Located in the up-and-coming neighborhood of Bloomingdale, this townhouse has great bones and rich history. So a young couple looking for a home with soul buys this historic townhouse in DC that had recently been purchased by developers bent on modernizing the space. This couple came in at the eleventh hour before the demolition was complete and hired Zoe Feldman Design to bring back the character of this old home with modern touches, eclectic art and design, quirky touches, while focusing on the sustainability in line with their ideals. Zoë Feldman Design is a high-end interior design firm specializing in residential restorations and ground-up construction projects in Washington D.C.’s historic Georgetown neighborhood. . Zoë’s design aesthetic is a modernized classicism influenced by art, fashion, architecture, and, of course, each individual client. Drawing inspiration from the traditional style from her New York training and education, with her early exposure to modern art…

Working for the second time with clients who had recently made the jump from the East Coast to the West, Chango & Co served as their real estate adviser and helped them find the almost perfect home for their family of five. Once the purchase was finalized, serving as the project architect, construction manager, interior designer & art adviser, the studio quickly set to work updating and personalizing every inch of the home. The construction scope consisted of fusing the entire back of the first floor of the home into an expansive open plan living space by removing several structures between the kitchen and living room and adding a doorway from the informal dining area to the back yard. The designers designed and built extensive millwork throughout the home, including an additional matching kitchen island and additional kitchen cabinetry, built-ins in the living room, paneling in the master bedroom suite, a basement…

Tamsin Johnson is an interior designer whose work manifests a certain devil-may-care energy, all the while underpinned by a rigorous planning of proportion, form, colour and texture. This knack of appearing effortless brings the ultimate level of sophistication to her work as illustrated by her residential, commercial and hospitality projects. Hence the sense of play is evident in the contrasts of scale, the bold use of art and the sculptural nature of the furniture pieces she selects or commissions, which combine to genuinely surprise and delight. For this penthouse renovation in South Yarra the designer selected a mostly neutral and monochromatic palette, with added moments of surprise throughout. ‘I wanted the space to feel restrained, with moments of drama and abstract sculptural lines in the furniture silhouettes,’ Tamsin says. Enjoy this peaceful retreat then!!!!

Luckily for us every week there are new beautiful homes to look at because Swedish real estate agents style their homes to perfection. You are welcomed into a state-of-the-art apartment then, by entrancemakleri, of just 51 Sq m, with a studio feel, striking ceiling height and sober bright surface layers. Immediately you are greeted by the lovely light from three large window areas towards the quiet courtyard and below the stairs there is space for hanging jackets and shoes. A little further into the apartment is reached an inner hall with space for desk and dresser as well as additional storage in wardrobe and cleaning cupboards. Smart solutions and thoughtful material choices continue to characterize this apartment as well as the social openness and generous ceiling height up to the nock. Enjoy it!!!!

An introvert garden surrounds this extroverted building: the continuous window walls unify the interior with the exterior, in a way that the garden intrudes into the living space. The swimming pool expands until the edge of the window walls. From the exterior, the apartment looks like floating on the water. The open plot ground floor is paved with wood. The custom made pendulous iron fire place, designed by the architect, permits see-through views from the living-room towards the swimming pool. The award-winner practice Mastrominas Architecture, provides hospitality and residential design. The studio’s principles are fine modern design, optimum functional arrangement of spaces, adaptation to the local spatial and cultural characteristics, different approach-concept for every project, landscape adjustment and embed into the fundamentals of traditional Greek architecture, aiming to create cosy and relaxing spaces with outstanding ambience. PHOTOGRAPHY: George Papapostolou

Founded in 2012, SDH Studio is an award-winning architecture and interior design practice led by Stephanie Halfen. Their main focus is the design of luxury custom homes for owners and developers in Miami and the Caribean. In recent years, their practice has expanded to include the design of commercial projects such as office buildings, restaurants, retail, and office spaces. Set on a narrow radial lot in Golden Beach, the architectural intent of this home was to maximize outdoor living areas while respecting a detailed program for the interior of the home. Overlapping volumes cantilever over the landscape to create opportunities for outdoor entertaining. The project was in collaboration with Oona Architecture. Argentina.

Here is another project by Ekaterina Fedorova but this time of a contemporary style. The apartment (90 Sq m) is located in the old center of Moscow in the area of Patriarch’s Ponds. The house itself was built in 1911. The only original element preserved by the designer from those times was brickwork and that was painted white and harmoniously blended into the updated interiors.  The apartment consists of a common living room, dining room and kitchen and two bedrooms: master bedroom and guest bedroom. From the master bedroom you can get into the master bathroom. The guest bathroom is located immediately at the entrance to the apartment. The apartment was made for a couple and the main concept is a light, minimalist interior with bright inclusions of furniture in a palette of red and blue shades with black lights adding graphics to the space. Vintage pieces of furniture such…

With a high position towards the street, you will find this extraordinary turn of the century apartment by Wrede. Here, a number of beautiful original details harmonize with modern elements and as the crown of the work, in addition to two balconies, boasts a fantastic completely private terrace of about 11 sqm in the southwest with sun from morning to evening. The natural living room in the middle of the floor has lovely volume, nice light, consistently beautiful turn-of-the-century details and a fantastic working stove as a centerpiece. A sought-after and extremely unusual combination. Welcome to an extremely tasteful home of 185 sqm in well maintained property in 1907 with absolute proximity to everything one could wish for in the form of shops, restaurants, communications and lovely surroundings.

Unique architect-built house, presented by Fantastic Frank, with exclusive choice of materials and the latest technology in sound and light make this villa completely unique in its kind. The house is built with inspiration from the beautiful materials and color palette of the Nordic countries. Large terrace of 70 sqm completely unobstructed against green meadows and common. The house is characterized by a modern Scandinavian design and well thought-out technology. All material is of the highest quality and the very latest technology in light and sound is in place.

Architects Marina Biryukova and Elizaveta Golubtsova from the BIGO bureau built a Scandinavian-style holiday home and added purple, which the customer loves. In this house, two walls are completely made of glass, in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright, while it is located so that none of the neighbors can see what is happening inside, and the owners can see only hills, forest, sky. Architects are sure that in low-rise buildings it is especially important to carefully consider the concept, layout and facade, then the interior will literally add up by itself. Elizabeth says: “We came up with a house almost entirely of glass. Its roof goes into the back wall, which we decided to emphasize with the interior decoration, placing the lining horizontally and not vertically, like on everyone else. ” Architects have proven that even a budget project can be fashionable if the author has a fantasy and a sense…

Set among mature redwoods, this classic timber modified A-frame was built in 1974 and renovated by Studio PLOW to bring it into the contemporary era.The gut renovation left the shell mostly intact, but opened the rear of the cabin to the light with asymmetric glazing. Extraneous interior walls and finishes were demolished and stripped out, to leave a bright white space with light oak flooring that maximizes the forest’s limited direct sunlight. Inside this, a dramatic floor-to-ceiling, black, stone-tiled hearth and new kitchen with blackened steel work surfaces now define warm gathering places within the plan. Instead of the typical rustic interiors that we can usually see in such homes, the designers chose a rather stylish minimalistic design in black and white with a chic stone table, modern fireplace and glass walls. Dream escape! Photography : Suzanna Scott