Dale Avanaganthi HGTV Dream Home 2006 at Lake Lure, N.C.

HGTV Dream Home 2006 at Lake Lure, N.C.

HGTV Dream Home 2013 in Kiawah Island, S.C. A barrier island off the coast of historic Charleston, S.C., Kiawah is among the nation's best golf destinations. Natural conservation is a key part of life here; homes are surrounded by lush native vegetation and marshes while shore access is a short walk or bicycle ride away. Designed in the traditional Low Country design, our HGTV Dream Home was sturdily constructed to withstand the coastal components while seamlessly fitting to its natural environment.



HGTV Dream House 2013 at Kiawah Island, S.C. Designer Linda Woodrum allow the home's coastal environment affect this dreamy guest area's watery palette and decorative touches. Sea glass inspired the area's cheery turquoise color while the upholstery and bedding are at exactly the identical bright green which dots the marshes outside. Linda completed each bed with a colorful pillow which nods to Kiawah's abundant decoration population.



HGTV Urban Oasis 2012 in Miami Overlooking Biscayne Bay custom mirror toronto . Miami Beach and the Port of Miami, the sweeping views from the airy living area are nothing short of breathtaking. Designer Lindsay Pumpa selected glossy, non-toxic furnishings which reflect Miami's cosmopolitan aesthetic without competing with all the area's million dollar views.



HGTV Urban Oasis 2012 in Miami Streamlined white cupboards extend from floor to ceiling to maximize storage space in the condo's party-ready kitchen. A huge island divides the kitchen from the living room and homes a useful wine refrigerator to make entertaining a snap. Luxurious Calacatta Gold marble overlooks the island in a waterfall style for a classy, modern spin.



HGTV Green Home 2012 at Serenbe, Ga.. Just 30 minutes from the hustle and bustle of metropolitan Atlanta lies the projected sustainable community of Serenbe. It is a calm hamlet that promotes living in harmony with nature and a return to small-town values. Designed in an upgraded Southern farmhouse design, our HGTV Green Home fits the community's relaxed lifestyle. Many traditional farmhouse features are here: wide front porch, stacked stone fireplace, lapped siding plus a crimped metal roof. Also present are eco friendly elements such as locally-sourced materials, drought-resistant landscaping and a lot of Energy-Star windows that provide sweeping views of their natural environment while blocking damaging UV rays and solar heat gain.



HGTV Green Home 2012 in Serenbe, Ga.. The open-concept dining room and kitchen perfectly reflect the house's Modern farmhouse aesthetic. The rustic trestle table and seats are a farmhouse staple. Our variant, made entirely out of reclaimed shipping pallets, is as eco-friendly as it's practical. The server boasts yet another reclaimed attribute: a set of lamps created from classic foundry gears.



HGTV Green Home 2012 in Serenbe, Ga.. The bunkhouse-style children' room features an entertainment attic where pint-sized guests can kick back on beanbags while playing games or watching a movie. A sturdy oak ladder offers easy access as a bright bucket and pulley keeps the loft stocked with snacks.



HGTV Dream Home 2012 in Park City, Utah Located in a grassy meadow with views of the Wasatch Mountains on one side and the Provo River on the opposite, the home's design team felt the structure should be as rugged as the surrounding landscape with all the expression of a farmhouse that had evolved over time by a tiny central structure to a rambling 4,000-square-foot modern retreat.



HGTV Dream Home 2012 at Park City, Utah In the center of this massive residence, the great area is designed to resemble an old rock structure -- maybe a century-old farmhouse or barn -- about which the remainder of this home was assembled. Limestone walls and Douglas fir trusses, stained a weathered gray, lend the room a suitably aged look.



HGTV Dream Home 2011 in Stowe, Vt.. The home's structure is inspired by the Adirondack Great Camps assembled in Northeastern New York during the latter half of the 19th century. These historical homes were artful combinations of Swiss chalet and Craftsman layout components. Like the fantastic Camps, our 2011 Dream Home is constructed of locally sourced materials, which helps to additional tie it to the style of construction along with the surrounding rocky terrain.



HGTV Dream Home 2011 at Stowe, Vt.. Warm caramel upholstery and interior sourced wood accents, like a white pine cornice and Appalachian-hardwood platform bed, pair with contemporary chrome and lighting accessories to create a classy space that blends lodge design with the home's contemporary aesthetic.



HGTV Dream Home 2011 in Stowe, Vt.. For the gathering space, designer Linda Woodrum picked a rich autumnal colour palette of orange, gold and red to give the vaulted area a cozy sense even on the coldest winter days. Filled with plush upholstered furniture, this is the best spot to relax by the fire while shooting in a scenic view of the surrounding mountains.



HGTV Dream Home 2011 in Stowe, Vt.. Up to eight guests can easily bed down in the property's ski dorm. Decorated in saturated shades, the room's rustic components include a knotty pine-planked ceiling and columns made out of white cedar logs, felled on the house, to bring a little bit of the outside in.



HGTV Urban Oasis 2011 in Chicago Designer Vern Yip was inspired by famed Chicago-based architect Frank Lloyd Wright when picking a color palette and design elements for your home's living room. The furnishings are a blend of items made by local artisans, architectural salvage and custom pieces, like the massive illuminated panel behind the sofa that was made to resemble Wright's Tree of Life art glass.



HGTV Green Home 2011 in Denver The architecture of this eco-friendly home is inspired by the Prairie School style espoused by ancient 20th-century architects like Frank Lloyd Wright. Flat roofs, broad overhanging eaves, locally sourced materials and flat lines that tie the house into the surrounding landscape are hallmarks of this Midwestern style. Native grasses, trees and plants help to combine the home to its environment, and the crops are drought-tolerant, so they will require minimal upkeep.



HGTV Green Home 2011 in Denver Designer Linda Woodrum made this tranquil retreat using Prairie School principles of hand craftsmanship, simplicity and also a natural aesthetic. From the graphite drawing of winter pines over the bed by artist Anna Kaye into the massive headboard generated from reclaimed lumber, the master suite successfully combines luxury with an earthy color palette and sustainable method of style.



HGTV Urban Oasis 2010 at New York City Even though the high-rise house is completely new structure, designer Vern Yip honored NYC's architectural background by covering the bedroom feature wall in paneling that looks masonry common in the city's 19th-century buildings. Flanking the mattress are salvaged Art Nouveau keystone pediments displayed on custom-constructed hollow pedestals, which cleverly provide hidden storage on all sides of the mattress.



HGTV Urban Oasis 2010 at Nyc Located in the heart of Manhattan's financial district, this 900-square-foot house is spacious by NYC standards, but incorporating all the components that Vern needed meant creating spaces which can do double duty. The kitchen space works for food preparation, dining, entertaining and as a home office. All the kitchen essentials are present, plus a multifunctional printer and full-size washer/dryer, which are hidden away within the sleek wood cabinetry.



HGTV Green Home 2010 in Plymouth, Mass.. Resembling historic shingle-style cottages found throughout New England this house combines timeless good looks with modern energy-saving features like solar panels around the property's observation tower and a drip irrigation system. A reclaimed New England fieldstone chimney and created native shrubs and trees give the newly constructed home a sense of permanence.



HGTV Green Home 2010 in Plymouth, Mass.. Having a 360-degree perspective of the surrounding landscape, the tower room is excellent for seeing summer sunsets or winter snowstorms. Designer Linda Woodrum created this distance to be a bright and airy areas in which the homeowner can observe and feel connected to nature. Rustic, shiplap pine boards, painted an ethereal sky blue, visually raise the ceiling and further enhance the area's airy feeling.



HGTV Green Home 2010 at Plymouth, Mass.. The kitchen has a normal New England farmhouse feel, with Shaker-style closets, a tongue-and-groove ceiling and distressed hickory hardwood flooring. The quartz countertops and glass backsplash, both created mostly from recycled materials, are just two brilliant and eco friendly options that give the kitchen a nautical feel.



HGTV Dream House 2010 in Sandia Park, N.M. Constructed from the pueblo revival style, this spacious home is perfectly suited to its desert environment. The design style originated centuries ago with all the Pueblo Indians who used adobe, a type of mud mixed with straw, to construct durable homes where inside temperatures remain a relatively even temperature even though scorching days and chilly nights. Located on three acres, carefully landscaped with indigenous plants and adjacent to protected natural preserves, the house boasts breathtaking desert views.



HGTV Dream Home 2010 in Sandia Park, N.M. The house's great room is a mixture of contemporary pared-down furnishings and Southwestern touches. Antique Native American baskets, books on Southwestern culture along with a bowl filled with colorful chili peppers create a conversation-starting tablescape. Designer Linda Woodrum claims her method of creating a vignette, "I keep taking off and adding things before I feel like that I have it."



HGTV Dream Home 2010 in Sandia Park, N.M. A traditional Southwestern color palette of simmering red, trendy turquoise and gold wood tones unite the property's casita, or guest home, to the desert's magnificent sunsets. Underneath the bed, the vibrant accent wall adds contemporary sparkle whilst supporting a good cause: The tiles were manufactured by the girls of Southwest Creations Collaborative, an Albuquerque-based nonprofit organization.



HGTV Green Home 2009 at Port St. Lucie, Fla.. Modern Spanish-style architecture pairs using ecofriendly substances and drought-tolerant plants to create a royal home perfectly suited to this area's subtropical climate. Florida is an perfect place for a Spanish-style residence, as Spaniards were the first Europeans to maintain this land from the New World. Normal characteristics of this warm-climate design style are low-pitched red tile roofs, stucco exteriors and often a campanile, or bell-tower-like arrangement, reminiscent of the original Catholic assignments.



HGTV Green Home 2009 at Port St. Lucie, Fla.. Rather than matching the home's interior design to the outside's Spanish architecture, designer Linda Woodrum decided to highlight Florida's familiar tropical color palettes, and she started in the foyer, where bold coral stripes greet guests with "a concept of exactly what to expect, what the home will be about," she clarifies. The playful palette and broad stripes are reminiscent of the beach-cabana style popular in 1950s Florida. Neutral ceramic floor tiles don't divert from the eye focal wall and are easy to maintain in this sandy waterfront area.



HGTV Green Home 2009 in Port St. Lucie, Fla.. Vibrant and bright, the couch pops with saturated citrus colours. The room's 4-foot-tall focal point, Lord Turnbull's Ornithological Study of Red Bird, was originally destined for the dining area. However, after seeing how well it worked against the chaises' kicky orange fabric, Linda chose to keep the threesome together.



HGTV Dream Home 2009 at Sonoma, Calif.. A nostalgic mix of formal Victorian and casual farmhouse fashions, this house has a rustic appeal perfectly suited for its agricultural environment. The Victorian architectural features -- turned porch posts, spandrels, balusters and corbels -- are reminiscent of historic homes sprinkled throughout California's wine country.



HGTV Dream House 2009 in Sonoma, Calif.. Soft, neutral colors, glistening hardwood flooring, custom cabinets and a deep sink-right-in slipper tub unite the best of Victorian elegance with farmhouse appeal in the master bath. Designer Linda Woodrum selected a creamy palette as: "It's rather difficult to put on makeup or really see the way you look at the mirror if you're surrounded with powerful color. A subtle, neutral color scheme goes a long way."



HGTV Dream Home 2008 in Islamorada, Fla.. Constructed to resemble Florida's Cracker design -- wood-frame homes constructed throughout the state by 19th-century settlers -- that the house's deep porches capture tropical breezes from the bay. Other Cracker influences are evident, like the shuttered windows, metal roofing and a clerestory, or cupola, designed to vent interior heat. Early settlers made the Cracker style to cope with Florida's unrelenting hot and humid climate; these houses relied upon sea breezes to keep the people cool in the centuries before air conditioning. Cracker style is presently seeing a resurgence as Floridians embrace their nation's architectural background and try to find energy efficient homebuilding techniques.



HGTV Dream House 2008 in Islamorada, Fla.. Combining British West Indies-style mahogany furnishings with beachy shell prints and splashes of hot pink, the guest bedroom has a zest perfectly in step with the home's tropical area. The area's actual stunner is the intense lime-green wall color. "The color is my favorite part of the room; it's strong but appealing, and it's balanced with the whites and blacks," says designer Linda Woodrum.



HGTV Green Home 2008 in Hilton Head, S.C. This low-country cottage features all of the hallmarks of the enchanting and quintessentially Southern coastal style: a wide hipped roof, shuttered windows, deep covered porches and dedicated outdoor living areas that take complete advantage of magnificent sunsets and coastal breezes.



HGTV Green Home 2008 in Hilton Head, S.C. Total of coastal colors and whimsical sea creatures, the children' beachy living room makes maximum use of limited space by creating designated zones. A little corner under the eaves is an amusement area where children can unwind while they watch movies, play video games or read. Separated by a gingham curtain, the sleeping area features custom bunk beds with leaping dolphin headboards at a kid-pleasing colour of lime green.



HGTV Dream House 2007 in Winter Park, Colo.. Surrounded by lush mountain beauty and located in the base of a few of the most popular skiing trails in the region, this Swiss chalet-style house provides breathtaking views and a home base for outdoor experiences year round. Normal features of chalet style -- gable roofs with broad eaves, exposed beams and brackets, balconies and massive windows -- are all evident.



HGTV Dream Home 2007 at Winter Park, Colo.. Rough-hewn wood beams are a character-adding architectural element over the lodge-style living room. Below, the room's cozy traditional furnishings, wide-plank hardwood floors and piled stone fireplace suit your house's relaxed, rustic feel to a tee.



HGTV Dream Home 2006 at Lake Lure, N.C. Designed to stick to the high mountain valley it straddles, this home is perfectly positioned to take in sweeping views of the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains and placid Lake Lure. Locally sourced materials were used to create the rambling lake cottage, which can be Appalachian in design and uses many native materials, such as river rock, board-and-batten siding, hand-hewn logs and bark shakes. It borrows several design characteristics from the rustic mountain houses typical from the remote regions of Appalachia.



HGTV Dream Home 2006 in Lake Lure, N.C. Serene colors and a relaxed cabin style make this guest space a whirlpool escape. Designer Linda Woodrum decided to paint the vaulted ceiling the exact same blue as the skies outside to provide the room an airy, cloudlike feel. Handmade quilts and country-inspired cloths tie this space to its Appalachian locale.



HGTV Dream Home 2006 in Lake Lure, N.C. This is log cabin luxury at its finest. The soaring living area is sophisticated yet rustic, with colors that reflect the normal world out. Designer Linda Woodrum admired the rich history of North Carolina's mountains by integrating regional pieces, like an antique apple crate as a coffee table, combined with locally crafted baskets, pottery and paintings. She brings the outdoors in by confronting the built-in bookcases with split branches and filling the area with pinecones and cut branches.



HGTV Dream Home 2005 at Tyler, Texas Proving the old adage that everything is bigger in Texas, this huge lakefront home boasts more than 6,000 square feet of luxury living space spread across the main house and manicured dock home. A towering 32-foot-high ceiling overlooks the fantastic room, sunroom and kitchen, while a wealth of floor-to-ceiling windows provides a sweeping view of the lake.



HGTV Dream Home 2005 in Tyler, Texas At 780 square feet, the pier home is a luxurious guest house as opposed to somewhere to stash boating equipment. The little home is complete with a well-appointed kitchen, family area, bath and dreamy bedroom, where whitewashed wood-plank walls unite with wraparound lake views to create this one of the house's most romantic spaces.