Simple and cozy by Casa Groove

     Surrounded by several huge oaks, this courtyard design, at the back of a small lot, provides a quiet outdoor space to relax in. The lot is divided in a such a way that the front structure and garage serve as a buffer, preventing street noise from entering the small courtyard in the back, as well as to the main public spaces of the house. Casa Grove is situated on a wooded lot, 40 feet wide x 170 feet deep, facing a busy avenue in the north part of Coconut Grove, Florida. Although compact, it features a long and narrow entry, which creates the feeling of entering a large open space.

 
  

 
Inside, the house is formed as an open plan, combining a gray color palette with spots of bright red and an exposed corrugated steel roof and sidings; an industrial staircase provides access to the top bedroom/studio space.

 
 

Exterior Lighting

   The same rules that govern interior lighting apply to the exterior spaces.

Exterior task lighting primarily provides safe night time access, around front door, garden paths and pool areas.The old large-sourced ambient lighting, (like multiple high wattage filament globes or spotlights) should be avoided. There are now many other more energy efficient and effective choices. Small 12V 10 watt halogen fixtures over or near the front door or along a path or staircase, will light enough of the traffic area to allow safe passage. The new extreme low wattage LED lights will do the same thing even more efficiently. Path lighting is best mounted on a wall or post, well below eye level, so that the source at no point blinds the traveller. Any close light source at night has a tendency to blind because the eye's pupil has adjusted wide open to very low levels.

When this task lighting is augmented with some feature lighting, (accenting particular plants, water features, stone walls), the path to the house becomes a passage of discovery.

Unlike interior rooms, the garden generally does not have a ceiling, so most fixtures would be mounted in the ground, providing up-lighting for plants and walls. While exterior feature lighting can be very attractive, one must be energy conscious and selective when deciding what to light. Not the entire garden needs to, or should be, lit up. Also consider how the exteriors lights impact on the neighbours. Some people (possible rightly) think that excess garden lighting is light pollution. Infrared sensors that turn lights on when needed are a worthwhile consideration.

Swimming pool which is in harmony with the exterior design houses

     It is not too hard to understand why the visually awesome Negative Edge swimming pool bagged the prestigious ASLA 2008 Residential Design Honor Award. Borrowing from the principles of modern design, the pool uses elegant, straight lines along with highly polished surfaces to create a spectacular panorama that forces you to believe this is the place where land, sky and water become one. The beauty and simplicity of the pool along with the stunning view of the mountains makes it a unique experience. We want in!

 

Building a park on the roof

     To help prevent or reduce the speed of global warming, adding a green open space with a garden on the roof of houses, buildings, hotels and offices is one effective way. Although the condition of the urban region largely filled by a high rise building, the designers (architects, and landscape architect) must create a green open space to add plants that have been taken over when the building was constructed.

     By creating a garden on the roof, high-rise buildings can still have a green open space, because there is space efficiency. Park on the roof (roof garden) is as an alternative reforestation to improve the quality of big city environmental health.

Tips and Trick Designing Your Home

 

      This page will give you the tips and tricks that would take a long time to compile and find in one place. Magazines always give a few tips and tricks, but they always apply to the pictures. Designers in the same books always limit exposing their secrets. So, if you need an area straightened out or better decorated you have come to the right place.

     Stay away from trends   with d  ecorating after the trend has passed can be costly. If you like trendy pieces you can intermix them with most design styles.

• Get ideas and inspiration from websites and magazines and k eep them in a binder. You can also place fabric and color samples in it. When you go shopping take it with you to make it easier to match colors and materials or find pieces of furniture or accessories.

• Good design is in the details when planning a room. Moldings, cabinet handles, light and outlet switches, etc; can bring elements together and form a more cohesive appearance.

• Explore all the decorating possibilities decisions. You don't want to walk into a store and find something you really like because you never went into that particular store. Explore everywhere before purchasing anything.

• Large-open plan rooms are hard to separate into smaller section.   Area rugs can do a great job of delineating areas in the same room. But, since they are in the same room they need a common color to link them together.

• Take your time when making decorating decisions. The results will be better than if you rushed to get it finished. Rome wasn't built in a day. And those TV shows take a lot longer than an hour to complete those 'fast' rooms

     Page other than as a fatherly gardening, can also be used as a place peresana water. This is very useful specifically for those of you who live in flood prone areas. We only make a small hole in the yard as deep as 3 meters. If a house has a water absorption of  5 only, will prevent flooding.

White Clean Modern House

     The home is from Sao Paulo, Brazil and is designed by Marcio Kogan on a 1700 square meter area that encloses 700 square meters of living space on its two floors. Italian windows help maintain transparency, giving a magnificent view of the pool and the garden while doubling up as walls as well.

Having been covered in natural wood, the house alternates between tones of white helping in naturally illuminating the house with ample sunlight. Construction details, on the interior and the exterior have been done with perfection, giving the house a delightful and pleasant finish.

Various Merit awards by differently awarding agencies like IV Bienal IBERO Americana, ASBEA – Group of Projects and World Architecture Award have been granted to the design of the house as well.

Choosing Paint Color Minimalist Houses

       If the previous post talking about the color of house paint that is in tune, this time I will give you tips on choosing colors for a minimalist home.
Choosing Paint Color Minimalist Houses is very important because in addition to providing the beauty of the place of residence, will also provide the building blend with the color of the walls or furniture. Choosing a paint color minimalist house actually bother easy, because in addition to building form, rummah residents also have a stake in determining what color will be used as paint.

      Little information only, that is shiny and bright colors will add spirit to homeowners, while the pastel colors will make the whole house quiet and relaxed. Sometimes the colors appear darker when painted in the house, but on the contrary jg same color visible light outside the home.

     Below may be used as guidelines for those of you who are confused in Choosing Paint Colors Home Minimalist :

1. Colors in the room as much as possible paint with bright colors (young)

2. To paint outdoors wear colors that are not too obvious (as much as possible the color of that old)

3. Pair with-perbotan furniture in the room, so it looks harmonious and nice views.

Creating a home garden

     Garden will add to the beauty of our residential neighborhood, with trees, plants, flowers, green grass etc.. With the garden in front of the house will give your home a beautiful impression.
  If you have enough space for growing plants or small trees, it can be a place of your gardening. So, not a heavy task, even if you do not have experience.
Gardens tend to have a calming effect in our mind. You can just sit or lie on your page to relax and unwind. The location of a garden should not only good but also easy to see as much as possible by everyone. Decorate with ornamental plants are colorful and decorative stones for a natural impressed. Not only ornamental plants. Plant fruit can you show on this one type of park. But remember, do not plant any fruit.
Instead,select the towering trees and vertical growth. Crops such towering fir can also be an ornamental garden.

       Here are tips to make the garden in front of the house:

• Choosing the Right Places
  Choosing the right location for your garden is very important fundamental. You should get a great view of the place chosen from within your home. You must first check whether the climatic conditions and conducive to growth. If you live in hot, so make sure you do not plant in areas exposed to afternoon sun, the hotter and drier than the morning sun. Also make sure that the place selected is not directly exposed to strong winds often

• Choosing Plants
  After obtaining a suitable location, next is to choose the right plants and diverse. Select plants appropriate to the environmental conditions in your area. You can try planting flowers that will beautify the appearance of your garden.

• Layout of Plants
  The layout of the plant affect the beauty in designing the park. Consider the composition of vegetation such as grass, water plants, trees. Design something like this. Trees placed as a background, placed as a foreground grass and ornamental plants are placed on the grass, or it could be hung in a flower pot. 

• Drainage System
  It is that often we forget. In the rainy season, without drainage will flood our garden. In addition, plants wither and die. In principle, the drainage system to regulate the flow of water that is not used and diverted into sewers.

• Pest plants
  Pests of plants is the most hated animal once feared by the owner of the garden. You must prepare for the arrival of pests, insects, animals that cause damage to your plants. You can perform a routine check when watering your plants, make sure the color changes, or if insects have damaged stems, leaves on your plants. You also should be diligent in its growth so prune plants so that more leverage.
  If many leaves are hollow because eaten by insects, then cut the leaf in order not to give the impression of the damaged plant.    

 

      In addition to the above tips, you can also create a small pond in your garden. Rush of water will make the house and yard that became more arid and cold cool. Moreover, if the pond contains fish are pretty colorful. Your fatigue will disappear instantly. The water is believed to bring the element of peace and tranquility. Water can also be a therapeutic mind and soul.

      It has a pool and garden in front of the house do not need expensive and complicated, using second-hand goods and simple and make use of existing plants will be created beautiful gardens and pools and lush. Beautiful is not always expensive, for this assumption to have a pool and garden dream normally would cost quite a bit of it is erroneous thinking. We can design and determine their own materials used and wide pond.

Fill pond with ornamental fish like koi fish etc.