House Design

With Fluted Details Galore, This Paris Pad Is as Chic as it Gets

12/10/2025Naya

Sarah Dray is an out-and-out Parisienne. The interior designer was born in the French capital and has lived in traditional Haussmannian apartments ever since she was a child. “The aesthetics of Parisian buildings fascinate me,” she says. “I’ve never seen anything quite so beautiful.”

Dray initially trained with two preeminent purveyors of French decorative taste. While in college, she interned in the offices of ELLE DECOR A-List Titan Jacques Garcia. She recalls seeing the iconic designer from afar and noting his bright red socks and green crocodile loafers. She later worked for Isabelle Stanislas, known for her revamping of three

Threefold bags planning for King’s Cross house | News

11/10/2025Naya

Threefold Architects has secured planning permission to convert a two-room single-storey home at the side of a

News Flash • City of Port Angeles Offers Free Permit-Ready P

10/10/2025Naya

The City of Port Angeles is pleased to announce the launch of its Permit-Ready Plans program. Through this program, pre-designed building and engineering plan sets are available to the community completely free of charge.

Port Angeles’ Permit-Ready Plans include designs for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), Small Lot Homes, and Townhomes, both single story and two-story, ranging in size from 480 to 2543 square feet.

“All of the plan sets were developed by professionals specifically for Port Angeles Municipal Code design standards and zoning requirements,” says City Manager Nathan A. West. “Multiple housing types and configurations have been included to provide

The story behind Charleston single house architecture | Features

09/10/2025Naya

Paul Douxsaint, the home’s original owner, earned his money as a merchant of people, regularly importing Africans to the British colony. The people he purchased likely made each brick comprising the house. Other enslaved people worked on the rice plantations, helping to make Charleston the richest of the colonies.

The history of civil rights and the Black experience is everywhere in Charleston

Small gestured to a brick column next to a heavy black door, explaining to the tourists how she knows the stones are local: The clay here has iron in it, leaving the red brick peppered with black dots.

The street-facing door opens not to the home’s interior, but a two-story

Feds plans to develop catalog of pre-approved home designs

08/10/2025Naya

Nojoud Al Mallees, The Canadian Press

Published Tuesday, December 12, 2023 2:42PM EST

Last Updated Tuesday, December 12, 2023 4:57PM EST

OTTAWA – The federal government intends to resurrect a post-war effort to ramp up housing construction across Canada – but with a 21st-century twist.

A consultation process will begin next month on developing a catalog of pre-approved home designs to accelerate the home-building process for developers, Housing Minister Sean Fraser said Tuesday.

It’s a reboot of a federal policy from the post-Second World War era, when the Canada Mortgage and

Culture as an urban catalyst. Media Library by archi5 and CALMM architecture | The Strength of Architecture

07/10/2025Naya

Project description by archi5 and CALMM architecture

Sainte-Geneviève-des-bois is located in the department of Essonne, 34 km from Paris. The project to build the Olivier Léonhardt media library arose from the local government’s desire to ensure access to culture for the inhabitants of the department. To this end, it decided to launch a competition for ideas to replace a disused market in the heart of the “U de Saint Hubert”, a residential area known for its difficult social, cultural and economic difficulties of its residents.

The landscape and the buildings in the neighborhood give the site a very strong

The DC Interior Design Tour Kicks Off This Weekend

06/10/2025Naya

Looking for home design inspiration? The DC Incredible Interiors Tour, a one-day event showcasing some of the top interior design firms throughout the DC region, is for you. The self-guided tour takes place April 6 from 10 AM to 4 PM at homes in Georgetown, Alexandria, Hyattsville and Kent. At each stop, designers will be on hand to discuss their work.

The tour is sponsored by the Modern Architecture and Design Society and Gray Media. The participating firms include DIH Designs, Lisa & Leroy, EL Studio, Inner Loop Design, and a special presentation by list Modern of the Four Pavilions

Nordic interiors brand brings Danish-designed kitchens to Edinburgh

05/10/2025Naya

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One of Edinburgh’s most successful interiors brands has announced the launch of a new kitchen and bathroom showroom in the city’s Morningside neighborhood. Nordic Studio offers a collection of Danish-designed, high quality kitchens, made to exacting requirements from sustainable materials with true craftsmanship and attention to details.

The new showroom will allow customers to browse an exclusive collection of design-led kitchens with timeless style, which sit perfectly in both period properties and contemporary new builds.

The new venture is the latest launch from husband