Home Love: Contemporary Home Designs

"We're doing a lot of transitional style," says Jackie Cappa of Piazza Di Cappa, an interior design firm with a home decor retail shop in Locust Valley. Transitional style is a hybrid of classic and contemporary looks. PHOTOS: Top home decor trends of 2013 Shimizu’s playful design brings more fun to the model and for homeowners to choose from. They’re made for the contemporary homes of those interested in standing out from their neighbors. For the first release, Shimuzi offers five options. Two are About five years ago, at the peak of a rustic Texas-Tuscan-Mediterranean design frenzy in San Antonio's luxury-homes market, the reaction by a neighborhood's architectural control committee to a modern design was often bafflement. “Whoa,” said Adam Whole blocks were modern in a way I'd not seen before It's not as pure and minimal as AndersonAnderson's Kumamoto Zero house, our aesthetic touchstone, but Mark's design has the quirky personality that I love about his Prospect houses—the thing Parade of Homes shifts toward contemporary design Barn-style doors and freestanding tubs were among the prominent trends this year. Check out this story on thespectrum.com: www.thespectrum.com/story/life/2015/02/27/parade-homes-shifts-toward A homebuilder expanding into North Texas is turning buyers’ heads with its nontraditional designs. Seattle-based MainVue Homes’ models display clean, modern lines instead of the historically inspired styles found in most new Dallas-area houses. .

(StatePoint) If it’s time for a remodel -- or even just a refresh of your home’s dated décor – it may be time to think modern. Innovations in technology and design can offer your home efficiency, luxury and sophistication, and even improve your With interest in micro-housing growing worldwide, such innovations have made Japanese architecture a leading force in contemporary home design. A new book, "The Japanese House Reinvented" (Monacelli Press) by Philip Jodidio, surveys more than 50 The modern home is built with lots of glass, natural light, concrete and dark timber cabinetry and window frames. “I really only started taking an interest in interior design when I was building our home. Suddenly a whole new world of creativity .