Home Design Garden by Tham & Architects Videgård

This park is home design. Tham and Videgard, Swedish Architecture Firm has successfully completed a project called House Garden. This house was built on an area 180 meters square in Viksberg, Sweden.

The owner wants a beautiful garden as part of their home, and the reason why they decided to move from their duplex apartment in central Stockholm to the rural location in the lake Mälaren. To meet customer needs, we propose a house conceived as an integrated vertical additions to the garden, where indoor and outdoor space gradually mingle and interact.
Triangular foot print is the result of a steep slope diagonally across the site. With one of the long facade facing south, we also managed to eliminate the pure north façade. This further helps the idea of climbing plants on trellises oversized high that covered most of the windows so that by the time they will be hidden in the greenery.
A double height winter garden also serves as a natural pre-heating fresh air. Roof terrace offers views of a very long above the nearby hills over the lake Mälaren. Construction is all wood, both structure and finish.
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B&W Kitchen Floors

A few years ago we lived in a townhouse with really unfortunate kitchen floors. One day I reached my limit and couldn't take the ugly floors any more. Even though it was a rental I bought two boxes each of black and white peel and stick laminate tiles, and put down a classic checkerboard pattern. Instant (and very inexpensive) fix!

(not my kitchen, sadly I can't find any photos) image via D*S

While I love a good checkerboard, there are some really ideas out there for twists on the classic black and white kitchen or bath floors.

Kelley Proxmire


Domino

Peel and stick tiles are pretty easy to cut and I think it would be cool to try an intricate pattern some time.

via At Home in Arkansas




Peak of Chic

In unrelated news, Happy Halloween! It's taken all of my willpower to prevent my kids from wearing their costumes early! Have a wonderful and safe weekend. xx

Gallery Walls: Another Method

So, you want to hang a gallery wall, you say? But you don't want to put a million holes in your wall through trial and error. And you don't have eight years to cut out kraft paper templates, ala Martha. Maybe you want something a little more... technical than my approach?

You're in luck! The adorable Marissa from Roost Home figured out a quick, easy and exact method for hanging a gallery wall. Go here for in-depth instructions, but the gist is...

1. Trace your arrangement on wax paper, making sure to mark the hanging mechanism.

2. Tape the wax paper template on the wall and tap in your nails.

3. Hang up your art and tear down your wax paper (which ever you feel comfortable doing first)

Voila! Easy and exact! Thanks, Marissa!

I want to be friends with Kate Schintzius

Please tell me you guys enjoyed this Sneak Peek as much as I did. This woman is the absolute QUEEN of color and pattern! I love it all.

PS Did you enter this week's Give Away for $100 of L&S fabrics? cause you totally should.

Reader DIY: Another HappyTape Entry

Do you remember this post, were I used colorful masking tape to make a pattern on the walls of my rental's entry?

Eileen tried this too, but with the peacock blue color. I love the results!

Do you have a project you want to share on LGN? Email me!

Give Away: L&S Fabrics

Happy Monday! How about a give away to kick off the work week? Up for grabs is a $100 gift certificate to my favorite fabric resource, L&S.

Here are some of my picks:

Spotswood is my latest obsession! Love this print.

Bengal! Tiger is welcome in any of my rooms.

Namaste - I really love this ikat.

Plaid and check patterns are hot right now, but really, it's hard to get more classic than check. I love it when trends are timeless!

Wouldn't this colorful polkadot be so cute for a window shade in a nursery!

This would be cute for drapes in the same nursery. I like mixing patterns.

Considering this subtle linen stripe for an upholstery project

I've never seen this pattern before, but I'm loving the colors! I think I'll order a sample.

Same here

(by the way, I've ordered lots of swatches from L&S before and then always mail them out super quickly!)

Cornwall is so fun for pillows

And this print is new to me too!

This fretwork print might make it's way into my girls room...

And this might be my new inspiration for Evie's room (well, I already had a purple fabric, and this one might be a good addition)

And this absolutely lovely marilgold oversized paisley is making it's way on to a client's living room drapes.

Aren't you dying to get your hands on these fabrics! If you'd like $100 to spend at L&S, please leave a comment on this post before Friday, October 29 at midnight, and include your favorite fabric on the L&S site. If you'd like your name to be counted twice, simply add L&S as a Facebook friend, here, and leave another comment about it.

Good luck!!

(psst...here are my picks from the last L&S give away)

HURRY!! The Commission Project

Jordan's amazingly talented husband, artist Paul Ferney, is accepting a limited number of commissions at about half price. And they come with a frame! The first 100 spots sold out in a matter of hours, but Jordan just announced they will be accepting a few more commissions.

Want to see what I'm getting? It's Red Mountain in Arizona, near where where Michael and I both grew up. I can't wait to see the painting in person some time next week! And I'm even more excited to hang it on our wall. It will be a nice reminder of home...

Elysium 154 House Design is Minimalist by BVN Architecture

This is the Elysium 154 House project undertaken by BVN architecture in 2009. It is located in Noosa, Queensland, Australia. A minimalist design was chosen for this project, but even in a minimalist design, this house still looks luxurious and glamorous. See details of this house 154 Elysium of the photos below:

Minimalist Home Designs
Elysium exterior 154 Minimalist House Design is by BVN Architecture


Home Interior Design
Staircase design
Kitchen design

Project Description:
The Elysium 154, Noosa project is the development of housing for the last sub-division in a very desirable zip code Noosa Heads. Large sites consisting of 189 home rations, public facilities (tennis courts, health spa, water facilities), parks and nature reserves are located inland from the coastline adjacent to Lake Weyba Noosa. wavy, beautiful views of the site maintains extensive pockets of existing vegetation and given a distant view to the Sunshine Coast hinterland beyond.

This home site enjoys a truly beautiful, which slopes gently from the road south toward a small park and open space to the north. A gentle, sweeping, curved walls and forms that identify this house is produced by an intuitive response to reach both the north-east aspect and views over the park area north. Finished textured external wall folding back into the residential interior along the walls and ceilings where the edge of carefully detailed and smooth transition with the internal wall allows the threshold between inside and out had been distorted. Drawing an external garden and pool room into a luxury building has reinforced a sense of subtropics. [Via]

Good Design, Kids in Mind

I'd be a wealthy lady if I had a dime for all the times, when I was pregnant with my first, other moms told me to "Have fun now because your life will never be the same!"

Our three girls are the spice in life for me and Michael. They are adorable, sweet and endlessly witty. Some days I want a dozen more! (some days I want to hide in the closet) But it's naive to think life isn't different, for good or for bad, with our children in the mix.

Having kids often changes the way we think about our careers, how we spend our money, how and where we travel, how much we sleep, what we eat, what we wear, and (ahem) how our bodies look. It's an all-encompassing life change. And a part of adjusting our lives for children includes consideration when decorating our homes. We talked a little about that here.

This week, Kirsten from 6th Street Design School interviewed a few mommy bloggers in a series call Good Design, Kids in Mind. You should go check it out and see what we all have to say about being design-minded moms. Find out what I was like in junior high (poor Mom!) and how I keep this almost-walking 10 month-old from destroying every lamp, jar, vase, bowl, and accessory in our apartment.

A New Kind of Family Photo

I've heard more than one decorator say you should never display photos of yourself or your family in your own home. I say do what you want to do. I think it's so cool to blow up a fun family photo to hang as art. Bonus points for using shots that are a little off - or at least not posed.

Cottage Living


Lulu DK for Lonny





Desire to Inspire


Palmer Weiss for Lonny