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Perched at 10,600 feet in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, this home is a quietly powerful study in restraint, trust, and dialogue with the landscape. Designed by Gabriel Yuri of New Operations Workshop as an addition to his parents' retreat, the project balances a charred Shou Sugi Ban exterior with a luminous, oak-lined interior. Rooted in Japanese and Scandinavian traditions yet unmistakably American, the house preserves the original structure while reframing it around light, views, and family life.

Decluttering your kitchen is about more than just creating open space and shiny appearances. How organized your home is, especially somewhere as lived in and utilized as your kitchen, is proven to foster mental clarity and reduce stress responses like anxiety. But to cut back on kitchen clutter, you don't have to do a full purge of the space. Instead, you can organize your kitchen easily by getting rid of items you don't need or use regularly.

If you like the industrial look, you may be considering concrete flooring. It's not a practical choice for most renovations because it is very heavy,

When it's 365 days until next Christmas and you're pondering all the work you've put into getting your home holiday ready-from Christmas lights gracing the front of the house to the Christmas tree bedecked with ornaments to your greenery, garlands, wreaths, and holiday knickknacks placed in all their old spots-the thought of finding to right time to break out the storage boxes can be a little daunting (and hardly in the spirit of the hap-happiest time of the year).

Nova Despensa was a project conceived over two years together with customers.

When you're looking to economize on space in your at-home office, selecting a functional and stylish desk is a must. However, when it comes to finding the best desk for your small space, what parameters should you be keeping in mind? While design and features are always important, it's the dimensions (particularly the depth) that you should be focusing on most.

When it comes to installing wall-mounted boilers, much of the focus is often placed on the appliance itself: its efficiency, output and energy rating. However, one equally critical component is frequently overlooked: the fixings used to secure the boiler safely to the wall. Choosing the correct fixings is vital for safety, compliance and long-term performance, whether the installation is in a domestic or light commercial setting.

Pre Game is an immersive concept store, restaurant, and bar in Heart of Bangalore, envisioned as a sculpted, maze-inspired interior that transforms a structurally challenging shell into a continuous, cavern-like spatial narrative. Drawing from Egyptian cave formations, subterranean passages, and ancient excavation logics, the project reinterprets primordial spatiality through contemporary material innovation and an experiential architectural language. The experience unfolds through the concept store, which acts as the first threshold of the "cave."

As something everyone has a bottle of in their pantry, vinegar is a classic household cleaner. But while it can be great for glass or cast iron, it's best avoided when cleaning wood products, especially those that have been finished. That's because vinegar is an acidic liquid, and a strong one at that. While a mixture of vinegar and water is great at cutting through grease, the acid can also wear away at surfaces it's used on repeatedly.

This year, I found myself on the phone with my sister, going through our Christmas to-do lists. As she spoke, I mentally ticked off everything we still had to organize: gifts, events, food, end-of-year school commitments, work deadlines, and the general chaos that seems to arrive every December, whether we're ready or not. I wondered if it was all worth it, especially as we all had to deal with our own mental loads at home:

Barn conversions can be magical places to live, with beautiful old timbers, soaring spaces, and the sense of history that you just don't get with a new self build. But they're also notorious for being expensive, complicated, and full of nasty surprises that even seasoned developers underestimate. If you're considering taking on a barn, it's worth knowing the warning signs that might mean the project simply isn't viable.

There's a reason why the phrase " landlord special" tends to conjure up a specific image of a rental apartment. The floors are often gray, the walls are usually off-white, and there's unfortunately a " boob light " or two overhead. Oh, and if the place happens to come with window treatments, then they're likely disappointing - quite unlike the plans you have to make this place feel like a home.

Separating laundry takes extra time, but it's essential for preventing color transfer and fabric damage. "You don't want your whites turning dingy gray over time, or suddenly have a lot of pink laundry after adding a red item to the wrong load," Gagliardi says. She also notes that bleach-safe whites (like cotton or polyester) should be washed separately from white items containing spandex, which can't be bleached. Sort laundry into these categories:

"This house needed a heartbeat, a pulse, a jolt to bring it to life," says AD100 designer Frances Merrill of Reath Design, describing her resuscitation of a gloriously situated but otherwise undistinguished Aspen mountain retreat from the 1990s. "This wasn't a house that had a lot of history to go back to, so there were questions. How much Alpine do you bring in? How do you conjure a sense of place that feels right for Aspen-and for this family-without resorting to clichés?"

The main concept of this project is "Continuity," which is formed from the external body and continues to the interior. The nature of this project is not formed just from the extension of a unique form but from the multiplication of a basic element in architecture, which is the "wall." These thick and pure walls are made from the vertical arrangement of Basalt stone ingots that form the project from the entrance to the roof garden and Project skyline,

Del Rio Bani + 15 More SpecsLess Specs Del Rio Bani Text description provided by the architects. We find ourselves in the heartland, in a location surrounded by forest, fields and vineyards in the Penedes region. A small town that, in recent times, has been given new life and seen its population swell thanks to the alternative educational projects of its schools.

That fog of aerosolized cooking vapor drifts upwards, carried by hot air, landing on cabinet surfaces, where it slowly dehydrates into a thin, tacky skin of concentrated fat. Then, over time, as the flotsam of dust bunnies inevitably float through the room, happily colonizing the sticky layer, it builds up, fortifying and refusing to budge with just a reasonable swipe of a sponge.

"Every home should have soul, and there is no more effective way to give your home a heartbeat than sourcing vintage," proclaims Alec Broughton, an antique decor expert and founder of Aulde, a Colorado-based design house that restores vintage furniture. As it turns out, home decorators are all-in on adding that pulse. According to the firm Market US, the global market for secondhand furniture is expected to double over the next decade, from $40.2 billion in 2024 to a projected $87.6 billion in 2034. Like vintage clothing, secondhand furnishings are in high demand-and for good reason.

What Chen could not yet know was that this pursuit of simplicity would kick off a decade-long journey that stretched far beyond windows. It would draw in designers from across continents, ambassadors who believed in beauty as connection, and a community of creators bonded not by geography but by a shared desire to design with care. TWOPAGES would become a space where creativity became communal.