Fabulous House Designs

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A large majority of people, when decorating, tend to push the best of their ideas and functionality principles on the matter, to be used on the large spaces inside the house.

Usually the decorating focus goes to living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms. The people focus on making bathroom functional but simply tend to overlook the transition spaces like hallways and stairs.

The hallway is nothing but the small, narrow space to which, in many cases we cannot attribute a specific function, other than the place where you take off your shoes or hang your rain coat and umbrella when you enter the house.

What if this place could have a slightly different and more focused purpose?

All you need to do is think of it the way you do for all the other rooms of the house.

If “pretty” is the word you are using to define your home décor, focus on transferring it to the hallway.

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holy cow, wow. i just stumbled across Bird and Bear, the etsy shop of Brooklyn artist Joetta Maue, and her abundance of beautiful and completely unique hand embroidery blew my socks off. i totally fell for these re-purposed, hand embroidered works of art, all of which are created on one of a kind vintage linens, like hankies and tablecloths.

Joette also accepts commissions for custom images for embroidered portraits, and custom text orders are welcome, as well. I can see these pieces being amazing and very personal housewarming, baby shower or wedding gifts.

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Tags: Bear

The architect firm has found a degraded agricultural site and out of this site the architect plans to take the most out of the natural environment. They wanted to create through a new landscape architecture and immediate areas within the site, through architecture and its interaction with the field itself. For this they have successfully apply a simple strategy called finger joint.

Finger Joint is a joint concept where it is joining by using artificial structure. The arrangement of interlocking volumes from the finger joint with the terrain is shaping a new landscape. “Landscape” becomes active, as these green spaces are provided for ventilation and lower the indoor temperature.

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Tags: Land, Land Architects

The other day I had a truly thrilling experience of space. After climbing to the top of the stairs to check out the view from the base of Owl’s Head Light, I realized the front door was open and I could go in and climb up to the top. In the sixty some years my mother has been visiting this lighthouse, this has never been possible, and were were psyched!

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Tags: Head Light, Light, Owl’s Head, Owl’s Head Light