Deezen

JUNE 23, 2024

The co-founder of California studio Electric Bowery has renovated a redwood-clad house in Big Sur for her family, preserving its iconic features and adding custom furniture. The house benefits from large windows and expanses of glazing that capitalise on the views across the landscape to the ocean.

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Deezen

JULY 13, 2024

Clerestory windows typically refer to a strip of glazing situated at the very top of a wall, or above eye-level, positioned just beneath the roof to draw in daylight. While traditionally coined in reference to the highest storey of clear glazing in a church or cathedral, clerestory windows are increasingly used in residential projects.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Local architecture studio Goiva has renovated a white brick house and added a pub -like social space to its basement in São Paulo , Brazil. Goiva renovated the white brick Casa Yuji Architects Karen Evangelisti and Marcos Mendes from Goiva completed the renovation of the 40-year-old house in 2023.

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Aric Gitomer Architect

MAY 24, 2022

Residential architects love renovations. Most of them suggest that the best home renovations are those that respect the original structure and enlighten it from a modern and contemporary perspective. Old houses offer the inhabitants glimpses into the past, stability, and character. Are you going for a partial or full renovation?

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

Belgian studio Ae-Architecten has used glazed yellow bricks and concrete-lined living spaces to renovate SL House, a detached home in Ghent, Belgium. Instead of a complete overhaul, the studio viewed the renovation as a new "layer" to the home, retaining existing elements and complementing them with contemporary additions.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Its existing structure had suffered severe damage and despite not being heritage protected VATRAA approached its renovation as though it were, revealing and repairing its original elements and complementing them with modern additions. The post VATRAA celebrates "as found" details in London home renovation appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

MAY 28, 2024

Charred wood was used to clad the exterior of Dzen House Shovk lead architect and partner Anton Verhun oversaw the design, which was informed by the owner's travels to Japan and his respect for the aesthetic simplicity and practicality of traditional Japanese interiors.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This week's lookbook explores eight peaceful residential interiors that feature expansive glazing and floor-to-ceiling windows framing verdant views. These eight projects all use oversized or unusually shaped windows in clever ways, creating interiors that embrace nature and forge welcome connections to the outdoors.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Architects Sarah Wigglesworth 's and Piers Taylor 's self-designed renovations feature in this roundup of British houses that have recently been retrofitted and insulated to improve their energy efficiency. The UK's housing is among the oldest and most poorly insulated in Europe, with the majority also depending on gas for heating.

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Deezen

AUGUST 22, 2024

British engineer Tom Greenhill has proposed a low-cost, low-energy solution for keeping UK homes cool in a heatwave: painting the outside of windows with yoghurt. Greenhill admits that this may seem like a "totally eccentric idea". Greenhill admits that this may seem like a "totally eccentric idea".

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2024

While the primary use of windows is for daylight access and ventilation, they can also play a key role in visually connecting spaces within the home. Adding internal windows enables more interaction between adjacent rooms, while allowing light to penetrate further into the home – creating bright and spacious interiors.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Frame House transforms the existing barn house typology into a contemporary dwelling, redefined by strategic compositions of window frames on each new elevation and new structure extending from the existing gambrel roof construction.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Geometric shapes, fossilised stone and English cherry wood characterise this house in Wimbledon, London , overhauled by local architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. Named Wimbledon Villa, the studio renovated and extended the detached early 2000s property with the aim of making it feel like "a country house in miniature".

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

Architecture studio Ballman Khapalova has renovated a 1980s ranch house in Saugerties, New York , to make it a contemporary home with maximised views of the surrounding landscape. Ballman Khapalova extended Pine Lane House by 300 square feet and added a steel standing seam roof, external wood cladding and an outdoor deck.

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Deezen

JUNE 18, 2022

The founders of Brooklyn studio Stewart-Schafer have renovated a modernist home in Connecticut for themselves, using a natural colour palette to complement the surrounding woodland. Stewart-Schafer principals James Veal and Christine Stucker added a personal touch to a house in Easton.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Positive Energy House is inspired by nature's resilience and rejuvenation. Renovating existing properties aligns with environmental sustainability principles, contrasting with the resource-intensive process of demolition and reconstruction. Our renovation strategy involved adding two additional layers to the existing structure.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Irish studio Scullion Architects took visual cues from long galleries in country homes in its design of Rathdown, a window-lined extension to a house in Terenure, Dublin. Scullion Architects has extended a 1930s house in Dublin "The existing house was lacking any social heart," studio director Declan Scullion told Dezeen.

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The Spaces

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This Surrey property has been nicknamed the Elephant House thanks to its U-shaped window and trunk-like tower. Architect Lawrence Abbott designed the brutalist semi as part of the award-winning, 32-home Apex Development in the 1960s when the government pushed for affordable housing in the commuter town.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2024

US studio Michael Hennessey Architecture has revitalised an ageing suburban house near San Francisco , adding black cladding and bright finishes to form a family home that bridges the past, present and future. The aim was to create a dwelling that supported the family's current needs while being mindful of what might be needed in the future.

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Deezen

JULY 27, 2022

Located in the north of Amsterdam, the house was originally built for a middle-class family in the 1800s. Home Dijkhuis is a renovated dyke house in Amsterdam. A spacious kitchen, dining area and garden are set a level down at the back of the house, while four bedrooms occupy the first floor under the gabled roof.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A private mezcal bar forms the heart of this house that Amsterdam interior architecture firm Barde vanVoltt has overhauled in Mexico City 's La Condesa neighbourhood. Even though the house was falling apart, we felt its soul was fully alive." and extended them to the back of the house.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When you’re two architects, house hunting, at least in the case of Sandy Wolf and Daniel Ash, takes an even trickier tack. "We We’re both picky, so with every house we looked at, there would be something that one of us liked, then something that the other one didn’t." The windows in particular caught the architects’ eye.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

US studio Fuse Architects added cedar cladding, expanded the windows and brightened the interiors of the Plover House on the coast of California. The three-bedroom house was designed for a Silicon Valley couple and their three children. Fuse Architects retained the house's original footprint. The team raised the roofline.

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Aric Gitomer Architect

JUNE 10, 2022

Purchasing or renting a house is probably one of the most significant economic investments in people’s lives. This is real life, and you are not living in one of the television episodes of Selling Sunset where everyone can afford glamorous houses worth millions of dollars. The process of selling and buying a house is not simple.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

At least once a week, I look at one particular wall in my living room and wonder why the person who built this place didn’t put a window there. So I decided to investigate the reality of adding a window and whether there are better options for more light than having somebody cut a big hole in the side of your house.

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2023

Industrial-looking living spaces with Crittal-style windows and doors are the focus of this lookbook , which includes an apartment in Israel and a rural Chinese house. Crittal-style windows and doors are characterised by their gridded metal frames, traditionally made of steel with a bold black finish.

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e-architect

JUNE 26, 2023

All mechanical systems were also upgraded, and new windows were added and aligned with existing windows to maximize all possible openings, while keeping costs low. The addition to the main floor aligns the entry with the center of the house, while moving the interior social space closer to the existing trees to the west.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Wood dominates the kitchen of this Los Angeles home, which was designed with earthy interiors In the hacienda-style dwelling, the designer's aim was to bring the outdoors in through the use of earth-toned surfaces and decor, and light from large windows. The photography is by Sam Frost.

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Deezen

JANUARY 4, 2023

Studio Schicketanz has completed a renovation of the former seaside home of modernist architect Henry Hill. Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California , the cedar house was originally constructed in 1961 and expanded in 1969 and again in 1971, with unusually shaped rooms, rounded seating spaces and colourful glass accents.

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Deezen

JULY 3, 2022

From circular openings in an Indonesian dwelling to the lofty skylights of an English barn-style house, our latest lookbook features 10 residential interiors with striking windows. Architects and designers often use unusual windows in their projects to create visual interest within both residential and commercial interiors.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

When homeowners Carly Zuba and Andrew Rima moved with their two young sons from the city to the quaint town, they initially focused on finding an existing home they could renovate for their next chapter. We also learned that we wanted more control over the look of the exterior of the home."

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The home faces the busy Atlantic Avenue thoroughfare that runs through the Brooklyn Heights neighbourhood and enjoys tall ceilings and large windows at either end. The post Bureau Tempo applies subtle tones and textures to renovated Brooklyn loft appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Alex Lesage.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Santa Barbara's AB Design Studio was tasked with remodelling and enlarging a 1954 house that was in disrepair, including a subpar foundation made of stone rubble. House of Honey , a studio in the LA area, served as the interior designer. AB Design Studio renovated a 1950s home in California. It includes a new swimming pool.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Belgian studio Studio Okami Architecten has completed Patio House, a home in East Flanders wrapped in brick walls punctuated with a cross-shaped pattern. Studio Okami Architecten arranged the house over a single-storey plan, adding internal plant-filled patios that bring in light and ventilation and give the project its name.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2024

A spiralling staircase and concrete flooring characterise this renovation of a dilapidated row house in Mortsel, Belgium , designed by local studio Memo Architectuur. Meanwhile, an additional living space is provided at the front of the home. The photography is by Evenbeeld.

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The Architecture Designs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Some renovations can greatly increase a home’s value, making it more attractive to buyers in the real estate market. By picking the best renovations, people can make their homes better and also get more money back when it’s time to sell. This is pretty much the case of house renovation in Concord , CA.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2023

Brazilian architect Denis Joelsons has completed a renovation of a series of brick structures called Sítio Rio Acima near São Paulo , including a primary home with a vaulted ceiling and arched clerestory window. The renovation was completed by architect Denis Joelsons In 2022, Denis Joelsons stitched the 34,425-square metre (8.5-acre)

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