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Seven cosy living rooms with industrial material palettes

Deezen

Living rooms with tactile brick , concrete and wood surfaces feature in this lookbook , which shows that opting for industrial materials doesn't have to sacrifice cosiness. To add warmth to the space, these finishes are balanced with natural details including dark wooden floorboards and furniture , suede chairs and a textile wall tapestry.

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Emil Eve uses natural materials to bring "sense of calm" to renovated London home

Deezen

The clients also requested that the new spaces include natural materials, which informed the use of douglas fir for the exposed structure, exterior cladding, internal joinery and fittings. The clients requested the use of natural materials in the extension. Wooden finishes are used throughout.

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Magpie House extension is a "personal museum" for client's furniture collection

Deezen

Architecture practice DGN Studio has extended a terraced home in east London with spaces and materials that form a backdrop to the client's mid-century furniture collection. It is designed as a backdrop to the client's furniture collection. Read: Sunken concrete floor expands Victorian terrace house in London.

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Beige tones and limewash finishes make this a blissful wabi-sabi residence

Habitus Living

Presented with such a challenge, interior designer Royston Ho from Oblivion Lab has used colours, materials and decisive space planning strategies to convert the unit into a homey abode. The clients love the wabi-sabi aesthetic and wanted to incorporate elements of it into their home,” says Royston.

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Eight interiors where burl wood provides natural texture

Deezen

This week's lookbook rounds up eight interiors with furnishings and surfaces finished in burl-wood veneer, allowing its swirly, psychedelic graining to serve a decorative function. Mixed and matched with other patterns, the material is now used to communicate a kind of organic understated luxury, much like natural stone.

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Ep 121: Material Selection

Life of an Architect

When you think of a building – whatever scale or project type, the items that go to create that building are most frequently associated with the materials that are selected that define the appearance of the building. Continue reading Ep 121: Material Selection at Life of an Architect. The "Why" jump to 12:51 Why choose the material?

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Why aren't more architects using stone as a building material?

Deezen

Stone has the potential to become a go-to, low-carbon structural material, but barriers around quarrying and a lack of awareness must be overcome to make this a reality, experts tell Dezeen in this Stone Age 2.0 She explained that the proximity of a quarry to the construction site is important if the material is to be used sustainably.

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