Special Second Lease of Life: Ancient Stone Continues to Deliver Character into a Former Theatre Refurbished as a Family Residence

Special Second Lease of Life: Ancient Stone Continues to Deliver Character into a Former Theatre Refurbished as a Family Residence

by | Jul 24, 2023 | Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Home Decor, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

The former theatre itself being the project’s soul: From a one-hundred-year-old manor house and abandoned village theatre to a single-family home, Can Garrover’s contemporary renovation is located in Sencelles, Mallorca, one of Spain’s Balearic Islands in the...
Natural Built-In Oasis: How to Transform a One-Bedroom Retreat into a Dynamic Escape for a Growing Family

Natural Built-In Oasis: How to Transform a One-Bedroom Retreat into a Dynamic Escape for a Growing Family

by | Jul 21, 2023 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Climate Control, Design & Architecture, Furniture, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lighting, Smart Homes, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

This house in Healdsburg embraces the outdoors with large pivoting walls that blur the boundaries between inside and out. Created in collaboration with Arterra Landscape Architecture, the project comprises a 195-sq-metre main home and a 79-sq-metre guesthouse. Aiming...
Sun-Kissed Baja Beach House: Your Steps Slow & Mind Body Follow

Sun-Kissed Baja Beach House: Your Steps Slow & Mind Body Follow

by | Jun 26, 2023 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Garden Design & Decor, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lighting, Posts, Smart Homes, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

In harmony with its surroundings along the coast of Mexico, this vacation home embraces beauty as well as durability. Custom concrete walls matched to the color of local sand were poured in lifts to create a unique wavy texture that shifts as the light changes...
Striking ‘Spatial Acrobat’ Wins Awards for This Busy Family’s Relaxed & Luxurious Home in Sydney

Striking ‘Spatial Acrobat’ Wins Awards for This Busy Family’s Relaxed & Luxurious Home in Sydney

by | Jun 13, 2023 | Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

Smac Studio’s First Blush in Sydney’s Dover Heights is a home that’s cleverly reconfigured to maximise space, storage and light. Emotional encounters brim in this house. A dream outcome for the client, who lives with her husband and three young girls, she warmly...
Fifteenth-Century Palazzo Renovation in Florence

Fifteenth-Century Palazzo Renovation in Florence

by | May 7, 2023 | Art & Galleries, Bathrooms, Bedrooms, Design & Architecture, Featured (Slider), Furniture, Home Decor, Kitchens, Lighting, Posts, Travel, Walls, Floors & Windows

This apartment is located in Borgo San Frediano, the Oltrarno district in Florence on ‘the other side of Arno River’– voted one of the coolest ‘hoods in the world.     Pierattelli Architetture’s restyling of the 240 sq-metre space breathes a new and elegant...