Avant-Garde Modern Furniture Blog: A simple cottage, a stunning wood cottage, and a green city home

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Sunday, June 5, 2011

A simple cottage, a stunning wood cottage, and a green city home

Three Very Different Homes

Today I will write to all of you a story of three yet very different homes. The first is a simple cottage home, very simple design, looks, and interior. The second is a very modern, contemporary fully loaded cottage home, and the third is another of the green roof homes, only this one is in the middle of the city.

Hope all of you enjoy these pictures...

A Simple Cottage

classic wooden house with chimney

Here are the classic wooden house with chimney design and simple main volume with a rectangular floor plan and a saddleback roof designer by Onix Architects in Bosschenhoofd, Netherlands. These roofs will be used as a carport and as a storage area for wood for the hearth. A large terrace adjoins the house just beyond the wood-shaded area on the west side. The first floor has a more secluded character in order to resist the warmth from outside. The bedrooms and other spaces have a window bordering on an alcove

large terrace in classic wooden house with chimney

living room view in classic wooden house with chimney

long wooden dining table in classic wooden house with chimney

Simple yet elegant and great for trips to the countryside with your family and friends...

A very modern, contemporary fully loaded

cottage home...

wonderful modern wooden house cool design in lopez island

Here are the beautiful house design in Lopez Island with Asian style. this style of home and the modulation of forms. The structure comprises the main house with an isolated upper level master and the studio which houses his and hers art spaces. the studio is connected to the house via an arcade which also serves as the main approach to the house. This 1800 sf home is located on a heavily wooded,medium-bank waterfront property on Lopez Island, Washington. uilt with wooden material and designed with contemporary asian style. Create to connect with nature around. A lot of trees around this house, make a special feel for this home. The structure of the home runs by a nearby river. This allowed an orientation that brings light and warmth and provides beautiful views of the surroundings. The house forms are simple, derived from the site relationships and the desire to maximize daylight. The materials are honest and enlivening – hard vs. soft, warm vs. cool. It is a home designed for modern island living.

cool natural modern wooden house cool design in lopez island

natural garden in modern wooden house cool design in lopez island

classic and cool kitchen design in modern wooden house cool design in lopez island

comfy and white bedroom design in modern wooden house cool design in lopez island

living room and dining layout in modern wooden house cool design in lopez island

wooden staricase and layout design in modern wooden house cool design in lopez island

stone terrace and natural landspace in modern wooden house cool design in lopez island

stone terrace and natural landscape in modern wooden house cool design in lopez island

wooden terrace floor with natural view in modern wooden house cool design in lopez island

Absolutely amazing woods cottage home.. Boy could you have a great time here..

A very modern, contemporary green home
in the city...

luxury waterfront four storey house design ideas

This the multilayer four storey house design with terrace garden in first floor and second floor, until the roof. swimming pool located outside the house, so that swim in it visible from the living room with walls made of glass. combines the staircase between the glass and wood design make this house is really fantastic. this house location on a new housing estate on the island of Sentosa adjacent to Singapore. to build a house for each solid wall next door to provide privacy whenever possible, the creation of a central light and the ladder, so the sea breezes channeled through the center of the building. The front and rear of the building, however, terrace, allowing each way back to access the visual or actual vegetation. the roof garden provided the basis for the top floor that allows the effect of the layers so that each apartment feel like a floor in home sitting in a garden

storey house design with terrace garden

second and three floor terrace garden design

natural four storey house design with terrace garden

glass swimming pool design like aquarium

swimming pool interior design ideas

fantastic staircase design combine glass and wood

second floor terrace garden design ideas

indoor garden and pool design in storey house design with terrace garden

natutal indoor pool with garden interior and design

natural terrace design ideas in storey house design with terrace garden

simply amazing green home.. i absolutely love the view from the second floor - a great city view and grass right outside your door/window.. simply an amazing design, idea, concept, and a great implementation...

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