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White Home Overlooking Spectacular Ocean Views in Kawau Island

If someone asks you how your dream house or vacantion house looks like, what do you say? We would definitely say we would like to have a house with futuristic design, situated on an island like this one we show you in today’s post. A few days ago, we wrote about a gorgeous house in Kiawah Island that might be a good choice, but this white home is really fabulous, a slice of architectural heaven. The luxury Mahina House is an original project developed by Weber Consulting and it’s located in relatively uninhabited Kawau Island, about 60km north of Auckland, New Zealand. The incredible looking 827 square feet white residence is designed in a moon shape (“Mahina” is the Maori word for moon) and is far more than just a house, it’s something that astonishes the viewer, like a significant bridge or public sculpture.

Modern, inspirational, adventurous and unique, Mahina House is worthy of a Bond movie. Its totally white interior and exterior looks lavish, opulent and sumptuous, creating a strong visual contrast with the remarkable surrounding landscape of the Pacific Ocean. With a plant room, deck, swimming pool and “thermal mass” to regulate internal temperatures, the beach mansion’s interior features a series of seven arches in order to provide support for the concrete roof, to preserve the internal sculptural form and to allow an unobstructed glass façade to the entire house which permits the natural beauty that surrounds to become an integral part of life within. What can be more delightful and relaxing than enjoying the lush plant life and the breathtaking Pacific Ocean views from this extremely white home in Kawau Island?

Photo source: @cubeme.com

Mahina House in Kawau Island, North of Auckland

May 12, 2012
Stylish and Inspiring Lighting Design by Benjamin Hubert

If you are looking for new fixtures with inspiring lighting design for your interiors, take a look at these stylish modern collections of pendant lamps spotted on British designer Benjamin Hubert’s site. He’s London based studio collaborates with international manufacturers across Europe and Asia on a various range of projects including both mass produced consumer products and limited editions. Elegantly hanging above a table in you kitchen or gently diffusing light in another room, these innovative pendant lights combines function with cutting edge contemporary lighting design made to last.

Spinning Pendant Lamps

These smooth collection of pendant lamps have a beautiful and joyful silhouette inspired by the spinning-top. Their gloss lacquered finish makes them even attractive and suitable for any modern interior. Available in two sizes, these sleek lighting fixtures are made of aluminum with a PVC molded top and a 3m adjustable cable.

Treis Pendant Lights

Visual lightness and freedom of form are obtained due to these lamps’ non oblique form made of aluminum. Very modern, Treis is another beautiful lighting fixture created by renown British designer. To design them, it was used tessellating triangles reinforced with an injection moulded polypropylene diffuser, with a fractured prismatic surface allowing the light to be reflected and diffused.

Loom Pendant Light

The intriguing lighting design of Loom makes it a very interesting collection which use the new 3d woven polyester textile, a material that hasn’t been utilised in the lighting industry until now. It is offset and contrasted with the polymer light lens in the middle of every pendant, creating an unique display of light. Its something different from what we see everyday. Very innovative.

Heavy Pendant Lamp

The lighting fixture was named “Heavy” because of the material it’s made – concrete, which gives the pendant lamp an appealing industrial look. It has a relatively light weight wall section (14mm), with two braided cables, white and red, and it’s available in 3 sizes.

Float Cork Lamps

Seeing this lamps we were impressed with their simplicity. Despite of their classic shape, using cork as a material for them, the designer achieve an original and organic design. They are hand turned using traditional wood working techniques from large agglomerate cork blocks. The natural coloration of the cork produce a warming natural light.

Chimney Clay Pendant Lights

Produced in a pottery studio in Wales and utilizing the natural clay of the region, the Chimmey collection include pendant lamps with a very elegant design which can be used anywhere in residential and commercial places. Each one is made by hand thrown techniques and has an unique character with beautiful textured exterior finish and gloss white glazed interior.

Quarry Pendant Lights

These stylish pendant lamps can beautify any room, bringing simplicity and elegance. Marble’s translucent properties reveal its veining and ensure a diffuse light throught the room. The interior surface is evocative from the first cut by renaissance sculptors to rough out a form.

Photos: © Benjamin Hubert.

May 11, 2012
Art Paintings in Modern Decorating

Art Painting in modern interior decorating represent an important piece in trend of interior design. Decorating our homes is vital in order to have spaces that makes us feel good and relaxed. Interiors ca be personalized through different ways depending the result we want to achieve. One way to add a personal touch and make our living space breathe artistic creation and style is to buy paintings. According to your particular artistic style, orientation and taste, paintings differentiate and significantly enhance the atmosphere in a house, being considered essential pieces for decoration.
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May 10, 2012
Tree House -Outstanding Architectural Design in Kiawah Island

With a distinctive portfolio of fine residential homes that elevates the business of building to the fine art of architecture, the team of talented residential architects and interior designers from Anderson Studio Of Architecture and Design create something unique and timeless with every project they make. The contemporary residence in Kiawah Island, Tree house, is a true reflection of their owners who love and appreciate the great outdoors. Travelling extensively all over the world, they wanted the home of their dreams to embrace nature.

Visually enhancing the surroundings, the property becomes one with the land, creating a unique and breathtaking living experience for those who live there. The residence streches the imagination and boundaries for Kiawach living boasting an exquisite contemporary design. The sleeping and living structures are connected allowing cool ocean breezes to pass from the marsh to the front yard, while the stairs to pool, the terrace and decks visually connect inside and out.

Most walls positioned in the street are solid which offer privacy,but they are open to rooms of soaring ceilings, timber and glass overlooking the wonderful swimming pool and the amazing views of Bass and Cinder Creeks and Folly Island, answering its inhabitants need for nature along with a peaceful and comfortable living.

Due to its outstanding architectural design, Tree House won a 2011 South Carolina AIA Design Excellence Award, along with two other Scott Anderson-designed homes on Kiawah.

Photos: © Holger Hobenaus.

May 9, 2012
Sunlight Light Lamps for Modern Interiors

Sunlight light lamps is a search for my idea to show lighting is a prominent feature in interior design rooms, therefore more innovative solutions are best to catch our attention. I always remember mornings when the sun appears in the sky after a night warming the earth shows its long light in the windows of my house, feeling it made me look for a collection of lamps that can mimic sunlight light, so I stopped at these two models that I wish to share with you. (more…)

May 8, 2012
Indulge in High-End Bathroom Design with DKOR Interiors

For Miami-based firm DKOR Interiors interior design means greater quality of life for its clients. The quality of their designs relies on interesting materials and design features, but also on a good collaboration between their design team and its clients. Exploring their website, we discover outstanding design inspiration which we’re sure you’ll enjoy too. Their fantastic projects highlight creative, unique and innovative design solutions for sophisticated interiors.

If you’re looking for high-end bathroom design interior and stumped for inspiration, you’ve come to the right post to spark your imagination and create your perfect bathroom design ideas . Here we show you 14 luxurious bathrooms designed by DKOR Interiors. Eclectic, modern or contemporary, the bathrooms concepts draw attention by refinement, uniqueness and high-quality materials. Contrasting and complementary natural textures and finishes, symetry, reflective surfaces, bold patterns, great color combinations and fashionable accessories with design aesthetic that’s excess of simply functionality are some of the common characteristics of the interiors in this particular area. Enjoy the photos!

Photos: © DKOR Interiors.

May 7, 2012
15 Beautiful and Contemporary Bedroom Designs

Intimate and personal spaces, bedrooms are out private retreats to every day escape from the noisy and stressful outside world. Designing the bedroom is as important as any other room in the home, neither should be neglected. The interior design of the bedrooms should be treated with utmost seriousness. Contemporary master bedroom designs should have in one hand the possibility to be shoothing, relaxing, but also give you a romantic, playful atmosphere for a special evening.

The environment transformations will be enabled in a moment by the use of lighting, music, furniture and colors, if they are created from the beginning for this purpose. For example, a well-placed color can say alot about the overall design. Playing with colors is as pleasant and exciting as it is difficult to master, because color can affect an area in several ways, both positive and negative as we said in a previous post.

Photo: Katie Denham Interiors

A bedroom’s atmosphere is modified by applying different style’s elements, from modern-minimalist style, contemporary, classic, retro, rustic to classic reinterpreted or hightech one. A bedroom design must be both aesthetically pleasant and functional, because if it’s useless, no matter how nice it would be the design, it will be lost and become unusable. See how a great design can turn a dull bedroom into an amazing one.

Here there are 15 inspiring contemporary design ideas to make your bedroom design really stand out. The contemporary design is defined by austere simplicity, but strong and expressive of modernism. So, it should follow the idea of simplicity, light, bright colors and basic shapes.

Less is more must be the starting point in designing contemporary bedroom designs. It will encourage the use some photos and paintings on the walls carefully chosen to express your personality, the use of modern materials (than steel, chrome, plastic and wood in bright colors), simple furniture, with geometric shapes, blankets and bedding in solid colors, no patterns or folds. The overall feel of the room needs to be comfortable and inviting. Let your imagination run wild while browsing the images below.

Photo: Studio KW Photography

Photo: Narofsky Architecture + ways2design

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Photo: Imagine Living

Photo: Jodie Rosen Design

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Photo: Urrutia Design

Photo: Michael Abrams Limited

Photo: Jeffers Design Group

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Photo: Dick Clark Architecture

Photo: Window Works

Photo: Don F. Wong

Photo: Elad Gonen & Zeev Beech

May 6, 2012
YULE, an Alternative to Conventional Bookshelf Designs

With an appearance that looks like a tree, the Yule wooden bookshelf is a fantastic alternative to conventional bookshelf designs, perfectly suited for any room. Designed by the architecture Segno Studio, the bookshelf is one of the most innovative piece of furniture we’ve seen lately and it’s a real pleasure for us to see such great interior designs ideas. They develope an useful and inspiring piece of furniture for reading lovers who need adding new shelves but has no more free space along the walls.

With a minimalist design and beautiful shape inspired by nature, Yule integrates anywhere in a modern home thanks to its original design with large base at the top that fixes to the ceiling which allows you to walk above. Moreover, the bookshelf has an adaptable height, with a capacity equivalent to a 550 cm. linear shelf long and you can customize its color to suit your interiors’ style. Alternative to classic ways of designing a bookshelf, Segno Studio really impress us with their creative and oustanding product design.

Photos: © Segno Studio.

May 5, 2012