Brian Park. An email was sitting in my box this week from photographer Brian Park. Brian has always been generous with keeping us up to date with his work. Glad he does because Brian has a new website featuring shots for the book Restoring a House in the City by former House and Garden editor Ingrid Abramovitch. After devouring them online I'm off to order the book. Yum! Can't wait to turn the pages. Brian's work is stunning. You can see our previous posts here and here. Cool Interior Tree Home: Best Kids Bedroom Design Ever? There are a lot of ways to make a nice bedroom, but for kids there is an element of excitement that is just as important as bedroom size and style. As these pictures illustrate, a cool bedroom for children can be a virtual fantasy world in itself – in this case by making the outdoors the driving interior design idea and central concept of the bedroom space.
Complete with climbing ropes, ladders, swings and all kinds of hidden storage spaces, this bedroom brings all of the elements of an outdoor play space inside and makes the room feel like a self-sufficient home at the same time. The best part, of course, is the tree house in the center of the room – who would not have enjoyed that as a kid growing up? Though this kind of cool bedroom design for kids can of course be contracted out to someone else like Kidtropolis, it is also perhaps an opportunity for a fun do-it-yourself project that engages children in the activity of designing and building their own space. Room Design Ideas. House Plans. Kitchen Design Ideas: Johnny Grey.
Johnny Grey is one of the most unique and influential kitchen designers in the world. He has been heralded as both "The World’s Best Kitchen Designer" by Metropolitan Home magazine and "The Kitchen Designer’s Designer" by the British publication Inspired by his aunt, the late cookery writer Elizabeth David, he sees the kitchen as much more than a room in which to prepare meals; it represents the sociable heart of the modern home and is the inspiration for his books and original ideas about homes of the future. What changes in kitchen design have you seen over the past decade?
Our latest progression in kitchen design incorporates brain research, which is revealing how — in emotional terms — we work. We look at how the brain is affected by space, by all the various "hard-wired" needs of humans. Earlier this year I gave a talk in Winchester, England, at a conference titled "Space, Architecture and the Brain. " How would this new type of design, Active Living Spaces, relate to kitchen design? The Social Kitchen. By Susan Serra, CKD Once again, today we are joined by Kitchen Design Expert and Contributor, Susan Serra, CKD. Known to many as “The Kitchen Designer” for her popular blog, Susan is an award-winning Certified Kitchen Designer, with a national clientele.
The social kitchen has an important role to play in the home every day, under so many different scenarios. Whether it is two people sitting down for a midnight snack after a weekend night out, the daily family meal, the birthday celebrations, Thanksgiving, as only a few examples, the kitchen, if planned properly, can make socializing truly enjoyable. So, how does one go about designing a social kitchen? Top Ten Tips for a Socially-Focused Kitchen 1. 2. 3. 4. Here’s Ina Garten’s large, social kitchen that she shared in this House Beautiful interview. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Susan Serra is a CKD (Certified Kitchen Designer) is an award winning designer and the principal of Susan Serra Associates, Inc., for nearly 20 years. Bathroom Design Gallery: Pictures, Layouts, Tips & Ideas. As these impressive images via DPS illustrate, bathrooms both large and small can be beautiful places – but these photos also show that there is a big difference between a well-composed and colorful scene and a livable real-life space design.
Following up on a stunning collection of bathroom designs, here is a look at how photographic representation can enhance but also skew the way we look at one of the most conventional and banal interior spaces. (Images via pixelicus, and LWR and Fabio Pinheiro) The above three images are both impressive, but by shooting on an angle and in more varied light the photographer who took the top photograph manages to convey a darker mood and more modern setting. The second shot shown above is taken straight-on in balanced lighting and represents the space well but emphasizes linearity, order, predictability and stability of a typical home bathroom.
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