The great landscape lighting could be achieve with a simple lighting layout, artificial lighting that placed in strategic places, or a natural lighting that comes from the moon and shining your pond. This luxury house has five bedrooms with five baths and designed by HGTV house, Kelly Deck. Having a beautiful house is not complete if you don’t have beautiful interior designs. There are so many interior designs that you could choose nowadays and implement it to your house right away. The main feautres of the house are radiant heat floors, floor to ceiling windows, outdoor patio with fireplace and hot tub, wine cellar, gym, entertainment area, integrated audio system with speakers in key indoor and outdoor rooms and other useful stuff. (more…)
Loft Space Planning
Modern loft interior design should create a functional and comfortable floor plan with spaces for relaxation, entertaining, storage, and working. These different loft living areas can then be defined with room dividers, rugs, or furniture. Room division can take the form of sliding or folding screens, frosted glass panels, Japanese shojis, or fabric panels on ceiling tracks. (more…)
Pay attention to personality. Most people hire an architect only once in their lives. Searching for one is akin to finding a financial planner, architects say. Look for an architect who has designed projects that are similar in style and scope to yours. “There’s no substitute for experience,” says Todd Strickland, a partner with Historical Concepts, an Atlanta architectural firm. Because designing a home is such a personal project, it’s important that you feel able to communicate with your architect.
Liza Nugent, 41 years old, and her husband needed an architect to combine their apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with a neighboring unit; they got referrals from friends. The first person they called made a snippy remark about how “unsophisticated” co-op boards in buildings on side streets such as theirs make renovations difficult. “I thought, with that kind of attitude, we definitely wouldn’t get along,” Mrs. Nugent says. After calling two more architects and interviewing three others, the Nugents picked a longtime acquaintance who had creative design solutions for their project. (more…)
Sisters Amie Sikes and Jolie Sikes-Smith knew there was no time for tears. The duo had spent several months last year designing young country sensation Miranda Lambert’s tour bus on paper. And now the owners of the Junk Gypsy Company, the catchall boutique of vintage clothing and kitschy furnishings in College Station, had only two weeks to do their first-ever finish-out before delivering it to Ms. Lambert in Nashville.
The women, known for their rock star-cowgirl style, got the assignment to design the bus one night while in Los Angeles with Ms. Lambert. Ms. Lambert had been a fan of their aesthetic, and their families had become close. The singer was spending more time on the road, playing about 300 dates a year, and was leasing a new tour bus. Her mom, Beverly, wanted it to feel like home and asked the sisters and their mother, Janie, to dress it up in the cowgirl-glam look that is the Junk Gypsies’ signature.
Of course, there’d be problems. Like the fact that the bus company was hesitant to turn over a vehicle to a couple of novices with no real interior design experience. “They were worried it would be ugly and that they’d have to gut it and never use it again,” said Ms. Sikes. But the sisters didn’t mind. At least at first. (more…)
When the School for Visual Theater was established in Israel and festivals for “Visual Theater” began to multiply, I used to ask for the sake of argument, “Is there such a thing as non-visual theater?”
I admit I dissembled a bit, because the name “Visual Theater” is supposed to emphasize the visual dimension of stage creation, thereby stating that the verbal and linear (plot development, if such a thing exists) elements are secondary. From the outset, the visual element in theater was always the most important. (more…)
