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92 Tiny House Designs That Got Us Dreaming Of Building One

20/11/2025 Kartika

Who needs a giant mansion when you can get a tiny house for three times less price? After all, mansions are definitely a thing of the past, and they were never really designed with comfort in mind. That is, unless you like taking 10k steps purely to commute from the kitchen to the bathroom and to the bedroom in your own house every day. Or are dead set on playing the Marco Polo game with your significant other until the end of your lives. Pshht, who has the time for that, right? However, with these tiny house designs, everything is reachable by hand, your feet are safe from over-walking, and it’s just so painfully staking cute. Piqued your interest? Well then, just wait until you see these modern tiny house designs with your own two peepers!

Now, designing a tiny house sure has its own challenges – like where

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Does Owning a Bathtub Increase the Resale Value of My Home? Dry Design

18/11/2025 Kartika

House Design

Some form of in-home bath has been common since the mid-19th century. The main or master bathroom as we know it today has been standard in all new homes since the 1980s, so it’s only natural to assume a bathtub should be in the master bathroom. But what if you don’t shower? Does it make sense to invest in a bathtub if you’re never going to use it? What if you don’t really have room for a tub?

Bathing is not a crowd pleaser, as is the dining room. Getting rid of them can win space in your own home for things that truly meet your needs and personal way of life. In my last 15 years designing bathrooms, I think only about 15% to 20% of my clients have had showers. So, the question becomes, “Should I own it for resale”?

The answer is no, you don’t need to

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Designer profile: Isabel Ladd |

17/11/2025 Kartika

House Design

Isabel Ladd thrives on creating homes saturated in a kaleidoscope of meticulously layered patterns and colors. A girl of many mantras, Isabel loves to preach: ‘Beige is not a color. More is More; Less is a Bore. And above all else: Mix. Don’t Match.’

An intuitive and enthusiastic designer, she dubs her style ‘Curated Maximalism’: an intelligent yet intuitive layering of colorful elements that all relate to and build upon one another.

Here, we take a look at Isabel’s interior design work past, present and future.

A Brazilian native, Isabel moved with her family to raise horses in Kentucky. After Fashion School, she found her footing in the thriving Los Angeles fashion world and the maximalist was born!

Her work in the fashion and textile industry instilled a love of fabrics and prints, which segued into a love of interiors. Working mainly on residential homes throughout

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Gable Clerestory House / Sonelo Design Studio

13/11/2025 Kartika

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Gable Clerestory House / Sonelo Design Studio

Gable Clerestory House / Sonelo Design Studio - Exterior Photography, Brick, Facade +25

Areas:
170 m²
year:

2022
Manufacturers: teach, Artedomus, Artemide, Dulux, Elton Group, Enlightened Living, Fibonacci Stones, George Feathers & Co, Porters Paints
Lead Architect:

Wilson Tang

Gable Clerestory House / Sonelo Design Studio - Interior Photography, Bedroom, Table — © Pier Carthew

Text description provided by the architects. Nestled in amongst a street lined with well-preserved red brick Federation-era houses, Gable Clerestory House presents a quiet and homogenous frontage to the street. Beyond the façade lies a mid-century-inspired family home with dynamic ceiling heights, delightful sky views, and an earthy palette.

The existing house is a single-storey terrace sited in a heritage

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Best Interior Design Games

11/11/2025 Kartika

House Design

It can be exciting to redesign a space to call your own, but often times the work is greater than the reward. This is why games exist that focus on interior designing. That way, you can let out your creative side without depleting your energy or funds.

Related: Games That Let You Design Your Dream House

Interior decorating games let you build your dream home or simply experiment with different styles without real life consequences. There’s something for everyone, as they cover a wide range of interests and tastes. These games are often downloadable apps for mobile, although some are also for PCs and consoles, and many of them are free to play.

Updated May 18, 2023, by Jouanna Bondakji: Interior decorating games are for pretty much everyone. Whether you’re already a dedicated gamer or just someone looking to pass the time with casual fun, these types of games can

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Only 3.5 meters wide, look at modern home designs

09/11/2025 Kartika

House Design

The arrangement is so efficient and very pleasing to the eye.

Dream – The trend of tiny houses with aesthetic arrangements is currently in great demand. Each corner is decorated with detail, including lighting, so it’s very pleasing to the eye and makes you feel at home.

Are you looking to organize a room or maybe you want to make a tiny house but maximally comfortable? Friends of Dream can see the design of the TT House in Binh Tan district, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

This house is 3.5 meters wide by 12 meters long with a very modern design. The façade uses natural stone materials, with wooden doors combined with glass and iron.

Door © Happynest.vn

Also made a permanent pot that extends on the side. You can put plants that make the atmosphere of the house more beautiful. Likewise at the top, there is a corner for placing

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Quiet Luxury Is the Interior Trend

05/11/2025 Kartika

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“Money talks, wealth whispers.” That aphorism could now be considered the manifesto of the quiet luxury aesthetic. Whether it started to build after we all binge-watched succession or grew from the runway shows of Loro Piana, Bottega Veneta, and Gabriela Hearst, the buzz around quiet luxury is getting louder and louder. While the concept of quiet luxury can’t be categorized as a new design trend (the desire to celebrate the finer things in life, with no logos in sight, has been around for ages), it’s all anyone can talk about. But what does it mean for the home? And more importantly, how can it be achieved (trust fund or not)?

Shea McGee of Studio McGee explains, “Quiet luxury is about subtleties and elevated materials, letting the quality be the defining element of the room versus a particular style or aesthetic.”

LUCY CALL_

Kate Markers of Kate Marker Interiors and Kate

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This Midcentury Oakland Home Is Inspired by Hollywood Regency and Travel Memories

01/11/2025 Kartika

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When they’re not busy traveling to faraway locales, Shasta and Jen Scobie can almost always be found at the nearest (or furthest) thrift store, foraging for discarded pottery studios and other curious novelties. “I didn’t start traveling until my late 20s, but once I did, I made it a priority and collected many treasures over the years,” says Shasta, a strategic program manager for a tech company. And yet, the couple’s collection had little room to shine. “We had just three pieces of furniture: a bed, a couch and a table. Everything else was relegated to the sidelines and the house was more or less empty,” adds Jen, an engineering manager for a tech company. That is until the pandemic, when months of being indoors exposed the home’s shortcomings—and left them longing for a redesign. Luckily, they knew just the person for the job: dear friend and interior designer Nick

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

27/10/2025 Kartika

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 |

15/10/2025 Kartika

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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