Tag: design
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Design Details: Outdoor Kitchens
Ten award-winning homes with stunning outdoor kitchens.
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Sams Creek, Kitchen of the Year
2013 Watermark Awards Grand Award winner Sam’s Creek also nabbed Project of the Year. It’s an architecturally ambitious house with an inside-outside connection, striking materials, and most of all, a kitchen that’s perfectly integrated into the center of of the house.
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FourPlans: House-Within-a-House
Most homes with in-law units isolate those spaces above the garage or in the backyard. Not these! The suites – all complete with kitchenettes, bathrooms, and more – easily access main living spaces and are located on the first floor for accessibility.
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Looking for Room in All the Right Spaces
It’s not what you’ve got; it’s how you use it. These four plans offer streamlined layouts with a minimum of dead spaces like extra hallways and little-used formal rooms. Instead, your buyers get hardworking, highly functional layouts.
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Window Bench Turns Narrow Hallway Into Cozy Nook
A window seat in a Texas Hill County house turns a hallway into an inviting reading nook.
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A New House with a Vintage Feel
A farmhouse-style family retreat in Michigan wine country inspired by aggregate, farm compounds of the 19th century.
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Top 15 Design Trends in Single-Family Living
A new list of lifestyle and design trends details what consumers want in a home now and in years to come.
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17 Favorite Universal Design Features
Dan Bawden of Legal Eagle Contractors, in Houston, and one of the first remodelers to get his Certified Aging in Place Specialist certification, lists his favorite universal design features.
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FourPlans: Upscale Empty Nests
Downsizing doesn’t have to mean stripped-down.
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Viking Concealed Sprinkler
This sprinkler head has a flat plate that disappears into the ceiling.