Harris Hobbs House with Beautiful Exterior and Entrance

House entry could tell a lot about the house itself. Beautiful house exterior and entrance could make coming home one of the best things during the day. Townsend + Associates Architects managed to design great and conceptual house entrance in the Australia. It helps to capture garden views and light and made of modest materials and built elements. The sculptural “z form” roof of the entrance acknowledges existing adjacent built forms. It is articulated over steel beams running parallel with the house and the plywood soffit provides a warm honey glow. Because owners of the house are landscape decorators, such entrance combined with garden make overall house exterior looks very warm and beautiful. [Townsend + Associates Architects]

Photos by Ben Wrigley.

L House – White House with Pink Accent

L House is a result of putting maximum volume on the plot. That was one of the main contractor wishes. When O House by the same architect, Philippe Stuebi, was dedicated to circular forms this house is dedicated to clear lines and unique rooms in size and form. There are conical entry area with wardrobe and guest WC., large cubic double-story entrance hall, triangular loggia colored in pink, double-story inside rounded library which is downstairs and so on. The ground floor walls consist of large concrete elements which are interrupted by space-high glazing. The three-sided glazing of the library in the ground floor is mirrored-glass. Depending upon time of day and lighting conditions, in these glazing you can see the stored books or the reflected garden. The garden and other trees could be seen almost from almost every window because they surround the house from all sides. The upper floors are implemented in bright lime rendering and the glazing in nature-anodize aluminum.

Photos by DOMINIQUE MARC WEHRLI.

PACO – Japanese Minimalism In Small Houses

Paco is Japanese step in small houses. It’s designed by Jo Nagasaka+Schemata Architecture Office and has a size of container house (3m²). It brings minimalist design in such container houses. Paco has open roof and autonomous infrastructure what made it perfect to put in your garden or on your favorite surf place. There are plenty of similar small houses on the market and only time will show is there a place for one more with different, minimalist design.

2+ Weekend Modern Container Small House

2+ Weekend house is a modern small house unit at Trebnie, Slovenia. Designed by Jure Kotnik Arhitekt, the house born because of high prices for real estate. It’s the system of two containers manufactures specially for housing. ConHouse pushes the development of containers manufactured especially for housing and office purposes. Before ConHouse small container houses projects was mostly made with usual cargo containers.

The 2+ is a two-level mini housing unit composed of two containers perpendicular to each other. It shows that a minimal number of containers combined in an innovative fashion offers fresh yet functional architectural solutions. Thanks to colors and minimalistic look the design of the house looks quite modern. The upper container provides a projecting roof above the entrance as well as serves to shelter the back terrace. The ceiling of the bottom container is also a terrace of the first floor.

2+ Weekend Modern Container Small House

Modern Container ConHouse Interior

Container Small House Plan

Small Cabin Up The Lake

Small floating cabins on lakes aren’t a new idea nowadays. It’s a great retrieve place to spend summer and sunny weekends there. What could be better than clean nature and peaceful water around you?

Float cabins are a big part of Coastal British Columbia history. On Powell Lake, float cabins were inexpensive hunting and fishing getaways for paper mill workers. Today things are a little more regulated. Cabins have registered water leases and we pay property taxes.

This small cabinet has his own garden and two floors for living. It has everything needed for the normal living: restroom, kitchen, bedroom and guest room.

Read more about building process and costs on tinyhouseblog