Castle Themed Interiors

Do you have a taste for the Gothic and the antique, for the glamorous and dramatic? Are you an admirer of arched ceilings, medieval architecture, stone walls and floors, and heavy, ornate, wooden furniture? The following images show us it is possible to incorporate a little bit of that medieval flare into your home quite easily.

Classy, Modern Interiors Visualized by Greg Magierowsky

We would like to feature today these beautifully rendered modern designs by young, Polish 3D-artist, Greg Magierowsky. His minimalistic tastes and fluid design, particularly the wooden “floating stairs” and the use of very different wall finishes, such as marble and cement, are admirable. He uses pops of bright color throughout the various rooms, which are mostly inundated with dark brown, black, wood, and white tones. But mostly, we loved how the designer managed to make smaller loft spaces still look spacious and stunning.

The World’s Narrowest House [is 60 inches wide]

Architect Jakub Szczęsny has laid out design concepts to fill in a small crack between an old tenement building and tower building in Warsaw, Poland with plans to erect the world’s narrowest house, which will be 60 inches in width.

Talented Israeli writer Etgar Keret is a symbolic patron of the project and he will be given “the main pair of keys” to the house. After the house officially opens on Feb 4, 2012, Keret will spend the first month there and later on will share it as a studio for a select few creative and intellectual individuals from around the world. At the center of what Szczesny considers an art installation that he has aptly entitled, “Ermitage” or hermitage in English, is the residency program that will house these individuals and hopefully, foster a worldwide creative and intellectual exchange.

The architect has shared with Home-Designing some exclusive pictures of this project.

The house has one bedroom, bathroom, lounge, kitchen all on two floors, yet little room for one’s personal possessions and furniture. A ladder will also need to be used in order to move through the two floors. Its interior will come to 52 inches (133 centimeters) at its widest spot. “I saw the gap and just thought it needed filling. It will be used by artists.” Says Szczesny of the inspiration for his designs.

In the early phases of design an alternate concept was also proposed which was nearly 40 feet deep, and actually had stairs instead of a ladder.

The Ermitage, upon completion, will be the world’s narrowest house, taking the title from the world’s current narrowest house, “The Wedge” in Great Cumbrae.