We are more than ready for 2020 to begin, but first we’re looking back at our most-liked images from Instagram of 2019. From gorgeous pool-side retreats, moody colored cabinets and more, the 2019 round-up is full of great design that deserves a double take (or two!) before we move into the new year.
Een nieuwe gezinswoning gerealiseerd door architectenbureau A&R10, met een landelijke en moderne stijl die uitblinkt in de omgeving.
Lekker wegzwijmelen bij de mooiste huizen over de hele wereld, we love it! Waarschijnlijk is de k...
Deze ruime villa met open zichtlijnen was voorheen een schuurwoning die op dezelfde kavel staat als een 320 jaar oud boerderijtje.
De shortlist van de shortlist, van the Building of the Year-verkiezing van dit jaar. Een hypermoderne universiteit, een strakke pagode gebouwd volgens eeuwenoud Boeddhistisch concept of een complex dat volledig is af te sluiten met luiken. Wie wordt de winnaar van de Building of the year 2015? De jury heeft 338 finalisten geselecteerd in 30 verschillende categorieën. De winnaar wordt op 4 november bekendgemaakt tijdens het World Architecture Festival 2015 in Singapore. Kijk nu alvast mee naar onze tien favorieten. Ook grappig: het huis ontworpen door de Marc Koehler Architecten op Terschelling (uitgelicht in de nieuwe ELLE Decoration) is genomineerd in de 'Kleine projecten' categorie. Rommel in eigen huis? 18 razendsnelle opruimtips >
Le chef Olivier Roellinger et le "nez" d'Hermès, Jean-Claude Ellena, viennent de créer Épice Marine, onzième fragrance de la collection Hermessence et pur jus breton... Retour sur leur collaboration et visite du château Richeux en Bretagne.
Een villa ingebouwd in een Zwitserse berghelling, een modern houten strandhuis op het Deense eiland Møn en een charmante stenen boerderij in Piëmont: kijk binnen bij deze knappe vakantiehuizen die zich onderscheiden door hun fraaie architectuur.
1. Chinese ghost town of mansions reclaimed by farmers Cattle wander between the concrete shells of half-finished mansions in Shenyang, northeastern China, some of the only occupants of a luxury complex whose crumbling verandas and overgrown arches are stark symbols of a housing market crippled by its own excess. Found on France 24. 2. A…
Misty hills. Lonely forest roads. Plenty of vines, moss, and unkempt trees. And the cherry on top—a gorgeous abandoned building that radiates eeriness and grandeur in equal measure. That’s our dream home right there. Especially if the place looks haunted.
Lekker wegzwijmelen bij de mooiste huizen over de hele wereld, we love it! Waarschijnlijk is de k...
I was researching the different ways old Tudor houses trimmed out the roof edges and ran into something called bargeboards. I would never have guessed looking at that word what they were. Bargeboards reminds me of canals and mules and flat bottomed boats. Not quite what they are. Here are some examples: Since I had a bunch of my knotwork board trim I decided to use that and tie the whole house together with it. And to make the cute corbel/center posts I cut down some newel posts, added a bead and the end of a spindle. I used Minwax Ebony on the knotwork and the Dark Walnut on the rest of the boards so they'd match the trim on the bay window and the oriel window on the tower. My glue was still drying in these pics but here's one where I was able to take the painter's tape off. I like how they look, just a bit more finished. And when I do my slate roof it will come just over the edge of the boards and look even better. Before I did that I added more trim to the dormer on the removable roof. Not a lot, just around the window and some inside the gable. I think it looks pretty good at this point. I added more magnets to hold the roof on since with the dormer it has a bit more weight to it. I didn't attach the tower to the cottage this weekend, though I do need to do that soon. I'm thinking of messing with the tower walls on the edges to see if I can create an illusion of thicker walls rather than the thin oatmeal containers. I might be able to do it with some strips of balsa wood if I angled the balsa wood edges so they look like thin triangles and sandwiched the walls of the tower end between them. Have to see. But in the meantime I've been working on things for the stillroom/laboratory. I did take the clamps and rubber band off the loom so here's a look at it all finished. Since I was still thinking about the tower walls I decided I'd get some things ready for the stillroom/laboratory. I painted up some of my Shapeways purchases and with the help of a tutorial I purchased from Patricia Paul Studio on Etsy I made some magical items. I used jewelry wire and hot glue in some cases, and beads for bubbles in others. Gesso to prime the wire and hot glue and then paint and in some cases glitter nail polish, and then the triple thick glaze to make everything look shiny like liquid. I'm pretty pleased with how things turned out. I made a potion bottle with a floating cork. (Oh, I also added some shelves to the chimney for more storage.) That's one of my glass bottles that I primed with the gesso and painted. An in progress shot of my bubbling cauldron with the floating spoon. I painted the magic potion green. This is before the glaze to make it liquid looking. And I made a nearly bubbling over cauldron to go over the fire in the fireplace. So I added 'magic' to it with some sparkles and the glaze. You'd already seen the kettle with the purple potion pouring into the cauldron. I decided I wanted to use one of my potion bottles so I had some blue potion pouring into the same cauldron from a different direction. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The still got it's lip added to the bottom container and I got everything primed and painted. It has a slightly metallic look. Most of the items on the mantle have been glued down. I had to glue the carafe of wine pouring into the goblet or it wouldn't have stayed up. The floating spoon cauldron isn't glued down because it's heavy enough to stay upright. I might leave it in that spot or move it elsewhere. I'm thinking about it. Next weekend I might have to work part of the day Saturday and the same with the weekend after that depending on how well our progress goes with the new accounting program. This is not something I'm thrilled with when I think of how much I have left to do on the dollhouse. Hopefully it'll only be half days. But I need to start adding scrolls and books and equipment to the table and shelves in the stillroom. And get the wool and supplies Keli sent me in the workroom. Same with the kitchen and the bedroom. Food and bedding respectively. And I'd like to get the tower attached to the cottage. I think I've figured out how to make the 'hallways' look so that's something. Attaching the tower means I need to get the whole cottage onto the base, so build up the base a bit, make sure all my wires are long enough to come out the back and then get everything situated. And the list grows and grows. I hear that Nancy is recovering from her surgery nicely and is home and subject to cat supervision (whether she likes it or not) so that's some really good news. How are the rest of you doing? A saltbox (Keli) Lantern (make) Clogs (Keli) & (Anna if she gets time) A still (might be able to do this with Kris's 'paper pottery') Wool cards (make) Sausages on a string Dyed wool drying (Keli) Wool bundles (Keli) Woven cloth (go through fabric stash) Drill & Route out channels for lighting wires. Finish shutters & interior trim for all windows on main cottage. First Floor Second Floor Build Fireplaces & chimneys First Floor Second Floor Cut bricks and stone for outside of lower walls and tower. (Test Magic Brik) - in progress Add brick/stone to fireplaces. First Floor Second Floor Age fireplaces First Floor Second Floor Build base for house Get cottage on base Attach Tower to Main Cottage Doorway Finishes Hall Stone? Floors. Bedroom mantle Plaster upper walls and third floor of tower. Add timber to upper walls and third floor of tower. (testing) Paint stone. Add grout to stone and brick. Ceiling beams on first floor. Ceiling beams and roof support for lofted ceiling on second floor. Dormer ceiling supports Second floor Ceiling finish? Ceiling beams and roof support for the tower. Stain purchased furniture Bedroom Kitchen Stillroom Weaving/workroom Build furniture: Make sink Make curved table for tower room Make loom Adjust tables for lab Make stool Make telescope 1/2 done Make orrey 1/4 done Make tapestry Make rush mats Make bedding Make books & scrolls Make paper pottery Stillroom paraphernalia Potions? (some bottles made) Cage with spider Cage with mice Cauldron - floating spoon? (testing) Furniture in place finalize lights. Make sconce Make candelabras Standing Candelabra 2 small Candelabras Remove candles from extra and add to stillroom table. Add flooring Plaster inside walls Create 'slate' roof Bargeboards/trim for roof gables. Create front garden Make tree? Make stream? Make lake/river to go alongside house Make stone wall to go around garden Iron front gate.
Een tijdje geleden hebben we weer verlaten panden gefotografeerd Vandaag laat ik jullie zien wat er gebeurt wanneer de natuur een verlaten huis overneemt.
Atelier-Decor 2 by dogman333 on Flickr.
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Grand Hotel REGNIER. On tour with mika@urbex and plattfish-photo.
Old abandoned houses tell a story. Even if the story is not documented in history, each abandoned home gives us a glimpse into a life once lived.
Explore enchanting outdoor Tuscan patio ideas to transform your outdoor space into a Mediterranean-inspired oasis of relaxation and beauty.
De shortlist van de shortlist, van the Building of the Year-verkiezing van dit jaar. Een hypermoderne universiteit, een strakke pagode gebouwd volgens eeuwenoud Boeddhistisch concept of een complex dat volledig is af te sluiten met luiken. Wie wordt de winnaar van de Building of the year 2015? De jury heeft 338 finalisten geselecteerd in 30 verschillende categorieën. De winnaar wordt op 4 november bekendgemaakt tijdens het World Architecture Festival 2015 in Singapore. Kijk nu alvast mee naar onze tien favorieten. Ook grappig: het huis ontworpen door de Marc Koehler Architecten op Terschelling (uitgelicht in de nieuwe ELLE Decoration) is genomineerd in de 'Kleine projecten' categorie. Rommel in eigen huis? 18 razendsnelle opruimtips >
Old abandoned houses tell a story. Even if the story is not documented in history, each abandoned home gives us a glimpse into a life once lived.
Leanna Russell talked about her recent large-scale project Fantasy Scene: modeling & texturing approaches, background creation, lighting, and mood.
Can't wait until the world ends and EVERYTHING looks like this.
Explore the charm of living in a fairytale house. Immerse yourself in whimsical surroundings and discover the magic of a unique, dreamlike home.
Je me souviens d'un séjour en République Tchèque et plus précisément en Bohême. En nous promenant dans la campagne, je fus subjuguée par le charme d'une ancienne demeure à l'abandon. Elle conservait encore des restes de son faste d'antan. Mais quelle...
More than 4 billion people live in urban areas globally. It’s now projected that by 2050, more than two-thirds of the world population will live in urban areas. So no wonder we pay more importance to the buildings and structures around us.
On pourrait croire que nous avons conquis la nature en créant des jungles de béton, en abattant des forêts et en extrayant des minéraux. Cependant, la nature, lentement mais sûrement, continue de nous montrer qu’elle est la seule reine sur cette planète. Pas à pas, elle enveloppe les bâtiments, les routes et presque tous les obstacles qui se dressent sur son passage, et nous ne pouvons que nous émerveiller devant ce processus.
Jade Flower Palace The stream swirls. The wind moans in The pines. Grey rats scurry over Broken tiles. What prince, long ago, Built this palace, standing in Ruins beside the cliff? There are Green ghost fires in the black rooms. The shattered pavements are all Washed away, Ten-thousand organ pipes whistle and roar. The storm scatters the red Autumn leaves. His dancing girls are yellow dust. Their painted cheeks have crumbled Away. His gold chariots And courtiers are gone. Only A stone horse is left of his Glory. I sit on the grass and Start a poem, but the pathos of It overcomes me. The future Slips inperceptively away. Who can say what the years will bring? -Tu Fu (c. 713-770) tr. Kenneth Rexroth The sigh of History rises over ruins… - Derek Walcott They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and fingers tapping at casements, of howlings and shriekings, groanings and scuttlings and the clanking of chains, of hooded monks and headless horseman, swirling mists and sudden winds, insubstantial specters and sheeted creatures, vampires and bloodhounds, bats and rats and spiders, of men found at dawn and women turned white-haired and raving lunatic, and of vanished corpses and curses upon heirs. -Susan Hill In the park which surrounded our house were the ruins of the former mansion of Brentwood, a much smaller and less important house than the solid Georgian edifice which we inhabited. The ruins were picturesque, however, and gave importance to the place. Even we, who were but temporary tenants, felt a vague pride in them, as if they somehow reflected a certain consequence upon ourselves. The old building had the remains of a tower, an indistinguishable mass of mason-work, overgrown with ivy, and the shells of walls attached to this were half filled up with soil. I had never examined it closely, I am ashamed to say. There was a large room, or what had been a large room, with the lower part of the windows still existing, on the principal floor, and underneath other windows, which were perfect, though half filled up with fallen soil, and waving with a wild growth of brambles and chance growths of all kinds. This was the oldest part of all. At a little distance were some very commonplace and disjointed fragments of the building, one of them suggesting a certain pathos by its very commonness and the complete wreck which it showed. This was the end of a low gable, a bit of grey wall, all encrusted with lichens, in which was a common doorway. Probably it had been a servants’ entrance, a backdoor, or opening into what are called “the offices” in Scotland. No offices remained to be entered-pantry and kitchen had all been swept out of being; but there stood the doorway open and vacant, free to all the winds, to the rabbits, and every wild creature. It struck my eye, the first time I went to Brentwood, like a melancholy comment upon a life that was over. A door that led to nothing - closed once perhaps with anxious care, bolted and guarded, now void of any meaning. It impressed me, I remember, from the first; so perhaps it may be said that my mind was prepared to attach to it an importance, which nothing justified. - Margaret Oliphant, The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height. -Gustave Flaubert The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather-beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins. -Heinrich Heine It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth. -Alain de Botton Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. -Percy Bysshe Shelley Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place—but it’s all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that’s overrun with ruins. But put on your crown, my Queen, and we will build a New City on these ruins. -Eldridge Cleaver He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one feel an obligation to do one’s best. -Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark The ascendancy over men’s minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs. -Rose Macaulay, The Pleasure of Ruins The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame. -Gustave Flaubert: Flaubert in Egypt Shame on those who remain unmoved, whose pace fails to quicken, on entering one of these old habitations, a manor-house falling to wrack and ruin or a desecrated church! - Petrus Borel Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras! - Mehmet Murat ildan The broken pink pillars, in the half-light, might have been waiting to fall down on him: the pool, covered with green scum, its steps torn away and hanging by one rotting clamp, to close over his head. The shattered evil-smelling chapel, overgrown with weeds, the crumbling walls, splashed with urine, on which scorpions lurked - wrecked entablature, sad archivolt, slippery stones covered with excreta - this place, where love had once brooded, seemed part of a nightmare. - Malcolm Lowery, Under the Volcano There’s something inherently melancholy about ruins and abandoned places. Perhaps it is a recognition of the fragility, mortality, and inevitability of our own demise i spite of our best efforts and in the face of our striving for beauty. A great many ruins speak of mankind’s stupidity: warfare and greed… leading to economic collapse. I also feel a degree of incomprehension. How do some of these gorgeous buildings end up abandoned? How do we allow them to remain so while expending vast fortunes building new homes and factories and stores? How do we allow them to remain so while endless individuals are left homeless… living on the streets? At the same time… many of these ruins speak of hope as we observe the dialog… the betrothal of Art and Nature building upon the bones of the dead.
In an ancient Italian town perched on a rocky outcrop and accessible only by foot, Paolo Crepet and Cristiana Melis, the residents of an art-filled former palace, have created a guesthouse that is truly one of a kind
“Abandoned mall.”
Roman Robroek, from the Netherlands, estimates that he has visited around 500 abandoned locations on his adventures - and each time he comes across a piano he has to make a record of it.
Je me souviens d'un séjour en République Tchèque et plus précisément en Bohême. En nous promenant dans la campagne, je fus subjuguée par le charme d'une ancienne demeure à l'abandon. Elle conservait encore des restes de son faste d'antan. Mais quelle...
Our fascination with architecture runs deep. We pay attention to the structures around us because of the way it shapes our experiences and tells stories about the culture. To really understand our environment, we can explore cities by strolling down the main streets and learning about history by admiring famous landmarks. For some of us, however, the view from the bottom and from a safe distance is simply not enough.
Learn the haunting backstories.
