Home Ideas

Favorite shows for ideas:

Grand Designs

  The Japanese House, Monmouthshire (favorite)
Extreme Homes
  Hilltop Rotating House (favorite)

Favorite ideas:

• Double Stairs (idea from Still Standing)
• Use bamboo, cork and cedar...copper and stainless steel
• Sconces (lighting/decoration)
• Futaba ("double leaves sprout from one seed" in Japanese) by Akemi Tanaka
• Tagei ("versatility" in Japanese) by Akemi Tanaka
• Pocket doors
• Floating stairs/tables/etc.
• Carpet tiles
• 45° long cut board to hang items (could also use as a accent piece around the whole room)
• Softseating
• Horizontal large flat light switches (push away when walking in or out of room or reverse)
• In floor lighting (in floor or under counter)
• Sunken living room
• Vaulted ceilings
• Paint cement block or brick on garage/closet sheet rock
• Open concept
• Hidden room
• Plantation blinds
• Computer automated lights, door locks, thermostat, etc
• Many and well placed electric, data and water outlets
• AC to DC current converter in garage...then get rid of traditional power supplies
• Generator tied into home electric grid
• Ceiling fans
• In floor heating (bathrooms)
• Interior courtyard
• Rotating house (HGTV)
• Popup cement patio furniture
• Zigzag sidewalk (different options...rounded edges with square lines in overall direction)
• Patterns in sidewalks (straight lines/curvy edges, etc)
• Sunken bathtub
• Washroom that can be completely washed out with garden hose (medium river stone/rock)
• Shelf as railing for balconies, decks, below to bottom
• Curved roof (Parrot Mountain)
• Copper roof
• Builtins like night stands, bookcases, etc (floating or cut into wall)
• Curved door tops
• Door that pivots in middle and only rotates counter clockwise, lightly clicks to hold place and can pop out (for larger rooms like kitchen/front door/etc
• Solar panels as awnings
• Perforated metal stairs
• Cantilever decks, etc
• Floating bed, night stands, decks, etc
• Cellar
• Rock, dirt or hay bale insulation
• Roof that collects water
• Tandem garage for tool area
• Wind chimes out of conduit
• Rock with grass between driveway
• Walls that open up to outside
• Port hole windows
• Sliding/rolling windows...into wall like pocket doors
• Fence with staggered top or blank space between each board
• Russian fence (Mom and Dad's photos)
• Cedar fence
• Hot tub that spills into pool
• Infinitely pool
• Game room...arcade, pool, darts
• Theater room
• Not big...like fancy cabin (perfect use of space)
• Bookcase in corner...wrapping the corner and built "into" the wall...also just any bookcase built into a wall (hidden corner)
• Plain square crown molding on walls...like in offices
• Closet door light that turns on like refrigerator (Phoenix home)
• Floating steps either in water, lawn and/or flower beds
• Drawer step...in kitchen to get to high cabinets
• Floating (U beam or solid), spiral, alternating tread stairs, ladder, etc.
• Library stairs in kitchen, but also run into living room (Genevieve Gorder's NY apartment)
• Marble piece vertially up sink back splash
• Elevator (actual and dumb waiter)
• Base boards up traditional stairs
• Sliding bookcases
• See through bookcase as corner of room
• White/chalkboard fridge
• Rocking duck suction cup soap dispenser (Good Eats)
• Low windows to outside in some rooms
• Japanese lodge timber
• Area open to upstairs that are on the side and not very open or viewable
• Balcony on roof like square Japanese house (Grand Designs)
• TV screen in front of window (Grand Designs)
• Bench in front of master bedroom window...with cabinets underneath