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Posts Tagged ‘glass’

Glass house

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Glass houseSometime the luxury real estates are not so comfortable for living. Such example is the Glass house – this is a remarkable luxury home in Santa Barbara, California. The house was built on 3.5 acres of land dotted with oak groves. It consists of 5 bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms. Interestingly in the house is that windows from floor to ceiling make it more in a glass pavilion. The five rooms has added a spacious kitchen, wine room with a collection of thousands of bottles, and picture gallery. Currently the gallery has an exhibition of … cars! Room is so spacious that accommodates 32 cars. The modern design and architecture have been taken in the interior of the house.
The house has been declared for sale at a price of 28.5 million dollars.
Really looks quite interesting in spite of the high price and really wonderful style of living in it.

House on Water

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Water HouseIn recent weeks an interesting topic made us very strong impression – has become a more modern variety of celebrities to earn their vacation in aqueous so-called home. This often means very different things. In general, there a number of techniques that allow a house to stand in centimeters above the water surface. Until now it was mostly wooden columns (similar to houses in Tahiti). The technology is well developed in recent years, however, allow complete freedom of action and water homes can now fly. The company X-Architects have collaborated well with Leen Vandaele for interior decoration of the Water House, which offered, combining some elements typical rather for yachts and other vessels of high class. The structure of the floating luxury home is built of two catamarans. This ensures stability reference dose, which allows the house to be anchorage and at sea, not just the pier. Dimensions are more than 20 meters in length and about 7 meters wide, which ensures a good location for all rooms of the two-storey building. At sea you can have a kitchen, a dining and living room on the second level and below are rooms for sleeping, bathroom and cabin management.
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