Category: Design Inspiration

Modern Design Ideas for your Home: The Outdoor Shower Summer Solstice is sneaking up on us – Saturday, June 21st. The long, sunny days of summer are here, and as the weather gets hotter all we want to do is find a way to cool off… Recently in The Architect’s Notebook we’ve covered Modern Outdoor

Warm weather and the first week of June means It’s officially Summer! Everyone seems to be outdoors, in flip-flops, and barbecuing in the backyard…. Let the pool parties begin! Today’s post introduces some cool, contemporary pool design ideas just in time for Summer! Reflecting pools, refracting pools, infinity pools, indoor-outdoor pools…these images should get you inspired for

Modern Inspiration for your Outdoor Kitchen Our Modern Garden Design post a few weeks ago got so much attention that I thought we should continue celebrating the warm weather and stay outside with our inspiration…today’s post presents 9 beautifully-designed reasons to move the cooking outdoors! Whether it’s primarily used for entertaining guests or for summer

Modern Garden Design Spring is finally here and what do we want to do more than BE OUTSIDE!? Today’s post presents plenty of contemporary inspiration for your patio or garden, whether it’s large or small, planted or paved, urban or open… plus, for further “modern garden design” perusing we’ve included links to a few fun

Clean, crisp, bright…WHITE in the Contemporary Kitchen As fun as a vibrant POP of Color is in the kitchen, I LOVE the simplistic beauty of pure WHITE. All white can sometimes seem stark or cold, but I like to think of it as your canvas… similar to the way some chefs will only serve food

18 Contemporary Kitchens, designed with a POP of Color: Architects love white. But sometimes a touch of COLOR here or there can add the perfect POP to your contemporary home. Whether it’s an accent of vibrant color that adds a little excitement to a simple, modern kitchen, or a not-so-subtle glossy color finish on your cabinets

Women in Architecture has become quite a hot topic lately and one I’m both excited and tentative to tackle in today’s post… excited because I’m proud to promote and inspire women in the world of architecture, and tentative because I’d rather the focus be on the architecture than the woman… In honor of International Women’s

Natural light makes such a difference in a home. A well-designed skylight can be a beautiful way to bring daylight into interior spaces and to add a little WOW to your home! We are currently designing a contemporary home which includes a skylight over the stairs. In our research we came across so many stunning examples

Often going through our clients’ “home wish list” with them during the design process we are shown pictures of beautiful bathrooms with contemporary tubs and amazing views. A client once said to me as she was pointing to one of the images below, “Oh that tub! I can just imagine myself IN there!” A beautiful bath gives us a