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What Works For You: Stationary or Flexible Room Dividers?

It’s amazing how evolved the designs of room dividers has become in the last few years. Aside from the color, texture, material and genre, you can even choose between a flexible style versus a more ...

Front Door Personalities

I always laugh when I see dogs that look like their owners. Chihuahuas and models. Pitbulls and bikers. Poodles and rich old women. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, but sometimes, the...

Venice Prefab Comes Together

The feature we most enjoyed while attending the recent Dwell on Design show was getting up close and personal with many of the prefab homes we've ogled both online and in print. One of the most ogle-w...

Downloadable Tree House Plans

Inspired by our weekend adventure, we've been dreaming of having a home office in a tree house. We found some downloadable plans (even one for novices) so now all we need is a backyard and a big ol' ...

Living Room House

Want a house with lots of windows and a good view? So did Seifert Stoeckmann, whose Living Room House in the historic district of Gelnhausen, Germany sports 52 windows in a checkerboard pattern and al...

Catawampus at the LA Arboretum

We've got an unusual architectural-art destination on our list of local places to visit/things to do. This one is down over at the Los Angeles Arboretum, where environmental artist Patrick Dougherty h...

Eric Garcetti's Green Echo Park Home

When people say all politicians are the same, we know they must not know Eric Garcetti. He's not only our City Council President, but also an extremely active participant online (you'll occasionally s...

Snickarper Modern Doors

“When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.” Author Joseph Campbell may not have bee...

Zamore Kit Homes: Pre-Fab Quicker and Cheaper?

With plenty of other pre-fab home designs out there already, Zamore Homes has set themselves apart not only with their Southern region styled shotgun homes, but also with the allure of quicker and mor...

Look! The Interior Decor of the Million Dollar Theater

We got to escape for a short while last night to attend Last Remaining Seats, an annual event organized by the Los Angeles Conservancy, which opens the doors to several of LA's grandest theaters on Br...

Tolo House: The House of Staircases

Architect Alvaro Leite Siza tackled a topographical challenge presented by a hillside slant by incorporating the architectural feature of stairs as an integral aesthetic feature of the whole Tolo Hous...

Look! Bottom Situated Awning Windows

LA, hot enough for you today? Looks like tomorrow is going to even be hotter (just our luck, we're leaving prime beach weather and heading into forecasts of rain in NYC). We think Malibu architect Bru...

16 Abandoned & Decaying Hotels From Around The World

We're mostly homebodies, but in the coming next weeks we'll find ourselves driving north up to San Francisco to visit family, then soon after flying across to New York for ICFF and to see the whole na...

Roundup: Best Staircase Storage Solutions

Kristin's The Amazing Staircase is not only one of our favourite AT posts of all time, it's a glowing example of utilizing limited space efficiently. Staircases are often overlooked for their storage ...

Look! Quetzalcoatl Nest by Javier Senosiain

Check out this crazy cool serpent house in Mexico! It's named after the mythical Quetzalcoatl snake/bird god, the Aztec god "of learning and knowledge." It was designed by Javier Senosiain. His archit...

Bookmarked: Design Trends from 1959

July 1959. House & Home magazine gives an insightful look at what was happening in housing trends during the post war boom era in suburban home construction. Plenty to see under the cut... For all...

Suspended Furniture

Roma of DesignFlute sent us a heads up about an eco-friendly home showcased on Better Interiors. We've seen modern suspended seating before, but rarely with traditional furnishings (vacuuming would be...

Custom Address Numbers

Looking to add a minor architectural detail that results in major curb appeal? Customized address numbers from CustomHouseNumbers.com are available in stainless steel or solid aluminum, and in a wid...

Floating Stairs

Like a sense of risk with every step you take? With every breath you take, we'll be watching you enjoy the sensation of walking on air with Bernstein Architecture's Floating Stairs system. Construct...

Kendrick Bangs Kellogg - Architect

Building on Nature. There's a fantastic article about San Diego architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg in the North County Times. Kellogg's work is quite prevalent throughout the San Diego area. He was in...

Vintage Style Screen Doors

We were hunting around looking for attractive screen door options when we stumbled upon these Vintage Style Screen Doors from Hip Haven of Austin, Texas. Harkening back to a bygone era of 50's bungal...

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