This little home is situated in Val des Monts, Quebec, Canada. The cottage is created by Kariouk Associates, delivers quite private, bright and comfy living spaces for a household of 3 and allows to enjoy the nature in a secluded location, taking refuge from the globe.

This smal cottage is a beautiful retreat. Distinctive architectural design features two small buildings connected by an elliptical loft, which adds special character to the home style and create intriguing and uncommon living space for a youngster.

Spacious interior design and style and light decorating ideas, simplicity and lots of ligt, modern day design and style components and built in fireplace, metal ceiling panels and wood furnishings create stylish and airy, warm and inviting house interiors. Huge windows and glass wall designs connect them to gorgeous, forested, lake-side site, inviting the nature inside.

Home design and style description from the architects

The design of the cottage is straightforward: two “bars” of living space – one particular private containing bedrooms, bathrooms, and storage one particular public containing family members living regions – are joined by an elliptical loft – the daughter’s domain – that intersects every ground-floor volume and hovers over the foyer providing shelter to the entry under.

Rather than “walling-in” the two ground-level volumes to accomplish privacy, they are sited on the edge of the home where vegetation is the densest and are produced with massive expanses of glass. The glass and aluminum curtain wall exterior is juxtaposed with hand-produced, luxurious, ephemeral drapery (occasionally opaque, at times translucent, sewn by the couple and their daughter for the duration of time spent at the cottage) that billows all through the interior (as explained graphically in the pc animation).

This drapery (as nicely as integral lighting) suspends from two metal rods – a single representing the parents, and one representing their daughter – which travel throughout the residence crossing and bypassing every single other in a complex choreography that is scripted as a metaphor for their specific household’s life journey.

An oil-completed, dark rod starts as the outside entry handrail, like an outstretched hand welcoming guests to their property, and continues all through the “private” volume, lastly coming to rest at the stairs of their daughter’s loft the second curtain rod, with a lighter, a lot more luminous finish, starts as the handrail to the loft’s stair, passes by way of the “public” volume to the exterior, screened-in deck, only to return after once again to the interior of the cottage, completing its journey as the light more than the household’s dining table.

The loft volume above the entry is surfaced with a “quilt” of copper and zinc printing plates that the consumers received from a printmaker friend. Many of the plates, etched with landscapes, seem on the underside of the volume (the foyer ceiling). However, just before the plates are installed, pictures of these plates are pressed upon fabric and sewn into the drapery as mementos the remaining, however-unetched plates can be removed, worked by the consumers and their friends visiting the cottage, and then reinstalled onto the design right after they are printed onto new drapery sections, and in this way the home keeps a record of its previous.

Design and style by Kariouk Associates, www.kariouk.com/