125 Home Design Ideas, Pictures and Inspiration
C&H LandscapingMedium sized classic back xeriscape full sun garden for summer in Denver with natural stone paving.
Levi Design BuildLocated in Studio City's Wrightwood Estates, Levi Construction’s latest residency is a two-story mid-century modern home that was re-imagined and extensively remodeled with a designer’s eye for detail, beauty and function. Beautifully positioned on a 9,600-square-foot lot with approximately 3,000 square feet of perfectly-lighted interior space. The open floorplan includes a great room with vaulted ceilings, gorgeous chef’s kitchen featuring Viking appliances, a smart WiFi refrigerator, and high-tech, smart home technology throughout. There are a total of 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. On the first floor there are three large bedrooms, three bathrooms and a maid’s room with separate entrance. A custom walk-in closet and amazing bathroom complete the master retreat. The second floor has another large bedroom and bathroom with gorgeous views to the valley. The backyard area is an entertainer’s dream featuring a grassy lawn, covered patio, outdoor kitchen, dining pavilion, seating area with contemporary fire pit and an elevated deck to enjoy the beautiful mountain view.
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This two-tiered space offers lower level seating near the swimming pool and upper level seating for a view of the Illinois River. Planter boxes with annuals, perennials and container plantings warm the space. The retaining walls add additional seating space and a small grill enclosure is tucked away in the corner.
Fine Decks Inc.Landscaping done by Annapolis Landscaping ( www.annapolislandscaping.com)
Patio done by Beautylandscaping (www.beautylandscaping.com)
Photo of a large classic back patio in DC Metro with natural stone paving, a gazebo and a bar area.
Photo of a large classic back patio in DC Metro with natural stone paving, a gazebo and a bar area.
Gatling DesignPhoto by Ed Gohlich
Design ideas for a small and white traditional bungalow detached house in San Diego with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Design ideas for a small and white traditional bungalow detached house in San Diego with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
ilumus, llc.Multi-tiered outdoor deck with hot tub feature give the owners numerous options for utilizing their backyard space.
Inspiration for a large classic back mixed railing terrace in San Francisco with a potted garden and a pergola.
Inspiration for a large classic back mixed railing terrace in San Francisco with a potted garden and a pergola.
Luminosus Designs LLCPhoto of a medium sized classic back patio in New York with natural stone paving, a pergola and a bbq area.
Craig Reynolds Landscape ArchitectureTamara Alvarez
Photo of a small world-inspired swimming pool in Miami with decking and a shelter.
Photo of a small world-inspired swimming pool in Miami with decking and a shelter.
B Street DesignArchitect- Sema Architects
Green and medium sized traditional two floor house exterior in San Diego with wood cladding and a flat roof.
Green and medium sized traditional two floor house exterior in San Diego with wood cladding and a flat roof.
Creative Interiors by KimThis pergola draped in Wisteria over a Blue Stone patio is located at the home of Interior Designer Kim Hunkeler, located in central Massachusetts.
This is an example of a medium sized traditional back full sun pergola for spring in Boston with natural stone paving.
This is an example of a medium sized traditional back full sun pergola for spring in Boston with natural stone paving.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignThis shade arbor, located in The Woodlands, TX north of Houston, spans the entire length of the back yard. It combines a number of elements with custom structures that were constructed to emulate specific aspects of a Zen garden. The homeowner wanted a low-maintenance garden whose beauty could withstand the tough seasonal weather that strikes the area at various times of the year. He also desired a mood-altering aesthetic that would relax the senses and calm the mind. Most importantly, he wanted this meditative environment completely shielded from the outside world so he could find serenity in total privacy.
The most unique design element in this entire project is the roof of the shade arbor itself. It features a “negative space” leaf pattern that was designed in a software suite and cut out of the metal with a water jet cutter. Each form in the pattern is loosely suggestive of either a leaf, or a cluster of leaves.
These small, negative spaces cut from the metal are the source of the structure’ powerful visual and emotional impact. During the day, sunlight shines down and highlights columns, furniture, plantings, and gravel with a blend of dappling and shade that make you feel like you are sitting under the branches of a tree.
At night, the effects are even more brilliant. Skillfully concealed lights mounted on the trusses reflect off the steel in places, while in other places they penetrate the negative spaces, cascading brilliant patterns of ambient light down on vegetation, hardscape, and water alike.
The shade arbor shelters two gravel patios that are almost identical in space. The patio closest to the living room features a mini outdoor dining room, replete with tables and chairs. The patio is ornamented with a blend of ornamental grass, a small human figurine sculpture, and mid-level impact ground cover.
Gravel was chosen as the preferred hardscape material because of its Zen-like connotations. It is also remarkably soft to walk on, helping to set the mood for a relaxed afternoon in the dappled shade of gently filtered sunlight.
The second patio, spaced 15 feet away from the first, resides adjacent to the home at the opposite end of the shade arbor. Like its twin, it is also ornamented with ground cover borders, ornamental grasses, and a large urn identical to the first. Seating here is even more private and contemplative. Instead of a table and chairs, there is a large decorative concrete bench cut in the shape of a giant four-leaf clover.
Spanning the distance between these two patios, a bluestone walkway connects the two spaces. Along the way, its borders are punctuated in places by low-level ornamental grasses, a large flowering bush, another sculpture in the form of human faces, and foxtail ferns that spring up from a spread of river rock that punctuates the ends of the walkway.
The meditative quality of the shade arbor is reinforced by two special features. The first of these is a disappearing fountain that flows from the top of a large vertical stone embedded like a monolith in the other edges of the river rock. The drains and pumps to this fountain are carefully concealed underneath the covering of smooth stones, and the sound of the water is only barely perceptible, as if it is trying to force you to let go of your thoughts to hear it.
A large piece of core-10 steel, which is deliberately intended to rust quickly, rises up like an arced wall from behind the fountain stone. The dark color of the metal helps the casual viewer catch just a glimpse of light reflecting off the slow trickle of water that runs down the side of the stone into the river rock bed.
To complete the quiet moment that the shade arbor is intended to invoke, a thick wall of cypress trees rises up on all sides of the yard, completely shutting out the disturbances of the world with a comforting wall of living greenery that comforts the thoughts and emotions.
Boyer Building CorporationEhlen Creative Communications
Design ideas for a large and gey coastal two floor detached house in Minneapolis with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Design ideas for a large and gey coastal two floor detached house in Minneapolis with wood cladding, a pitched roof and a shingle roof.
Michelle Walker architectsThe Pavilion is a contemporary outdoor living addition to a Federation house in Roseville, NSW.
The existing house sits on a 1550sqm block of land and is a substantial renovated two storey family home. The 900sqm north facing rear yard slopes gently down from the back of the house and is framed by mature deciduous trees.
The client wanted to create something special “out the back”, to replace an old timber pergola and update the pebblecrete pool, surrounded by uneven brick paving and tubular pool fencing.
After years living in Asia, the client’s vision was for a year round, comfortable outdoor living space; shaded from the hot Australian sun, protected from the rain, and warmed by an outdoor fireplace and heaters during the cooler Sydney months.
The result is large outdoor living room, which provides generous space for year round outdoor living and entertaining and connects the house to both the pool and the deep back yard.
The Pavilion at Roseville is a new in-between space, blurring the distinction between inside and out. It celebrates the contemporary culture of outdoor living, gathering friends & family outside, around the bbq, pool and hearth.
Deborah Cerbone Associates, Inc.All planting design by Deborah Cerbone Associates, Inc.
This is an example of a small back formal pergola in New York with natural stone paving.
This is an example of a small back formal pergola in New York with natural stone paving.
dom arquitecturaInspiration for a white and large modern two floor render house exterior in Barcelona with a flat roof.
Photo of a large contemporary back rectangular infinity swimming pool in Phoenix with stamped concrete.
Mell Lawrence ArchitectsIpe, cypress, galvanized steel, cast in place concrete
Photo by Jonathan H. Jackson
Photo of a medium sized contemporary galley open plan kitchen in Austin with a double-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, medium wood cabinets, concrete worktops, stainless steel appliances, concrete flooring and an island.
Photo of a medium sized contemporary galley open plan kitchen in Austin with a double-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, medium wood cabinets, concrete worktops, stainless steel appliances, concrete flooring and an island.
125 Home Design Ideas, Pictures and Inspiration
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