Contemporary Exterior Design Ideas
Pistils Landscape Design + Build
This custom steel address plaque provides a modern element to a native plant garden. Designed and installed by Pistils Landscape Design + Build.
California Craftsman
Check out this beautiful contemporary home in Winchester recently completed by JBT Signature Homes. We used JeldWen W2500 series windows and doors on this project.
360 Yardware
This is a gate made of Mangaris wood, using the contemporary Elise Stainless Steel Gate Latch. It's made of 316 stainless steel so is perfect for coastal applications.
Elise Latch available through 360 Yardware at: http://shop.360yardware.com/Elise-Modern-Stainless-Steel-Ring-Gate-Latch-Elise.htm
Photos and gates by Greg Ethenoz of Beyond Decks (www.beyonddecks.com). Project designed by Lisa Cox Landscape Design (www.lisacoxdesign.com)
Mihaly Slocombe
Hood House is a playful protector that respects the heritage character of Carlton North whilst celebrating purposeful change. It is a luxurious yet compact and hyper-functional home defined by an exploration of contrast: it is ornamental and restrained, subdued and lively, stately and casual, compartmental and open.
For us, it is also a project with an unusual history. This dual-natured renovation evolved through the ownership of two separate clients. Originally intended to accommodate the needs of a young family of four, we shifted gears at the eleventh hour and adapted a thoroughly resolved design solution to the needs of only two. From a young, nuclear family to a blended adult one, our design solution was put to a test of flexibility.
The result is a subtle renovation almost invisible from the street yet dramatic in its expressive qualities. An oblique view from the northwest reveals the playful zigzag of the new roof, the rippling metal hood. This is a form-making exercise that connects old to new as well as establishing spatial drama in what might otherwise have been utilitarian rooms upstairs. A simple palette of Australian hardwood timbers and white surfaces are complimented by tactile splashes of brass and rich moments of colour that reveal themselves from behind closed doors.
Our internal joke is that Hood House is like Lazarus, risen from the ashes. We’re grateful that almost six years of hard work have culminated in this beautiful, protective and playful house, and so pleased that Glenda and Alistair get to call it home.
Contemporary Exterior Design Ideas
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