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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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Gable Clerestory House / Sonelo Design Studio

13/11/2025 Kartika

House Design

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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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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Rethinking Lighting in Your Kitchen Design

13/10/2025 Kartika

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

04/10/2025 Kartika

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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Spread the Bet | Learn about this type of bet in NZ

21/07/2024 Kartika

House Design

Spread Betting is a tool that gives you the opportunity to speculate on the possible movement of a particular asset. This means you can speculate on the movement of a company’s stock, a particular currency, or even a diversified index without buying any of these assets.

Spread betting is a means used to predict the growth of an asset and the degree to which you are wrong or right will then affect the profit you make or the loss you suffer on the bets you place.

When looking at financial Spread Betting, you will usually be speculating on the direction that you think a financial instrument will go. If your prediction is correct and the instrument moves in the direction you predicted, your profit will grow accordingly.

You should remember that the reverse is also true for Spread Betting. If the financial instrument moves in the opposite direction than you

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Fashionable furniture: The hotels in Europe put design center stage

23/07/2023 Kartika

House Design

When selecting furnishing, “hotels are normally looking for something a bit more wow in terms of installation and maybe larger in scale,” designer Alexander Lamont says.

One of the latest hotel openings in Istanbul is VAKKO Hotel & Residence, located in the upmarket Nişantaşı neighborhood.

It feels like staying in a design showroom – the corridors are paneled with sleek black marble, the rooms have contemporary sculptures on display and the restaurant captures the style of a chic Parisian bistro.

This is the first hospitality venture of Turkish fashion house VAKKO and joins a growing trend of design-led hotels where stylish furniture and stand-alone interior pieces take center stage.

How is furniture designed for hotels?

Alexander Lamont is a Bangkok-based, British designer known for his furniture, lighting collections, art and accessories.

Some of his best work has been used in prestigious hotels such as The Connaught, The Mandarin Oriental Doha,

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house in hayashisaki matsue beach evokes tropical design in japan

14/07/2023 Kartika

House Design

a japanese beach house and restaurant by akio isshiki

Located in Akashi, japan, the recently completed ‘House in Hayashisaki Matsue Beach’ is designed by architecture studio Akio Isshiki Architects. A pre-existing coastal dwelling has been renovated to create a mixed-use project including a ground-level restaurant topped by the designer’s residence and office. The architects aim for an harmonious fusion of various elements, including function, culture and nationality, time and space, town and house, and work and life. By embracing the cultural background of the area while incorporating materials and techniques from foreign countries, the team sought to breathe new life into this ‘multinational house.’

fusing multi-cultural design elements

Throughout the ‘House in Hayashisaki Matsue Beach,’ cultural connections are celebrated through thoughtful design choices by Akio Isshiki Architects. the team took inspiration from the area’s history as a tile production hub and finished the

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Drury Design Trend Kitchen Sink

11/07/2023 Kartika

House Design

Latest Kitchen Sink Trends

With the latest kitchen sink trend, the old is new again. For 2023, some classic but new trend sinks are appreciated to minimize your environmental footprint. Stainless steel sinks are versatile, durable and easy to clean. And a classic porcelain sink will last forever! But more environmentally friendly options—such as fireclay and copper sinks—are emerging. They’re sturdy, tamper-resistant, and can help your sink get its rightful place as the centerpiece of your kitchen.

When updating any interior design, it’s a good idea to check what others are doing. Here are some popular kitchen sink models that might fit perfectly in your home:

· Farmhouse sink – Up again. Also known as an apron sink, this sink has a large, deep basin. It has open sides and requires a certain aesthetic to fit.

· Lower sink – With a seamless finish, this sink is all about the

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