If you don't know about the Golden Ratio, you are missing out.
It's basically a 60/40 rule.
Here's 6 ways to use it to design better homes and projects:
I think if we're honest, it would be hard to top the Moroccan Riad for the perfect home
Courtyards, blossoming with palms
Maybe tiled pool. At least a fountain
Intricate moorish architecture
Assortment of terraces
A true oasis...
Most condos & apartments today are....not the best, aesthetically speaking.
NYC's The Fitzroy is proof that we can still build totally aspirational stuff today.
This thing just sings. Here's a bit about it:
If I were going to build a dream house, it would be a
single story stone U shaped courtyard style home with lots of windows looking out into a central green space
Are your Airbnb's a little....mehh?
Is your home a normie haven of Target throw pillows, gray microfiber furniture & shame?
Fear not!
Here's 15 simple fixes you can jump on, right now, to turn away from a basic past & embrace a whole new you:
Large open spaces are nice, but whether we realize it not,
everyone wants a sense of Enclosure.
It's a simple yet critical design concept you should use👇
The 10 best design ideas of 2023
Will easily put you in the top 1.7% of homes and projects (from a vibe perspective)
(Would be a good thing to bookmark & share 😉)
You want something with feeling & warmth, but you have something cold & stale
An evocative space really boils down to 3 things:
Color + Texture + Light
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300,000 bricks create this beautiful textured facade of Arc by Koichi Takada Architects
Completed in Sydney in 2018, two brick podiums surround dual 26 story glass & steel towers housing a soaring passageway in between
You don’t just go to a restaurant because you are hungry, you go because the environment feels great
So…Homes should take queues from restaurants, to feel more great.
Things restaurants do that homes don’t:
-Low light on a dimmer
-Cool light fixtures
-Dark moody colors
-Good
Are your Airbnb's a little....mehh, anon?
Is your home a normie haven of Target throw pillows, gray microfiber furniture & shame?
Fear not!
Here's 15 simple fixes you can jump on, right now, to turn away from a basic past & embrace a whole new you:
Reschio Castle
A 1000 year old castle transformed into a hotel by the Bolza family
This is the top, folks. Doesn't get any better. Throwing in the towel
You don’t just go to a restaurant because you are hungry, you go because the environment feels great
So…Homes should take queues from restaurants, to feel more great.
Things restaurants do that homes don’t:
-Low light on a dimmer
-Cool light fixtures
-Warm moody colors
It helps you choose how much furniture goes in a room.
60% of the floor area should be furnished and 40% should be open.
More will feel cramped and less will feel underfurnished.
At the end of your life,
after a long illustrious real estate career,
You will almost certainly look across the hospital bed to your family members to eke out the phrase…
“I should have tiled more buildings”
Have a room in your house you're not sure what to do with? How bout a listening room?
-Long low shelves
-Couple iconic lounge chairs
-low wide coffee table
-large plant & moody light
-huge speakers & console
That empty space might just turn into the best room in the house
New Deco is rapidly gaining popularity in commercial interiors and is starting to hit homes as well
It's an exciting time for deco fans of all stripes!
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How to hang art like a pro:
First is most homes would be better served by larger art.
3x3, 4x4, or even larger. A great option for inexpensive big art is a large map or wall hanging.
Center of the artwork to be about 60 inches about the floor
A lot of people have asked me where to find great light fixtures.
It's hard! Most stuff is pretty of boring and lackluster.
Here's 11 of my favorite places you can find great lights for your projects:
Booking Office 1869 - restaurant at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
It's got it all.
-Subtle red + green + gold
-Swoopy umbrella lamps
-Low lighting
-Arches
-Warm wood tones/minimal white
You can go really deep with this.
If a sofa takes up 60% of the seating in a room, accent chairs should make up the remaining 40%.
A coffee table should be 60% of the size of the sofa it serves.
On that coffee table, 40% should be decorated and 60% open.
Reading Club & Seneca - members club restaurant in San Diego by AvroKO
The deco is strong here.
Can you see how repeating the same shape is the name of the game?
Color in a room
The dominant color in a room should take up 60% of the painted area.
The secondary color would take up 40%.
If you want to do 3 colors, it's 60/30/10 and the 10 is usually a decorative accent not paint.
Have you seen this old cement factory turned into a gorgeous estate?
One of the most interesting & beautiful buildings in the world.
Dig in to Ricardo Bofill's 1975 masterpiece, La Fabrica:
This one is on an absolute tear on IG / TT. Posted yesterday afternoon and already has 2.2M views
Main reason to post every day is you have no clue what will hit and you’re just spreading out your surface area