OPEN PLAN HOME RENOVATION, EAST BRIDGFORD
Open Plan Home Renovation, East Bridgford
The Brief
Our clients are a busy professional couple with two young children living in a new home on a small private estate. They have lived in the area for years and often work from home. This makes them one of the few clients who manage the implementation of projects themselves, using their own local tradespeople.
The Design
Reading Area Design
The original layout of this home left a large unused space in front of floor to ceiling windows looking out onto the garden. When our clients asked us to create a Reading Area, we knew that this was the spot! We specified the Zeta Leather Chair (large enough to fit one adult and two small children) as a place to read in the evenings, and used a Harlequin paper to zone the space, choosing a colourway that matched the colour palate of the curtains in the Dining Room so that the rooms flow into one another. The finishing touch is this stylish standard lamp for good, even lighting.
Kitchen Renovation
The Kitchen required some modification, as opposed to a replacement. The Kitchen island finished short of the base cabinets on the far wall, making it difficult to understand where the Kitchen ended and the Dining Area began. It also suffered from dark brown wood-effect end panels, which looked drab in this underlit space.
We began by designing a small breakfast bar to extend the island, providing an additional seating area which has proven very popular. The end panels were treated with Zinsser, then painted in Farrow&Ball Off-White No.3. We improved the lighting by adding white wall cabinets with under mounted LED lights from Magnet to the far wall along with a light bright Elica Seashell Hood, as much sculpture as extractor! We also specified a glass splashback colour matched to the new wall colour, Farrow&Ball Card Room Green No.79.
Dining Room Design
The existing Neptune dining table was paired with a Neptune sideboard, topped with decorative items from John Lewis. A large mirror from La Redoute bounces light around the space, and a Kentia Palm in a self-watering pot connects the indoor space to the garden.
“We invited Emma to design our open plan Kitchen / Dining Room. We wanted to avoid an overhaul of the existing kitchen but Emma was still able to find ingenious ways to bring new life into the space. From subtle colour changes to statement furniture, Emma really had great ideas on how to transform the room. She also worked in partnership with her specialist contacts to ensure a complete and quality design.
On top of that, Emma is fun to work with. We will definitely be calling her again for our next project.”
Our Clients from East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire
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