Award-winning designer Donna McAlear from New Mood Design defines elegance and style at an upscale Breckenridge vacation home with a Heat & Glo LUX gas fireplace. // Photos by: Darren Edwards Photography, San Diego

Cladding Stone Wall Veneers the 'Kronos Stone'

Ancient Surfaces

By Ancient Surfaces Product: Antique Smooth Kronos Limestone for wall cladding Contact us at: (212) 461-0245 Email at: sales@ancientsurfaces.com Visit our website at: www.Asurfaces.com Antique stone wall for the living room, dining room even for the shower walls, back splashes and the entire exterior of the home.This stone is one of our favorites when used as a cladding stone. It gives you this feeling of perpetual serenity, no matter how hectic your day was like. We describe it as draping your living spaces with shades of smooth silk. Also worth noting that the 'Kronos Stone' is one of the few stones in the world stable for both wall stone cladding as well as exterior stone paving and indoor floor covering!

Fernlea

D Pearce Constructions Pty Ltd

ブリスベンにあるビーチスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (レンガサイディング、タウンハウス) の写真

"Simply Modern"

Scavolini Store Detroit

Byron Mason Photography
デトロイトにあるコンテンポラリースタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (コンクリートサイディング) の写真

Exterior - Decks, fences

Dougco Renovations Ltd.

Exterior brick work and stone stairway. Installation of custom front door.
カルガリーにあるモダンスタイルのおしゃれな家の外観 (漆喰サイディング) の写真

Alumawood Pergola Installations, Chandler, AZ

The Yard Stylist

Here is the same Queen Creek, AZ Alumawood pergola from a different angle. Here you gain a better view of the decorative pavers. They compliment the home’s exterior but have had some darker brown pavers added to the palette to help it stand out a little more. The pergola and pavers are both functional and attractive.

TASMAN BEACH HOUSE

South Coast Building Design

You’ll always be on holidays here! Designed for a couple nearing retirement and completed in 2019 by Quine Building, this modern beach house truly embraces holiday living. Capturing views of the escarpment and the ocean, this home seizes the essence of summer living. In a highly exposed street, maintaining privacy while inviting the unmistakable vistas into each space was achieved through carefully placed windows and outdoor living areas. By positioning living areas upstairs, the views are introduced into each space and remain uninterrupted and undisturbed. The separation of living spaces to bedrooms flows seamlessly with the slope of the site creating a retreat for family members. An epitome of seaside living, the attention to detail exhibited by the build is second only to the serenity of it’s location.

Balmoral House

CHROFI

A floating stair descends from the upper level. The Balmoral House is located within the lower north-shore suburb of Balmoral. The site presents many difficulties being wedged shaped, on the low side of the street, hemmed in by two substantial existing houses and with just half the land area of its neighbours. Where previously the site would have enjoyed the benefits of a sunny rear yard beyond the rear building alignment, this is no longer the case with the yard having been sold-off to the neighbours. Our design process has been about finding amenity where on first appearance there appears to be little. The design stems from the first key observation, that the view to Middle Harbour is better from the lower ground level due to the height of the canopy of a nearby angophora that impedes views from the first floor level. Placing the living areas on the lower ground level allowed us to exploit setback controls to build closer to the rear boundary where oblique views to the key local features of Balmoral Beach and Rocky Point Island are best. This strategy also provided the opportunity to extend these spaces into gardens and terraces to the limits of the site, maximising the sense of space of the 'living domain'. Every part of the site is utilised to create an array of connected interior and exterior spaces The planning then became about ordering these living volumes and garden spaces to maximise access to view and sunlight and to structure these to accommodate an array of social situations for our Client’s young family. At first floor level, the garage and bedrooms are composed in a linear block perpendicular to the street along the south-western to enable glimpses of district views from the street as a gesture to the public realm. Critical to the success of the house is the journey from the street down to the living areas and vice versa. A series of stairways break up the journey while the main glazed central stair is the centrepiece to the house as a light-filled piece of sculpture that hangs above a reflecting pond with pool beyond. The architecture works as a series of stacked interconnected volumes that carefully manoeuvre down the site, wrapping around to establish a secluded light-filled courtyard and terrace area on the north-eastern side. The expression is 'minimalist modern' to avoid visually complicating an already dense set of circumstances. Warm natural materials including off-form concrete, neutral bricks and blackbutt timber imbue the house with a calm quality whilst floor to ceiling glazing and large pivot and stacking doors create light-filled interiors, bringing the garden inside. In the end the design reverses the obvious strategy of an elevated living space with balcony facing the view. Rather, the outcome is a grounded compact family home sculpted around daylight, views to Balmoral and intertwined living and garden spaces that satisfy the social needs of a growing young family. Photo Credit: Katherine Lu