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7 Easy Ways to Make Every Space in Your House More Sustainable

Green design is no longer just a buzzword—it’s a movement. Architects and designers are embracing sustainable solutions across all ways of projects and private homes are no exception. As technologies advance, energy efficiency starts with the architecture. For new builds, choosing materials suitable for a site’s specific climate can help reduce a household’s overall consumption. During renovations, installing high-performance windows and doors can help maintain a consistent interior temperature, lowering HVAC needs.

However, environmentally friendly living does not always require a major physical transformation. Design experts agree that eco-conscious changes can certainly start small, from the appliances we purchase to

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WGNB completes colorless interior for golf supply store PXG

South Korean spatial design studio WGNB has completed a flagship shop for golf brand PXG in Seoul, featuring an achromatic material palette and a graphite-covered wall that leaves smudges on visitors’ clothing.

The store is located in Seoul’s Gangnam district and was designed by WGNB to reference the graphite used to produce PXG’s golf clubs.

Steel display cases and stands in PXG flagship stores — WGNB has designed PXG’s Seoul flagship store

“Rather than just applying the material to every plane, we studied the characteristics of graphite itself,” the studio told Dezeen.

“It is lighter than it appears and is an allotrope of carbon, like diamond. The graphite embeds calmness

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A Controversial Interior Design Trend for 2023? Brutalism

Fast forward to 2023, however, and brutalism is making a serious comeback. In the Oscar-nominated Tar, a brutalist Berlin apartment gathered just as much audience intrigue as Cate Blanchett’s character of Lydia. when Vogue published its annual interior-design trend report, multiple designers noted they’d seen an uptick in its signature stark hallmarks, such as concrete floors and the use of raw industrial materials. One designer, Colin King, explained he had used everything from exposed bulbs and pipes to materials like bronze, plywood, and cement in recent projects. “I have historically been impacted most by [architectural features] that feel monolithic—I

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Toronto house design makes more of a gable

A refuge with a unique and personal design that rises three stores to a gable at the top. Those were the requests of a Toronto couple for their family home in the city’s Cedarvale neighborhood.

The homeowners were also very open-minded, say Jennifer Kudlats and Andrew Hill, with Studio for Architecture and Collaboration. And that allowed the architects to try new things with Everden House.

“How do we make the public space — the living space — as special as what was going to be the (top floor) primary bedroom?” says Kudlats about how they approached the design.

The answer

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See How a Leafy and Lush Dwelling Obtained Infused With Earlier World Attraction | Architectural Digest

When it received right here to her household’s lush and leafy oasis in Venice, Los Angeles–based designer Kate Driver started off, surprisingly, by abandoning her aesthetic roots. In September 2016, she and her husband spontaneously abandoned their renting life—and Driver’s long-held dream of proudly proudly owning an “earlier house with character,” not in distinction to the Georgian-style properties of her native Atlanta—to dive head-first into proudly proudly owning a new-build residence with no precise architectural soul to speak of.

“Nonetheless after we walked by, it felt like no place we had ever been sooner than, like a tropical wonderland,” Driver,

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See How a Leafy and Lush Dwelling Acquired Infused With Earlier World Attraction | Architectural Digest

When it received right here to her household’s lush and leafy oasis in Venice, Los Angeles–based designer Kate Driver started off, surprisingly, by abandoning her aesthetic roots. In September 2016, she and her husband spontaneously abandoned their renting life—and Driver’s long-held dream of proudly proudly owning an “earlier dwelling with character,” not in distinction to the Georgian-style properties of her native Atlanta—to dive head-first into proudly proudly owning a new-build residence with no precise architectural soul to speak of.

“Nonetheless after we walked by, it felt like no place we had ever been sooner than, like a tropical wonderland,” Driver,

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