Here's a fantastic wall mount faucet under the $200 level.

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Check out this amazing renovation of the Cavehill house by architecture firm Eggleston Farkas. When you live somewhere where the land is worth a lot more than the house, then having an architect-designed home becomes a somewhat viable option.

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Recessed lighting is great way to add tons of light to a room without adding visual clutter of light fixtures. These solar tubes are a sustainable way to add the light naturally. Additionally, you can add an optional light kit so the when the sun goes down you can still have light for only $28.00 per tube.

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You know you're in trouble when you like the looks of a jail more than you like your own home.

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The multi-purpose 'white cube' home has movable walls so the home this 576 square foot home can accommodate a guest room and an extra bedroom for when the owner's daughter comes to stay on weekends.

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Sometimes a huge fantastic door can really make a statement on the right wall, as well as allow for creating a large 'movable wall' in tight spaces. For instance, this wall conceals a full bathtub where there's not enough walking space for a walk in bathroom.

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This remodel of a 500 square foot home in Houston's third ward shows that you can really take an old space and make it modern. As part of a Rice Architecture building program, Nonya Grenader and Danny Samuels inject life into this old home and create one large space by ripping out all the walls and making a functional core containing electrical and the bathroom in the center, with a kitchen and 'bedroom' on the outside of the core.

Functionally, this bears a great resemblance to Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, which also has a central functional core containing both the electrical and the bathroom, with the kitchen and bedrooms along the perimeter of the core.

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Looks like Tumbleweed the Tiny House Company has just added a modern structure to their catalog. You can buy the plans for this 392 square foot home for only $495.

They estimate construction costs to be around $100 to $200 per square foot depending on region, so expect to pay between $40,000 to $80,000.

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I'm not sure if you've had the distinct displeasure of getting an estimate for repairing a non-working fireplace, but let me tell you, it's more than you probably care to spend. I know it's certainly more than I care to spend. Anyway, this post started out being about bath planning (hence the photo via Kohler featuring the Provinity vanity), but then I found this fantastic image of a non-functioning fireplace filled with fire wood.

Now say that five times fast.

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Here's another inspiring interior project from Studio Ilse. It's an interesting juxtaposition between both industrial and ornate, and stark and colorful.

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