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How to Improve Natural Light and Ventilation in the Bathroom With a Shower Window

ArchDaily

Image © Tom Ferguson As one of the smallest spaces in the home , shower rooms often find it difficult to get enough light. Due to issues with privacy and water damage, meanwhile, when a shower room does have the opportunity to add a window, it’s rarely positioned in the shower itself.

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Designing a Nature-Embracing Modern Home in Palo Alto, USA

ArchDaily

Courtesy of Feldman Architecture and Western Window Systems When it came to designing a nature-embracing modern home in Palo Alto, California, USA, architect Tai Ikegami took his responsibility to protect and venerate the magnificent trees on the lot seriously.

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Eight home interiors brightened by clerestory windows

Deezen

A collection of distinctive new builds and carefully crafted residential extensions have been rounded up for our latest lookbook , which gathers home interiors enhanced and brightened by clerestory openings. The new extension is topped with a mono-pitched roof and lined with large, translucent clerestory glazing to draw light into the home.

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This Hungarian mass timber house blends seamlessly into its natural environment

Archinect

Hungarian design-build studio Hello Wood has shared its latest home with us, seamlessly blending into its rural surroundings and bridging the gap between the natural environment and engineered objects. The living space connects with built-in glass doors and windows to a terrace that extends over the adjacent fishpond.

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Nine home interiors brightened with colourful window frames

Deezen

Shades of green, red and yellow run throughout this lookbook , which collects nine home interiors enlivened by colourful window frames. Whether painted wood, plastic or metal, opting for colourful window frames is an easy way to brighten a residential interior. Turquoise accents feature throughout this family home by Fahr 021.3

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A Singapore Home Forgoes Air Conditioning (and Windows) to Take Living With Nature to an Extreme

Dwell

To reach the entry of Minh Le Tien and Emylia Safian’s Singapore home, you must wend your way through their front garden. One day, the air-conditioning system broke down, so we started opening windows and using a standing fan." The nights were bearable, but stifling days revealed the home’s lack of air circulation.

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Types of Residential Windows

Aric Gitomer Architect

Windows are the openings to the outer world. Encompassed within your home is the niche of comfort, warmth, and safety that get their aesthetic touch through windows. Windows act as catalysts of a functional yet visual completion of a home. Along with distributing load, windows promote natural ventilation and light.

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