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6 Natural Design Accents in the Home
July 27, 2013
Connecting a home to its environment can be as simple as bringing parts of the natural world back inside. Click to see six homes that beautifully incorporated natural design accents.
As part of an effort to appreciate the outdoors, a Norwegian family designed their vacation home to incorporate nature. The door handle of their sauna, for example, is just a piece of driftwood they collected at a nearby beach.
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Green Zero-Energy Family Home in Santa Cruz
The railing of an open upstairs hallway in a zero-energy Santa Cruz house is another application of collected driftwood in the home.
Photo by: Gabriela Hasbun
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An Idyllic Vacation Home in Greece
To shade their patio from the piecing Mediterranean sun, a Greek couple installed a thatch of locally sourced dried palm fronds.
Photo by: Andrea Wyner
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You can practically smell the sea breeze in this Amsterdam home, thanks to architect Pieter Weijnen’s “brand of maritime modernism.” The seashells decorating the concrete base pictured here connect an inland home to the ocean.
Photo by: Hertha Hurnaus
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Diamond in the Rough (and Ready)
Architect Ken Meffan saved rocks excavated during the construction of his California home, and set them as seats into the concrete floor of his family room.
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Diamond in the Rough (and Ready)
In addition to using rocks for chairs, Meffan also saved the imprints of leaves his daughter selected from the backyard by pressing the specimens into wet concrete during construction.
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