How to surprise neighbors at night: 5 incredible glowing country houses

From clear plastic to neon lights - inIn this collection, we talk about five private houses that literally glow from the inside. It often happens that just one detail makes the interior fascinating, be it a bright sofa or an unusual work of art. Sometimes it is just an ordinary light that has been played out in an original way, or it is well-chosen. In this article, we decided to tell you exactly about them - real-life houses in which lamps are not just a source of light, but translucent walls replace traditional windows. Summer house in Belgium "Room in the garden" - this is the name of the house by the Belgian architect Indra Handa. To implement the project, she wanted to use a simple, inexpensive and easy-to-work material, and as a result, the choice fell on polycarbonate. For the facade and roof, she used hand-cut polycarbonate sheets measuring approximately 98 square meters. cm, fixed on a wooden frame. The house consists of only one room with an area of 45square meters and is ideal for relaxation: it gives coolness in summer and warmth in winter. Thanks to the translucent walls, in the dark, the house glows from the inside, casting on bizarre shadows. Inside, you can have a barbecue, receive guests, or simply relax in privacy. Former warehouse in Antwerp Spouses Tim Stokes andNatalie Wohlberg traded a tiny apartment in Paris for a former warehouse of about 550 square meters and turned it into a house, studio and showroom at the same time. “It was a natural disaster, but a disaster with potential,” is how artist Tim Stokes describes the first impression of a newly acquired home. According to him, the courtyard looked very gloomy, and numerous reconstructions hid the real architecture of the house. Despite this, the couple did not abandon the idea of remodeling the building and, as a result, received an original and cozy space for life and creativity. It was decided to equip a gallery on the first floor,an art workshop and a small patio, which later turned into a real tropical garden. The couple took the second floor for residential apartments with a large amount of open space, divided only by glass partitions - this made the loft both spacious and secluded at the same time. Lighting has become an unusual detail of the interior: placed against the bright walls, it creates an unusual and atmospheric glow. A translucent home in Arizona This one builtMade of masonry and special screens, the house is located in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona and serves as a haven for two friends and part-time business partners - co-owners of the Atherton Keener architecture firm Jay Atherton and Cy Keener. Working on this project, the architects wanted the house to first of all fit organically into the external environment. The house consists of a kitchen, a bathroom and three living rooms- two bedrooms and a living room. Particular attention is given to the light: the rooms are in different parts of the building and receive different lighting. The West is the sunniest, on this side there are no windows: light penetrates through translucent walls. The hall is a long and light corridor, on one side of which there is a wall of transparent glass, and on the other side - contrasting black cabinets, illuminated from below. When designing a house, architects converged onthat rooms should be left as empty as possible, without excess furniture and decor. Even curved walls appeared not so much for decoration, as for competent reflection of sunlight. The colors of the house are also minimalistic and strict: mostly white, gray and black. Architect's apartment in France A little higher wetalked about a former warehouse in Antwerp, which has become a home and workshop for a creative couple. Now we have before us a personal apartment and a studio of one of her "halves" - his wife, architect Natalie Volberg. In this living space, she also decided to play with light. The soft recessed lighting interacts with white surfaces, of which there are a lot of them in this apartment, and creates amazing combinations, which Wolberg herself calls “architecture of sensations”. Furniture, modular and for the most partfuturistic, neighbors here with a surreal "floating" staircase - white steps on a bright wall of the color of a juicy pear. Also throughout the apartment are hidden secluded corners and recreation areas: for example, suspended from the ceiling for children's playground grid. Family nest in California Not far fromthe famous Lake Tahoe, in the depths of coniferous forests, a cozy and spacious house for a large and special family is lost. Especially because at a few years old children - triplets - were diagnosed with autism. As the head of the family admits, their previous house turned into a rehabilitation center, through which dozens of doctors and just strangers passed every day. The Bancroft family needed a place that could truly be called home, and that is why they moved to the lake, where they arranged life in a completely different way. Unlike previous homes, the theme of light herenot the main, but significant: first, the sun's rays unhindered to illuminate the rooms through panoramic windows, and secondly, here we see one of the trends of the season - neon lighting. We meet him in the main hall as part of an unusual portrait of all four children: triplets and their elder brother. The plot occupies three acres, directlyThe living area is about 800-900 square meters. The house has enough space for everything: for therapy, rest, work and children's games. Architect Tom Hawkins divided it into four zones: a living-dining room + a pantry, a children's wing, a marital bedroom and a separate guest house. The children's compartment includes four bedrooms, a mini library for training and a games room. People with autism function better in the surroundingenvironment, where visual distractions are minimized. That's why to ensure the absence of confusion was the main task when designing a house. As a result, a pantry was organized in which you can store many things, and they will all be at hand, but not before your eyes.