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How to Improve Natural Light and Ventilation in the Bathroom With a Shower Window

ArchDaily

Hidden Garden House. Image © Tom Ferguson As one of the smallest spaces in the home , shower rooms often find it difficult to get enough light. Due to issues with privacy and water damage, meanwhile, when a shower room does have the opportunity to add a window, it’s rarely positioned in the shower itself.

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Eight homes with practical and stylish built-in window seats

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For our latest lookbook , we've collected eight window seats in homes across the world including clever custom-made solutions in wood and concrete. By installing a window seat, interior designers don't just add extra seating to a room, they also create a peaceful space that can be used for contemplation and relaxation.

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The Art of Placing Windows in Your Home: A Comprehensive Guide to Maximize Light, Air, and Aesthetics 

The Architecture Designs

Home design is the result of making many decisions. While a set of decisions is involved in it, one of the most powerful decisions includes window placement. The windows are important to ensure savings in energy, natural light, ventilation, and a comfortable environment for living. They may thus help you save on energy costs.

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SMStudio includes pool with underwater windows in "bold" Vancouver house

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Gridded fibre-cement cladding and a swimming pool with underwater windows feature at the East Van Residence in Vancouver by Canadian firm SMStudio. This house was designed for a small family that loved their neighbourhood but needed a more functional house and floor plan that would suit their lifestyle and needs," the studio said.

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The Red House by David Kohn Architects named RIBA House of the Year for 2022

Archinect

RIBA has announced a winner in this year’s House of the Year contest via the final episode of the Grand Designs: House of the Year program, which aired on the BBC’s Channel 4 earlier today.

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What If You Added a Window?

Dwell

At least once a week, I look at one particular wall in my living room and wonder why the person who built this place didn’t put a window there. It’s a lovely home reno daydream, like knocking out a wall or simply adding a porch, but life (unfortunately) isn’t like HGTV. In fact, there’s a nice forsythia bush. The biggest unknown? "We

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Omar Gandhi Architects balances cedar house on rocky Nova Scotia coastline

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Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a cedar-wrapped house "inspired by the scattered boulders" that trail down the seaside property in Hubbards, Nova Scotia. The house presents as two interlocked, stacking boxes – that are meant to weather over time to match the pale grey of the sky – perched on a hillside.

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