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Eight homes with practical and well-designed corner windows

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Full-height windows, curved glazing and windows that continuously wrap the facades of an extension feature in this lookbook of homes with expansive corner windows. As the centrepiece of the timber-framed extension, the sweeping window curves around a 90-degree angle to create a tranquil corner overlooking the garden.

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Quentin Desfarges punctuates Norwegian woodland cabin with large circular windows

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Porthole-style windows puncture the gable ends of this timber mountain cabin in Norway , which has been designed by local architect Quentin Desfarges. Called Timber Nest, the home is located near the southern town of Rdberg, where it occupies a sloping, forested site overlooking the mountains of the Hardangervidda National Park.

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Brutalist hilltop home evokes an "ancient ruin"

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Local practice Pedro Domingos Arquitectos used exposed, board-marked concrete to create this brutalist home in Portugal , which features large openings that frame the surrounding landscape. Named Frame House, the four-bedroom home was built on the top of a hill near the village of Santa Brbara de Next.

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Eight light-filled cottage interiors defined by generous windows

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From a 15th-century thatched house in England to a ski cabin in Canada, our latest lookbook collects eight cottages with panoramic windows that offer views of their dramatic surroundings. Polished concrete flooring runs throughout the home, accented by pops of colour and texture.

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

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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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Ryan Leidner Architecture creates home and studio in High Desert

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San Francisco studio Ryan Leidner Architecture has based the design of a wood-and-stucco desert house and art studio in southern California on mid-century Eichler homes and southwestern art. On one end, the home drops into a studio space The short ends feature clerestory windows underscored by thin vertical wooden bands.

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Jason Good Architecture tops London home with patinated copper "top hat"

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The L-shaped ground floor of the home is divided by a central entrance hall illuminated by two large, circular skylights, one of which extends upwards within a cylindrical form to give the building its distinctive "top hat". At the back of the home, the openings are minimised to prevent overlooking.

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