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A restrained color palette—ebony floors, white walls, and textiles and tiles in various shades of green—creates a sense of repose.

This vacation residence located in a beautiful ocean community on the New England coast features high performance and creative use of space in a small package. ZED designed the simple, gable-roofed structure and proposed the Passive House standard. The resulting home consumes only one-tenth of the energy for heating compared to a similar new home built only to code requirements. Architecture | ZeroEnergy Design Construction | Aedi Construction Photos | Greg Premru Photography

Photo by Andrew Hyslop

Flea Market Chic by Liz Bauwens and Alexandra Campbell. CICO Books, $29.95. www.cicobooks.com Photo Credit: CICO Books

Mediterranean Modern

Exterior - photos by Andrew Waits Interior - photos by Roger Turk - Northlight Photography

Photography-Hedrich Blessing Glass House: The design objective was to build a house for my wife and three kids, looking forward in terms of how people live today. To experiment with transparency and reflectivity, removing borders and edges from outside to inside the house, and to really depict “flowing and endless space”. To construct a house that is smart and efficient in terms of construction and energy, both in terms of the building and the user. To tell a story of how the house is built in terms of the constructability, structure and enclosure, with the nod to Japanese wood construction in the method in which the concrete beams support the steel beams; and in terms of how the entire house is enveloped in glass as if it was poured over the bones to make it skin tight. To engineer the house to be a smart house that not only looks modern, but acts modern; every aspect of user control is simplified to a digital touch button, whether lights, shades/blinds, HVAC, communication/audio/video, or security. To develop a planning module based on a 16 foot square room size and a 8 foot wide connector called an interstitial space for hallways, bathrooms, stairs and mechanical, which keeps the rooms pure and uncluttered. The base of the interstitial spaces also become skylights for the basement gallery. This house is all about flexibility; the family room, was a nursery when the kids were infants, is a craft and media room now, and will be a family room when the time is right. Our rooms are all based on a 16’x16’ (4.8mx4.8m) module, so a bedroom, a kitchen, and a dining room are the same size and functions can easily change; only the furniture and the attitude needs to change. The house is 5,500 SF (550 SM)of livable space, plus garage and basement gallery for a total of 8200 SF (820 SM). The mathematical grid of the house in the x, y and z axis also extends into the layout of the trees and hardscapes, all centered on a suburban one-acre lot.

Photo Credit: Gaile Guevara http://photography.gaileguevara.com/ PUBLISHED: 2012.06 - Gray Magazine Issue no.4 Renovation Flooring | Black walnut laminate available through Torleys Paint all trim, walls, baseboards, ceiling - BM #CC-20 Decorator's white Paint | Media Wall Feature wall & Dropped Ceiling - Benjamin Moore BM# 2119-30 Baby Seal Black Furniture & Styling Modular Sectional Sofa | available through Bravura Area Rug | available through EQ3 Base Cabinets | BESTÅ - black brown series available through IKEA Custom Framing | available through Artworks 2011 © GAILE GUEVARA | INTERIOR DESIGN & CREATIVE™ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Bright bedroom centred by patterned wallpaper and champagne accent pillows.

Living Room Photography: Landmark Photography

design by Pulp Design Studios | http://pulpdesignstudios.com/ photo by Kevin Dotolo | http://kevindotolo.com/

Textile shooting for shanel mor

Interior Design by id 810 design group www.id810designgroup.com

New construction over existing foundation

Originally a fireplace, we remodeled the kitchen to include an inset bar in rich macassar ebony and lined Flavor Paper’s Monaco gold foil wallpaper. The bar includes a mini fridge and wine refrigerator for easy access to beverages.