Our newest lookbook explores properties the place particulars and flooring supplies assist create the impression that a residing area extends past a house's exterior partitions.
A spread of various strategies can be utilized to create the sensation of a steady flooring floor.
The obvious is to make use of the identical flooring materials, or one that appears very comparable, for each indoor and out of doors areas.
Nonetheless, this isn’t at all times obligatory. By combining thresholds with floor-to-ceiling home windows, it’s also potential to create that sense of continuity by merely sustaining a constant floor.
Right here, we take a look at 10 examples that use a number of of those strategies to create totally different results, from a forest home in Mexico's Valle de Bravo to a waterfront villa in Denmark.
Many of those examples use steady flooring surfaces to attach a lounge with a backyard or terrace, however some discover different rooms the place the impact could be utilized.
That is the most recent in our collection of lookbooks, providing visible inspiration from Dezeen's archive. For extra inspiration, see earlier lookbooks that includes chocolate brown interiors and minimalist loos.
Casa Mola, Mexico, by Estudio Atemporal
Mexico Metropolis-based Estudio Atemporal designed this home in a densely forested space of Valle de Bravo with the intention of permitting residents to reside “extra organically”.
Giant-format flooring tiles inside the house give approach to brick paving outdoors, however sliding glass doorways with stage thresholds create a clear junction that enables the 2 areas to really feel related.
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The Saddlery, UK, by Studio Octopi
Terrazzo flooring options each indoors and outdoor on this extension to a Georgian home in south-east London, designed by structure agency Studio Octopi.
Sourced from British producer Diespeker, this materials is stained with colours that complement the mint inexperienced tone of the constructing's steel partitions.
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Dulwich Home, UK, by Proctor & Shaw
The kitchen and terrace develop into a single area divided solely by ranges on this extension of a house in Dulwich, London, designed by structure studio Proctor & Shaw.
Glass doorways open on two sides – with one disappearing right into a wall – to totally open up the nook of the constructing. The sliding mechanism is fastened right into a steady floor of the porcelain tile flooring, leading to a closing threshold.
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Maison Hercourt, France, Studio Guma
Minimal glazing performs a key position in connecting the kitchen of this renovated Normandy stone farmhouse with an adjoining terrace.
Designed by Paris-based Studio Guma, the renovation concerned putting in the kitchen in an area that beforehand functioned as a cart shed. Though the floor of the ground adjustments from concrete to stone from inside to outdoors, the skinny body glass doorways assist the 2 surfaces to be learn as one.
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Fjord Boat Home, Denmark, by Norm Architects
Copenhagen-based Norm Architects selected handmade ceramic bricks for the ground of this vacation house, constructed on the sting of a fjord simply outdoors town.
They type stairs that descend from the primary home to a terrace, then proceed indoors to offer the inside residing areas an off-the-cuff, rustic really feel. On the principal entrance, the linearity of the brick sample acts to attract the attention.
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Ederlezi, Mexico, Práctica Arquitectura
Utilizing the identical flooring floor for each indoor and out of doors can get costly, however this low-cost infill home in Monterrey affords a wise answer.
Designed by regionally primarily based Práctica Arquitectura, the home has a stepped residing area with an adjoining courtyard.
A lot of the courtyard is landscaped, however the edges are lined with the identical sq. saltillo tiles that present the inside flooring. This helps prolong the out of doors residing area with out requiring so many tiles.
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The Maker's Barn, UK, by Hutch Design
Ground-to-ceiling home windows characteristic in most of the rooms at this rural vacation rental on the outskirts of London, a former pig shed renovated by Hutch Design. This leads to a powerful reference to the encircling courtyard.
The impact is especially efficient in the main bedroom, which has an in-floor bathtub. Right here, you may see the clear line that flows between the picket flooring inside and the flagstones outdoors.
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Mossy Level, Australia by Residence Workplace
Melbourne-based Workplace Version chosen very totally different surfaces for the bathe room of this home in Mossy Level, New South Wales, however they appear to mix collectively because of using frameless glazing.
An analogous impact could be discovered all through the home, however the distinction between the picket flooring and the blue tiles of this room is essentially the most hanging.
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Shift Home, Spain, by Nomo Studio
Tough polished white concrete flooring unites each the inside and exterior of this home on the island of Menorca, designed by Barcelona-based Nomo Studio.
This creates a way of continuity from the constructing entrance, positioned on the highest flooring, to a balcony terrace on the other facet of the primary lounge.
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A Trendy Oasis, UK by Richard Parr Associates
The thresholds of this home in Oxfordshire, England, create a visible connection between the polished concrete flooring inside and the flagstones outdoors.
The structure agency Richard Parr Associates rigorously matched the colours of those two surfaces in order that they seem like made from the identical materials.
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That is the most recent in our collection of lookbooks, providing visible inspiration from Dezeen's archive. For extra inspiration, see earlier lookbooks that includes chocolate brown interiors and minimalist loos.