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<\/a>Photo: imgur<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nThis spacious living room with retractable window walls is part of a everly Hills home that recently sold for\u00a0just under $7 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is what the kitchen of a $2.5-million dollar<\/a> Texas castle looks like.<\/p>\n A hammock, floating stairs and decorative paddle board… This loft-style bachelor pad has it all.<\/p>\n Vaulted skylight ceiling! We want that.<\/p>\n Worried about privacy? London’s St. Pancras Chambers has retractable wall curtains<\/a>. Previously featured in\u00a0our roundup of\u00a0the 15 poshest penthouses.<\/a><\/p>\n Cool ceiling.\u00a0How much is the heating bill?<\/p>\n This open-air kitchen is one of our 15 favorite indoor-outdoor rooms.<\/a><\/p>\n Very cool design, but it’s probably a nightmare during bug season.<\/p>\n A living space that is so open the outdoor foliage has crept in.<\/p>\n This Beirut penthouse’s retractable window wall takes the open-concept concept to the next level.<\/p>\n A two-level living room library for the bookish type<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is the living room of Leobo Private Reserve, a posh and pricey villa located in South Africa’s Limpopo Province.\u00a0More info this way<\/a>.<\/p>\n A sprawling dining room in\u00a0Robinson Architects’\u00a0Marcus Beach House\u00a0on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia.<\/p>\n Architectural firm TA-CHA<\/a> borrowed designed elements from the traditional Thai home when\u00a0they created this\u00a04,843-square-foot home in Nonthaburi, Thailand.<\/p>\n Perhaps a touch on the gaudy side, but we’re digging the sunken seating area.<\/p>\n International design studio Modourbano<\/a> and Italian interior designer Takane Ezoe<\/a> collaborated on the T House project in\u00a0Milan, Italy.<\/p>\n Margoliouth Road<\/a> house\u00a0was a small bungalow that\u00a0Singapore-based studio DLab<\/a>\u00a0converted into a two-story home.<\/p>\n An open-concept barn conversion. We love barn conversions<\/a>!<\/p>\n And lofts too<\/a>!<\/p>\n Almost every room in this\u00a0Cape Town home is open and exposed to the outdoors. Another brilliant design by\u00a0SAOTA<\/a>, who we also featured in our roundup of 21 massive windows with equally massive views<\/a>.<\/p>\n Give it up for 25-foot skylights.<\/p>\n Part of the Carrillo Residence by Steven Ehrlich<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Santa Monica, California.<\/p>\n Who’s up for a game of floor hockey?<\/p>\n The living room of the\u00a0Hupomone Ranch<\/a> looks as spacious as the 160-acre California homestead\u00a0it’s built on.<\/p>\n![\"open-concept](\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/nMOVN.jpg\")
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