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Design a Picture Perfect Garden for Enhancing Your Outdoor Ambience

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:02:09 +0000

Enjoying a balmy evening out sitting in a beautifully created garden may be the dream of every home owner. Whether big or small, when you have some open grounds around your home, it can be landscaped and a garden can be planned to suit your needs and your budget. Depending on available area, options are plenty to make outside area pleasing to the eye. What are main features used for landscaping your exteriors? Water features, pergola construction, creating a lawn and shaping it artistically, timber work, paving the paths, sitting area, steps construction, walls – free standing types and retaining walls – along with planting the garden, edging the paths, benches and other seating options – all are important features.

You can have your exteriors designed to suit your needs and desires by an architect and entrust the job to outdoor constructors or garden makers. On the other hand, there are companies who do it completely from scratch per your desires. A huge-size area definitely needs a professional and highly qualified designer for optimal usage of natural resources resulting in charming aesthetics.

Landscaping with natural plants using rainwater harvesting techniques and other sustainable techniques are becoming very popular and help preserve the ecological balance by preservation of precious natural resources. Along with native indigenous plants, native animals, insects and birds also thrive in such a garden creating a perfectly harmonious environment.

By planning carefully to have plants that have colourful leaves and flowers for each season, the garden looks nice throughout the year. Having sustainable landscape with native indigenous trees, plants, bushes, grass and even native aquatic plants reduce the load of maintenance considerably; need less use of water, chemicals making eco-balance easy to achieve.

Here is an example of beautiful garden with a very beautiful water feature built in, with an impressive pergola nesting so beautifully alongside the house. Also beautiful looking lawn makes the house an oasis adding to the elegance of exteriors. Extensive grounds look invitingly undulating and rolling accessed by a few steps with bricked balustrades on both sides.

This garden is a beautiful creation by The Garden Makers Co. They are quite renowned with top-class friendly, courteous workforce with a high-degree professional expertise for creating masterpieces of gardens. The landscaping work looks flawless and exemplary. Their expertise in York-stone terrace can also be seen.

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Terraced Garden Looking Verdant

Pergola near The House

Making of the Pergola

Imposing Facade and Lawn

Green Rolling Lawn

Great Looking Entrance

Cool Blue Pool Adding to Beauty

Sample for York Stone Paving

Traditional And Heritage Cottage House Design

blogger1 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:16:37 +0000

Juniper house is a small cottage house design with a built up area of 50 sq meters, located in Gotland Sweden. It is used as a weekend holiday house. It is set among the grove of tall ever green juniper trees as a glade. The entire exteriors of the cottage are clad by a tailor made screen of net vinyl cloth printed with the pictures of juniper trees. The screen is supported by a galvanized steel frame erected at a distance of 40 centimeters from the walls. So, it looks as if the cottage mirrors the surrounding beauty. Juniper house is an excellent example of landscape architecture. It is an experiment of innovative architectural design. There are a few small houses in the neighborhood.

The cottage was designed as a response to the Gotland Authority’s policy of not to let modern house structures spoil the landscape. The cottage is designed and built in such a way that it is barely visible among the grove of juniper trees. The cottage is built with floor to ceiling glass windows and walls. From inside the house you get the feeling of living among the nature. A wooden façade connects indoors with the outdoors. It is treated with turpentine, linseed oil and tar. The walls of the cottage are insulated with mineral wool. Flooring is made of concrete plates. Flat roof of the cottage is covered with tar paper.

Interiors of the cottage are not separated by concrete walls. Glass doors and glass partitions are used extensively in house design. Kitchen is centrally located and serves as living area. Sitting area, dining area and kitchen are in the same space. The sliding glass doors from the kitchen open in a terrace leading to a small yard. Master bedroom is separated from living area by a curtain. Low placed windows, glass walls and partitions offer fantastic view of outdoors. Interiors of the cottage are done in white and white pigments are used in Ash wood flooring and along with that the Ceiling and walls are also white. The kitchen has a wood burning stove from early 20th century. Sofa with white upholstery looks as if designed by an amateur and Drawing board stand is used as a base for dining table. Dining table top is assembled from the ash wood and dining chairs are classic 1950 Y-chairs designed by Hans Wegner. Juniper house has so much to offer in terms of sensual experience which makes it very refreshing and rejuvenating to spend a weekend here.

Cottage House Design Winter

Cottage House Design Walls and Screen Distance

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Cottage House Design Steel Structure for Screen

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Cottage House Design Screen

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Luxurious Hillside House Design And Interiors

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:36:22 +0000

Hillside houses or Mountain side houses are designed considering some unique features of the property. Generally hillside plots have limited building space with slope on the property. Most of the hillside houses are two or two and half story houses. Basement can be utilized as recreation room or garage and living area can be on upper level. Hillside homes can be designed in a number of ways as per the requirements and lifestyle of the residents. Even luxury homes can be built on a slopping hillside.

This beautiful hillside house is designed according to universal design. The universal design offers some unique advantages to the residents. Though such houses offer comfortable living to the residents of all age groups, they are designed catering to the needs of senior citizens. Such houses are barrier free with wide doorways, so that it becomes easier to enter and move around with the help of a stroller or wheelchair. Smooth entryways throughout the house help to prevent tripping. Door handles have levers instead of door knobs. In the kitchen grab bars are offered on the walls for support. Kitchen sink offers open space below the sink, so that dishes can be done sitting on a chair.

The beautiful hillside house shown below is built in new American style. This is a typical two story hillside house built on a corner lot. There are two garages, one with two car parking facility and the another has one car park facility. The hillside house is a four bedroom house with home office. It has a spacious and beautifully designed kitchen with breakfast nook, snack bar and a walk in pantry. Other rooms include study, formal dining room, recreation room, and a laundry room. Main entrance is through wide glass doors that open in a porch. French windows in all the rooms on ground floor offer beautiful view of the garden.

Master bedroom is on ground level and the other three bedrooms are on upper level. Two bedrooms on upper level share a Jack and Jill bathroom with two wash basins. It can be accessed from both the bedrooms.

Another unique feature of this hillside house is its vaulted ceilings. Vaulted ceilings make the rooms look spacious and elegant. Earlier vaulted ceilings were considered an essential feature in luxury home design. They add dimension to the room and make them aesthetically pleasing. Vaulted ceilings in this hillside house make the rooms look airy and cheerful.

Interiors of the house are simple yet elegant. Vaulted ceilings are decorated with chandeliers and ceiling lamp shades. Wooden flooring and decorated vault ceilings give an elegant look to the house. Fireplace, built in cabinets, walk in closet etc make the house comfortable to live in. The hillside house is a delight to grow old in.

The Luxurious Hillside House Or Mountain Side House – Vaulted Ceilings

The Luxurious Hillside House Or Mountain Side House – Main Entrance

The Luxurious Hillside House Or Mountain Side House – Sink Design

The Luxurious Hillside House Or Mountain Side House – Kitchen Design

The Luxurious Hillside House Or Mountain Side House – French Windows

The Luxurious Hillside House Or Mountain Side House – Fireplace Design

The Luxurious Hillside House Or Mountain Side House

Colorful Country Home Interior Design By Karim Rashid

interiorarcade — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:30:59 +0000

Shown below is the beautiful simple yet attractive country house interior design by designer Karim Rashid. It is a techbuilt house and is designed with a lot of colorful and lively interiors. Karim is a European designer and is known for building such colorful interiors. There are no multiple floors instead it is built on a radical concept with just a basement and an attic on a single poured concrete slab. The window structure is such that it can be placed anywhere in the grid of panels so that the owner can have his choice for site specific view, sunlight and ventilation. The furnishings and designs fuse perfectly with the primary color schemes.

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Portugal Country Home Design

interiorarcade — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:53:20 +0000

Regarded as one of the most convenient city in Portugal, Lisboa, has one of the most pleasant looking houses. The delightful house shown below is also a part of the same city. The flat is on the first floor and presents a charming view of rooftops and small street. The public here made a restoration a few years ago and decided to maintain this look and feel to preserve the original features of the city. Large castle type stone walls, traditional wooden flooring and exposed beams have been the traditional look of houses in this city. The effective look created is airy, bright and welcoming. This look combines the old and modern traditions and is ideal for tourists too.

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Mid-Century Beautiful Home Interiors

interiorarcade — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:34:09 +0000

This is the interior of a house built by W.T. Dahl way back in 1958. It’s a typical Mid-century home Interiors.
It is said that people by a house and when they make it and live init they make it a home. A home is a place where one loves to unwind after a tough day at work. Having a own house if every persons dream.
If you see the below house there is a lot of wood used. Wooden houses are built in earth quake prone areas and land slides because wooden house causes much lesser damage to life and property compared to brick houses in natural calamity.
Every room of this house will give you a different taste and each and every one of them has lots of color combinations and ideas at your offering.

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