Michigan avenue is a blurry,distant memory when the clouds are your neighbors. So if you live up in the clouds your home should be as striking as your surroundings. Project Interiors’ clients built a business empire and craved a sophisticated retreat to play, meditate, entertain, relax and let it all melt away. ” A chic exaltation of refined and rebellious: oaxacan pottery, paintings by Picasso + Warhol, lighting fashioned from bike chains, a lounge that doubles as a playground; a yoga studio with a floating lucite daybed cloistered by walnut slab doors; there’s winding corridors with pots of decorative gold at the end of every rainbow. It’s 4,000 square feet of architectural prowess, like Dr. X with design chops”. See also :https://house-diaries.com/a-complete-gut-renovation-of-a-1920s-harold-zook-english-cottage-style-home/

Capitalising on a generous floorplate combined with the soaring ceilings and clerestory lights of a re-purposed industrial building, this inner city apartment is an innovative pied-a-terre that breaks free from typical apartment living. The architectural response of Sparks Architects Studio is essentially a house, garden, and terrace – all within the original warehouse shell. The industrial aesthetic of the hot rolled steel plate cladding around the cocoon contrasts with the warmth of timber detailing to provide a strong, sculptural counterpoint to the light (and art!) filled gallery space of the original shell.The journey from the front door of this apartment, within a building of conventional loft-type conversions, is an adventure of changing textures, levels, brightness, and culminates in the large open living space which looks out over a small balcony or back inside to a vibrant light-filled space.(Published with Bowerbird). Photography : Christopher Frederick Jones See also :https://house-diaries.com/williamsburg-residence-both-a-unique-apartment-and-an-art-gallery/

The renovation of the residential apartment for a family of two has started from the total trust between the clients and the architect Rina Lovko . Situated on the twentieth floor of the residential building in Kiev, the apartment’s location provides an astonishing view over the Dnieper River. Thus, the project was entitled Parus, meaning ‘the sail’ in Ukrainian. The centerpiece of the apartment is a window steel – a 6 meters glazing system with a sliding opening that allows the habitats to admire the view on banks of the Dnieper river. To underline the apartment’s location, the architect tried to maximize the solar openings. Considering the elongated layout of the apartment the architect had to remember that from all points of the back room and the corridor, the client should see the main picture of the apartment – the landscape outside the window. Thus, the dull corridor was turned…

 PV2 is a house in the expansion district of Madrid, close to Retiro Park, in a building of the late nineteenth century.Originally, Estudio Lucas y Hernández-Gil found a house with a marked longitudinal character, fully compartmentalized and connected by a large corridor. The firm strategy consisted on the joint of the spaces giving absolute value to the lineal development of the facade with its nine balconies (something unusual in this type of house, that are usually deep and with a little bit facade). There was made a clear division between night spaces (3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms) and the day area, in which the living, the dinning room and the kitchen coexist in an only and continuous space. This is an open and bright space that is only divided by the fireplace that slightly differentiates the living room.The studio pretended a dialog with the original architecture through the material. The use…

Loreto Balbuena and Cristina Afán de Ribera are the decorators (and stylists) of this beautiful house. What does this almost story house tell us? Its structure and hidden potential convinced an Irishman who dreamed of a house in Marbella, but with the authentic Andalusian character of the south : a rustic wooden door, unique white beams, a soft range of gray and beige tones and a lot of plants framing the house. (Published with El Mueble).

Journey down the wide, winding streets North of Hill Drive to arrive at an impressive estate decorated by Vein Design. Enter through a custom front door designed to let slivers of light sneak in through capiz shells. Inside the ideal floorplan awaits with 9’ ceilings throughout and a living space flowing into the dining and kitchen through crafted archways, ending in a cozy den.  Multiple areas to dine offer options for everyone on busy mornings when laptops are scattered across countertops as the day is kicked off with a hot cup of joe. Enjoy precision in finishes since detailing and joinery impress the finest of eyes. The multi-dimensional outdoor oasis offers several places for lounging and dining al fresco amidst professionally designed landscaping.Have a look!!!!! See also :https://house-diaries.com/mediterranean-touches-in-a-california-home-with-a-guest-house/

Scandinavian interiors are beautiful in any color scheme, but dark tones create a special mood in classic Scadi homes. Moreover desirable turn-of-the-century details from 1907 can be found in this apartment such as in generous ceiling height, tiled stoves, pine tiles and niche window sections.  See also : https://house-diaries.com/a-turn-of-the-century-apartment-with-black-accents/

A Port Melbourne townhouse with city views was the new home of a young single male client. In Design International studio’s long-term brief was to convert this bachelor pad into a home more suitable for his ‘future wife & family”. Their short-term brief was to introduce a more contemporary ambience to reflect the owners’ personal style. They suggested a new front door and entry hall floor finishes, full gut and refurbishment of the kitchen and bathrooms including additional robe area to the master bedroom and reconfiguring the linen & broom closet as stage one.  The studio’s semi industrial style capitalises on current available trends in concrete looking surfaces, without the challenges of real concrete in a renovation situation. Selections of materials and finishes were all keenly channelled to reinvent the key areas of concern in this home. Almost monochromatic in their choices, a heavy use of greys, charcoals and blacks…

Casa H is a house on one floor, in the neighborhood of Las Letras, next to the Paseo del Prado in Madrid. The apartment is in a Gutierrez Soto building, from the 1950s, from the first examples of reinforced concrete structure in residential buildings. The building has a border position between the area of ​​the museums of the Paseo del Prado and the scale of old Madrid in the Barrio de las Letras. LUCAS Y HERNÁNDEZ – GIL Studio made a comprehensive reform, since the house was very compartmentalized in rooms. A large open space was needed to include the owners art collection. The concrete structure of the building, which was left in its original form, gave the architect the flexibility to develop the new proposal. The difficulty of project was to get a space halfway between the house and the gallery, without losing the scale and comfort of the…

The task of Sergey Makhno Architects was to create an interior design for a Swiss businessman who fell in love with Kyiv during business visits. The space would be a comfortable 5-star hotel and a cozy home at the same time — a place to feel comfortable both in the company of friends and alone. The main challenge was the complex redevelopment: it was necessary to unite three radius apartments into one coherent apartment that would not look like a crescent.So the interior was made in the style of Ukrainian Contemporary, which combines Ukrainian traditions and modern design. Photography : Andriy Avdeenko

It has four floors, nine rooms, dating from the Middle Ages and is next door to the castle. The home is located in the Old Town in Stockholm and it also has a wine cellar and a wine room in the basement. Enjoy the tour in this unique apartment!!!