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Modern Retrofit: Tiny New Home in Ten-Foot Tokyo Alley
Modern Retrofit: Tiny New Home in Ten-Foot Tokyo Alley
How to you make space in a built-out city like the vast and dense Tokyo, Japan? Try turning a narrow side street or small urban alley into a brand-new plot of land and give it over to a would-be homeowner – but be sure to warn them first that they could nearly lie down from one side and touch the far wall.
These brilliant before, during and after photos illustrate the process of turning a tiny roadway into a totally comfortable and contemporary little home – but exterior construction pictures cannot do the narrow nature of the site complete justice.
This super-small lot is long and narrow, built nearly to the border on either side … yet the home constructed on the site on it manages to feel spacious on the inside, containing a nearly-continuous, large and long volume filled with light, air and room to breath.
Time and time again, architects like Takafumi Matsunaga manage to amaze the world in the face of structural obstacles – or perhaps become of them. Rising to the challenge of this small lot size the architect employs copious amounts of white paint for the ceilings and walls and white tile for the floors. Glass brick lets in a great deal of daylight without compromising the privacy of the living room area – after all, the neighbors are just a few feet away.
A floating spiral staircase in the center creates a sense of divided space without crowding the room, letting views through but acting as a kind of conceptual partition wall. A lofted bedroom likewise provides further privacy but without making the rooms around it seem smaller – or itself seeming cut off. In short: this entire home is a living example worth studying for anyone looking to build a skinny house on a tiny site.
via dornob.com
Awesome use of space.
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‘Lego’ Living Rooms: 15 Luxury Modular Furniture Layouts
So you want more clever cabinets, dynamic drawers, stylish shelves and an all-around more engaging entertainment center for your living room? One option is to split the (design) difference and pick out pieces to assemble into something unique and unorthodox. Who knows, the whole furniture set might becomes far more than the sum of its parts – like a game of Tetris or set of toy LEGOs in the right hands.
In many ways, using smaller furnishings to create a large effect gives you (or your designer) much more control over the finished project and aesthetic ‘fit’ to a home. Much sleeker than single-unit prefabs, these modular elements can arranged and stacked to create configurations that conform to larger design ideas about a given room, space or entire house.
While ordering these particular items from Alf Da Fre might not make your holiday shopping list, you do not have to purchase the specific products to buy into or be inspired by the idea. Instead of thinking of each piece of living room furniture as an object, try thinking outside of the (entertainment center) box and looking at the larger picture.
via dornob.com
Awesome interior design. The website is worth a look. Check the link.
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