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If you were interested, I found the wallpaper from Abigain Ahern’s amazing house.

The papers are hand printed and designed by Deborah Bowness and there are some interesting options, like my favorite Illusions of Grandeur, which features a fake mirror and chandelier.

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This place is sooooo inspirational. It’s the perfect mixture of old and new.

Admittedly, I’m rather new to the concept of pivoting doors because until recently, I lived in a place where the sole purpose of doors was to keep the outside out. But, now that I’m in Southern California, and the weather is almost perfect year round, you start to think of ways to bring the outside in. Pivoting doors are a great way to ‘move’ an entire wall.

I found some great resources for the pivoting hinges and the hinges themselves don’t look too expensive considering they do quite a lot. ePivots and Rixson both sell the pivot hinges and are a good place to start.

(room shot via Canadian Architects.)

I love the openness of this Italian kitchen.

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If you’re working on a bath remodel or even new construction, you may find viewing typical room layouts helpful. Kohler has several room layouts starting with a tiny 40 square feet all the way up to the whopping 335 square feet bath.

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Here is the lovely portfolio of Made LLC, and there is a great mix of simplicity and depth to these rooms.

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Here’s a fantastic wall mount faucet under the $200 level.

Check out this amazing renovation of the Cavehill house by architecture firm Eggleston Farkas. When you live somewhere where the land is worth a lot more than the house, then having an architect-designed home becomes a somewhat viable option.

Recessed lighting is great way to add tons of light to a room without adding visual clutter of light fixtures. These solar tubes are a sustainable way to add the light naturally. Additionally, you can add an optional light kit so the when the sun goes down you can still have light for only $28.00 per tube.

You know you’re in trouble when you like the looks of a jail more than you like your own home.

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The multi-purpose ‘white cube’ home has movable walls so the home this 576 square foot home can accommodate a guest room and an extra bedroom for when the owner’s daughter comes to stay on weekends.

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Sometimes a huge fantastic door can really make a statement on the right wall, as well as allow for creating a large ‘movable wall’ in tight spaces. For instance, this wall conceals a full bathtub where there’s not enough walking space for a walk in bathroom.

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This remodel of a 500 square foot home in Houston’s third ward shows that you can really take an old space and make it modern. As part of a Rice Architecture building program, Nonya Grenader and Danny Samuels inject life into this old home and create one large space by ripping out all the walls and making a functional core containing electrical and the bathroom in the center, with a kitchen and ‘bedroom’ on the outside of the core.

Functionally, this bears a great resemblance to Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, which also has a central functional core containing both the electrical and the bathroom, with the kitchen and bedrooms along the perimeter of the core.

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Looks like Tumbleweed the Tiny House Company has just added a modern structure to their catalog. You can buy the plans for this 392 square foot home for only $495.

They estimate construction costs to be around $100 to $200 per square foot depending on region, so expect to pay between $40,000 to $80,000.

I’m not sure if you’ve had the distinct displeasure of getting an estimate for repairing a non-working fireplace, but let me tell you, it’s more than you probably care to spend. I know it’s certainly more than I care to spend. Anyway, this post started out being about bath planning (hence the photo via Kohler featuring the Provinity vanity), but then I found this fantastic image of a non-functioning fireplace filled with fire wood.

Now say that five times fast.

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