Posted March 17th, 2012
by Lilly Kibble
What take away idea from this modern house design? Well, both exterior and interior of this innovative house is really inspiring. This woodland house has underground construction and so much unique detail of interior elements. Not only about the construction design, this modern house design completed with sustainable features to support cozy and comfortable living spaces.
This creative house design built beneath manmade/artificial hill. From outside, this modern house look like underground house. The concrete shell needed to retain the mass of the mountain and also to create thermal mass sustainable design besides keeping the ecological footprint with the house to a minimum.
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Tags: Design, House Design, Modern House, Modern House Design Posted in Home Design Tips
Posted September 25th, 2011
by Bethany Rolph
15 Awesome Kitchen Island Design Inspiration 
If your kitchen is large enough, then you should have a kitchen island there. Its a great thing to add storage, a place to cook, place to eat and many other things. Usually, these islands can be found in open kitchens, but you can install any kitchen with little space for that. Kitchen islands became popular 50 years ago that are now very sophisticated and you can find an island design ideas to meet all your needs.
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Tags: Design, Design Inspiration, Island Design, Island Design Inspiration Posted in Home Design Reviews
Posted August 25th, 2011
by Lilly Kibble
Hungarian studio A+Z Design will present these cute lamps with squashed heads at Tent London during the London Design Festival next month. Called Pillhead, the desk and floor lamps have a powder-coated stainless steel frame and anodised aluminium shades.
Tags: Az Design, Design Posted in Home Design Tips
Posted July 13th, 2011
by Bethany Rolph
This kitchen, designed by Tia Moras, illustrates the concept of tiered proportions.
The winning projects of the 2011 National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) Design Competition were announced last month.
The award winners typically reflect common design themes. This year, many of the projects used natural elements in design, strong colors, a variety of textures, and detailed ceilings to create a well-designed space. Chocolate and espresso were popular hues for cabinetry.
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Tags: Design, Design Trends Posted in Home Electricity Design
Posted July 11th, 2011
by Patrick Eldershaw
Quality Control? Whats that, you may ask. And why in something like architectural house design? Well, lots of people, most in fact, probably receive little to no quality control in their architectural house design documents. It is simple: if you want quality in your house, you need a quality set of design documents.
And just how to you get a set of quality house design documents? By having an architect design your residence. Someone that cares that the thousands of lines, notes, dimensions, materials and specifications are coordinated and inspired. Creativity is expected. Most people probably assume that quality is built in and that everything is coordinated. It is not, unless you have an architect with a quality control program built into his design and documentation procedures.
The AIA describes the architectural design of a house as one of the most detailed, technically demanding and difficult of architectural project types: about the same as complex hospital laboratories. Why would that be the case you may ask. Because there is more happening per square foot in a house than in an office building. And because people having architects design their house have detailed, specific requests for features. They are living there, not just visiting.
Interestingly enough, architects learn their own Quality Control procedures as they practice, make errors, do things correctly, and have positive experiences about what works and what does not. What is starting to become obvious to you is that the more time an architect has been practicing, the more he or she has learned and the better documents they produce. Frank Lloyd Wright said that architects dont even start to get good until they reach 50. So, architects older than 50 probably have attained a level of experience that is more detailed and comprehensive than others with less life experience.
Rand Soellner Architect employs a modified ISO 9000 system right on his computerized drawing files in the form of a detailed checklist. He can easily see this checklist next to his drawings, and for each project, he verifies that these technical items have been accomplished. The ISO 9001 standards for certification can become much too exhaustive for most companies and that is not the standard utilized herein. However, the simplified ISO 9000 practice of having a checklist of requirements and verifying that they have been accomplished, incorporated and checked, are sensible and can be easily woven into an architectural practice. Such is the case with Rand Soellners practice. Not many firms do this; trying instead to rely on what they can remember the procedure was previously. Soellner has learned, through decades of practice, that no one can remember all of the important lessons taught to them in life, particularly in one as complex as architecture, and in particular in one of the most detailed aspects of architecture: the design of custom houses.
In addition to Rands lessons learned checklist, that requires him to place an X in a blank next to each line item task reminder for coordination, he also uses his specifications to coordinate hundreds, if not thousands of specification items directly with the drawings. In fact, Soellner invented a Drawing Numbered Note System that uses the identical paragraph numbers from his specifications. So, if you are looking at his drawings, and see a number that points to a door, that number is the same number as a paragraph in Rands Division 8 specs that clearly describes that door. This makes his drawings clear and explicit for contractors and lets his clients know what they should be receiving in the built house.
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