Category: Eclectic Homes

Screws are used today for a number of the fastening tasks once performed by nails. If a nail is set on a job nowadays, it’s generally done with a nail gun. Nail guns are fast, however if you are performing a DIY job, you might be unable to justify the cost for specialty nail guns…

What do you get when you combine the simplicity of a luxury hotel, the liberty and privacy of a vacation rental, and a big dose of high fashion? Jaw-dropping apartments and homes available to rent for your next holiday. Going above and beyond the typical sandy-floored shore rental, these spaces are design destinations in and…

Traditional houses normally have a formal dining area, but today’s more spacious designs frequently combine an eating place with the kitchen. Some smaller houses do not have the room for a big dining table in any way. But if you have room for a kitchen island, you have a great deal of alternatives for gracious…

Most households have a room where the most important activity is watching TV. We’re well past the age when all you needed was an outlet and a pair of rabbit ears — now, DVD players, game consoles, cable and satellites, computer networks and stereo systems can all communicate with your television. It makes sense to…

A trapdoor’s attractiveness is its footprint. When open, a trapdoor provides access to spaces below or over in an almost covert method. When closed, the trapdoor is a flush surface, either a load-bearing floor or a hatchway to an attic. No square footage is lost in spaces with a trapdoor. David Edrington, Architect Most people…

A pony wall is a half-wall or short wall that does not bear the load of any overlying structures. It functions as partition or a room divider. This pony wall provides just a little bit of solitude. Blue Sky Building Company A pony wall used to separate regions of the bedroom may also function as…

When I was young, I wanted to pay my own ceiling with glow-in-the-dark stars. I believed they would be ideal to count on sleepless nights. While I grew from that fashion, I never lost my passion for the nighttime skies. Stargazing is particularly beautiful in the crisp winter air. This collection contains small suggestions to…

Follow the Improvement of Mike and Leann Rowe of Lutz, Florida, as they Reestablish a 1970s-era ranch Home in St. Pete Beach, Florida. We have demonstrated the way they found the ideal house, constructed their project group, gathered inspiration, established a budget, drew the programs, started construction and started to purify the inside. The author…

Resigned for their urban loft and sleek modern furniture during the weekdays, this Chicago pair today turns within their city-slicker badges each weekend for a Michigan country life in a recently built contemporary farmhouse. Interior designers Tom Riker and James Dolenc of jamesthomas made the fresh, rural home to be filled with timber paneling, white…

My latest visit to St. Gotthard Pass — a 6,900-foot-high Alpine pass connecting the German- and also Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland — started with a tour of a former military bunker deep in a mountain that has been converted into a cultural and exhibition centre. It finished with a visit to a hospice converted to…