How do you create a one-of-a-kind boutique hotel in New York? You fill it with creative design details, like this spiral staircase column wrapped in books, that DHD Architecture + Interior Design included in their work on the Paper Factory Hotel in Queens, New York.
Hey contemporist friends! Here’s something to think about if you’re ever working on the design of your kitchen. This home by architect Michael Patroni and interior designer Salvatore Fazzari has a good example of how to give a kitchen island a floating effect.
Instead of bringing the base of a kitchen island all the way to the floor, you can give it a recessed undercut, which on its own gives it a bit of a floating feeling, but then you can improve the floating effect even more by using a dark material on the base that contrasts with the light material on top. Now your island is floating!
Seriously, this is totally a secret, and only you and I know about it. There’s a wall of shelves in this house, designed by DeForest Architects, that are actually a hidden door.
We featured this apartment the other day, and just noticed that there’s an open wood-burning fireplace at the end of the countertop in this kitchen. That’s something you don’t see every day, especially in an apartment. It’s like having a campfire in your kitchen, which feels a bit dangerous, but on the plus side, it would give you a good reason to be eating roasted marshmallows all the time.
If you’re like us, you probably didn’t know this was a thing, but now you do. The bathroom tiles in this home by De Bever Architects, make the room look like a giraffe.
So the next time you’re thinking of what tile you could cover your walls with, forget the tiles that look like monkeys or hippos, because we all know the only correct choice from now on are the giraffe tiles.
The children’s room in this home by MPR Design Group, includes a wall of fun creative custom shelves, that have a variety of sizes and shapes for storing toys and books, or crawling inside and hiding from the parents.
