Beautiful Scandinavian-modern kitchen

Another gorgeous stunner of a kitchen. I am especially smitten with the pendant lights – anyone know who makes them?

Not sure why I love this sink setup so much. I think black faucets and hardware make everything better. 

Because cat. 🙂

Liddicoat & Goldhill

OMG I am in love. You all know how much we love a good conversion….. This award-winning conversion of an 18th century threshing barn, dairy and stables by London architecture and interior design firm Liddicoat & Goldhill is un-freaking-believable. Our task was to combine the quality of the surviving barn fragments with the texture and tone of their found materials. To maintain the barn’s brooding presence – and to provide security and a sense of protection from rolling Channel mists – the barn is usually kept in a closed state. However, industrial-scale kinetic mechanisms create openings that address key views into the countryside. Massive, insulated shutters recall the original barn doors, and protect a vast rotating window operated by an adapted chain-lift. To the East front, an American aircraft-hangar door allows the exterior to concertina upwards, creating a canopy over the dining terrace and revealing ribbon glazing within. A single rooflight, running the length of the main roof’s ridge provides steady ambient light to the living spaces.  

This master suite is what Gisele Taranto came up with for Casa Cor 2013. The space was designed for a couple who value intimacy and privacy, and is therefore TV-less! It brings together the indoors and outdoors with floor to ceiling glass dorrs between the bedroom and terrace, and a skylight above the shower area. This is a dreamy bedroom suite, whose bathroom alone is larger than my bedroom. *sigh* (More of Gisele’s work can be found here and here)

Brazilian architect/designer Gisele Taranto went a little cray cray at this year’s Casa Cor design competition. Lab LZ by GT is this space consisting of 3 sectors: lounge, working and library. And all of them are set upon a suspended glass floor filled with mirror shards in the space between the existing subfloor and the glass…thus bringing together the concept of depth and reflection. Now that’s creative. I don’t think I could live with a floor like that but what an interesting concept! (The leather Lego sofa from estudiobola is fantastic!)

Some loft love from Milan. Lawd half mursey, the things I could do to this space. Designed back in 2002 by Spagnulo&Partners.