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Also called the Temple Hills Residence because of its positions on the hills of Laguna Beach, California. The design project for this beach Residence is a study in connections from Schola Architecture, where they were succesfully remodeling an existing 1950’s post and beam beach cottage into a unique house with two faces connected through a thin sheet of glass. Nestled into a steeply sloping 5,000-square foot site, the volumes step up the hillside to the rear of the existing home creating an ascending series of interior and exterior spaces, giving access to all levels of the property. With the monolithic concrete block mass anchors the addition; from which structure and glass pin wheel off creating ever dematerializing living spaces that open up to the views as one moves up through the home. At the heart of the stainable strategies employed throughout the home is the reuse of the entire existing home. In addition, solar orientation, deep overhangs and operable glass allow the house to breathe throughout the year with little mechanical assistance. The palette is a mix of renewable and exposed building materials, eliminating the need for secondary finishes.

Unique Beach-house Reception room design

Unique Beach-house Bedroom design

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Nowadays, keeps sustainably in every ways has become important things, including in designing home interiors. This is A strong, clean and eco-friendly design aesthetic excellence the green Living Room, where crisp white walls and a coffered ceiling play well with bold furnishings and accessories. Transom windows drench the Living Room with natural light, reducing the need for artificial light during daytime. A gas fireplace provides additional warmth on cold winter days. The granite-surrounded and stone fireplace, fashioned from reclaimed New England fieldstone, lends storybook charm to the edgy, modern cottage space. Furnishings, upholstered in green and durable weatherproof fabrics, play up the home’s vibrant color palette. “The room is painted bright white,” says interior designer Linda Woodrum. “It could be very cold, but because of all the millwork it’s a warm cozy room.” A clear glass vase filled with vase gems adds a hint of shine, while mercury-glass demijohns lend a gritty texture and work back to metallic surfaces in the room.

Eco-friendly Living room ideas

Modern artwork purchased in Provincetown, Mass, serves as the focal point in the living space. interior designer Linda Woodrum says: “Stone is a powerful element because it’s heavy, bold and massive, We needed to find a piece that worked to hold the eye and not let the stone dominate.” The Cabinet doors, set on a concealed hinge system, recess to reveal a Viera 42-inch HD LCD Energy Star-rated television and Blu-Ray high-definition DVD player. A custom alcove above the television displays a vintage boat model, purchased in Plymouth and customized to fit the 4-foot-wide space. An installation of colored Lucite makes an impression as one ascends the stairs. The modern-art piece, discovered at a gallery along Boston’s Newbury Street, pulls in the home’s color palette. “It was the most exciting find ever,” says interior designer Linda Woodrum. A bookshelf, custom-crafted by MacKenzie Brothers to camouflage a return air grill, houses a collection of curios, books and pottery.

Homes vibrant color palette selections

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Made up of 90% eco compatible materials on its interiors, this Eco-Luxury House was built by Italian architect Simone Micheli for himself and his family in Florence, Italy. It is an authentic hyperrealist portrait of the “Ethical Luxury” which is one of the main focuses of Micheli daily architectural searching. Micheli thought that luxury is doesn’t mean opulence and redundancy but rather the essentials, ethical gestures contents oriented, free spaces with scattered basic elements. It means creating a building without destroying, creating processes having a strong ethical sense and capable of becoming generators of healthy beauty. Micheli Residence is a dynamic, extremely fresh and vivid intervention taking place in an ancient 1800 setting which has converted these spaces laden with memories into a new environment capable of hosting meaninful fragments connected with a fast and unstoppable metropolitan life.

Micheli Residence luxury Living room design

Below is some resume based on the architects description:
The volumetric development of the living room is triggered from the longitudinal axis to meets a counterpoint, a minor transept in correspondance with the kitchen, a snow white sculpture marked exclusively by the partition of the doors which forms a niche in the added body resulting in dilating space in the dimension perpendicular to the windows. The bookcase with an acid green highlight, the mirror furniture and couches, which look as soft as pink clouds, as well as the back wall lend liveliness to the overall architecture. All along this transveral dilatation glass tables for lunch and work are located together with a screen coming down the ceiling which can visually separate the kitchen from the rest of the environment. This informal crystalline, naive, immaculate, antibourgeois, suspended between minimalism and radical chic is torn by ringing and vivid patches of colours. The plaster of the original 1800 walls was stripped off and they were pickled thus forming a philological contrast with the the new smooth walls. The big size enamelled grès porcelain tiles floor are absolute white, they are as bright as the walls, the surreal ecoleather spherical poufs and the kitchen lacquering, the mirror furniture side surfaces and the bases of the stuffed furniture. The lighting featuring built in adjustable spotlights located in the false ceiling and the lamps with very narrow optics underline and enhance the lyric volumetric and cromatic episodes of this composition.

Micheli Residence luxury Bedroom design

The bedrooms are characterized by extreme whiteness and by essential architectural gestures with the furniture which is composed by few single totemic elements. The double bedroom is suspended between dream and reality where a big blue backlit round mirror flies over the bed like a flying saucer. The bed mattress is supported by a flying carpet which forms the leather upholstered structured headboard with its fold. The white lacquered closet covering the (more…)

This cozy Mountain retreat located in the forest of Cougar Mountain, Seattle-Washington is designed by Johnston Architects. Constructing this 4,100 SF house on a very steep slope combined with water runoff and drainage issues posed the biggest challenges, but the architects precisely using this natural topography as an advantage on this project. Tucked in the thick wooded, this cedar clad house works in synergy with the natural environment. This single family house was designed with a northwest modern palette of simple materials. This sustainable house interiors are separated into an entertainment block and a sleeping block, connected by a windowed sitting area bridge that spans over a seasonal stream. A guest house over a garage sits below the main house with large sandstone steps connecting the two.

Sustainable Mountain House Living room

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Eco-designer Sarah Turner has transform Dumpster Plastic into amazing Lights, she was showing her recycled Drinks Bottle Lighting at the Ideal Home Show in London and recently on display at the Milan Furniture Fair. She creates her recycled Drinks Bottle Lighting collections from 3 kind of bottle, there are 2 litre bottle, Oasis botle and Cola/Sprite bottle which is reused to make a beautiful and gorgeous decorative lighting range. Through the creative process, the bottles are collected, cleaned and sandblasted to give an opaque look, then they are cut and formed into the beautiful shapes and attached to a recycled card base, secured with their own bottle top. The result is this series of colorful lampshades with graceful winding curves and the important thing is, it’s eco-friendly too.

Lily Table Lamps

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