Displaying posts labeled "Apartment"

Up on the roof

Posted on Mon, 24 Nov 2014 by midcenturyjo

Perched on the roof of an Edwardian era building are 15 new apartments, 231 Smith Street, Fitzroy by developer Neometro in collaboration with MAArchitects and Grant Amon Architects. While old meets new on the exterior inside while pastel hues are wed with wood. Light, bright, contemporary style in small space living.

SuperLimão Studio

Posted on Tue, 18 Nov 2014 by midcenturyjo

Big on style and small on budget. Brazil for the win! Apartmento VR by São Paulo based architects SuperLimão Studio.

One apartment three ways

Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2014 by midcenturyjo

One report, three interior stylists, one apartment, three ways. When Sweden’s leading real estate brokerage firm Fastighetsbyrån wanted to know what effect styling a home for sale had on the price and how fast it sold they enlisted the aid of design psychologist Sally Augustin. Her report shows that home styling works if done correctly. The buyer must connect consciously and unconsciously with the home. They need to imagine themselves living there, moving right in, daydreaming and scheming how to get it. OK we all say. Fair enough. Nothing new there. That could have been the end of Fastighetsbyrån‘s research but… they decided to take it one step further. They took one apartment and let three stylists, Mikael Beckman, Hans Blomquist and Tina Hellberg, mess with our minds and our hearts and make it into their version of our dream home. They put the research in practice. So now there is one apartment three ways and I have one big problem. I can’t make up my mind which one I am moving into. They are all tugging at my heart strings.

First is classic modern by Mikael Beckman.

Now Hans Blomquist‘s city bohemian version.

Finally Tina Hellberg‘s modern minialism.

If you pop over to the listing there is a handy way to scroll from space to exact space in the apartment to compare the styles. Photos by Marcus Lawett.

Park Avenue Duplex

Posted on Thu, 6 Nov 2014 by midcenturyjo

It’s a Park Avenue apartment but loosened up. Not your typical over tweaked, over stuffed, over styled, karate chop designer pad. Simplified, formality removed, family friendly, relaxed. An oasis of calm in the maddening Big Apple. By multi disciplinary design practice De-SPEC.

Central London apartment

Posted on Wed, 5 Nov 2014 by midcenturyjo

The flexible design of the space within this London home allows it to be used by in a number of ways by family members. A pied-à-terre at one end with loft bedroom, turn another way, open the doors and now a three bedroom flat. The folding screens providing privacy to the loft are polycarbonate. A modern redesign with elegant Victorian proportions by VW + BS Architecture and Design.