Tag: exterior
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Transforming a Queens Home’s Exterior with Confidence
For Gary and his husband, their Queens home held ten years of memories, but its exterior felt like a faded photograph waiting for a vibrant touch. Intimidated by the thought of a major renovation, they finally found the courage to embark on a transformation that would inject rich color and a beautifully tweaked façade into…
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Pivot House: A rare Paragraph 84 home with a striking gabion wall exterior
The Pivot House is a rare example of a Paragraph 84 home – one of the few in the country to meet the stringent planning requirements for exceptional architecture in rural settings. Designed by Studio Bark, the five-bedroom self build, is an innovative off-grid dwelling, blending sustainable technologies with biophilic design principles. What makes Pivot…
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Backyard Updates: Plants, Plans, Big Trees And Bigger Gazebos
Very exciting stuff is happening in the “backyard” right now as we entered phase two of landscape construction (that we put off for a couple of years to save and learn). The main goals of this phase were outlined in this blog post, but essentially it was reducing the size of the sports court (for…