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Treehouse Riga in Lisbon
This house in Lisbon is a type of Treehouse. But in contrast to the Treehouse concept it is a ready and closed project not requiring any further development. The construction of this eco house consists of two modules: the public area and the private area. There are a living room, a kitchen, three bedrooms and bathroom in both modules. The design and arrangement of the rooms make the whole construction compact and flexible, very suitable for a small territory. The sustainability of the Treehouse Riga is provided by the using of wood materials. The sliding wall made of birch wood can be used as a door to separate the public area and the private area, and vice versa - to extend the area connecting living room with a guest's room. The Treehouse Riga was built by Appleton & Domingos.

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'Pelt' Chair by Benjamin Hubert
De La Espada is a furniture brand, a firm that promotes younger and lesser known talented designers or design offices giving a platform upon which to build their own brands. Recently, they have presented this timber dining chair, conceived by Benjamin Hubert. The "Pelt" is a name of the chair which is made of a solid ash frame that is wrapped by a thin plywood shell. The chair looks like a single unit due to the interesting design construction. The seat extends downwards through the front legs. The overall stability is provided by the cross construction that connects the front and rear legs.

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River Road Mini-home Designed by Nir Pearlson
In the River Road area in north Eugene there is a small timber-frame mini home that have cozy beautiful spaces inside of it for owners Rob Handy and Julie Hulme. This sustainable house, designed by Nir Pearlson and built by Six Degrees Construction, is 800-square-foot and as sustainable features it has a roof with a solar PV array, and a hot water solar collector. For the irrigating the garden there is reclaimed graywater and rainwater. The home has an exposed wood structure, earthen plaster walls with a double-insulated envelope, metal roofing, and plywood and HardiePlank siding. The interior and arrangements of the rooms consist of a front porch, the areas for living, dining and cooking, interacting in the central space of the house. Then the study/guest room opens onto the partly-sheltered deck overlooking the garden. There is a centrally located wood stove, a master bedroom and a light-filled bathroom. This sustainable home building received gold-level certification from the Earth Advantage Institute.

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White Kitchen is a Good Taste
White is a perfect color for the kitchen. It symbolizes purity and makes the room larger and brighter, supplementing the daylight. Since antiquity white color signified detachment from worldly things, aspirations to the spiritual simplicity. Kitchen is a proper room for disappearing from the bustle of the real world and staying along with your closest people. Designers use white color to expand the visual space. So if you have a small kitchen - white interior is the best for it. There is an opinion that the use of a single color for the interior of the room - it's bad taste. But there are some different shades of white. For example, there is a snow white, porcelain white, silver white, pearl white, milky white, marble white, ivory white and platinum white. So you can choose different shades of white to decorate and furnish your kitchen. An nice clean-looking feeling is given when white is used for basic wall color as well match the furniture also in white.

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 Interior of Kid’s Bedrooms
Kid’s bedroom is a very special world. Fairytales, riddles and dreams live there. In the design of the bedrooms for the youngest children a light-hand always reigns. With a time the interior and design of the room for a student varies considerably: it is necessary to equip the room with a place for doing homework, to put the computer somewhere. The most important things except furniture are a color palette and lighting. The ideal children's room should be a source of a child's development and proper interior can contribute it. You can check out some examples of the kid’s bedrooms we propose to you.

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Several Beautiful Exterior Seating Areas
After a long working day it is always very nice to relax in comfortable place, but at home there are some things that will be distracting and returning you to reality. Better way to have a rest a little bit closer to nature, enjoying beautiful sunsets, the smell of the trees and young grass, balmy nights with cool breezes. So we should have small area of the exterior space close to home. The exterior area can be a special place in the garden, veranda, balcony and terrace. Getting the exteriors beautifully done is very important. The most important thing is there have to be comfortable furniture and maybe table to entertain guests with tea. We offer you to check out some beautiful exterior seating areas from Corradi that you can use to create your own special outdoor relaxing areas.

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Coffee Table Shaped Real Audio Tape
Very original table has presented Jeff Skierka. It is a 12:1 scaled replica of a real audio tape and just like a real cassette it is reversible and has sides A and B. This kind of furniture very advantageously will fit into the interior of modern kitchen or any other room. Coffee table is made of reclaimed maple, lucite and walnut and is a result of hard work. Now we can watch a first prototype, future versions will be CNC machined. The goal of Jeff Skierka is "to combine my love for materials with my interest in highly functional objects, user-experience and design". So this table is the best indicator of his success.

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Lighting Systems of Whisks by Matali Crasset
This collection 'emulsion' of French designer matali crasset consists mainly of very original lighting systems which are intended to be placed in the public buildings such as hotels, restaurants, bars etc. The main elements of all collection's items are whisks, the repetition of which creates different forms. Every item differs in color, light variations, grading and shadows which adds unique look to the constructions. The most impressive item is a 5 meters high illuminated tree combining four different sized whisks. The collection consists of screens, floor lamps, ceiling lights and wall mounted lighting systems.

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