Showing posts with label Modern Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Modern Design. Show all posts
Minimalist Interior Decorating Styles
Small Balcony Ideas
I have a really small balcony (1m x 4m) which faces north and it’s lovely to sit with a cup of coffee, read the paper or munch on a piece of toast in the morning sunshine – if only I could fit! No matter how many different ways I have tried to organise that balcony, it has been a constant decorating challenge. Small tables and chairs always over-crowd the space making it impractical to move around and walk down to the yard - until I discovered the Hanging Balcony Table.
It looked pretty ridiculous online, but for $59.95 it was worth giving it a try.When it arrived, it was a little larger than I thought and solved the problem perfectly. Coupled with a bench seat from IKEA and these cute little pink and scarlet outdoor cushions, I have the perfect place to sit in the mornings to watch the birds and enjoy the sunshine.
Here are a few other small balcony ideas I have uncovered while researching my own little project… Urban Balcony has some great furniture ideas including these ones for small spaces:
Burkes Backyard featured a small balcony makeover one episode including converting aluminium toolboxes into bench seats that also double as storage. I’m not too keen on the look personally, but I was originally thinking of having a piece of furniture custom made to fit in this space which could act as a kind of small daybed and storage box at the same time. They also featured another balcony makeoverwhich looks much better including custom designs furniture and wooden deck tiles.
Set Up Your Own Cube&Dot Pattern for a Charming Bathroom
Designed by Tamer Nakıscı, this inspiring Cube and Dot collection can turn a common bathroom interior into a fun and cheerful environment. These modular ceramic systems featuring white, gray or black tiles look great and are very adaptable to any type of bathroom furniture with a simple color palette. And as an extra bonus, this set also features an interesting pattern of dots and cubes which make for a playful addition. For some tile models, these colorful patterns appear to be 3D and give the feeling they are suspended decorated items. Another interesting fact is that the customer can create his on design with the Cube Dot online interactive tool. Have fun and be creative! -via Yanko Design
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Le Corbusier’s Collection for Children by Living Jewels
Yes! Another company is creating smaller-scale versions of the iconic furniture of Le Corbusier’s famous Le Grand collection. Living Jewels of Germany has introduced scaled down and lowered versions of these classics for use in spaces such as children’s rooms. The collection includes single seat, double seat and a day bed in stunning color options.
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Jul 16 2010 Modern Dream Homes : Villa Potsdam/Kleinmachnow by BERLINRODEO
No one ever wants to revisit their high school days, but if you never got to sit with the cool kids at lunch – your chance just arrived. BERLINRODEO stepped in and just made room for you at their table.
With their “interiors for brave souls”, and even bolder design philosophy – this studio is not afraid to push a few boundaries, creating some pretty awesome and unique interiors. Private residence Villa Potsdam/Kleinmachnow demonstrates this talent and shows off how a typically conceptualized rustic villa can have some modern love.
The neutral palette and clean lines are accented by wild animal rugs and fancy chandeliers, all making you curious to see what is in the next room. The open interior provides a loft-like character, but still allows for enough private space on the upper floor to include guestrooms and three baths. If you are lucky enough to sneak down to the basement, you’ll find the fitness room and dip tank that await you!
Decorate Your Balcony For The Summer
Pool-party season is around the corner and everyone with a backyard is gearing up for the festivities. Now just because you live in an apartment building, doesn’t mean you can’t turn your balcony space into an area that’s style and social friendly!
Here are a few tips to get you started..
• Remember to ask the management about weight limits or any regulations they have about redecorating the balcony. You have to know these things if you’re going to be successful in turning your “outdoors” into a safe and inviting area.
• Take careful measurements so that you don’t have to waste time or money returning things that don’t fit correctly.
• Take into consideration what the weather might bring: extreme sun exposure or harsh rain. Look into some kind of protection; such as an awning or a large umbrella or parasol.
• Draw out some sketches of potential design ideas so that you can truly see what looks best in your space.
• Go online to look at furniture, accent pieces, or flooring since it saves time.
• Make sure your space is inviting to others. Stay away from overly fancy items because you want people to feel at home.
• Don’t clutter the space. It should be free-flowing and easy to move around on.
• Adding plants or a small fountain always adds to creating a more soothing and relaxed ambiance.
• Take careful measurements so that you don’t have to waste time or money returning things that don’t fit correctly.
• Take into consideration what the weather might bring: extreme sun exposure or harsh rain. Look into some kind of protection; such as an awning or a large umbrella or parasol.
• Draw out some sketches of potential design ideas so that you can truly see what looks best in your space.
• Go online to look at furniture, accent pieces, or flooring since it saves time.
• Make sure your space is inviting to others. Stay away from overly fancy items because you want people to feel at home.
• Don’t clutter the space. It should be free-flowing and easy to move around on.
• Adding plants or a small fountain always adds to creating a more soothing and relaxed ambiance.
Remember, just because you don’t have an enormous backyard, doesn’t mean you can’t invite your friends over this summer! With these tips, you can transform your balcony into a small oasis that’s meant to calm and relax it’s guests.
Modern Minimalist House Design Inspiration
This is another modern and minimalist house design for your inspiration of planning your home. This house façade processed consist of playful square sectors, ordered forward and backward. One of wall part intent to made higher, like tower and decorated with wooden pergola, so become attractive accent.
Almost of front house surface dominated with wide windows and simple covered passageway, in order to get wide view and maximize natural light, beside get fresh air circulation. Foyer is for formal guest, informal guest (friends) received in family room that unity with dining room and pantry. This house has unique area, inner courtyard with two floor void and skylight. Beside of that there is open area in first floor, consist of sitting room and water fountain, surrounded with foyer, stairs, dining and family room, only partitioned with fold glass door.
Minimalist design
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe adopted the motto "Less is more" to describe his aesthetic tactic of arranging the numerous necessary components of a building to create an impression of extreme simplicity, by enlisting every element and detail to serve multiple visual and functional purposes (such as designing a floor to also serve as the radiator, or a massive fireplace to also house the bathroom). Designer Buckminster Fuller adopted the engineer's goal of "Doing more with less", but his concerns were oriented towards technology and engineering rather than aesthetics. A similar sentiment was industrial designer Dieter Rams' motto, "Less but better" adapted from van der Rohe. The structure uses relatively simple elegant designs; ornamentations are quality rather than quantity[dubious – discuss]. The structure's beauty is also determined by playing with lighting, using the basic geometric shapes as outlines, using only a single shape or a small number of like shapes for components for design unity, using tasteful non-fussy bright color combinations, usually natural textures and colors, and clean and fine finishes. Using sometimes the beauty of natural patterns on stone cladding and real wood encapsulated within ordered simplified structures, and real metal producing a simplified but prestigious architecture and interior design. May use color brightness balance and contrast between surface colors to improve visual aesthetics. The structure would usually have industrial and space age style utilities (lamps, stoves, stairs, technology, etcetera), neat and straight components (like walls or stairs) that appear to be machined with machines, flat or nearly flat roofs, pleasing negative spaces, and large windows to let in lots of sunlight. This and science fiction may have contributed to the late twentieth century futuristic architecture design, and modern home decor. Modern minimalist home architecture with its unnecessary internal walls removed may have led to the popularity of the open plan kitchen and living room style.
Another modernmaster who exemplifies reductivist ideas is Luis Barragán. In minimalism, the architecturaldesigners pay special attention to the connection between perfect planes, elegant lighting, and careful consideration of the void spaces left by the removal of three-dimensional shapes from an architectural design. The more attractive looking minimalist home designs are not truly minimalist, because these use more expensive building materials and finishes, and are relatively larger.
Contemporary architects working in this tradition include John Pawson, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Tadao Ando, Alberto Campo Baeza, Yoshio Taniguchi, Peter Zumthor, Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Vincent Van Duysen, Claudio Silvestrin, Michael Gabellini, andRichard Gluckman.[2]
The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work of De Stijl artists is a major source of reference for this kind of work. De Stijl expanded the ideas that could be expressed by using basic elements such as lines and planes organized in very particular manners.source
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