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Facades

A façade is a very interesting and important aesthetic feature of a house as it is the face of the house and it is what everyone from outside your house sees. It is oftentimes referred as the front part of the house but actually a façade may be any one side of the outside of a house, the sides and the rear of a house can also be a facade. The more beautiful the façade of the house, the greater the expectation of people that when they enter inside gorgeous interiors will be welcoming them. There are facades that are inviting, attractive, welcoming, but yes facades can also be cold and sometimes intimidating. I love looking at interesting facades that embody warmth, grandeur, style, and class.

Florida Design Magazine

Dungan Nequette Architects

Travel and Vacation Abodes

Great Homes and Destinations

Flickr

Kara Mann Designs: Pleasant Sophistication

Kara Mann Designs was founded in 2005 with the design principle that ‘Life should be lived; your environment is where it should be enjoyed.’ With that in mind, the firm has created so many lovely interior spaces that exude pleasant sophistication. What I like about their projects is that they all have elegance and warmth that we long to have in our own homes plus their interior spaces always has interesting pieces of wood furniture that never fails to captivate my senses.

images: Kara Mann

A Touch of Pink

Architectural Digest

Pink… a color that signifies sweetness, the color for young girls, and yes it can also be a color of love…not as intense as red but more soft, silent and charming. For most of us ladies, pink is the color we love when we were still little girls, the color our mothers favor for our dresses, ribbons, school things and other girly items. As we matured, some of us moved on to favor other colors than the girly old pink but still once in a while we get to see pink items that melt our hearts and deep inside us we once again feel how good it is to see one familiar color from our yesteryears that is so dear to us that reminds us of happy girly days and playful times. A touch of pink in our homes can be a good thing, it may even brighten a dull day and add a little whimsy to our home life.

My Home Ideas

Amanda Nisbet

Jayne Mansfield Bathroom c/o Architectural Digest

Homes and Gardens

Todd Oldham

Contemporist

House Beautiful

Melt Your Heart

House to Home

Kelley Interior Design

Living at Home

Selena Lake

Would you take this Tudor Style Mansion?

It is celebrity home tour today… and it is Mel Gibson’s multi-million dollar mansion we are going to check out. This luxurious 16,000 sq ft Tudor-style mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut is on the market right now. It has 15 bedrooms and 17 bathrooms, a tennis court, a private pond, a landscaped driveway, a soaring cathedral ceiling, formal gardens, a terrace pool, greenhouse, stable, staff houses, log cabin, and even a maze. Hmmm… I say too big for my family, we are only three you know. But although this mansion is not quite my style, I still enjoy looking at its grandiosity. Is this your kind of a dream home? What can you say about owning a house as huge and as luxurious as this one?

photos: DailyMail

Feeling Beachy

There are moments when you just want to have a quiet and relaxing vacation somewhere idyllic and laidback (preferably on an island hideaway but a quiet uncrowded beach would do too) but just can’t because of some job or responsibilities you have to face and focus on at the moment. And this day is one of those for me … I’d love to go somewhere but can’t for the moment, and when I feel this way I always opt to do the next best thing … browse some beachy images. Photos and images that depict relaxation, calmness, sun, and water never fails to lift up my mood and make me smile inside. Beachy images makes me feel the rush of the waves on my legs, the sensation on my feet which I get from walking in the sand, and the breeze of fresh air on my face. Ahhh…it is good to feel beachy once in a while.

Frank Roop

Fab Floors

What floor coverings we have in our home spaces directly affects the aesthetic, feel, and atmosphere of our home. Our floor is our walking surface and we use and see it everyday. Because of modern technology, we now have a wide variety of floor coverings we may choose for our home spaces like carpets, rugs, laminates, bamboo, wood, ceramic, tile, stone, linoleum, and rubber among others. Organic and eco-friendly floor coverings are popular these days and they usually add a nice texture to your floors. Carpets and rugs are among the most common floor coverings we see around, actually it is a floor covering above another floor covering which is your main flooring. Carpets and rugs beautify rooms and spaces, no doubt about that, but there are also so many interiors that are without a carpet nor a rug but are also lovely and oh so fabulous. Don’t get me wrong, I love carpets and rugs on the floor but sometimes it is just so refreshing to have your floors bare of such elements and just feel the raw flooring on your feet and give emphasis to the beauty of your main floor covering.

skona hem

Living etc

Veranda

Home Spaces made more beautiful by Flowers

Burnham Design

Flowers make a room look more vibrant, fresh, and homey. It does not really matter in what part of your house you want to put some flowers, these days you can put them practically anywhere… in your entryway, living room, dining room, kitchen, and even in your bathrooms. Flowers inside your home need not be too many, big, or placed in the center of the room to create an impact, flowers just never fails to brighten up a space. Flowers are sure to make any part of your house more vibrant, fresh and homey and if your flowers have fragrance then you get to enjoy its lovely smell too.

These rooms may be aesthetically fabulous already but they are made more beautiful by the addition of lovely flowers in them.