When you first walk into an IKEA store, there are rooms to wander through for inspiration. This IKEA display demonstrates a home office with a sofa-bed living area. It is in the Jacksonville, Florida IKEA store. The office has a comfortable rolling chair, full-sized desk …
The one room glass and steel Edith Farnsworth House seems to float above the ground. It was designed in the International style of Modern architecture by Mies van der Rohe. In 1945, Edith Farnsworth purchased nine acres of beautiful wooded property on the Fox River …
Midwest Products House Framing 3/4″ Scale Model Kits are used to teach construction using 3/4″ scale micro-cut wood cut to thousandths of an inch tolerances. The kits use the principles used in real world house framing. The included instruction booklets explain the purpose of each …
This photo showed up on Facebook of houses surrounded by oval hedges with no roads. The caption was nonsense, so I used Google Image Search to see what it really is, De Runde Haver or Oval Gardens, Nærum, Denmark. The gardens are in Nærum, Denmark, …
The historic Emmons Cottage is a Florida Cracker Cottage. It is near the parking for the Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens. The Art Museum is just past The Casements, the Rockefeller Estate near the beach on Granada Blvd. It is 994 square foot 2-story …
I want to share another of my favorite home design books. Cottages by Brian Coleman with photos by Douglas Keister is filled with inspiration. If small houses make you happy, I’m sure you will love this book, too. Cottages by Brian Coleman (Author), Douglas Keister …
See how a Facebook Marketplace seller has turned a shed into a 448 square foot studio. She bought two and all of the materials to finish them. After finishing one, she is selling the other one and the rest of the materials. You can finish …
This is the Vanna Venturi House. It is considered one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement. Architect Robert Venturi designed the house for his mother, Vanna. It was completed in 1964. The Vanna Venturi House may not seem like a small …
In 2017, I found a complete set of house plans for a farmhouse being given away free. The author, Jay Osborne, based the design on an abandoned farmhouse he found in a Virginia forest. He created it as an open-source art project house design. Originally called …
This post goes into more details on the kitchen ideas on the American Farmhouse Extended Plans. The original Free Farmhouse Plans build a small 975 square foot two-story traditional farmhouse. The Extended Design gives ideas for how you can build a bigger farmhouse or build …
