For a special Mother’s Day surprise, Ashton Kutcher remodelled his childhood home in Iowa and unveiled the results to his stunned mother Diane. The 37-year-old actor teamed up with online design site Houzz to document the amazing transformation in a video series. He spent 27 days with his stepfather organising the renovations to the basement… Continue reading Ashton Kutcher’s Surprise Renovation for His Mom
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Stunning Ocean View Glass House
Boora Architects have designed the 360 House, a vacation home on the Oregon Coast which provides 360º stunning views of the ocean and the wonderful landscape. The design maintains sightlines from the sheltered forest to the open coastline with a minimal structure of glass and steel. Atop the two-story, transparent box, the copper-clad green roof… Continue reading Stunning Ocean View Glass House
Cubitat: A Clever Compact Cube Four in One Apartment
A new 10 x 10 x 10 cube featuring a built-in bed, kitchen, bathroom and living space is set to change the way we think about small-space living. Italian designer Luca Nichetto and developers at Urban Capital unveiled the standalone Cubitat , described as a ‘plug and play living space,’ at Toronto’s Interior Design Show… Continue reading Cubitat: A Clever Compact Cube Four in One Apartment
Tiny Studio Apartment Unfolds Into Four Rooms
Third-grade-teacher Eric Schneider paid $235,000 for a 450-square-foot studio with a tiny kitchen in Manhattan, New York City, and for an additional $70,000 he hired architects Michael Chen and Kari Anderson of Normal Projects to design and transform his tiny 450 square studio apartment into a remarkable multifunction living space. They configured his tiny space into six different rooms, living room, dining room,… Continue reading Tiny Studio Apartment Unfolds Into Four Rooms
Yo! Home: The Apartment of the Future
Simon Woodroffe, the founder of YO! Sushi has designed a new apartment prototype with a space saving feature easily converts an eighty square meter space (the size of a one bedroom apartment) into a much bigger home. Using techniques learned while touring with Rod Stewart and other musicians, Simon Woodroffe has created a convertible apartment unlike anything we’ve… Continue reading Yo! Home: The Apartment of the Future
The Swiss Army Apartment
New York city-dweller, Graham Hill founder of treehugger.com transform his tiny 420 square studio apartment in New York to a remarkable multifunction living space that can be configured into six different rooms, living room, dining room, office, guest office, master bedroom and guest bedroom. If you include the kitchen and the bathroom which morphs into a phone booth… Continue reading The Swiss Army Apartment