Category: House Design

An Interior Design Expert Clarifies The One Spot You Shouldn’t Put A Laundry Room

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House Design

Basements are also typically far from the main area, which can make it inconvenient to access the laundry room. You won’t be able to just pop in to check the progress, and laundry becomes more energy-consuming than it needs to be when you have to carry full laundry baskets up and down the house. This inconvenience especially poses problems for people with mobility issues — older family members in the household who want to do laundry may not be able to do it safely.

Space allocation is another thing to consider. Basements often serve as multi-purpose areas, such as storage, recreational spaces, or home offices. Using it as a laundry room may take up valuable space that could be better utilized for other purposes. Another problem you can face when you put your laundry room in the basement is if you ever need to take out or bring in a

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What is the most draining color? This one color could be draining |

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House Design

As anyone who has gone through the process of searching for room colors will try, choosing the right color for a room can be a minefield with endless choices and subtle nuances to understand and overcome.

But along with what is the most stressful color?, we are also often asked ‘what is the most draining color? According to color psychologists, the most draining and fatiguing color is ‘bright yellow’.

However, decorating with yellow isn’t all bad, especially when used as an accent color at home. It has many positive connotations, too. Here, color psychologists, decorators, and experts reveal why bright yellow is the most draining color – and how to decorate with softer yellow in a more pleasing and less stimulating way by using the color wheel to create strong color combinations, using yellow as an accent shade, and what variations to use to create a scheme that won’t overwhelm.

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Rethinking Lighting in Your Kitchen Design

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House Design

Factors to Consider When Lighting Your Kitchen

When choosing kitchen lighting, appearance and style are very important. Your lighting should complement the overall kitchen design. Your lighting should also work for tasks like cooking and cleaning. After all, who wants to chop vegetables in the dark?

Consider for a moment, the commercial equivalent of kitchen lighting – there are codes and regulations around lighting areas where food is stored and prepared. The idea is to have brightness, light quality, and coverage standards that increase safety. Better visibility = better decisions and functionality in terms of food safety and occupational safety. Yes, many Michelin-starred restaurants have moody lighting around the dining table, but you can bet with 100% certainty that the food preparation and storage areas in the kitchen are brightly lit and up to code.

Foodie-level chefs tend to have the same expectations for residential kitchen preparation and storage areas.

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Keiji Ashizawa and Norm Architects design interiors for “hotel in the sky”

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House Design

Japanese designer Keiji Ashizawa and Danish studio Norm Architects have unveiled their design for the Bellustar Tokyo hotel, which aims to evoke a sense of nature in the middle of Tokyo’s urban Shinjuku district.

The two studios worked together to design interiors for five penthouse suites as well as hospitality spaces for the top floors of the Bellustar Tokyo, 200 meters above the ground in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho tower.

Norm Architects and Keiji Ashizawa Design had to take the city views from the building into account when designing the hotel rooms, which are spread over three levels from the 45th to the 47th floor.

Penthouse room at Bellustar Tokyo
The Tsuki (moon) penthouse suite has calm gray walls

“I would say that it is the tallest hotel I have worked on,” Ashizawa told Dezeen, describing it as “a quiet hotel in the sky of Shinjuku”.

“Since there are no nearby buildings at this elevation, there is

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Inside Bobby Berk’s Airy California HQ | Architectural Digest

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House Design

While many employers are grappling with the post-pandemic Return To Work conundrum, Bobby Berk, the interior design expert on Netflix’s Queer Eyes, has created an innovative solution. The designer’s work from home concept satisfies his growing team’s need for creativity, collaboration, and comfort. Berk purchased a 1970s Spanish-style home in the Hollywood Knolls neighborhood (conveniently located half a mile from his own home), renovated it, and turned it into his eponymous design firm’s new HQ.

“I wanted to find a space where I could really showcase our designs and products in a residential interior setting,” Berk tells AD of his new digs, which opened five months ago. “The front of this house is completely set up as if it’s an actual home. It has a dining room, the kitchen, andliving room. There’s a little library office that we use if somebody needs to take a Zoom and they don’t

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The Beauty of a One-Bedroom House? No Room for Guests.

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House Design

As the founders of Haver & Skolnick Architects, an upscale firm based in Roxbury, Conn., Charles M. Haver and Stewart R. Skolnick spent most of their days designing expansive country estates. But when it came time to design their own getaway, they wanted the exact opposite.

“We wanted something very small, with privacy and an ocean view,” said Mr. Oats, 64.

Specifically, they wanted a home that was just big enough for the two of them and their German shorthaired pointer, Keeper, after discovering that in the 1790s maintaining a house in Connecticut was a full-time job.

“In Roxbury, we have about 3,500 square feet in our home, and our offices are in an antique barn that’s an additional 3,500 square feet,” said Mr. Skolnick, 68. “So you have two guys rambling around in 7,000 square feet.”

Looking to build a weekend house near the ocean, the couple bought two

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Home decor, interior design: Tips and tricks to cool-off your space this summer

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House Design

The rising temperature is making our concrete houses feel no less than a furnace and as summer approaches, the scorching heat at home can make it difficult to stay indoors without an air conditioning unit. However, there are many people who cannot afford such luxury or prefer to use sustainable solutions.

Home decor, interior design: Tips and tricks to cool-off your space this summer (Photo by Kinga Howard on Unsplash)
Home decor, interior design: Tips and tricks to cool-off your space this summer (Photo by Kinga Howard on Unsplash)

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Bhavana Bindra, Managing Director at REHAU South Asia, shared, “While some of us will find the luxury of cooled homes using natural building materials such as bamboo, clay, straw, etc., some will be able to use advanced construction techniques such as insulated walls and panels but for most of us, the air-conditioner is running at its full capacity, often blinding us from the impact it has on the environment. To sustainably protect oneself from

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5 Interior Design Mistakes That Make Your Home Look Smaller

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House Design

No matter the square footage of our home, we all have the same goal – to make it feel as spacious as possible. This is especially true in more compact spaces, as well as those with quirky layouts or limited natural light. Light, airy spaces are all the more inviting to relax in and help us feel less closed in, so it’s something worth aiming for.

However, some common interior design mistakes are keeping your home from reaching its full, spacious potential. The result is cramped spaces that can often feel overwhelming.

The interior design mistakes that make your home look smaller:

  1. A claustrophobic color palette
  2. The wrong flooring
  3. Not making the most of vertical space
  4. Not using a visual anchor point
  5. Over-using chunky furniture

If you want to know how to make your home look (and feel) bigger, then keep reading. We’ve rounded up the best expert advice on

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Interior design: ‘A unique experience for each house’

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House Design

Published May 19, 2023 • 5 minute read

West of Main photograph Caption: The award-winning kitchen in the Oliver pops with deep green cabinets (Essex Green from Benjamin Moore).
West of Main photograph Caption: The award-winning kitchen in the Oliver pops with deep green cabinets (Essex Green from Benjamin Moore). Photo by West of Main photograph

Just off Trim Road south of Innes is a trio of model homes that display an impressive continuity — despite being built and styled three years apart.

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and how to fix them |

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House Design

Our entryways are one of the most functional spots in our home, working purely to welcome us into the home and help us get out the door a little easier. As a result, it is vital that the storage works and doesn’t make our lives any harder.

That being said, there are plenty of entryway storage mistakes many of us are making without even realizing it, and professional organizers say some simple fixes could make our homes a little more practical.

We have spoken to some of our favorite home organizers to learn their tops for entryway storageand which common mistakes we need to fix.

Entryway storage errors

Although entryway layout mistakes certainly play a large part in a non-functional entryway space, how we organize the storage is just as important.

This is what you need to avoid.

1. Lack of multi-purpose furniture

Modern entryway bench ideas with a light wood storage bench topped with green upholstered cushions and papasan chair

(Image credit: Damian Russell)

Entryways, no

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