Choosing natural stone bathroom design 2015

Choosing natural stone bathroom design 2015, could be an alternative for you who want a good impression, natural, and "cool" or cool. As a place that we often use, the bathroom became one of the most important parts in the house.

Maybe without us knowing it, condition of the bathroom in the house we were also reflects how the owner. More than that, it could affect us in different situations.

When in a state of tired day of work by squeezing the brain and physical exertion, there will be a feeling of comfort if the condition of the body while cleaning the bathrooms were immaculate, comfortable, and cool. Natural stone, is one of the matching elements to complete that goal.

 Many of the houses that we have presented minimalist, always use natural stones in different sides of the house. For example, for the front of the house, to the park, pool, or other parts. What if we want to use it in the shower? Of course you can.

There are several options that you can try. Using natural stone as the contrast of the main concepts, or use natural stone as the main concept of your bathroom. I myself prefer the contrast of natural stone as the main concept. Since the minimalist design is also very suitable if combined with the use of natural stone in the interior of the house.

 For example, using natural stones in a side wall of the house, or part of a wall with a particular concept. Although not the whole, but the impression that still differ if we use other colors to give a touch in the bathroom.

Below, there are some pictures of a bathroom charming natural stone with a variety of different concepts. Keep in mind, that natural stone also has a very diverse motives. The price also varies according to the quality, rock types, and sizes are used. So, be smart to adjust the funding provided in order to obtain the concept of natural stone bathroom as you wish.

Can not wait? Here it is a natural stone bathroom we promise.

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V 'House Unique house by Wiel Arets Architects

V 'House Unique house by Wiel Arets Architects

This unique home may house will be one of them. This house was named V 'House. House with a very minimalist appearance when viewed from the front and take better advantage of the unique properties of the glass. By making the entire front of this house will provide a mirror-like effect. so that when viewed from a side angle, which is visible in front of house. This V'House completed by Wiel Arets Architects.
Houses with this unique design is located in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and completed in 2013.

 V’ House by Wiel Arets Architects:

“V’ House was constructed for a couple that collects vintage cars, and is stitched within the medieval tapestry of Maastricht. The city dictates all new structures remain within the envelope of pre-existing buildings, and so a cut was created in the house’s front façade to generate a triangulated surface, which leads from one neighbor’s sloped roof to the opposite neighbor’s vertical bearing wall. As the house’s site is long and narrow, voids were cut into the maximum permitted volume to ensure that natural light spills throughout the interior. The ground floor is both open to the exterior elements and sunken to the rear of the site, which makes possible the maximum two-story height allowance. A covered portion of this exterior space serves as an outdoor parking garage for the owners’ collection of Aston Martins.

As the house finds refuge between two historical buildings, it is a burst of modernity within this currently gentrifying neighborhood of Maastricht. The house is enormous, totaling 530 m2 (5,705 ft2), and is entered through two oversized sliding glass doors that perforate its front façade. These doors serve as the house’s main entry and open to either their left or right for entry by foot, and both simultaneously retract to allow the entry of automobiles. Due to safety and privacy concerns, these glass entry doors have no handles or keyholes and are instead are remotely opened from any iPhone, from anywhere in the world. For further privacy the house’s front façade was fritted with a gradient pattern of dots, which disperse in placement as the house rises towards the sky and focus at a distance to compose an image of curtains fluttering in the wind. Actual curtains align the interior of the front façade to afford additional privacy.

Circulation throughout the house occurs via two paths. A ‘slow’ stair leads from the ground floor to the expansive living room, which is connected to the partially raised kitchen and dining areas by a small ramp. A ‘fast’ stairwell traverses the entire height of the house and, together with the platform elevator, allows for direct vertical shortcuts to all levels of living. Thus this house, with its multiple circulation interventions, such as its living room ramp and ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ paths, is organized not around the traditional notion of stacked floors and is instead organized around its circulatory section. At the apex of this ‘fast’ route is the entrance to an expansive roof terrace that’s also the most public space of the house, as it offers panoramic views over the spired roofline of Maastricht.

The living room has been suspended from two I-beams that span two masonry bearing walls that surround the rear of the site. Steel tension rods measuring 5×10 cm (2×4 in) extend from these I-beams into the almost fully glazed façade of the living room, which allows its volume to float above the Aston Martins below. For privacy reasons, this glazing was treated with a highly reflective coating that casts a hue of chartreuse or amber depending on the season and angle of the sun. Only when inhabiting the master bedroom is this hanging of the living room apparent, as the I-beams are visible from the master bedroom, which opens onto the living room’s roof, which functions as a private terrace for the owners.

Heating and cooling is provided via a concrete core activation system concealed within the floors and ceilings of the house, while all storage is built into the circulatory areas in order to divide spaces and define rooms. These custom designed storage units also outfit the office space, where they conceal a bed that can be lowered to accommodate temporary visitors, such as the owners’ now grown children. All storage areas recede in prominence due to their fluid integration, which allows the house’s interior to remain flexible and open for ephemeral definition. The one-piece custom designed kitchen was constructed in stainless steel, and the dining table, which is connected to it, cantilevers 3.5 m (11.5 ft) toward the front façade. The custom furnishings and storage spaces, together with the in-situ concrete and multiple roof terraces, make the V’ house an expression of free space in a regulated heritage context.”

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Unique home two personality Janus House by Kennerly Architecture & Planning

Unique home two personality Janus House by Kennerly Architecture & Planning

Janus House was designed by architectural firm based in San Francisco Kennerly Architecture & Planning.
One of the highlights of this home is its dual personality. In view of the front, one appreciates a restored Victorian facade. And on the back is a modern fasat, which is made from recycled plastic and featuring a large glass wall.

This Janus house was completed in 2012, this contemporary house janus located in San Francisco, California, United States. Viewed from both sides of this house, certainly very unique with two different concepts. Of course many people who think that it is a different house.

 Janus House by Kennerly Architecture & Planning:

“A house on a through-block lot responds to its dichotic circumstance with two distinct faces – A restored Victorian facade addresses the more formal northern frontage, and a modern one opens to the south across the other – an ad hoc row of homes, cottages and small apartment buildings.

The old facade is an elegant mask fronting three original rooms of handsome proportion. The modern face is an open gable framing two levels of family rooms with operable glass walls and a syncopated screen of white recyclable plastic.

Inside, old and new blend together in an open suite of rooms. Upstairs, the existing attic was mined for unused space to create quirky gabled bedrooms each with its own character.”

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Architectural beauty Limantos Residence by Fernanda Marques

Limantos Residence is a project that is completed by Fernanda Marques. This luxury residences located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This residential emphasizes modern elements, with the use of glass as a barrier that will provide light during the day. Added to a place to relax or outdoor living area that provide sensation. The place is equipped with a relaxing swimming pool and sundeck.

Limantos Residence by Fernanda Marques

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