Posted by rafirafi.com on April 6, 2010
The home is located in the Spanish mountains close to the Valdelinares ski resort and made of 165mm laminated wood beams using wood from Finland designed by Nordicasa Design & Construction. Nordicasa Design & Construction is a creators of this luxury log cabin home the design made in traditional for the company fashionable scandinavian style with a touch of minimalist design. Designed has an unique modern exterior and interior to all wooden details and furniture inside and outside the building. Wooden details and modern furniture and objects make great impression when they are combined together like in this house. read more… »
Posted by rafirafi.com on March 15, 2010
Khayangan Estate is luxury villa at Bali. The owner also designer had a vision for the type of property she wanted to create even before she found the land. Construction and interior design in colonial-style furniture made from re-claimed timbers. Owner of this villa has determined that her home in Bali would not contribute to the further depletion of Indonesia’s dwindling rain forests.
A Joglo is an old Javanese structure with a very high roof in the centre, built around a square wooden frame, often beautifully carved and decorated. You can see them all over Java, and many people have bought, moved them to Bali and restored them, using them as an eco-friendly and beautiful alternative to the soul-less concrete rabbit warrens that have destroyed most of our island already.
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Posted by rafirafi.com on February 11, 2010
This Townhouses project with wooden interior for, wall, ceiling, floor panels and furniture by Johnston Architects PLLC. The design consists of two townhouses located a half block from the beach. They are locate in the Alki neighborhood in Seattle. Both houses have three bedroom with two master suites and equipped by a two-car garage. Glass facade and the rooftop desks capture views of the neighborhood, Seattle’s cityscape and the beach. Master bedrooms has an access to these terraces and large glass walls so they also capture some of these views. With spacious living spaces and quality finishes such as glulam beam framing, bamboo floor, marble countertops and fir cabinetry, the Alki Townhouses are both beautiful and practical.
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Posted by rafirafi.com on December 19, 2009
This unique hillside house design is clad in natural-finish wood – a perfect complement to its natural surroundings, with expansive windows to brighten interiors and large windows in every room give this natural house design lush, green views. The modern Hillside house designed by Architect Craig Steely, located in Berkeley California sits on a steep slope in the hills. Gypsy House built using natural elements its clad in natural finish wood looking so cool and contemporary. Divided into two zones – one part of the home buried into the hillside, and the other a glass-enclosed zone cantilevered toward the valley. The kitchen was made using warm wood with lots of windows combination allows of natural light on every surface. A wood and glass staircase seems to float up to the second storey, where a ceiling of skylights creates the effect of an endless sky above.
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Posted by rafirafi.com on December 18, 2009
Schell Wheeler house owned by mountain guide Scott Schell and Margaret Wheeler, the house was designed by Johnston Architects PLLC and for the construction handled by by Tall Tree Construction.
Their site in the foothills above Snoqualmie is not far from work. The Schell Wheeler house will soon receive a LEED Silver certification. Blow-down trees from storms provided the logs that were milled into siding, fascias and trim. A ground source heat pump, supplemented by solar water preheating supplies energy to the house. Other strategies are implemented throughout the house, but the overall character of the two buildings completes the goal of sustainability: the complex is extremely livable within its environment. Even on a grey and rainy day this forest retreat is filled with light. Visit Johnston Architects PLLC for more information.
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