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  • Holiday home in Tuscany decked out with Italian stone and marble

    Alberese stones and Carrara marble are some of the Italian materials architects Emanuela Frattini Magnusson and Pietro Todeschini used for the interiors of this Tuscan holiday home. The one-storey house is situated in the small city of Grosseto, set on a hillside that overlooks rolling vineyards and olive groves. It belongs to a US-based couple […] More

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    What These Houses Taught Me About Decorating

    What have the homes you have lived in taught you about decorating? If you think about it, it may be quite a lot. Over the last few months I have been reading many decorating books, both old and new. From how-to’s to high-end coffee table style decorating books. There isn’t a decorating book I don’t […] More

  • Esoteriko picks bold colour for only one room of Balmoral Blue House

    Interiors studio Esoteriko has selected light colours and natural materials for every room in this house in Sydney, apart from one bright blue bedroom. Esoteriko designed an entirely new layout for this property overlooking Balmoral Beach, making it as open-plan as possible. A consistent palette of materials and finishes was chosen to help tie spaces together, […] More

  • Austin Maynard Architects adds plant-filled conservatory in centre of Newry house

    Austin Maynard Architects has transformed the quality of light inside a narrow Melbourne house, by creating a greenhouse-like space at its centre. The Melbourne-based studio made only small changes to two-storey house Newry, but has made it feel much more spacious and bright. No rooms were moved around, instead new openings were made to allow natural light […] More

  • Thomas Geerlings converts canal-side Amsterdam warehouse into contemporary home

    The creative director of design studio Framework has turned a neglected 19th-century warehouse in Amsterdam into a plush family home for his wife and two children. The house is located along the waters of the city’s Prinsengracht canal and occupies a disused warehouse that was originally constructed back in 1896. Over the years the five-storey building […] More

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    10 homes designed for practising yoga and meditation

    We’ve rounded up 10 houses from across the globe with rooms dedicated to yoga and meditation – including a beachfront spot in Mexico and a plywood-covered nook in Canada. Hatley House by Pelletier de Fontenay and François Abbott, Canada This gabled house in the Canadian town of Hatley, Quebec features a minimally furnished room clad […] More

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    Raúl Sánchez uses clever cutaways in house at Mas Blanch i Jové winery

    Corten steel walls, a circular window and a big cross all feature in this house renovated by Raúl Sánchez Architects for a winery in Catalonia. Called Gallery House, the two-storey property functions as both a guesthouse and gallery for the Mas Blanch i Jové winery in La Pobla de Cérvoles. Barcelona-based Sánchez planned his renovation […] More

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    Stayner Architects restores modernist Wave House in California

    Los Angeles practice Stayner Architects has restored a 1950s house in Palm Desert, California, which was designed by modernist architect Walter S White to feature a wave-shaped roof. The dwelling was completed in 1955 for artist Miles C Bates and is named Wave House after its roofline. White, who patented the design of the structure, […] More