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Furnish Studio, designed by 11.29 Studio, is based on sustainability with an idea of bamboo elements and aesthetic components of the architecture

Always wanted to get the look of a perfect Parisian exterior? We surveyed our 10 favorite French designers on the best in exterior and facade paint colors.

Babila demonstrates that, when it comes to a design, the material can be as important as the shape.  This new outdoor wall sconce is of chrome-plated aluminum, with a rounded mirror producing a panoramic effect, reflecting its surroundings. It is not designed to be an architectural element, but rather a simple and beautiful object that draws attention, whether on or off, as it reveals the daily life occurring around it. Babila comes in two sizes, 7 and 11 inches in diameter, and is also available in white or brown varnished aluminum, more discreet versions than the chrome one. In all of them an aura of blurred light is generated, a detail that contrasts with its material. Its lighting is indirect, soft on the wall, and well integrated into outside spaces.

Here's a little inspiration to transform your outdoor space (or even just get started gardening).

A garden of of small herbs and vines creates a fan of green as the plants creep up the outside walls. What at first seems to be a stark use of artificially dark wood reveals itself to be unironically natural: a soothing and woodsy backdrop for this home in the bustling city.

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You can build a climbing wall indoors, or outside with this tutorial.

Few design techniques can transform a room as the enhancement of its walls. Wall treatments have never been so exiting and unconventional from highly crafty fluted plaster walls to artistic pyramid paneling walls, architectural motifs that were accredited for exterior texture and furniture have been forever moved inside to residential interiors in never-seen-before ways. Most …