyone wants an escape from the usual and now you can have a bathroom retreat that is as vivid as your imagination. Bathroom suites can be in serene green stripes or in bustling city dots of black – whatever’s captivating.

02 December / Residential

Designed by Ambidestro Arquitetura, Anita Apartment is a 70m2 apartment located in Porto Alegre, South Brazil. 70m2 isn’t that spacious especially if you want to it can take care of all the daily necessities of its residents. But apparently, the owner wants to privilege the breadth without giving up the design and functionality that an apartment of this size must anticipate.

25 November / Residential

Do you ever wonder how interior designer design their home? Will they do anything special? Today, we will take a peek at penthouse Ukrainian architect Sergey Makhno designed for his own family, where he managed to bring together Japanese aesthetics with the tradition of his country.

28 October / Residential

Located in Moscow, Russia, this small but spacious apartment was designed especially for rent. The whole project has pretty low budget - painted walls without leveling, open wiring, concrete ceiling, painted wooden floor boards, and easily restored finishing materials and furniture - industrial metal cabinets, industrial stainless steel tables and shelving and welded furniture.

21 October / Residential

Designed by INT2 Architecture, KAS Apartment is an experiment the purpose of which was to understand what can be done in the interior with one’s own hands, having zero skills in repairing and manufacturing furniture, with the help of simple tools.

30 September / Residential

Designed by Diego Revollo Arquitetura, this 100 m2 Loft is located in the noble neighborhood of Morumbi, in São Paulo. Handed by the builder almost without walls and already with the mezzanine, the apartment did not need a great remodel. Hence, this project mainly focus on how to cleverly use the space and provides elegant finishes.

16 September / Residential

This beautiful greenery-filled apartment is converted from former industrial spaces. The industrial buildings and warehouses at Poble Nou offer “open plan” possibilities, natural light and ventilation in a spot that, as the city grows, is progressively becoming ever so central.

02 September / Residential

Like it or not, in these days, all modern interior design all look similar, no matter eastern or western. Sleek, clean, minimal all these become key factors of a modern room however, it also somehow loses traditional characters. That is the main reason I want to talk about this modern apartment located in Chengdu, China.

26 August / Residential

The overall concept of the interiors of the Golden Oak apartment is based on heat-cold contrasts: colors, textures, surface finishes and textiles. The main room of the Golden Oak apartment is a studio zone, which unites the kitchen, dining room and living room.

19 August / Residential

44 Sqm isn’t that small, but is definitely not big as well. To have a comfortable living space for a couple and a dog is for sure need some thoughtful thinking. Besides the fact of fairly small floor area, there are 12 square meters non-movable shelter room walls. Hence, it is important for the rest of the space to be as open as possible.

05 August / Residential

Located in the resurgent suburb of Maribyrnong, close to inner Melbourne, Skyline Drive House as a composed elegance that challenges many conventions in Australian domestic architecture. Two material palette, concrete and glass, are chosen for their qualities of beatification with time, sustainability, simplicity of build and integration into the building’s existing environment.

24 June / Residential

xDesigned by Dreamdesign, this two-storey apartment is located in Kyiv downtown. Originally, the house was built in the last century by a famous architect Joseph Karakis. Its history and the unique atmosphere of the old city became the semantic background and the starting point for renovation of the apartment. Using timeless solutions such as natural textures, restrained colors, and eco-friendly materials, the apartment is well designed to make sure it won’t go out of fashion and age beautifully.

17 June / Residential

The owner of the house are from New Zealand, so based on their choices, steel beams are exposed and other design features are in part influenced by a desire to remind them of a South Island style. A full width and side return extension is added, with full height steel doors adding an industrial style to this typical Victorian brick terraced house. The ground floor has been completely reconfigured, to create once large open plan kitchen, dining and living space. At upper level a luxury master suite has been formed, the large free standing bath is laced in the center. becoems a centre piece. A new bedroom and ensuite is created in the extension.

08 June / Residential

Mobile home becomes more and more popular these days and Living Vehicle is a new member of this family. Being carefully thought of and beautifully designed, Living Vehicle has a small kitchen with all of the modern appliances, a living area, a bedroom and a bath. Although it looks quite small, the house actually has a 6 person capacity.

03 June / Residential

Before renovation, this two-level loft was just an uninspired white box chopped up into many small rooms. After purchased by the current owner, Studio VARA is required to transform it into a warm, modern and spacious loft that celebrates the view while offering two-bedroom suites for overnight guests.

01 June / Residential

We like fantasy novels since it make you feel you are in the other world, but what if you could actually live in another realm every day? Oregon artist and house developer Ed Bemis work together and build this whimsical home - Shinning Hand Ranch that is so detailed it is fit for royalty from your favorite book. This unbelievable home was completely custom created by local artists and incorporates eco-friendly features. The space is heated and cooled with the use of geothermal energy with a solar heated pool. Intricate, hand-made pieces are the cornerstone of what makes this home unique.

27 May / Residential

Doesn’t like normal apartment, this apartment is more like a special hotel room which is used to entertain VIP guests, mainly from foreign guests. To have a home feeling when they stay in Taipei. Since you never know what kind of people will live in the room, the designing company is asked to create barrier-free space to provide good safety for people with reduced mobility.

13 May / Residential

How the student houses looks like in your memory? For the people like me who has left school for 14 years, I never thought I can have my own kitchen in my flat, a personal ensuite is best I can wish for. While Inspired by the tiny house movement, Standard Studio transformed office building ‘Hermes City Plaza’ into a residential building with 218 student houses which are used to house the freshman year students by Erasmus University.

06 May / Residential

Situated on one of the highest places in İzmir, the Bornova penthouse is a combination of a city home, office, party area and even a comfy hotel concept at times. The flat represents the style of tranquility of Wabi-Sabi combined with the fresh style of Scandinavia.

22 April / Residential

When to tale about small apartment design, we usually will mention the usage of bright color and mirror which has been proved to help make the room feel spacious. However, the apartment deisnged by Ganna Studio doesn’t follow the common rules. This 34 sqm apartment located in Taipei use the dark theme throughout the innovation.

01 April / Residential

Located on fifty-sixth floor, this freshwater place apartment is completely re-planned to accommodate a couple with a growing family. Making use of sliding or hinged panels, living spaces is cleverly seperated. A continuous vertical texture is applied to many materials and envelopes the interior – customized oak timber wall paneling, sheer fabric curtains and upholstered furniture. Besides those customized furniture and soft furnishing, the light fixture used in this place is very eye-catching as well.

25 March / Residential

HongKong, as a lot of super crowded city, is notorious for housing shortage and a lots of people have to live in small room since they just simpliy can’t afford spacious place. Hence, how to live comfortable with limited square footage is a big challenge for Hongkong based interior design companies. We once wrote about a transformable room which has 24 room configuration on 344 square foot and today, we will introduce you another creative design by Sim-Plex Design Studio - a 324 square foot micro apartment.

18 March / Residential

This spacious appartment has 150 sqm indoor area and around 60 sqm outdoor terrace, which gives the interior stadio plenty of room to show their talents. Unlike the common flooring you might see in most homes, the glossy white floors has been applied throughout the entrance, the hallway, the living room – both the kitchen and the dining area. Beside the bright white, some sparks of color like yellow, orange and blue are used to give energy and cheer up the spirit.

11 March / Residential

If you have kids, you might know that 73 square meter apartment isn’t that large if you want to maintain your life quality and give enough space for kids to play. Developed by the architects at Glenn Medioni, the owner of the apartment below wants the design studio helps them to optimize the space and to make the child’s room bigger.

04 March / Residential

This Gallery looking place is newly renovated for a retired couples who wanted a base which is easy to manage, comfortable, feels stylish and new and is also a good backdrop for their art collection. The place itself is relatively small but with other advantages like high ceilings and large windows. Considering the couple’s life style, the designer convinced them not to go for a second bedroom, but instead lavish the space on themselves, with a bathroom each, generous storage space and a large living room with a connecting sitting room and kitchen diner.

18 February / Residential

Designed by interior studio Tiovivo Creativo, this 60m2 loft is a home for a demanding and detailed ‘single’, passionate about freedom, cycling, nature, and little friend of conventions. The owner wants his identity in every detail so that he felt in his authentic home. To fulfill this request, the loft was enlarged to make it habitable and locate the private area of the house: bedroom, dressing room, bathroom, and study area. A metal staircase designed to connect the upper level and lower level, where dinning room, living room, kitchen, storage modules, cleaning room, guest toilet, and gym located. The another design catches my attention in this interior is the painter that covers the front of the kitchen work area. Instead of traditional backslashes, the food related wall mural makes the kitchen outstanding and quite unique.

11 February / Residential

Designed by Daniel Hopwood Studio for a newly married couple, this incredible house is located in north London. Although this house has many advantage such as lots of space and plenty of bedrooms, its original design and layout was a little too open and lack soul for this couple. To make the place more suitable for the couple’s life style, Daniel Hopwood Studio successfully transformed this place and create a perfect balance between vintage and modern together.

04 February / Residential

The world becomes crowded and crowded and in densely populated cities, micro-living style becomes more and more popular. To make best use of their real state and meet the needs of market, some minimal and compact apartments are designed. Like the flat in this post, it is original a 150 m2 old flat in Madrid. The owner wants to divide it into three luxury apartments. 50 m2 isn’t that big for an full equipped apartment, especially with the requirement of luxury.

28 January / Architecture / Residential

Housing shortage is a serious problem in many parts of the world, especially like Tokyo, HongKong, Shanghai those large cities in Asia. Due to the reality, many people are forced to live in terrible condition or pay high rents. To ease Hong Kong’s affordable housing problems, a Hong Kong-based studio James Law Cybertecture try to develop affordable micro-housing in 2.5m diameter concrete water pipe. The design utilizes the strong concrete structure to house a mirco-living apartment for one/two persons with fully kitted out living, cooking and bathroom spaces inside 100 sq.ft.

25 January / Residential

Do you ever wonder how architect will design their own places? Will the place full of artistic elements? Or as normal as us? Check below maisonette apartment belonging to two designers (an architect and a textile designer) and maybe you can tell how designer’s home looks different than ours.

21 January / Residential

Located just 50 meters from the beach of Costa Brava, Spain, this 130 m² apartment is a peaceful oasis. Flooded with light, the place was carried out with all kinds of wood. Oak parquet was placed throughout the home, holm oak wood counters were used with micro-cement walls, an oak structure was used to create the foyer and pine wood is used to make the interior carpentry. Besides all the furniture and flooring, wood and natural material are wildly used in the decoration and lighting fixtures as well. Combing with the beautiful ocean view, this place is for sure a little oasis allowing you to forget all the worries.

14 January / Residential

What you feel having obvious concret structures in the home? A little bit too hard? Well it might be for us, but in creative interior designers' eyes, the concret becomes a room feature and there are many ways to soften the hard feeling and make people feel warm and cozy.

17 December / Residential

This 60 m² apartment in Moscow has been designed according to the principle - ECOlogic and ECOnomic by studio Buro 108 for a young man. To visually increase and make maximum use of the available space, the septum that divided the hallway from the living room and kitchen was disassembled. As a result, these two rooms have been seamlessly blend in a total 40 m² space. Various plants were placed onto the wall to increase the apartment’s cosiness. Due to the apartment’s facing - north, there is a little sunlight. Designer uses a lot of white color in the interior to brighten up the space. A pattern that looks like handmade sketches of leaves wallpaper is used in bedroom to give a pleasant feeling. Take a look at below photos and let us know which is your favorite part of this design. Personally, I really like the divider used to place plants in the living room.

15 December / Residential

Exposed brick is very on trend right now. It adds a certain warmth and hominess to a space that people are drawn to. The key to making it look right in your home and having it work well within the space is decorating it the right way. There are tons of creative ways to play up an exposed brick wall and make it look great.

10 December / Residential

What you can do with a 180 Square Feet (17 Square Meter) Apartment? Elena Fateeva from Fateeva Design gives a perfect answer below. The tiny apartment with an area of merely 17.3 square meters located in an old building in the very center of Odessa was inherited by the current owners. In spite of the very limited floor space and the low market value of the place, it appeared quite possible to turn it into a place for long-term rent. And luckily, there is a college nearby, hence apartment like this will be popular among students.

03 December / Residential

Invited by developers Mount Anvil, Daniel Hopwood Studio work on a show home at Dollar Bay – a beautiful tower designed by international award-winning Simpson Haugh & Partners which has clear views up South Dock right through the city to the West End.