CASA MINIMALISTA Y ECONOMICA EN FORMA DE CUBO

La casa económica QubicHouse “Concept” tiene la forma de un cubo 6x6x6 metros y un total de 72 m2 útiles. Nace con un concepto de vivienda moderna y minimalista.  Es una vivienda “low cost” que nos ofrece el diseño más exclusivo a un precio inigualable, 69.900€. Y todo en un tiempo récord de construcción: En tan sólo 30 días.

Esta vivienda tiene muchas combinaciones posibles que permite este revolucionario método de construcción. La empresa que construye estas casas es Camisura (España) la cual es innovadora en su sector porque ofrece un servicio integral y personalizado para construir viviendas con estructura de madera.

QubicHouse hace construcciones con estructura de madera pues son más ecológicas, consumen menos energía, ofrecen un mayor aislamiento térmico, aprovechan mas el espacio y resultan más baratas y accesibles. Su cubierta plana está totalmente impermeabilizada y la fachada es una composición de madera y cemento. Se trata de placas de gran tamaño, consiguiendo una fachadas ventilada.

El suelo es un pavimento continuo de microcemento, de color gris acero y la escalera de color marrón chocolate. Estos materiales ofrecen una percepción más amplia del espacio. Las paredes pintadas de blanco ofrecen más luminosidad en el interior, luz que procede también de los grandes ventanales que incorpora.

La casa está distribuida en dos plantas. La planta baja cuenta con una amplia estancia de unos 25 m2, con cocina americana y salón comedor. Tiene además un cuarto de aseo o baño, que, según necesitemos se puede convertir en depensa o cuarto de lavadora. Bajo el hueco de la escalera hay un pequeño cuarto trastero. La planta baja dispone de una salida al jardín.

La primera planta (segundo piso) dispone de dos habitaciones y un baño completo, La habitación principal cuenta con un vestidor en su interior. La distribución está pensada para aprovechar al máximo el espacio.

Ante todo se trata de una casa ecológica. Está equipada con termoestufa y agua caliente sanitaria que funciona con pellets. Estas estufas además de producir energía de una manera limpia y cómoda, presentan un diseño vintage muy acorde con la concepción de la casa.

El exterior lo ha diseñado Arborètum con productos de sus showrooms en Barcelona. Tarima: En el exterior se ha colocado una tarima de compuesto de madera TROPICS Cypress. Un composite fabricado a partir de madera de arce de primera calidad y resinas HDPE (Polietileno de alta densidad). Es un material inalterable, con una garantía limitada de 20 años, no pierde el color, no es necesario sellarlo, decaparlo ni colocarle aceite dos veces al año. Resistencia, belleza y durabilidad inigualable.

Hay 3 tipos de planos posibles de 1 a 3 dormitorios que puedes verlos en PLANOS DE CASAS.
Fuente: casamisura.com, qubichouse.com via Fachadas y Casas

Baby Room Decorations - How to Decorate Baby Rooms

Decorating a baby's nursery allowance is a actual fun and active time in a parent's life. The nursery is area memories are fabricated and treasured. You appetite to body a allowance that offers amore and adulation to the little one that you accept aloof brought into this world. There are so abounding altered means you can adorn a babyish nursery allowance and in this commodity I am activity to accord you some tips on some abundant babyish allowance decorations.

Growth Charts

Growth archive are an accomplished way to adorn the nursery. They are accessible in assorted styles and colors to bout your accepted décor. Not alone does it accomplish a abundant accession to the baby's allowance but it will additionally accommodate you with a emblem assuming how they accept developed over the years.

Lighting Fixtures

Another decorating tip is to acquisition a lighting accoutrement that matches your babyish allowance decorations. Lamps are a abundant way to action some abatement ablaze which is not as blinding and ablaze as aerial lights and beam fans. This is actual accessible during night feedings. Add a analogous lamp appearance and you are set. If you accept a agitation armchair in your nursery try abacus a babyish table abutting to the armchair and abode the lamp on this table.

Wooden letters

Wooden belletrist are a actual accepted way to adorn a babyish nursery room. Decorative bank belletrist appear in abounding altered sizes and styles. You can use the belletrist to spell out your child's name or you can spell words such as "Princess". If you are actual adroit you can buy unpainted belletrist and acrylic them to bout your babyish allowance decorations perfectly. There are amaranthine means to acrylic the letters: solids, stripes or patterns analogous your bedding.

FACHADA MODERNA CASAS SOSTENIBLES

Hogar Moderno con un concepto asequible sostenible.





Esta es una de las mas bellas fachadas de casas que cuenta con una serie de proyectos personalizados que incluyen la sostenibilidad, la flexibilidad y, por supuesto, la finalidad de alcanzar concepto de asequibilidad en la arquitectura. Para la sostenibilidad, se dió la construcción híbrida aplicada, la masa pesada para livings y un peso ligero en los dormitorios. Sistema de doble cavidad, losas de concreto y paredes de ladrillo con aislamiento cavidad son ejemplo de los materiales utilizados.
El exterior esta diseñado con la hermosa simplicidad, flexibilidad y de una manera compacta, con forma similar a una caja. En el interior hay una simple terraza abierta pequeño con un jardín que tiene un propósito multifuncional. La cocina moderna da a un patio pequeño, y el comedor esta al lado de ella. Otros ámbitos de vida de diseño de interiores también tiene la simplicidad y buscan la luz en forma contemporánea. En la práctica, esta casa puede cambiar de posición de acuerdo a cualquier otro sitio. Esta gran obra es de Environa Studio arquitectos.
Fuentes: environastudio.com, archinspire.com vía Fachadas de Casas

Upload: April 26th, 2010

Shell balls from West Elm.

About 3 times a week,,,,I upload all the photos from my Iphone and my point and shoot camera onto my laptop.........Everything from job site photos, project sourcing, construction details, beautiful flowers, to big box store finds.  To give you an example, I'll back track a little bit here and post some of the most interesting or inspiring shots I've uploaded over the past 3 weeks, sometimes I take hundreds of photos in one day, it becomes an overwhelming task to sort thru regularly and keep only the relevant ones.  Have a look....

The first sign of warm weather to come was all the shells I spotted in the stores, they're everywhere right now!

West Elm.

Its all about gigantic, huge, shells this year.  Pottery Barn.

Flowers I bought on Good Friday.  The next morning, the Hydrangea were dead, of course......

On a shopping trip to buffalo I picked up this big beautiful cookbook for $9.  Yes, I bought it just because it was beautiful looking, like everything Martha does.  Not only does it make a nice book for display, but its actually a good basic cookbook, its got every "how to..." you could imagine.

At the framers, I was selecting some mat board and moulding for some antique botantical prints for a client.

Then we added this hand drawn detail called a French line.

Working late one Sunday night at my dining room table...

At a clients house to meet carpet installers.  Here's one of the staircases before...(actually 2 days before the treads were an orangey gold oak).

The after....a new wool runner with canvas bound edge.

Love the handles on the Fischer Paykel fridge I saw at Lowes.

I was impressed by how many styles of medicine cabinets I found at Lowes.

Another nice find at Lowes.....french style bathroom accessories. (i had just bought similar ones for a client at Kitchen Stuff Plus, slightly less$).

I liked this series of bathroom hardware, again at Lowes,,,,,,,I love the classic style and the fact it was nin polished nickel, not often found at a big box store.  Check out the co-ordinating toilet tank handle!! 

I can't understand why they make re-sealable potatoe chip bags?? I have no use for this feature.  Doesn't everyone eat the entire bag.....

A slipcover host chair I spotted at Union Home, I'm considering a pair for a chef's home kitchen I'm designing right now, co-incidentally this line is from the Paula Deen collection.

I just love this Ikea rug......but have no where to use it right now. : (

Fringe........

Its all about the fringe right now.  I bought some of these for clients.  Throw blankets from Union Home

One evening while the picture hanger was installing this gallery wall....

the homeowner and I enjoyed a glass of this - its fantastic!  I highly recommend.

Spotted this shiny brass light fixture at Habitat for Humanity for only $65,,but by the time I could convince my friend how great it would be spray painted in white or tourquise or orange,,,,,it went back to get it for her and it was gone.

I saw these fantastic wire chairs at Home Sense,,,,,amazingly a couple days later they were STILL there. ??  Only $49 each.  Why someone hasn't scooped these babies up by now is a mystery to me.

BB Bargoons never ceases to disappoint.  Always in-style and affordable finds.  LOVE this wire pendant lights and wish I had a place to use them right now.

I discovered this gorgeous, stunning, heritage style lighting collection - its handcrafted by an artisan (second generation) just north of Toronto.  I'll be writing more about this in an upcoming post.

Installing the series six custom framed botanicals in a little girls room.

Spotted these at Chapter's and had to take note.  Surprisingly real looking, think they'll be perfect for the same little girls room (above) who's mother has asked me where she can find good looking but 'faux' flowers.  She's not into real flowers, every week, for her entire home...

Driftwood on a stick.   This photo will be an example of what I'm going to ask my BF to make for me with my collection of various things like driftwood, large shells, horns etc.. If I can show him a photo, then he can't say it can't be done. ; )

So now with my camera unloaded, I'm off to start another week of site visits and sourcing!

All Photos:  Carol Reed

Buying The Best Glass Mirror For Your Home

Everyone has a ambition to add sparkling adorning mirrors at home. Bottle mirrors are aloof added than mirrors that can be acclimated as a adorning affection to accomplish your home account active in. There are altered kinds of adorning mirrors accessible such us Metal Framed, Copse Framed, Amount Mirror, Mirrored Furniture, Art Deco, Mirrored Art, Bathroom and Bedroom Mirror and Cheval or Vanity Mirror. These mirrors can be acclimated in assorted places to accomplish your home or appointment added ambrosial and perfect. These bottle mirrors appear in altered shapes and sizes which ranges from square, rectangle, egg-shaped and round. You will additionally accept an advantage to accept amid metal or board affected and frameless adorning mirrors, art mirrors, achievement and arctic mirrors.

Why to adorn with mirrors?

There are lot added adorning items begin in the market, but decorating with mirrors will accord your home a affluent attending and ambiance. Here are few added affidavit for application bottle as a adorning medium.

Decorating with mirrors is absolutely bargain than added adorning products. It is accessible to fix by our own after the admonition of an Autogenous Decorator. We can abode them with our own adroitness to clothing our taste. Bottle mirrors can accomplish your close home attending larger. People with baby home had been application this ambush of eye to actualize an apparition of big and abyss interior. It can additionally brighten your aphotic apartment with bottom lights.

The added abundant acumen about adorning mirrors is that you can use them to awning up asperous old door, bank cracks and awning blemishes in wall. By accomplishing this your bank gets a new attending ambuscade those bad surfaces.

Selecting the best mirror

Mirror alternative is actual important to accord your candied home a beauteous autogenous look. Baddest absorbing mirror shapes like diamond, oval, triangular, wavy, continued and attenuate squares instead of ample mirrors. Baddest altered styles like askew edges, bland edge, arctic mirror, affected mirror to accord a new look. Mirrors with art and copse anatomy will add added amount to you rooms.

Furniture with mirror assignment is acceptable one of the accepted home décor articles now-a-days. Furniture like coffee table, cube drawers, bathrobe table, lamp table, anteroom animate table and abundant added comes with mirror works in it. They absolutely attending admirable and accomplish you feel like heaven application them.

Where to buy Bottle Mirrors

Try to acquisition out an absolute mirror boutique with lots of latest collections and reasonable price. In some bottle mirror shops, they admonition you in award out your exact charge and admonition you appropriately with advice to admonition you adjudge the rite one. Sometimes you may end up award a fair accord with aperture commitment and discounts with some retailers.

It can additionally be purchased online through some websites. The online bottle mirror food save on your busline part. You can baddest your adapted architecture of bottle mirror displayed in the angel arcade or artefact area and adjustment them with few aloof few abrasion clicks.

Contemporary Bathroom Mirrors

Itching to accept a modern-looking bathroom? Well, crawling no added because this commodity will absolutely advice you in accomplishing your dream to accept a modern-looking bathroom.

You should be astute abundant in assessing your bath needs because if you assert on abacus a abreast bath mirror in your country-themed bathroom, it would absolutely attending awful. Accomplish abiding that back you appetite to add some abreast pieces to your bathroom, the "base" or over-all attending of your bath is adulatory to avant-garde accessories.

Black Abreast Pieces

As you may accept noticed, best abreast pieces appear in atramentous or accept a blow of black. Back it comes to bath mirrors, black-framed mirrors are the ones that assume to be actual accepted amid consumers.

Black abreast mirrors appear in altered shapes and sizes to clothing your altered aftertaste and preferences. It's acceptable to apperceive that they may additionally appear in actual altered shapes and frames. They do not alone action as absorption surfaces but additionally as austere adorning accents to bathrooms.

Eye-catching Pieces

Interior designers would absolutely accede to the adage "if it's not eye-catching, it's not contemporary". True enough, about all abreast pieces are actual clear in their own appropriate and altered way. The designs of abreast mirrors are way, way altered than the designs of acceptable bath mirrors.

Art has absolutely acquired throughout the years and it can be apparent in the way abreast mirrors are advised and manufactured. If you are already annoyed and apathetic with acceptable designs and dull-looking mirrors, again maybe its aerial time for you to boutique for a new set of mirror, and this time, accomplish abiding you acquirement a modern-looking mirror.

Produce That Neat And Tidy Look

Traditionally-designed mirrors accord off a candied and adorable attending to a bath while abreast mirrors accord bathrooms a chichi and tidy look. Abreast designs go able-bodied with a minimalistic attending that's why if you are one of the abounding bodies who animosity attractive at adorned and complicated pieces in your bathroom, again maybe you should anticipate about affairs a new abreast mirror for your bathroom.

Consult Autogenous Designers

If you feel like you are accepting a adamantine time allotment the absolute set of bath accessories for you, do not alternate to acquaintance an autogenous designer. The appointment fee that you will pay to the autogenous artist of your best will be absolutely account it because at atomic you don't accept to anguish about affairs the amiss allotment of bath mirror or not.

From Shoe Box to Gallery Wall

Last August I was planning and sourcing artwork with a client for her 3 story mid-town condo.  We had recently completed a top to bottom reno of the home (orginally built in 1980) and now it was time to focus on artwork and finishing touches.   One of the unique things about this condo was that it was 3 stories, so it had a tall staircase wall that led to a 3rd floor roof top deck.  This stairwell had a big tall blank wall and was flooded with tons of natural daylight.   One of the biggest challenges in sourcing artwork for this home was that there wasn't really a whole lotta wall space!  This stairwell actually presented one of the few places where we could hang some art.   My client had always wanted a gallery wall of black and white photographs........ and I thought this would be an ideal spot (since we didn't have many other options).  We were hanging original paintings in the living room and kitchen area so this staircase wall on the second level was a perfect spot for personal photos. 

This is a view of the staircase as seen from the second floor hallway looking up to the landing which leads to a 3rd floor servery and rooftop deck.  The entire condo is painted in a soft warm white and during the reno I had gorgeous wide plank, natural antique ash floors installed as well as custom treads and risers made for the staircase.

This is a view from up on the third level - the Mooi Random light fixture was one of the first pieces of lighting selected for the home.  I had envisioned it here from the very first time I visited the space, its such a perfect spot for this oversized but simple modern fixture.  The stringlike shade casts a wonderful pattern of light, the stairwell almost doesn't need anything else because the fixture alone makes such a statement.  The long wall is clad with a thin stone veneer which adds amazing texture, colour and an organic element to the space - it makes a wonderful transition to the outdoor lving space beyond...

While we were scouring galleries for canvases and other pieces of art, my client was continually drawn to black & white photos that we saw at the various galleries.  As tempted as she was to purchase some, I convinced her to take some time to dig thru her own photos first, I'd much prefer to use photos that had personal meaning to her.  Afterall, she had travelled extensively, including Africa, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Amserdam, London, New York, Paris,,,,,,I knew she had loads of photos that were stashed away in boxes.

So a few weeks later she had gone thru her storage bins and dug out boxes and albums full of her travel photos.  She had hundreds of spectacular photos from all over the world.  I was in shock when I saw how many she had, and that she had had these treasures hidden away for all these years.  I was also pretty envious, I mean all I have to show from my personal travel photos are pictures of flowers taken in my own yard!  My task now was to weed thru them all and figure out which photos we'd use on the walls.  There were hundreds of shots like these....

These two are examples of what I had to chose from.  Can you believe these had been sitting in boxes for years!  I immediately forbid her from ever buying a single mass produced photo or print for the rest of her life.  The 'Girl with Baby' was instantly my favorite and it also was one of my clients most memorable, for me it was an awesome experience just looking thru all her photos, so many spectacular shots of landscapes, animals, buildings, I had an impossible time selecting just a handful.  I focused on photos that she already had in black in white or that I thought would translate well to b&w,,,I wanted images with strong lines and silhouttes, images that would have lots of graphic contrast because they would be viewed from up high and down low I wanted them to be viewable from various distances.   So I weeded thru an narrowed the selections down, 

I was drawn to all of these photos from Africa so I arranged them together to see how they looked and I just loved how well they worked in a grouping, there was a nice balance of light and dark.

And then I selected this group of photos taken in New York City....

All the photos I selected were taken on black and white film originally, not digital, you can see the film rebate edge on these 4" x 6" prints, which is pretty unique as I don't think there are many labs around that still do this.  Since there were no digital files or negatives to work with,  I scanned the prints into my computer so I could play around with the groupings easily.   After this excercise I ended up with a final group of African and New York images, I loved the contrast of pairing the primitive images with the urban.

Next I took the original b&w 4x6 prints to Kevin at Elevator Digital, (the masters of photo imaging!) and told him what I wanted to do.  He checked out the images and thought they were all really good quality shots, he would need to scan each one of them with a super high resolution scanner in order to make enlarged prints.  He also advised me on the sizes I should plan for with respect to maintaining the quality of the image and for best display size - he showed me examples of similar size prints in their gallery so I got a good idea of what the true scale would be like in person.   So, with the thumbs up from Kevin - all I had to do was tell him which ones I wanted and exactly what size to print them.  Back to my drawing board, er, computer...

I returned to my cad drawings of the condo and drew up an elevation of the stairwell wall.  Then I just played with various sizes starting with the largest photo in the middle and working around it.  This helped me determine how many photos I could fit on the wall based on the size of photos I wanted to use.

Next I prepared a mock-up of the grouping by importing an image of the elevation into Power Point (or you could use Numbers or Photo Shop) and I simply placed the actual photo images on top of the image of my line drawing, this allowed me to enlarge the images up to the size I needed and to do it to scale.  I intentionally planned for a couple of future additions and left two of the frames blank.

Several weeks later the framed photos were delivered to the house,,,,where they sat here on the landing for quite some time waiting for me and my picture hanger to install them!  

Finally, installation day.  After the first two went up,,,,,I wished that I had ordered all the frames in white, I loved this look. But I had chosen to do a combination of white and natural birch frames so 2 of the 5 were in a wood finish. Of course after all the frames were hung I was completely happy with the mix of frame colours and had no regrets about that decision.

After the first photo, Girl with Baby was hung, it was used as a reference for locating where all the rest of the frames where to be hung, the entire grouping took only took about 1/2 an hour to hang (it actually took longer to set up the ladder and get the tools ready).  I used a typical spacing of 4" between all photos and each frame was either aligned or centered off another.  I left some blank space for other photos and frame styles or objects to be mixed in in the future.  But instantly after seeing the wall at this stage the homeowner grabbed a silver framed photo from the guest bathroom (its actually a flower photo that i had taken last year) and wanted to add it to the wall.  By pure co-incidence, it fit perfectly in the grouping so its going to stay but we'll switch out the photo for another one from her travels.

The completed gallery wall.

Here you may recognize the photo of Radio City Music hall in NYC,,,,I also used this same photo in Brian's Condo (jumbo size), it has such strong lines and an incredible depth in its range of greys.  Brian is a friend of this client who took the photo and a big fan of Radio City Music Hall so when he saw this photo in my files he the thought it would be a good fit for his place - now we're calling it a 'limited edition print', only 2 in existence!  In his place, I had it enlarged to over 6' tall and printed on canvas, you can read more about that here and see a sneak peek here. 

From a box of 4" x 6" prints, we were able to produce a few custom framed archival quality fibre murals (and by 'we' I mean Kevin), and create a beautiful and highly personal gallery wall.   I especially love the fact that the frame rebate (black border) that was around the original prints was maintained which I think gives the photos such an artistic quality.  Now,,,,,,,I have the overwhelming urge to book an exotic vacation.....

(Once again it was late in the evening when I took all of the above after photos so I apologies for the poor quality.)

All Photos:  Carol Reed