Interesting Ideas For Your Future House

We’ve all got some sort of idea of how our dream home might look. Some of us have just got to have a pool, while others want clever modern design, sustainability, or integration with natural elements. No matter what it is that makes your dream home unique, here are a few examples of homes where people have been able to realize some of their greatest home design fantasies.

1. Aquarium Bed 

2. Beach Sand Under Your Work Desk

Loving your work is already great per se, but managing to erase the line between work and vacation is a next step. A 30-year-old Massachusetts-based art assistant Justin Kemp managed to do this by literally placing his work desk in the beach sand. His “Surfing with the Sand Between My Toes” idea consists of a wooden box that’s got plastic lined on the bottom and is filled with sand. Thus the sandbox gives Justin the feeling that he is actually working on the beach.

Known as the “the chillest bro in the valley”, Justin gives the best explanation about his unconventional work place: “The sand is relaxing, but for me, its more a symbol of my permanent vacation.  It’s the design of a lifestyle where ‘work’ becomes so satisfying that vacation and retirement become undesirable.  It’s a permanent state of chill.”

3. Understairs

“Coat storage is often an eyesore, but not with this understairs unit. The well-engineered sliding cupboard can use hooks or clothes rails according to preference.” (Designed by Deriba Furniture)

3.1. Sensualscaping Stairs

“The stair is a continuation and intensification of the simple graphic skirting board lines that trace their way through the house. As they turn the corner into the stair void, they expand like a genie released from a lamp, curling and separating and bifurcating from the wall to form the delicate edge of the stair treads, lifting into the air to rise as the veil of the balustrade.” (Designed by Atmos Studio)

3.2. Stairs

Staircase designed for a private residence in Stockholm, Sweden in 2006 by Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Ståhlbom. (Designed by TAF arkitektkontor)

3.3. Flat F.M

These floating stairs link the living room to the private space reserved for the owner under the rooftops. (Designed by ecole)

3.4. Tree Stairs

Beautiful metal tree serves as a handrail. (Designed by Architetture del Ferro)

3.5. Spiral Staircase Slide

4. Hammock Bed

We spend about 8 hours/day, 56 hours/week, 240 hours/month and 2,920 hours/year doing it…that’s right…SLEEPING. In other words, we spend one third of our lives doing nothing, and if you live for 90 years, 30 years would be spent in this mysterious state.

So, the next time you buy a new bed, keep in mind that you will spend a huge amount of your life just lying on this piece of furniture.

Sure, picking an ordinary comfortable bed may seem as a good idea, but the problem is, nobody will ever notice it. If you want to show off, you need something more creative, and this list of 26 cool and unusual bed designs is a good way to start.

4.1. Book Bed

To resolve the issues of lack of space faced by a lot of urban-dwelling Japanese families, photographer and innovater, Yusuke Suzuki, created a ‘fold-up’ bed in the shape of a book. When the book is opened at night, it’s pages serve as a duvet and pillows and it comes with large cut out shapes and illustrations. During the day it can be folded up and used as a playmat.(Designer: Yusuke Suzuki) 

4.2. Hammock Bed “Le Beanock”

Beauty is combined with functionality as the industrial standard cloth is hand finished with classic zig-zag stitching .LE BEANOCK™ is unique in both its design & manufacture. It can be taken down when space is needed, moved easily to clean underneath and the chains can be shortened at the back to create an ariel sofa! (Designer: Le Beanock)

4.3. Letto Zip

Make your daily bed-making chore easier. With this bed you can zip up all the mess and nobody will ever notice. (Designer: Florida)

4.4. Yin-Yang Bed

Yin is female and yang is male. So, as you’ve guessed – Yin is missing in the picture. (Designer: Alessio Pappa)

4.5. Enignum Bed

This bed embraces and protects, creating a personal environment beyond its function. (Designer: Joseph Walch)

4.6. Feel The Deluxe

The Feel Deluxe is made of 120 soft and extremely pleasant balls. (link)

4.7. Magnetic Floating Bed

Using the power of permanent opposing industrial-strength magnets to enable it to float, the full scale bed can hold 900 kilograms of weight, while a smaller one fifth scale platform can safely hold 80 kilogams. (Designer: Janjaap Ruijssenaars)

5. A Wall That Plays Music When It Rains

According to Atlas Obscura, “when the rain starts to fall, this colorful drain and gutter system attached to the outside of a building in the Neustadt Kunsthofpassage turn into charming musical instruments. The Funnel Wall is one of the strangest and most enjoyable attractions in Dresden’s student district in the new town. ” 

6. Walk-In Pool

Houzz has the largest collection of home design photos and inspiration, including Walk In Pool, for your next project. Browse our collection of 104 Walk In Pool to get inspired and kick your project off. Check out the Houzz Handbook for tips on your next Walk In Pool project.

7. Balcony Pool

Architect James Law designed a wonderful skyscraping recidental complex in Mumbai, India which have a series of swimming pools placed within each balcony. Hands-down, it’s the coolest balcony I have ever seen!