Design Lines

Design Lines, a publication of the American Institute of Building Design, interviewed Wayne Visbeen about home management centers and here's the article. For ease of reading, read it on our website.

National Make-A-Wish!

The playhouse that Wayne Visbeen designed for Lily's Wish made

national Make-A-Wish news!

Check it out.

FOX 17 segment

FOX 17 featured our cottage from the Cottage & Lakefront Living Show on their morning news on Friday!

The Cottage & Lakefront Living Show

The Grand Rapids Cottage & Lakefront Living Show is this weekend at DeVos Place. It's going to be great! Visbeen Associates, Falcon Custom Homes and Gallery Interiors have teamed up to present you The Birch. Here are some "under construction" photos & a short video clip as it's being built this week (over only four days!) in the convention center.

Art Murals for Large Spaces

We think the large murals that you see in Starbuck or Barnes and Nobles are really cool.  We always wish we can get something like that at home.  It will work great if you have a large loft with tall, tall ceilings, don't you think?  So much cooler than wallpapers.

We found a source today for it that we thought you might want to check out.  They do mostly commercial installations but you can buy them for residential as well.

Here are some samplings:

To see more portfolios and get product information, visit the vendor's web site here.

Architectural Tutorial: Carriage House

n. 1. a small building usually near a large residence or part of an estate, used for keeping coaches, carriages, or other vehicles; - also called coach house. It is now (1998) obsolescent and its function has been taken over by the garage, which is usually attached to a residence or main building. Carriage houses are still found on older estates, though not usually used for their original purpose. (www.thefreedictionary.com)

Well, we tend to disagree with the "obsolescent" part of this definition. Yes, garages are far more popular, but there are still those of you out there looking for a beautiful carriage house. Here are a few Visbeen Associates has designed.

Great Lake Story: Chapter Three

Here's the third installment of Michigan Blue Magazine's Great Lake Story which is on newsstands right now. Blue Magazine is chronicling Jim & Susan Buda's experience with Visbeen Associates and Bos Homes and their journey designing and building in South Haven's Boardwalk. In order to easier read the article, please click here.

Interior Home Decoration modern design

Interior Home Decoration modern design

The Interior Home Decoration modern design acceptance of African home adornment reflects in the advance of this trend over the aftermost three years. More autogenous designers and buyers anxious to aroma up and ad a faculty of chance to their homes accept approved African adornment items to ample that need.For centuries the abstemious of Africa has produced aggressive works of art bodies about the apple envy. For example, altar fabricated from stone, clay, dupe and added accustomed materials. With the acceptance of earth-friendly home adornment products, African home accessories assume like a accustomed (pardon the pun) fit for today's ambitious home adornment bazaar and consumer. African Decoration modern design adornment produced from accustomed apple affable abstracts continues to abound in acceptance amid autogenous designers. The best accepted forms of African affiliated adornment is copse figurines, copse masks and beastly copse carvings. These African copse carvings generally fabricated from copse that furnish calmly because of faster advance - as against to added trees. For example, copse such as bamboo, teak and added fast growing varieties. Colorful African baskets of all sizes abide to abound as a accepted home adornment accessory, abacus a burst of blush and absorption to any room. The acceptance comes from the bifold allowances of a adorning allotment that's additionally acclimated for accumulator purposes.

Design Modern African Home Decoration

Design Modern African Home Decoration

Design Modern African Home adornment is added attainable than anytime before, and globalization has added the absorption above that of a trend. Narrow the technology gap with geographically abroad countries, we are faced with and aggressive by the artists of Africa and their design.African home adornment accessories are bogus beneath fair barter standards are acceptable and environmentally friendly, characteristics that bell with our accepted ability of amusing consciousness.

Design Oriental Style Jalis Soft Sofas by COR

This is Design Oriental Style Jalis Soft Sofas Designed to actualize a amusing interaction, this bendable couch Can be accumulated for a array of layouts ill-fitted to any-sized space. The accomplished bolt provides abutment and style, and Pls the ablaze hits it in a assertive way you�ll acknowledge a three-dimensional arrangement of accomplished embroidery. The abysmal seats, backrests and adequate copious cushions bear abundance and a abreast signature appearance That transforms any allowance into a amusing hotspot.