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Eight cleverly organised homes with rooms divided by storage solutions

August 10, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve collected eight homes that make the most of space by using storage units and shelving as room dividers. The examples below show how much-needed storage space can be integrated into a home’s design to form partition walls between rooms or create different zones within one space. Many of the designs feature

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Bindloss Dawes adds chestnut-clad extension to old Somerset schoolhouse

August 9, 2024 Katie Last 0

Local studio Bindloss Dawes has completed the transformation of Old School House, a Grade II-listed house in Somerset that has been refreshed with a contemporary timber extension. Nestled within a valley in Pitcombe, the timber extension adds a modern twist to the 19th-century home while echoing its traditional pitched form. The original building was built

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Appareil Architecture tops a wooden Quebec home with a sloped single-pitch roof

August 8, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Canadian studio Appareil Architecture has created a wooden, light-filled mountain house with a single-pitch roof in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Known as Résidence des Rapides, the three-bedroom house is partially embedded in a sloped four-acre site on the banks of the Diable River in the Laurentian Mountains. Montreal-based Appareil Architecture completed the cedar-clad house in 2023, informed

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Pink plaster cloaks limestone house in Kenya by Studio Mehta Architecture

August 8, 2024 Katie Last 0

Limestone-block walls covered in pink plaster intersect to form UA House, which Kenyan practice Studio Mehta Architecture has added to a creekside site in Kilifi, Kenya. Positioned among trees along the edge of Takaungu Creek, the home is designed by Studio Mehta Architecture as a blend of contemporary and traditional architectural elements. It comprises a network

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Beacon House extension by Office S&M features bubblegum pink tiles

August 8, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A London house extension designed by Office S&M features a ceramic facade with the same pink glaze used for Tube station tiles on the Hammersmith and City Line. Office S&M designed Beacon House, a single-storey rear extension, for a Victorian terraced house in Tottenham, north London. It creates a larger kitchen and dining space for

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Beacon House extension by Office S&M features bubblegum pink tiles

August 8, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A London house extension designed by Office S&M features a ceramic facade with the same pink glaze used for Tube station tiles on the Hammersmith and City Line. Office S&M designed Beacon House, a single-storey rear extension, for a Victorian terraced house in Tottenham, north London. It creates a larger kitchen and dining space for

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Eight contemporary houses in Hawaii that respond to the island environment

August 7, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Large, overhanging roof eaves and homes with multiple dwellings are featured in this roundup of eight houses located on the islands of Hawaii. Designed by studios such as Walker Warner Architects, Olson Kundig and more, many of the eight residences below feature roofs informed by vernacular architecture and a variety of semi-enclosed spaces to take

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Eight contemporary houses in Hawaii that respond to the island environment

August 7, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Large, overhanging roof eaves and homes with multiple dwellings are featured in this roundup of eight houses located on the islands of Hawaii. Designed by studios such as Walker Warner Architects, Olson Kundig and more, many of the eight residences below feature roofs informed by vernacular architecture and a variety of semi-enclosed spaces to take

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Kapsimalis Architects converts wine cellar into cavernous summer house

August 7, 2024 Katie Last 0

Greek studio Kapsimalis Architects has converted a 19th-century wine cellar into a cavernous holiday home on the island of Santorini in Greece. Named Summer House in Mesaria, the house is partially nestled into a steep landscape on the outskirts of the village of Mesaria. It occupies two vaulted rooms of a former wine cellar, marked

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Benjamin Hale Architects extends light-starved Victorian home upwards and outwards

August 7, 2024 Natasha Levy 0

Welsh practice Benjamin Hale Architects has added two modern extensions – one made from pale brick, the other from black zinc – to a Victorian-era home in south London. The end-of-terrace house is located in Dulwich and previously featured a dim and dated interior. Working alongside local interior designer Hamish Vincent, Benjamin Hale Architects set

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