The home’s light frame seems to float weightlessly high above the Pacific, offering panoramic views from each of its four spacious storeys. The structure’s upper level is clad in teak panels, and sits atop a glass-enclosed main floor. Designer family room entertainment furniture possess wide drawer base, open and closed shelves for placing any electronic set, separate TV entertainment centers, related accessories and other bits & pieces must for the family room. Contemporary home theater furniture and entertainment units cater to big screen shine and provide space for home theater electronics. The colorful leather sofas from Spacify give the astounding face-lift to the entire family room. Coupled with round coffee tables or side tables they are ideal for your lounge as well as to teem with your home theater furniture. The collection can also give a face-lift to living room as well. (more…)
Eager for more elbow room, Tina, Kulbir and their two children moved from the city to the suburbs. They renovated most of the rooms in their big, new house with ease, but they were stumped when they got to their cramped and dated basement. Both self-professed computer geeks, Tina and Kulbir wanted the room turned into an efficient home office space.
However, they also wanted it to function on several other levels: as a rehearsal space for budding musician Kulbir and his bandmates; as sleeping quarters for overnight guests; and as a TV and lounge area for the whole family.
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A bed isn’t merely a bed when a custom craftsman builds it. It’s an heirloom invested with history and tradition.
“Art. Function. Heirloom” is the motto of artisan Stewart Crick, whose professional moniker is Stu’s Woodworks. Working out of a converted garage in a sublimely forested area of Manassas, he gives full credit to the Arts and Crafts movement for being his technical and spiritual guide. He explains on his Web site (www.stuswoodworks.com) how these words (”three philosophies”) embody a value system he assumes his clients share. (more…)
Deteriorating or not, the 98-year-old Shire building in Old Town still has some friends.
Despite the building owner’s desire to level it, the Temecula Valley Historical Society unanimously recommended Friday that the city do everything in its power to preserve the building.
“I believe we should preserve the building as it is, completely,” said Historical Society member Eve Craig. “This is probably the most historically significant site in Old Town. And it seems that Old Town is becoming ‘New Town.’”
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Sandow Media’s new coffee-table-style architecture book, Leading Residential Architects™, features the work of 39 well-respected and award-winning architects from across the country. The 296-page book is a stunning visual display of residential architectural design concepts, featuring trends in modern residential architecture.
Leading Residential Architects™, the first book in The Perfect Home™ book series from Sandow Media Corporation, depicts the distinct aesthetic philosophy that each architect and their firm brings to its projects. Biographies of each architectural firm are (more…)
