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From kemiko

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