Mediterranean Inspired Home Ideas

If you are drawn to old world home interiors that feature warm textures, and blue decorative accents that remind you of the sea and sky, you will probably be drawn to Mediterranean interiors. Also termed, “Spanish modern”, this style is indicative of a style that can be extremely formal or it can rustic and casual. The beauty of this design style is it transforms your home into one that could fit into any Mediterranean country: Italy, Greece or even Spain. If you love terra cotta Spanish tiles on your roof and clay fired ceramic tiles throughout your home, here are some tips for bringing more Mediterranean inspired interiors to life in your home.
Colors that mimic nature: One of the draws to Mediterranean culture, vacationing, and architecture are the beautiful colors that stem from nature.

Japanese Inspired Interiors

If you’ve ever been attracted to the clean lines of modern and minimalistic qualities of decor and interiors, most likely that inspiration stemmed from traditional Japanese interiors. The Zen-like qualities of space, open floor plans, natural materials, and nature inspired neutral color palettes are Eastern civilization qualities of Japanese interiors in which we love our interiors to be infused with these same aesthetics. If you’re trying to bring Japanese inspiration into your home, here are tips to bring details into your home, which reflect this influential decor style.

Open spaced floor plans: In Western civilization, the tendency to place furniture closer together and in abundance is the opposite in Eastern civilization.

Beautiful Bedroom Designs

If you are a regular follower, you will know that we occasionally compile a list of beautiful designs for a particular room or space. This post about bedrooms is actually quite random. We just compiled a list of beautiful bedrooms we saw around the net of late.

Cream coloured bedroom by Nemanja

Bedroom with tub visualized by Semsa

Unique Bathroom Designs

Looking to add modernity, a touch of color and quirkiness to your bathroom? Perhaps you should take some cues from Polish designers Daymon Studio and Turkish designer, Semsa Bilge.

Semsa Bilge’s bathroom designs incorporate vibrant color and graphic prints that seem to jump off the walls.
The color combinations in this bathroom are striking, particularly the graphic prints that line the walls and the wonderful purple sink.
Perhaps my favorite out of the whole bunch, Bilge incorporates Japanese

Choosing the Right Kitchen Appliances

Your kitchen appliances in your home make up the one of the largest investments for your pocket, as well as your time, which equates to functionality for your lifestyle in the kitchen. Buying kitchen appliances can be a daunting task when you look at all of the options, from energy saving, to high end designer models, to low cost models, how do you choose? Here are tips to guide your through the buying process and to help you feel informed and confident with your kitchen appliance buying decisions.

• Refrigerators: With any appliance, before you get enamored with all the whistles and bells of how beautiful it looks and all of the gadgets assess your lifestyle. With refrigerators consider how many times you and your family cook and eat from home. For larger families, larger capacity units will be necessary, as well as the ability for longer preservation of food. Higher end models that offer dual refrigeration, on-door controls, and energy efficiency may be more important for your families needs. While singles or those who don’t cook a lot may prefer a snazzy stainless steel or built-in model that looks fantastic, but doesn’t need all of the accompaniments. Also consider if your home would need separate wine refrigeration storage, or possibly refrigerated drawers for easy access.

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Home Library Design Ideas

You who enjoy reading may have a huge collection of books in your home. In order to keep all of them you need to come up with a good shelf solutions and maybe even make a home library. The library can be a special space as part of your living room.

Glamour Apartment Design In Black and Red Tones

This beautiful apartment is located in Moscow, Russia. The author is designer Elena Belkova. She decided to make an apartment is a mixture of classic and glamour styles.

How to Use Dark Furniture to Add Drama to your Decor

If you’ve ever walked into a room and felt instant drama and mystique, it could be the appeal of dark furniture. Similar to the magnetic pull of dark walls, and decor, furniture can add drama to a room and make the inhabitants feel mysterious, sexy, and sleek. Many love dark furniture because it commands attention in a room, and little decor is needed around it. If you’re trying to change or create a space that is dramatic and compelling, look at these tips for using dark furniture.

• Center of attention: Let’s face it, a dark piece of furniture can sit all by itself in a room and provide all the drama you need.

Elegant and Spacious: The Floating House in South Korea

The Floating House is an impressive contemporary residence designed by Hyunjoon Yoo Architects and located in South Korea. The brief was to create a home suited for a couple in their sixties, which would take advantage of the river nearby and avoid the overall racket of the neighborhood.

Appealing Renovation Featuring Elegant Elements of Surprise

By turning an old house into a glamorous residence, Jessica Helgerson Interior Design managed to create yet another amazing inspirational collection of interiors. After seeing this renovation, we decided to take a closer look at Jessica’s works and found this incredible

Coastal Three-Storey Residence Overlooking the Ocean

Occupying a stretch of the Oregon Coast, this beautiful modern residence stole our hearts. Spread over three levels, the house was revamped last year. Transforming it from a dull house into a brilliant and comfortable residence, Jesse Moyer of Jessica Helgerson Interior Design rearranged the spaces to fit the modern lifestyle.

Outdoor Lighting Design Ideas by Vibia

Vibia has created a veritable playground of modern lighting, the like of which you’ve never seen. The Spanish company, known for its contemporary, unusual and off-the-wall outdoor lighting design ideas, is transforming lighting into an art form

Glass Verandas by OpenSun

Extend the indoors out with this modern glass veranda by OpenSun. This modern circular addition to your home encloses any area in contemporary floor-to-ceiling glass panels that slide open. It’s available in any size,

Small Backyard Design with Pool: Idea by Bestor Architecture

Here is a creative idea for a small backyard design with a pool by Bestor Architecture. Notice how the pool and the house are positioned at an angle.

Small Apartment Design in Stockholm by Vasastans mäklarna

When the space is organized competently, the metric area does not really matter. We can give you a perfect example – this flat occupies an area of only 39 square meters,

Living Rooms Show Range of Modernist to Traditional

By Yasser Esam

Interior architecture, dense textures, and natural colors grant warmth to this contemporary traditional living room.

By DeutscherHerbst

Dark hues and cool textures help create an urban oasis, especially with the Luis Barragan staircase.

A Stunning House That Blurs the Interior-Exterior Divide

Designer and architect Fernanda Marques describes, in a nutshell, her inspiration for this very unique, 1-story, 250 square meter house:

Dramatic Discovery

Dramatic Discovery

A dazzling design brings luxury living outdoors

When landscape architect Scott Brinitzer encountered this new Bethesda, Maryland, house, it sat alone high upon a hill, isolated from its surroundings. The homeowners wanted an entry sequence so that visitors wouldn’t have to walk up the driveway, in addition to a pool and an outdoor “room” in back.

Transparent Billiard Table of Striking Aesthetics for Modern Game Rooms

Whether you are a billiard addict, or simply an enthusiast, these transparent pool tables from Nottage Design will certainly make an impression on you.

Harp Inspired Sculptural Armchair by Jaime Hayon

We do not know if it was the harmony of the harp or its unmistakable, delightful sounds that inspired this design. What we can tell for sure is that Arpa Chair by Spanish artist-designer Jaime Hayon has an intriguing metallic support that could naturally make one think of musical strings.
Imposing in size and appearance, this chair found on Blog Deco Design brings a unique personality

How to Create a Multifunctional Master Bedroom Closet

Remember when master bedroom closets use to be one door that you would open and you would choose your clothes and close the door? Closets were just that, a closet, with no other purpose than holding clothes. Wow, how times have changed. Today, master bedroom closets have enough space to hold seating; furniture, storage, and even a dressing area are common in modern master bedroom closets. If your closet isn’t big, the notion that your closet can only have one function should be long gone from your head. In fact, multifunctional closets are here to stay, and here are tips to choosing the right one for your lifestyle.
How much do you have to store in your closet? Depending on your lifestyle,

Organic Bed with a High Level of Comfort: SLEEPY

It has been a while since we posted a comfortable sleeping unit on Home design, Interior design, and Architecture ideas. SLEEPY,

Gradually Unfolding Architecture: Gorki House in Moscow

Gorki House was designed by Atrium and is integrated in a beautiful natural environment atop of a hill west of Moscow.
The architects were commissioned to design a contemporary residence for a young couple and their kid,

Creative Store in New York with a Glacial Cavern Theme

The Richard Chai store is an original installation in the shape of a glacial cavern . The unusual showroom was envisioned by Snarkitecture and designer Richard Chai in New York. According to the architects, “white architectural foam is cut by hand to produce erosions and extensions of the sculpted walls and ceiling to create a varied landscape for the display of Richard Chai’s collection.


The range of shelves, niches, hang bars and other moments embedded within the form encourage the designer’s curatorial eye for display.

How to Choose the Perfect Landscaping Plants for your Outdoors

All of the excuses of the cold weather, too rainy, and imperfect conditions are now gone and it’s time to get serious about your landscaping. While it’s easy to go to a nursery or your local improvement store’s garden center to choose plants, have you ever noticed that all plants aren’t perfect for every home? Whether the sun/shade ratio isn’t proper, or you choose plants that are too large or small for your yard, choosing the perfect landscaping requires guidance! Here are tips to choose the perfect landscaping plants for your home, to enjoy throughout the warmer summer months.
Front yard versus backyard landscaping: One of the best parts about planning and choosing your plants are deciding where they will go. Front yard landscaping requires you to assess the surrounding neighbors homes as well as accentuate the exterior details of your home. While backyard landscaping allows you to be more personalized and unique, due to the privacy of your own home’s personal outdoor qualities. Choose plants that will lend themselves to playing up your natural surroundings, but not overpower your curb appeal on the front of your home.
Accentuate your landscaping on your home: You may not realize it, but accenting your home with flowering landscaping and plant boxes around windows can dramatically change the exterior of your home.

A FRESH PLACE IN THE GREEN GARDEN

Want an easy care garden's many patios something to bet on. Foreclosure and ceilings increases the room feeling, flowers and trees provide shade and fragrance. And do not forget the lighting!

Kitchen in the open.

Elegant Handmade Chandeliers: The Constantin Lighting Collection

Feast your eyes on this impressive lighting collection displaying an immaculate design. The Constantin line was created by Andrea Claire Lighting and features three types of handmade products: chandeliers, floor lamps, and desk lamps.

Island House In Rustic And Modern Style

Do you like secluded places? Such a house on an island is one of the most secluded places in the world.