Modern Home Design with Contemporary Extension Exterior

Many terraced houses have a side return that's usually used for garden storage - but could be used to widen what is traditionally a long narrow back room. Here, the extension size is minimal, but the impact on the house is big, So, it's an inspiration in creating a modern home design with contemporary extension exterior.

When you plan your new extension, plan the garden at the same time - and get the work done as one job, if you can. For example, buy a flooring material for inside and out that matches (this helps stretch the space further visually), and plant around the extension. This will increase privacy and improve the view from indoors.

Maggi Massimo is Magnifico!

Maggi Massimo is an Italian maker of kitchen cabinets and other furniture...

A "hold everything" with brass bin pulls.

Love the round port hole style vents in this cabinet.

Wooden louvered doors in the upper right and left cabinets add character.

A safe! In the middle of your cabinet! I think it's just waiting for the bank robbers to show up.

Found via kbculture.

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A Well Travelled Kitchen

I have to admit, we have a burgeoning globe collection. (We're at 3 or 4 -- Christmas introduced a tiny new vintage tin globe from 1926.) I have to admit, though, I never considered using them as kitchen decor.

Obviously I'm not creative enough, because they look incredible in this kitchen tour from AT's The Kitchn. (More pictures, including more globes, here.)



And more vintage style geekery -- the backsplash is made of yardsticks. (Doesn't it work well with the butcher block cabinets?) Here's the how-to.


The kitchen (& great ideas) belong to Ashley Ann. And if you're not envious enough, she did the whole kitchen facelift for $500.

Monique Keegan is Incredible...

Remember this house? (How could you forget? I'm using it as inspiration for half my renovation!) The owner and designer behind it was Monique Keegan. She's awesome. And she blogs. And has a retail store and design business in Granville, Ohio. And here's just a bit more of her work.


Psychological abstract card catalog, in black? With a naturalist collection on top? I'll take one, please!

Nice mix of vintage and modern here... The mirror is a lovely piece.

Antique oil cans on display...

The Cranial Nerves... something about using "nerves" at a vacation home seems appropriate to me.

Thanks, Brian!

Goods from One Kings Lane

One Kings Lane is a site with "invitation only" 3 day long home decor sales. I subscribed, not expecting much that would be appropriate for The Steampunk Home. Surprisingly, right now -- through the 28th -- they are running two sales I think would appeal to Steampunk Home readers.

First, quotes by Natural Curiosities, $69 each:


Each letter was manually created on a 1924 vintage Underwood typewriter, silkscreened on delicate Bhutanese paper by Fernando Bohr, Natural Curiosities' resident silkscreen artist, then beautifully framed in walnut.

Second, Timeworks Vintage style clocks, $49-$129:
Timeworks clocks are made individually, by hand, most of them at the company's factory in Berkeley, California. All are made of the finest components available - solid, hand-antiqued brass for cases and pendulums, die-cut steel hands with time-worn patinas, beautifully finished frames and high-quality quartz clock movements.



You'll have to sign up to browse the wares, but you may find it worthwhile.

Microscopes, Aged and Brass

Allen Wissner has been collecting antique brass microscopes for three decades.

His site -- where he shares his extensive collection with the hope that readers will discover him and support his habit by selling him more -- is filled with many different models and uses.

There are articles about antique microscopes...an index by country of origin...he even branches out in microspectroscopes.

Best Interior Design on Black and White Mobileffe

Best interior design is not always decorated with something luxury or elegant design, here are some creative, artistic and inspirational interior design that improves the way our homes look with black and white from Mobileffe. With Mobileffe’s inspirational design, I’m sure you will not only get inspired but also will got star trucked with the beauty it brings. The black and white stripes makes you feel like having a zebra near you. Or simply fill your house black and white items like the cabinets, chairs, pillows, lamps, vases and more. The contrasting color of black and white is simple yet elegant and cool. You can also add some other colors into it if ever you are not favorable with a two colored interior design. [via]

The Good, The Bad, The Wierd

Bria sent me this eye candy -- trailers for relatively obscure Asian films -- which I thought would be appropriately fun for the holiday week



I have to say, though, that diving helmets and aviator googles are so out of place in the Wild West that I laughed out loud!


Watch at least until you see the flying machine!

Rick's First Steampunk Lamp

Here's a nice lamp from a newcomer to the steampunk scene. Rick says: Coming from an electrical engineering background, I decided to add a flickering light to the "gas to electric converter" to suggest a chemical process was happening inside. He's also a woodworker, which accounts for the lovely cherry box surround.

He also has extensive notes on his design and manufacture at his website.

I think this is a very impressive first attempt, and I can't wait to see what he does next!

Winner: London Particulars Giveaway

And the winner is:

AmbivalentFringe

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I'm open to more of these giveaways if you're a maker who'd like to share with the Steampunk Home readership.

Best Extension Interior Design with Glass Wall

 

It's important in creating a best contemporary home interior design to ensure that it doesn't just look good, but that it's practical and suits your needs, too. On this gallery, you can browse several advice about designing a contemporary interior design.

Modern building control insists upon glazing of a certain standard and specification, but it's worth paying for the best that you can afford, rather than sticking to the minimum. Ensure your extension is well insulated and that the glazing is capable of keeping heat in (in winter) and out (in summer)

If you can get planning permission to create a vaulted roof line, do so. It will look more interesting from the exterior, but from the inside, it can make a major impact - taking a room that's potentially low-ceiling and on the small side and transforming it into one that feels bright and spacious.

Flooring is the other important things, if you look carefully here, the flooring inside is exactly matched to that of outside in the garden. The effect? In a room with a lot of glazing, it visually extends the room within, making the space feel larger

If you are introducing a lot of glazing into your extension, you'll ideally want to keep the structure of the building as delicate as possible, so as not to divide your view. [channel4]

This Year Best Home Design in Hollywood

This is the best home design in Hollywood with including CinemaScope Theater, pop-pup television, and multiple surround-sound areas. This best home design of the Year sits among the Hollywood Hills, where the stars shine as brightly inside the homes as they do in the night sky. It's familiar with some of the A-list technologies here. The residence was designed and built by Temple Home, whose co-owner, Xorin Balbes, has earned recognition for his restoration of famous Los Angeles-area homes. Balbes and architect Paul Ashley brought the vision, and left the audio-visual pyrotechnics to DSI Entertainment Systems.

No corners were spared in blending the cutting-edge theatrics with the clean and modern design, and neither do all the high-tech props compromise the views from nearly every room. The family room’s 60-inch plasma TV stays hidden when not in use, then rises from the floor on a quiet hydraulic lift. In the master bedroom, another flat panel pops up at the foot of the bed when powered on.

Also in the family room, round and trimless Sonance speakers pulse audio from inside the ceiling, while a Sonance subwoofer booms its bass from an inconspicuous mount in a wall. “We didn’t have any place for speakers in there,” Thies adds, “and if someone wasn’t looking for them, they wouldn’t notice anything.” Source: electronichouse

Baufritz Kit 2009 Best Home Design of The Year

2009 home design trend tends to be created in minimalist modern and prefab home design, but the important thing is the quality and the function of the house. Based on the green house characteristic, Baufritz designed huge and various best home design with healthier environtment and materials. So, if you interested in a house that will make you healthier, Baufritz can help you to get what you wanted.

They claim to have 10 elements within their 'health philosophy'. These include: no wood preservatives; material recycling; permanent pollution monitoring and indoor air quality analyses, among others.

They also claim that their homes have an energy consumption less than one sixth of the typical UK home - achieved through healthy, natural construction and insulation materials. Average of the timber walls of the houses are 40cm thick, while the windows offer the highest thermal performance. So the house will have high-tech insulation, made from renewable resources, and are constructed with recovered timber to maximize sustainability.

Best Hi-Tech Asian Bathroom Design from Spiritual-Mode

By combining high technology and Asian culture, spiritual-mode create these hi-tech Asian bathroom design, with various style such as Scandinavian, Japanese, European, Minimalism, Romantic and Mid Century style. Spiritual-mode provide a series of bathroom design that can greatly change the image of the interior category. Sufficient functionality and quality, safety-conscious in a bathtub, meeting all the senses. Linear silhouette was tight at the counter with bath and soft curves. More bathroom with gentleness and strength, what an amazing hi-tech bathroom it is. [via]

Willard Street Residence Project, San Francisco, by Cary Bernstein

A 500sf third floor added to a small house on a wooded site makes a new Master Bedroom and Bathroom a tree-house aerie. Skylights bring sun from above to wash rooms in light which would otherwise be shaded by the surrounding trees. The palette and minimalist detailing of the new addition is continued in the renovation of the Kitchen and lower stories. --cbstudio--