The origin of this modern tree house starts out in quite the unique way, well, actually, we’ll let the builder, Joel Allen, say it in his own words: “I’m just going to come out and say it. I tried to retire at the age of 26 and failed. What does this — Continue reading
Austin’s newest edition to the culinary scene is a dark and cozy modern Australian-influenced Thai restaurant with a sleek graphic brand identity, good food and a slew of enviable (and potentially steal-able) architectural details: Sway. The large-scale, black caned over-table lighting seems to grab your attention first. Warm, cherry-esque, wide — Continue reading
Feeling like your home needs a little je ne said quoi? Mainly in the form of some fresh color on those walls? Good for you: wall paint is one of the easiest and most affordable ways to add some personality and color to your home, but don’t be paralyzed by — Continue reading
What do a small cabin in the woods, white floors, white walls, a clean interior and pops of color have to do with the house of our dreams? EVERYTHING. But seriously, isn’t Atelier ST hitting it out of the ball park with their gorgeous little architectural ditty in Leipzig, Germany known — Continue reading
Who doesn’t love the amazing work of that creative couple Charles and Ray Eames? Their countless contributions to the world of design reverberate through contemporary designs long after their death, and just about everything they’ve ever done is worthy of remembrance and conservation — including their architecture! Especially a specific — Continue reading
What is it about our home that makes us want to spend so much time and money on it? Well, the fact that it’s where we eat, sleep, enjoy friends and family and be ourselves means it’s worth the investment. So where does one get inspiration? From the year’s most — Continue reading
Much of abstract art begs the question: “What is it?” This abstract public installation of 1024 Architecture’s representation of a Christmas Tree was erected for the Plaisirs d’Hiver event in the city of Brussels (Belgium). It has blinking led lights of red, green, white, blue and gold — Continue reading
There’s a new place to get all your (bicycle) commuter needs satisfied on the East Side of Austin, Texas, and that is the brother and sister-owned Windmill Bicycles. Quirky and obviously full of bicycle-encouraging products, it’s not the goods that have us excited, it’s their stunningly simple yet sweet reclaimed-wood — Continue reading
The PEDDLE.COM offices were designed by architecture firm Alterstudio and the interiors by Joel Mozersky of One Eleven Design. With a team like that, it’s absolutely no surprise this puppy is stunning, modern, dramatic and fun. From Alterstudio’s website: “Originally built in the 19th century as a general store with — Continue reading
The Goodnight is a new bar and restaurant in Austin, Texas, with a pretty hip interior design thing going on inside. Along with good food and yummy cocktails, visitors to the space will also be able to bowl, play ping pong, billards and more—they have it all. This 17,000 square — Continue reading
San Antonio-based Lake|Flato Architects are a great, modern firm that focuses on creating beautiful spaces, whether for public, commercial or residential use. This 3,600 square-foot LEED Platinum-certified residence is the home of a hip, modern-minded professional couple in Leon Springs, Texas, which is located near San Antonio. The clients had — Continue reading
Located in the heart of the historical area of Baixa, Lisbon, Portugal, the building that this home is in, sits at the corner of Rua dos Fanqueiros and Rua da Conceição. The minimal design of this refurbished space is really a gem…there aren’t a lot of colors, and when colors — Continue reading
We don’t usually post about designs that don’t exist yet, but when Michael Jantzen (who you may remember from earlier this week’s post about his Interactive Segmented Tables) emailed us his design for a conceptual project he’s come up with…well, we just had to post about it! It’s like a — Continue reading
I love this concept from Austin TX based, Trout Studios, furniture makers. A novel idea to use a seat on a chain instead of a ladder to get to those out of reach books. Their system of L shaped shelving can be used to stack books in various configurations gaining — Continue reading
Werkstatt Schwarz is helmed by Germany-based carpenter Florian Schwarz, and boy are we loving the completely unique details to his work. Looks like he specializes in artisan, hand-made skis, but we don’t do much skiing ourselves. We’re more interested instead in his custom kitchen and storage cabinets, with exceptional details — Continue reading
Color color color! Color caught our eyes this week on Pinterest, from bold green stairs, to red red lips to rainbow architecture to more! Patterns always plays an important to our eyeballs, ans as always we love art, architecture, texture, pattern and more is important to us. What caught your — Continue reading
Check out this minimal and modern hut located in the middle of nature in Eastern France. A dreamy sort of thing, it’s a module of a small size that you cross into through a stepwell. Meeting the basic needs of life, it also meets other simple needs, like:shelter, room to — Continue reading
I can’t tell you how much I love this coloring poster by Roxy Marj. It’s creative and stylish. It’s one of those pieces that looks great when it becomes vandalized by kiddos and also looks great untouched. Jennifer from A Merry Mishap hung her Roxy Marj poster in her son’s — Continue reading
Boy if you ever needed proof that lighting can make or break a space, you need only look at the newly revealed Restaurant Höst Kopenhagen in Denmark, that sports an exciting array of lighting options from that Amsterdam-based vintage industrial lighting store resource we’ve posted about before, 360Volt. As you can see, — Continue reading
“The Juvet Landscape Hotel is located at Valldal, near the town of Åndalsnes in north-western Norway. Passing tourists are attracted by a spectacular waterfall in a deep gorge near the road, ”Gudbrandsjuvet”. The idea emerged as an opportunity to exploit breathtaking scenery with minimal intervention, allowing locations which would otherwise — Continue reading
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