The Beat That My Heart Skipped – A blog dedicated to daily design inspirations. By Rohini Wahi.

Villa Augustus in the Netherlands is a self sustained fairytale environment of a hotel, a restaurant, a market cafe and a vegetable garden. The garden supplies food to the hotel, restaurant, market cafe and for sale.

Isn’t this beautiful woody home in Amsterdam the perfect summer hidey-hole?

The farm, near the Wadden Sea belongs to Ina, a teacher at the Design Academy Eindhoven who creates collections of textiles and her partner Matthijs a designer of exhibitions, renovates old homes into contemporary farms like the one they live in.

I love the dreamy, light-filled space accessorized with wood furniture and naturally hued woven textiles  that feels like there’s no barrier between you and the outside.

Courtesy of Marie Claire Maison

Located near the National Museum and the Grand Hotel Stockholm, the Blasieholmens Aquarium & Restaurant [known as B.A.R.] is a more casual venture from the team behind Lux Stockholm, a Michelin-starred establishment in the city. Koncept Arkitekter [the firm behind the recently opened Story Hotel in Stockholm] designed the interiors, which feature white tiling, a zinc-topped bar, industrial fittings, leather sofas, painted wood floors, and a subtle aquatic color palette. Oh… and great looking food!

Ooooh I like! I know I have said this far too many times but this is my ideal house!

Buenos Aires architects Estudio BaBO have completed an extension to a townhouse in Argentina, where a modern rectangular structure sits on top of the original early twentieth-century town house building. Called Vol House, the extension at the top includes a the main bedroom with a glass façade, leading out onto the roof terrace.

It would be really interesting to get a good look into the rest of the town house though…

It could be in LA, Osaka or a Scandinavian suburb. Designed in the late sixties and built in 1970, this house on a large leafy estate nestling in Dulwich woods in South East London is filled with natural light.

I love the luscious dark colours used, greens and navy’s which contrast so beautifully with all the wood and the mirrored wall under the stairs making the whole space even larger.

Images courtesy of Tattersall Love