Apartment Therapy Tagged: pool

Modern Pool House & Patio
ArchDaily

Though it is technically just a pool house, I'd love to move into this 1,200 square foot structure as my primary residence....

Best Outdoor Garden Hose Showers 2009

It's been really hot lately, and I've been wanting to find and purchase a simple outdoor shower that would hook up to a hose and stick into or sit on the lawn. At the house we visited in Italy in J...

Catskills Modern Mountain Home by Audrey Matlock

This modern home looks like it belongs in Los Angeles — SURPRISE! it's in the Catskills near West Shokan, New York. Designed by architect Audrey Matlock, the dramatic home was inspired by clas...

Long Island Modern Home by Berg Design Architects

The modern design of this new home in East Hampton, Long Island was inspired by old barns and environmentally sustainable building practices. ...

Casa 2 by Vaillo + Irigaray Architects
ArchDaily

This modern home in Pamplona Spain by Vaillo + Irigaray Architects has a secret — beyond the plain, boxy and dark exterior is a light and airy interior — and I love the tight grouping of...

Camouflaged Hamptons Escape
LoftLife

LoftLife shows us a Hamptons escape that appears smallish from the approach but measures in at a whopping 6,700 square feet! Hidden among trees and manicured hedges, the home opens up to a striking ...

Terry & Shawn 's Homey Modernism
House Call

Name: Terry & Shawn Location: Amagansett, New York In the lush woods adjacent to scenic Gardiner's Bay, our white clapboard and glass home represents a casual and eclectic mix of mid-century fi...

Fencing Inspiration: Japanese Design by Architect Bill White

Here's some inspiration for those of you who have the opportunity to think about building fences. I daydream about this kind of thing.......

Dumpsters Turned Swimming Pools!
ReadyMade

In a similar spirit of the Pool Barge, the folks at Macro Sea are creating swimming pools from dumpsters with a plan to reclaim urban spaces for some summer splash time. Their first pool lives in Br...

My Great Outdoors: Clem & Louisa's Plunge Pool

Name: Clem & Louisa Location: Cape Town, South Africa Type of space: Urban Backyard Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: At the end of a major renovation project we were l...

My Great Outdoors: Elenamc's Garden Rehaul

Name: Elenamc Location: Bellport, New York Type of space: Deck & Garden Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: We live in a summer home kind of beach town so when summer comes, iron...

Eye-Candy: Marcus Nispel's SoHo Loft

click thumbnails for larger pics According to LoftLife, this former Con-Edison buidling in SoHo is now the home of horror movie director Marcus Nispel and his family. Talk about a lot of space! Be ce...

Brione House
Modern Swiss Stone House by Wespi de Meuron

click thumbnails for larger pics The view from the roof of this modern stone house by Swiss architect Wespi de Meuron is exactly what I experienced on my visit to Switzerland last summer — a ch...

Aruban Escape
The New York Times 1.28.09

Today's dreary "wintry mix" in New York has us yearning for an island vacation. The New York Times comes to the rescue with beautiful pictures of a home for sale in Aruba. With ocean views, patios and...

New York State's Executive Mansion
The New York Times 12.11.08

Last year, The New York Times published a story of how Silda Wall Spitzer was giving the New York State Executive Mansion a green makeover. Now, after her husband's resignation, the state home in Al...

Nguyen Qui Duc's Mountain Home in Vietnam
The New York Times 11.28.08

Vietnamese American writer Nguyen Qui Duc returned to his native Vietnam in 2006. A year later, he bought land in the mountains of Tam Dao and began work on a modern house of glass and stone. The Ne...

Astor Courts: Renovating a Historic Hudson Valley Escape
The New York Times 11.6.08

The Astor Courts Estate is in Rhinebeck, New York, overlooking the Hudson River. Designed by Stanford White in 1902 for John Jacob Astor IV, the massive home has been used as a family vacation home,...

InstaPool! : Galvanized Tanks from Behlen Country
Email from 8.15.08

Galvanized cool. You may remember that Sara and I went looking for a galvanized tub to use as a pool for Ursula (@2yrs), and found this great company: Dover Parkersburg, from which we bought a real...

Light-filled California Home
The New York Times Magazine 6.15.08

This angular home, perched on a hilltop in Southern California, was designed by architect Tom Kundig to take advantage of its unique position and embrace the indoor-outdoor life. Pilar Viladas of Th...

Black and White Bungalow of Colonial-Era Singapore
The New York Times 6.11.08

The European-style homes of expatriates and colonial families in colonial-era South East Asia were often black and white. The New York Times shows us one such home in Singapore, currently inhabited ...

Queens Modern
New York Magazine 5.19.08

Here's another unexpected home featured in New York Magazine: The Hsu family built a modern home in Flushing, Queens with the design help of architecture firm Grzywinski Pons. The high-design aesthe...

Modern Family Home
The New York Times 4.13.08

The Radziner-Cottle home in Venice California was recently featured in The New York Times Magazine and we found it very inspirational. Though the house is large, the abundance of large windows and s...

Pool Pavillion Furnishings for Kithaus from DWR

Last month, Design Within Reach began selling the Kithaus, a modern prefab building kit. As a clever way to market their foray into office and commercial furnishings, the team at DWR put together an...

Outdoor Furniture: Kolorado Collection by Mark Robson for Sifas

This gorgeous collection of ebony-stained beechwood furniture was designed to help bring the indoors, out. Manufactured by French company Sifas (they specialize in high end furnishings for resorts) ...

House Tour: Home in the Heart of Provence
NYT 2.27.08

Comfortable and spacious, Le Paty is the second home of Robert Burns and his wife, Isabelle Pisani. The couple purchased the home in the late 90's to act as a family retreat for their large (and grow...

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