Tropical home designs Archives

100-Year-Old Balinese House Turned Into A Zen Retreat

Rumah Purnama, which in Bahasa Indonesian means “The House of the Full Moon”, is a 100-year-old Balinese wantilan home that Bali-based designer Maximilian Jencquel brought back to life two years ago, thoughtfully renovating and turning it into a holiday retreat. Restored over a period of one year though an adaptive, sustainable design approach, the pagoda-like, two-storey...

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Contemporary Tropical Home With Extensive Glazing

Tropical plants, glass and chunks of rock feature in this holiday home in Guarujá, Brazil, designed by local studios Zalc Arquitetura and Rua 141. Called House NK, the home spans 400 square meters on a 525-square-metre plot with lush plantings, a garden, outdoor swimming pool and a covered patio. Perimeter property walls are also filled...

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Costa Rica Jungle Villa With An Industrial Facade

On a jungle hillside in Costa Rica, this luxury home quite literally blends with its wild environment thanks to a low profile and a green roof. The house built by architects Dagmar Štěpánová and Martina Homolková of Formafatal features an industrial façade and a serenely luxurious interior. The exterior of the house is protected by...

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Restored 1920s Historic Home In Puerto Rico

A verdant, 8,000 square foot villa with a keen aviation past succumbed to the 2017 hurricane; then Champalimaud brought it back to life. Originally the house was built in 1920s, it sits within the larger property of Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, replete with golf courses, a decadently-decorated Spa Botanico. Champalimaud renovated and furnished the house...

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Chameleon Villa Disappears Within Its Surroundings

The home we are featuring today is Chameleon Villa in Bali designed by WOMhouse Architects. The residence blends within its surroundings very well. The architects worked around the idea of ‘landscape architecture’ to create a group of buildings that appear as part of the land itself, and sometimes disappear within it, while at other times...

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Home Inspired By Vintage Hawaii Bungalows

Design studio Basic Projects and architect Heather Wilson have revamped a South Carolina house, pairing white walls and concrete floors with colorful vintage decor inspired by the vintage Hawaii bungalows. The furnishings and fittings take cues from the client’s surf trips to Fiji and Hawaii, including a set of three French doors. The French doors...

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Relaxing Indoor/Outdoor Hawaii Residence

Spoiling ourselves with some tropical island inspiration is what we need in the middle of the winter! And the house we are sharing today will make you feel sea breeze on your face and hear the exotic birds’ singing. Walker Warner Architects showed a project they fulfilled on one of the Hawaiian islands, and while...

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Hillside House With A Shipping Container On Top

Clay House designed by architect Budi Pradono is set on a hill in an Indonesian island east of Bali, and what’s special about it – it shows off a unique design feature: there’s a shipping container that seems to be slipping away from the top of the house. The residence is made up of a...

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Modern Bali Retreat With East-Influenced Decor

Today’s eye-candy is for all those of you who are missing a good seaside vacation and are eager to see a beautiful little slice of paradise. This is a gorgeous modern Bali retreat, which is perfect to relax, enjoy swimming and sunbathing. Fella Villas is created by the founders of the iconic Australian swimwear brand...

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Jungle House With A Rooftop Infinity Pool

A swimming pool on the roof of this concrete residence by Brazilian office Studio MK27 sits within the dense canopy of a coastal rainforest in São Paulo state. The introduction of this house to this landscape has the objective of optimizing the connection between architecture and nature, privileging the view looking out to the ocean...

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