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- How to Choose the Right Colour for your Home’s Exterior
- Sustainable Hill House in Washington by David Coleman Architecture
- Watch Blog Cabin, DIY Network’s interactive home building series
- Mizuho N-House in Gifu by Shizuo Yamamoto
- House Equanimity in Pennsylvania by Joseph Biondo Architect
| How to Choose the Right Colour for your Home’s Exterior Posted: 09 Apr 2013 09:52 PM PDT Spring is an excellent time to think about repainting the outside of your home, as the warmer, calmer weather will provide ideal conditions for this type of job. It’s also ideal if the winter has left your facade looking less than great. Read on to find out how to choose the right colour if you’re considering something new.
Complement the rest of your home The walls are just one part of the exterior of your home. Think about how your new colour will complement the roof, chimney, driveway and other external features that won’t change in colour. If you have a bright roof, you won’t want to select equally bright wall paint for fear of inducing a headache every time someone passes by your house! It’s also worth thinking about complementing your garden and any other greenery located around your property. Earthy shades look great with vegetation, but you can also create an appealing effect with pastels. Don’t upset the neighbours While it’s easy to get carried away with the notion of painting your house an unusual colour, don’t forget to bear your neighbours in mind. They’re unlikely to be pleased with your bright green house if their own properties are more traditional in appearance! Think about blending in with the other homes on your street and, if you want to do something a little different, use a colour that will complement neighbouring houses rather than clash with them. Consider durability Painting the outside of your home is a huge task you won’t want to repeat very often. That’s why it’s wise to think about choosing a shade that will stand the test of time – very vibrant or dark hues are more likely to lose their lustre quickly than neutral colours when faced with the natural elements. While you can buy paints that claim to be particularly long-lasting, sunlight will eventually cause your facade to fade, so it’s likely you’ll need to repaint it at some point in the future anyway. Use accent colours If you have interesting architectural features that are worth highlighting, paint them in a different colour to the rest of your house’s exterior. The shade you choose should complement the walls, yet contrast with them enough to make the detail in question stand out. For projections and recessed/shadowy areas, use lighter colours for the former and darker ones for the latter. Take your time Don’t rush into choosing your perfect house colour. Get samples from local DIY shops and look at them both indoors and outdoors, painting a small area of your facade to test them if needed. It’s also worth creating an image of your house, be it a photo or drawing, and testing different combinations of colours on it to see what it might look like. Be sure to also carefully plan the actual painting task itself so you have everything you need in advance. As well as the paint, brushes, rollers and any spray equipment, you’ll likely need to hire an outdoor scaffold to reach parts that a ladder can’t. Enlist some help if you can, and take your time with the actual painting to ensure you achieve the perfect finish. Have you recently painted the outside of your house? If you have any other tips for our readers, leave a comment below. The post How to Choose the Right Colour for your Home’s Exterior appeared first on Home & House Design Ideas | Interior. |
| Sustainable Hill House in Washington by David Coleman Architecture Posted: 09 Apr 2013 05:07 PM PDT
This sustainable Hill House sited on rocky hillside, sloping gently to the south and steeply to the east and west in Washington. Designed by David Coleman, this building adapting to the changing seasons and needs of its occupants. Sustainable materials, technologies and techniques are used throughout. Recycled steel, sustainably harvested wood, BIBS insulation in oversize wall and ceiling cavities, on-demand hot water, low-flow fixtures and convection heat are all employed. Fenestration is designed to encourage passive solar radiation in winter. In summer, roofs and walls are vented to dissipate heat, and large overhangs, combined with seasonally-deployed, exterior sun shades made from the same fabric used to shield fruit trees on nearby orchards, protect the glass from summer sun. Interior and exterior functions are delineated by a glass wall that wraps three sides of the structure. Finish materials are common throughout, blurring the line between inside and out. Gabion stone walls bridge between building and landscape, offering retaining, context and privacy. Construction waste was dramatically reduced by incorporating these walls, which are made from the spoils of the building's excavations. – Photos by Lara Swimmer
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| Watch Blog Cabin, DIY Network’s interactive home building series Posted: 09 Apr 2013 05:55 AM PDT The groundbreaking multimedia experience, DIY Network’s Blog Cabin series, took off for the seventh time in January 2013. It’s an interactive series where internet users have the chance to follow the transformation of an old house into a truly modern cabin and also vote for every possible design feature at the same time.
Everyone participating in giving votes to the various design elements will be entered into a drawing for the chance to win this year’s Blog Cabin Amenities with the “Cabin Comforts” Sweepstakes. The viewers will be able to vote for cozy bathroom comforts from spa brushes to slippers (from April 4 to April 17th), bathroom accents such as storage container, blanker, step stool (from April 18 to May 1) as well as coastal entertainment items like stereo system and outdoor speakers, beverage containers (from May 2 to May 16). So far the series has garnered over 13 million page views. The seventh season of Blog Cabin will be debuting on DIY Network on July 29, 9.30pm ET to show how the renovations were all made. This year’s cottage to transform was built on 1895 and is 1600 sq. ft in size. That includes four bedrooms as well as 3 bathrooms. Learn more about the show as well as vote for various cabin elements at DIYNetwork.com/BlogCabin. Disclosure: This post was requested by an advertiser. The post Watch Blog Cabin, DIY Network’s interactive home building series appeared first on Home & House Design Ideas | Interior. |
| Mizuho N-House in Gifu by Shizuo Yamamoto Posted: 09 Apr 2013 05:07 AM PDT
The Mizuho N-House set by Japanese Architects Shizuo Yamamoto Architect & Associates for private housing in Gifu Japan. This minimalist house adapted to be surrounded by the southern neighbour, enclosed by the two layer wall,while ensuring private housing is aimed at the open. The ceiling is represented by a small pitch beam construction materials, space has become a comfortable rhythm. In addition, there are stairs between the living and dining, with glass walls that tend to be closed, created the series of transparent space. The walls and pillars like origami fold to the front façade of the white wall. Break the wall that was born to have a feature wall of the eaves, this house became a symbol of design. – Shizuo Yamamoto Architect & Associates
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| House Equanimity in Pennsylvania by Joseph Biondo Architect Posted: 08 Apr 2013 05:07 PM PDT
Designed by Joseph Biondo Architect, this house situated in a typical nondescript subdivision of Eastern Pennsylvania, surrounded by other single-family houses of all shapes and sizes. The base of the home is constructed of concrete. This seemingly unnatural mixture of fluid stone and steel reinforcement is quite sufficiently different from historical materials. However, it is a material that offers the rough, tactile charm that often emanate from the irregularities of mature buildings. Deliberately crude in its execution, the concrete monolith is treated as an existing condition, or ruin, whose subsequent wood-framed, cementitious clad boxes are carefully inserted. The ruin's powerful presence is derived from its material qualities and from the way it is linked to the ground. It penetrates into the earth and engages a platform which becomes clearly defined as the topography falls away. This house is an architecture that involves all the senses. The surfaces and details demand to be felt. The spaces and special sequences require to be grasped by the senses that apprehend gravity, driving forces, and temperature. Details involving human contact such as entrance areas, steps, handles and hand rails are treated with particular care. The restricted tolerances of construction elegantly contrasts with the random nature of the organic while the massing, textures, and unevenness of weathering surfaces transmit similar sensations to the landscape.
This single-family, three bedroom home deviates in scale and appearance from the neighboring houses. The main living area, whose face is half buried into the landscape, offers no views to the east except that of its walled courtyard. It is to be a peaceful place, a kind of oasis sheltered from sound and views of the subdivision thus creating an outdoor room that opens to the sky. The interior space is open, intimate, and neutral with domestic objects articulated as furnishings placed within. Hues of blue skin echo the mottled limestone quarried here. The concrete is allowed to age, become rough and perhaps slowly erode. Eventually, gravel will be exposed and particles of dirt, algae, and moss will take hold. – Photos by Steve Wolfe The post House Equanimity in Pennsylvania by Joseph Biondo Architect appeared first on Home & House Design Ideas | Interior. |
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