Welcome to our gallery of comfy reading nooks for children! Reading is an important skill that should be cultivated and encouraged in children. Making reading as fun and as accessible for children is a great reason to add features to your home. A fun and special reading nook can motivate kids to curl up with …
Welcome to our guide on living room ceilings! A commonly overlooked feature of your room is the ceiling. A custom ceiling can really accentuate the proper design. The natural wood colors and rugged look of an exposed beam ceiling works well with a rustic look, while an elegant dome is a perfect ceiling for a …
Welcome to our guide to living room lighting! So you have worked hard on your living room design, but you don’t want all that hard work to be left in the dark! It’s time to light up your space and let those designs shine. There are so many different kinds of lights; what kind of …
Welcome to our guide to plunge pools! You may ask yourself, what exactly is a plunge pool? A plunge pool is a small basin typically filled with cold water. Plunge pools are often used to refresh you after you have been in a sauna or a hot tub. Many athletes use plunge pools after workouts. …
Welcome to our guide to swimming pool slides! On a warm summer day, sometimes you feel like sitting poolside, taking in the sun or a leisurely dip. Other times, you want to dive, splash, and have a wild time. What can you add to bring this element of fun to your pool? A slide of …
It may seem like there are endless pool shapes and designs. So many different kinds of pools are out there, ranging from the widely used ovals and rectangles to some truly unique and interesting designs. How do you start choosing one that suits your needs? The first thing you need to consider when choosing a …
Welcome to our guide for above-ground swimming pools! It’s always nice to have a pool. It is an incredible convenience to have a place to swim in your very own backyard. The ability to take a dip or swim laps without leaving your home, having to pack everything up and driving to the nearest beach …
In the summer, it’s always nice to have a pool to take a dip. But we all know that pools can be expensive. Installations materials, fencing, maintenance . . . the costs can stack up pretty quickly. Beyond that, pools are a large commitment of time and space. You are dedicating considerable yard space, and may even …
Welcome to our gallery featuring 50 awesome vertical gardens. Vertical gardens make great use of space, and they help turn areas heretofore devoid of life into thriving grow bonanzas! As you will see below, just about any vertical surface can be used to grow plants. From green walls to repurposed household items, going vertical means …
Welcome to our gallery showcasing the surprising variety of corner dining sets available today. We wanted to shine a light on one of the more rarely seen pieces of furniture, showing how truly useful and beautiful it can be. With the range of styles out there, we’re here to narrow down the options to a …
The living room’s role as the social center of the home means that you want it filled with the most appealing furniture in your home. We’re here today to prove that you don’t have to sacrifice comfort for the perfect visuals. When shopping for the best furniture possible, the countless options available can be overwhelming. To …
Welcome to our gallery featuring a stunning arrangement of bedrooms with a desk or office space. While the bedroom may seem like an unsuitable place for a workspace, we are impressed by the elegance of these rooms with working areas included. The benefit of having a working area right in the bedroom is that you can …
Welcome to our gallery showcasing the unique EverBlock™ by EverBlock Systems. What is EverBlock™? It’s a fantastic building block for people of all ages, allowing you to unleash your creative ambitions in a fun and practical way. These blocks have been built to let you craft real, usable pieces of furniture that can be reconfigured on a whim. …
Welcome to our gallery featuring a massive collection of beautiful rectangular kitchens. The rectangle is one of the most common layouts for kitchens, mostly because most modern homes are comprised of rectangular rooms. The cabinetry might not be arranged in a rectangle, instead forming a G-shape, L-shape, or even just a single linear set of …
Welcome to our gallery featuring kitchen lighting ideas! The kitchen is perhaps the most important room to have excellent lighting. Kitchens are used for a multitude of activities and most of them require being able to see well – making the lighting choice a pivotal one. Many kitchens end up using a combination of light styles …
Welcome to our gallery featuring a gorgeous array of luxurious living rooms with exposed beam ceilings. Exposed beams are always a striking addition to any space, no matter the design or style. The main function of exposed beams is that they flip the traditional practice of concealing the architecture on its head. Instead of hiding …
Welcome to our gallery of family rooms by top designers around the world! Family rooms are one of the most versatile rooms in a home. They can be a quiet study, an entertainment room, a man cave, a sitting room, or just a place to put the kids away from the adults (which is what …
Welcome to our gallery featuring 25 elegant kitchens without windows. Windows are an ancient concept, having been discovered even in early wall paintings in Egypt. Though windows are a great natural and architectural way to add light into a room, they aren’t the only way. There are many different options for achieving the same brightness and feeling without windows. Technology has …
Welcome to our gallery featuring a collection of incredible garden hedge ideas to use in your own yard. Hedges can be a great way to add natural borders or dividers to your yard. Picture, if you will, the towering hedges on the grounds of an English estate or bordering the yard of a quaint cottage. …
Welcome to our gallery of gorgeous living rooms featuring comforting earth tones! “Earth tones” describes a palette of colors inspired by nature. Browns, grays, greens, and tans work together harmoniously to mimic the color scheme found in the great outdoors. Design schemes featuring earth tones are warm, rich, and invoke a sense of unparalleled comfort. Whether …
Welcome to our gallery featuring luxurious bedrooms that take full advantage of gorgeous dark furniture. While light furniture in bedrooms can create a bright, airy atmosphere, dark bedroom furniture should not be overlooked when planning your design scheme. Dark furniture has a reputation of making a room feel smaller, but as you can see from this collection, …
Welcome to our gallery featuring a collection of bathrooms with one thing in common: they’re in the attic! The bathrooms in this gallery are as varied as they can be, some in pristine white tile, others in rustic woods with varying stains and grains. Look for bathrooms like the featured one above: with large soaking …
Welcome to our gallery featuring a lovely outdoor space designed by Living Gardens Landscape Design. Living Gardens is based in South Orange County and serves the Orange County area. They are a garden design firm that designs “elegant yet functional” outdoor spaces that allow the homeowners to relax and entertain in an exterior room that acts …
Trellises and lattices have a multitude of purposes, including shade for you and your plants, aesthetic appeal, and even as living walls or barriers. They are an attractive way to allow a variety of popular climbing plants such as roses, sweet peas, beans, morning glories, and jasmine to reach new heights. This gallery features a wonderful …
Welcome to our gallery featuring a collection of varied attic spaces transformed into lovely living rooms. Similar to loft spaces, and sometimes used synonymously with them, attics are the often forgotten space between the top floor and the roof, with reputations for being too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter to …
In many cases attics are bonus spaces in a home. This makes it a fun space to design and renovate. The BIG question you must decide is “what will you do with the space?” In some cases, there may be disagreements about what to do with the space. You may want a games room while …
Welcome to our gallery featuring a large collection of beautiful infinity pool designs. Infinity pools are inherently luxurious. The cost of building an infinity swimming or reflecting pool is far more expensive than other styles of pools that you may find in backyards. This is because an infinity pool produces a visual illusion of the …
Welcome to our gallery featuring a collection of beautiful family room creations from Chicago based design firm Drury Design. As the kitchen has grown as a socially important center of family activities in many homes, so often the adjacent family room’s importance has also risen. Usually meant to compliment each other, the family room has become an integral …
Welcome to our gallery highlighting a very particular sort of grand living room. This gallery features rooms with soaring, two story cathedral ceilings. While expanded vertical space may not allow for more seating or traffic room, and greatly expands the perceived space of a room, and offers unique ways to add detail, function, and surprise to …
Welcome to our gallery featuring pictures of elegant living room designs. This collection houses rooms that anyone would be proud to douse in superlatives, including luxurious, stately, lush, and grand. With a dizzying array of styles, materials, and colors matched in endless combination, these rooms are set to inspire awe in all who enter. The …
Ceiling Tiles for Creating a Magnificent Kitchen Ceiling One way to enhance the design of your kitchen is to improve your kitchen’s ceiling. A great way to do this is by using decorative ceiling tiles. What’s great about this option in addition to looking great is they aren’t difficult to install, they aren’t terribly expensive …
I remember the first time I stayed in a nice hotel. It was on a family trip to Seattle and for some reason my parents splurged on a great hotel room… I think us kids even got our own room to share that adjoined our parents’ room. The place had a massive atrium, pool facilities …
Welcome to our gallery featuring fresh, spacious kitchen designs showcasing darker wood materials. Nothing beats the common ground afforded by a spacious, welcoming kitchen. When the space is crafted with an open flow in mind, it becomes more of a hub than a single room. The lived-in feel of dark wood cabinetry or flooring lends a …
My favorite kind of kitchens often involve a sense of natural beauty and an inviting, open brightness. One way to reach that feeling is with light wooden design work functioning as both a natural ingredient and a visual anchor for the room. Natural, of course, doesn’t have to mean old fashioned. There’s a certain pleasure …
I absolutely love loft rooms even if they aren’t as practical as rooms that are enclosed. Take the above image for example, by using the loft design for more floor space (i.e. second floor) it retains the openness of the entire space for both the lower and upper levels. However, the downside to loft rooms …
If you have the good fortune to have the budget for a pool, it’s not always easy to decide whether to go with an outdoor, indoor or screened-in pool. If you live in a colder climate, an indoor pool is great because it’s year-around; however, let’s face it, it is definitely more fun on a …
This is a very special post for me because growing up I was fortunate in that my parents purchased a small lot on a nearby lake where we spent summers. While it wasn’t on the lake and while our home wasn’t a villa, it was close enough to the water that we spent weeks every …
While the large white, symmetrical mansion with columns is the stereotypical “plantation home design” not all southern mansions are built in this style. In fact, the architecture across both historical and contemporary southern home designs varies. The overarching architectural term used to refer to plantation homes is antebellum architecture, which includes several forms of architecture …
I grew up in a farming community. Our family didn’t have a farm, but I spent many days and weekends with friends who lived on large farms. Those were some great times. A farm is a magical place for a kid. 2 of my favorite activities on a farm were: Running around in the corn …
If you love Halloween, why not do up your living room with some degree of an orange color scheme. Below we showcase dozens of orange living room ideas. Check them out. Photos Related: Family Rooms | Formal Living Rooms | Great Rooms | Libraries | Sunrooms | Bars | Man Caves | Game Rooms | …