Simone Geadah feels lucky to live in one of the 146 homes inside famous architect Moshe Safdie’s revolutionary modular home complex in Montreal, Habitat 67. Since its opening days throughout the 1967 International and Universal Exposition, the building has caught the eye of sailors, tourists and especially design professionals. “I trained in research, therefore for…
Edwin Pelser felt like he’d struck gold ten years back when he pulled tired, gray carpeting to show first herringbone parquet flooring in his Hague apartment. Up until that point, things like plastic window frames, “which I despise,” he says, made him doubt that the purchase entirely. “Though it was quite clean and comfy, there…
When someone works in a classic shop whose enthusiast following contains set artists such as Mad Men, you would expect the individual’s house to be some thing of a knockout. Self-professed thrift queen and societal media freelancer for Casa Victoria Nicole Paulus along with her boyfriend, Timothy Johnson, provide on that premise using a Los…
What do you get when design is literally married by fashion? Not surprisingly, a lot of fashionable style. That is what Lygia Navarro, a journalist, an interior designer and the owner of Lust Found Vintage, and her husband, Henry, an artist and a professor of fashion at Ryerson University, were planning with their Toronto rental…
Not all fireplaces are made equal. Oddly exhilarating, these revolutionary fireplaces serve as major interior layout statements and therefore are made to dazzle and impress both homeowners and professionals. Unexpected twists in materials and shapes turn the heat on traditional fireplace designs — take a peek and see whether any inspire a new fireplace into…
Set on the site of an old steel store, this contemporary home in Toronto, Ontario, is a sudden escape from the hustle and bustle of the city. Although the home is on a crowded semi-industrial stretch of road, its layout creates a buffer from the exterior sound. Honoring the steel store’s heritage, Valentina Nedelcu and…
Contemporary design has taken to the streets of Manhattan in the shape of tiny public lending libraries. Lodged between stately columns, on a public park bench, nestled in a schoolyard fence, in a street or in the end of a pier, 10 small-scale designer libraries currently reside in New York’s East Village and Lower East…
Intricate eye candies was big at the 2012 High Point Market in North Carolina this year, especially in the shape of mirrors. All these common household accessories weren’t seen in frames that are simple, but rather those with extravagant information and scintillating layouts, and such ornate pieces provide impressive visual interest along with function. If…
Interior designer Mauricio Nava claims that “2727 Kirby is among the hottest and most exclusive new buildings” in Houston, so he was eager to work on a job there. Even better, his customer, an entrepreneur at the coffee brewing and vending industry, gave Nava free range over the plan of the unit and a relatively…
I had a key New Year’s resolution this year. It had been to successfully finish a Do-It-Yourself project from begin to finish. I am only going to put this out there: I hate DIY jobs. I am lazy, I am very far from being a perfectionist (can you remember Phil Hartman as the Anal-Retentive Handyman?…