Environmentally conscious (their products are sustainable) Eleek makes tiles, sinks, lighting, and countertops for your home. Eleek was born in 2000 when designer and patternmaker Eric Kaster and his partner, Sattie Clark, decided to put their heads together and market Kaster’s unique designs. Kaster is a 3rd generation patternmaker. What’s patternmaking you may ask? […]

Tin ceiling tiles are a great, elegant way to bring light and design into a room. You can get them in a variety of finishes (bronze-so hot right now!) and designs, and they can serve as back splashes, cornices and moldings as well, giving aged touches to homes new and old. The website […]

I don’t know if this room really has a name, but it looks like the inside of Noah’s Ark to me (since I’ve seen it and all). I love all the wood, especially the focal point…the beams on the ceiling. It makes a great library, like they have pictured here but I can also imagine […]

Built in bookcases bring warmth, sophistication, and extra storage to any room, and can be not only an architectural element but a decorative one as well. I found this bookcase on the web and love it for its unique take on book storage which makes the books look like a design element. The team at […]

Maybe I am not as refined as those interior designer “Ladies” that I offer up Architectural Artistry skills to (at their will). Or maybe my William Gibson cyberpunk retro-moderism roots slip out from time to time.. But the short of it is I Love Steampunk. Thats right, maybe not a design style that is in […]

Brian is getting to the color stage of this extreme ceiling project for a future residential office. The ladies at the Fifth Wall Design Group did a swell job with the color selection here. However no paint on the walls yet so this image my not offer expression beyond the archway detail and the larger […]

Whatever your religious convictions, it is hard to believe that spiritually infused and inspired art, architecture and design may be left unnoticed and miserably unappreciated. No one denies the miracle of Caravaggio, the 3 million a year who visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York or the exotic mysticism of the Jami’ Mosque.
In fact, […]

Your front door is the first thing someone sees when entering your home, so it makes sense that it should make an impression, giving your guest an idea of what can be expected inside. JELD-WEN holds a contest each year for new door designs and the two winners take doors to places most people haven’t […]

I often find myself in that ever precarious south park situation where the Underpants Nome’s come in the the middle of the night and steal my slippers. Now, thanks to Unicraft Joinery in Hamilton, Victoria Canada, I can hide my most valued nighttime footwear inside the treads and risers of my staircase. These unique drawers […]

Despite whatever design initiatives you may make with yourself or your interior designer, it will be a vain project without a careful estimation of what is going to be stored and where the storage spaces are suitable. Storage arrangements ideally should be convenient and efficient, e.g., coat closets near each entryway. A lot of this, […]

Sometimes I find while in a lethargic, almost pre-comma state of existence it can be difficult at times to open the window on a nice day to let the birds in for the cat. So I found what I believe to be the perfect solution. A building with a rotating, tilting or maybe even oscillating […]

I am seeing more and more wind powered buildings pop up (outside the us of course). So far most of the endeavors I have run across were industrial or commercial but today I discovered a residential wind powered housing unit in London. 66 private and affordable apartments who’s energy is collected by tower acts […]

In the past few years, people have become much more aware of the problems our environment is facing and suddenly it seems as though being ecologically minded is cool again. Instead of buying all new fixtures and other elements for your home, how about checking out salvage yard, antique shops, and websites for cool “second […]

This is the beginning of a paneled ceiling that we are building in the top of an archway that divides two rooms for a current client. There will be lights in the pockets (on the edges) that will illuminate the floor of the archway, which will have some fancy marquetry to be shown off. […]