Custom Home Online features an article this month on the latest in kitchen and bath design trends. Highlights include:
See the complete list and a slideshow of examples here.
A backyard transformed into beautiful living space
With spring right around the corner, now is the time to begin planning that long-overdue renovation to your backyard. Patio? Covered porch? Summer kitchen? Deck? Pool? Dreambuilder can handle all of it for you in one unified project from design to completion. We can even help you divide the project into phases that you can implement over time, allowing all of the pieces to fit in one master plan.
Custom Home Online recently featureed an article on the latest in outdoor living trends. And take a look at a smaller-scale outdoor renovation project, Dreambuilder Six.
Dreambuilder found this interesting article on what’s known as the ‘slow home’ movement. Though the name is not very catchy, there are some great concepts here regarding effective home design, livability and sustainability. While we don’t agree with every detail of the concept, we firmly believe that every house should be designed around the family that will be using it — no ‘cookie cutters’ here. Sizes and locations of rooms, optimized storage spaces and efficient use of square footage are just some of the considerations for home design. At the same time, the home should be created to be not only functional but beautiful and unique. Lines of site, use of windows and views and artistic construction all have a place when in proper balance with other elements. These are just a few of the details that Dreambuilder considers when designing a custom home for our clients. Visit our Dream Home Gallery to see our original designs, and contact us today to see how we can help you imagine and create the home of your dreams, so you can live the life you’ve always wanted.
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By Mary Beth Breckenridge
RISMEDIA, March 1, 2011—(MCT)—John Brown believes a home should ease the stress in life, not contribute to it.
Brown is the founder of the slow home movement, a philosophy of home design that emphasizes livability and sustainability. It’s about building a home that works for the occupants, not one that’s intended to impress.
The concept was inspired by the slow food movement, with its focus on healthful, sustainable ways of producing and preparing food, explained Brown, an architect, real estate broker and architecture professor in Calgary, Alberta. “You can think of the typical cookie-cutter house as being like fast food”—often supersized and designed to satisfy our craving for beauty, he said. It’s a house that’s designed to seduce us into buying by feeding our fantasies of a more glamorous life, he said, not one that’s necessarily easy to live in or easy on the environment. (more…)
Last week we shared this great kitchen design website with you at Kitchens.com, and a section that shows you different kitchen designs and a ‘swatch board’ of all of the style selections that go into each one. Currently Dreambuilder is working with a prospective kitchen remodel client on a contemporary kitchen that will look very similar to the one here. Avoiding the extreme stark, minimalist look of some contemporary kitchens, this kitchen incorporates warmth and color while remaining very sleek and clean. See more about this kitchen here, and contact Dreambuilder today to implement this look in your kitchen.
We here at Dreambuilder recently discovered Kitchens.com and encourage you to visit. One of the things we really like about the site is the vignettes of various styles that the site provides. For example, if you select the “casual coastal” kitchen, you not only see pictures of a beautiful kitchen in this style, but also a listing of all of the indiviudal design finishes that went into it. It’s a great way to view alternatives and see exactly what went into putting the kitchen together. From there, you can emulate the style by selecting similar elements in your own kitchen. Dreambuilder can help you transform your kitchen — contact us today!
