Architecture and interior design thread

some house in the latest TMH yt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKsEjO8VkYI

anyone got any armchair inspo ? I’m in the market for one. I like these sixtheresidence numbers (though really I want a hem puffy lounge chair)

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HAY Can, Muuto Wrap, Norman Copenhagen Drape. Variations on the similar theme.

I’ve been lusting after an UMA t4 lately - other half thinks it looks like an aeroplane chair and is vetoing.

swyft model 06 armchair also really comfy

Vitsoê 620

the modern house peeps- doing something proper with their ucl art history degrees rather than just rotting teaching art history on poverty wages like me.
i saw on george clark a young woman in streatham who got a total refurb (in pink) and it said she paid 25k. would really like to know the name of her builders considering some people on here get quoted 5k just to replace a toilet.

In terms of storage, before I buy an IKEA kallax, is there something better. The price seems unbeatable. I'd love to make something from ply but it would be three times the cost.

https://www.ikea.com/es/en/p/kallax-shelving-unit-white-10409932/

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Facebook marketplace?

IKEA Expedit is the version that came before Kallax and was sturdier. You may find it secondhand etc

Oh yes I'm looking, just wondering if there's something to look for specifically.

Thanks

John Lewis had a few offers on Swyft recently, worth a look if it’s something you’re after.

A bit of a dredge, but this tickled me on a personal level. The frame of our 70+ year old house is built from recycled solid timber, which—where exposed—looks not totally unlike some of the better preserved bits of that old cottage.

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GORGEOUS

Oh ok.
Did they steal all the roofs in the neighbourhood?
This looks very interesting, any more pictures?

I think it's fairly safe to assume that the timber came from some old farm buildings. Log construction was very common in Finland up until 1940s or thereabouts. Apparently you can take apart a log house by starting from the top, and put it back together in reverse, so I guess the material is naturally suited to reuse.

The log frame in our house is normally visible only in the side / knee wall attics. We tore down some questionable insulation from the basement stairs, so that's why I could take the photo, but there's really nothing large scale I can show.

Finland. Makes sense. Definitely sounds like a good way to build. Imagine if standard buildings were that easy to reuse!

When I see lug construction here in Germany (there was a bit of a trend I think, and always the kind with visible logs) I chuckle because I imagine cowboy cosplay going on.

Imagine if standard buildings were that easy to reuse!

Sorry if it's a stupid question, but why do you need to reuse a building?

In reference to building elements -

The construction industry generates 62% of the UK’s waste and 32% of all waste sent to landfill.

https://www.qualisflow.com/uk-construction-waste-report-2023/

If we're talking whole buildings - the longer you can keep a building in use through adaptive reuse, the more value you get out of the initial resource extraction, embodied carbon emissions etc.

About an eighth of construction materials goes straight to landfill bypassing the actual building stage :(

There's a big mindset shift towards circular economy in construction, but there are big barriers in terms of the whole supply system, auditing, disassembly and storage. And certification. But lots of people trying to make it work too. Buildings and cities are great big material stores.

That's interesting. I'd be curious to read how it breaks down. I remember chatting to someone about commercial buildings in the city and what amazed by how much of a demolished building is now recycled. I wonder if that depends on commercial vs resi, or even a subset of different types of commercial buildings.

But yeah my main thought would be that leaving buildings in situ and adapting them is the ideal.

Far away from an expert, but the people that built paradroids house didn't chop down trees, they decided they needed housing instead of farms, so more or less transformed one into the other.

In paradroids case, no trees felled, but the need for housing instead of farms, so they did something like big lego.

Readapting is best would be my guess, of course recycling is great, but tearing something down and then grinding it to dust to make new materials uses a lot of energy.

This.
Makes me furious how big concrete structures still get torn down instead of reuse with new concepts.