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Décor AidWhen an international client moved from Brazil to Stamford, Connecticut, they reached out to Decor Aid, and asked for our help in modernizing a recently purchased suburban home. The client felt that the house was too “cookie-cutter,” and wanted to transform their space into a highly individualized home for their energetic family of four.
In addition to giving the house a more updated and modern feel, the client wanted to use the interior design as an opportunity to segment and demarcate each area of the home. They requested that the downstairs area be transformed into a media room, where the whole family could hang out together. Both of the parents work from home, and so their office spaces had to be sequestered from the rest of the house, but conceived without any disruptive design elements. And as the husband is a photographer, he wanted to put his own artwork on display. So the furniture that we sourced had to balance the more traditional elements of the house, while also feeling cohesive with the husband’s bold, graphic, contemporary style of photography.
The first step in transforming this house was repainting the interior and exterior, which were originally done in outdated beige and taupe colors. To set the tone for a classically modern design scheme, we painted the exterior a charcoal grey, with a white trim, and repainted the door a crimson red. The home offices were placed in a quiet corner of the house, and outfitted with a similar color palette: grey walls, a white trim, and red accents, for a seamless transition between work space and home life.
The house is situated on the edge of a Connecticut forest, with clusters of maple, birch, and hemlock trees lining the property. So we installed white window treatments, to accentuate the natural surroundings, and to highlight the angular architecture of the home.
In the entryway, a bold, graphic print, and a thick-pile sheepskin rug set the tone for this modern, yet comfortable home. While the formal room was conceived with a high-contrast neutral palette and angular, contemporary furniture, the downstairs media area includes a spiral staircase, comfortable furniture, and patterned accent pillows, which creates a more relaxed atmosphere. Equipped with a television, a fully-stocked bar, and a variety of table games, the downstairs media area has something for everyone in this energetic young family.
Elizabeth Krueger DesignMike Schwartz
Inspiration for a large contemporary open plan dining room in Chicago with grey walls, dark hardwood flooring, brown floors and no fireplace.
Inspiration for a large contemporary open plan dining room in Chicago with grey walls, dark hardwood flooring, brown floors and no fireplace.
Rufty Custom Built Homes and RemodelingDesign ideas for a contemporary dining room in Raleigh with beige walls and dark hardwood flooring.
Holly MarderHolly Marder © 2012 Houzz
Design ideas for a contemporary open plan dining room in Amsterdam.
Design ideas for a contemporary open plan dining room in Amsterdam.
TINEKE TRIGGSThis is an example of a contemporary dining room in San Francisco with white walls and dark hardwood flooring.
Atmosphere Interior Design Inc.D&M Images
This is an example of a contemporary dining room in Other with black walls, black floors and feature lighting.
This is an example of a contemporary dining room in Other with black walls, black floors and feature lighting.
UserNeutral shades of gray and tan create a peaceful, relaxing place to dine while enjoying the spectacular coastal view beyond slide-away glass doors. The glass dining table is surrounded by solid, armless upholstered chairs with striped armed chairs on each end. A sphere shaped chandelier pops against the planked mahogany wood ceiling.
La Compagnie de la MaisonInspiration for a medium sized contemporary open plan dining room in Paris with light hardwood flooring, a corner fireplace and wainscoting.
Rikki SnyderA Room For Supper: Patrik Lonn Design Inc.
Photo by: Rikki Snyder © 2012 Houzz
Inspiration for a contemporary dining room in New York with beige walls.
Inspiration for a contemporary dining room in New York with beige walls.
Jennifer Gustafson Interior Design• Eclectic dining room furnishings
• Wall color - Benjamin Moore Superwhite I-01
• Vintage Dining Table - Refinished by Acorn Restoration
• Brazilian Walnut wood flooring
• Vintage Area rug - gray + blue
• Drapery Panels and Hardware - The Shade Store
• Cluster Pendant - Menicus (Discontinued)
• Upholstered dining chairs - Bonaldo
• Black + White framed art - salon-style installation featuring the client's favorite family photos
• Decorative Accessory Styling
• Metal side buffet table - BluDot
Yvonne McFadden LLCInterior Designer: Yvonne McFadden, Summerour & Associates
This is an example of a contemporary dining room in Atlanta.
This is an example of a contemporary dining room in Atlanta.
Molly McGinness Interior DesignInspiration for a contemporary dining room in Chicago with brown walls, medium hardwood flooring and beige floors.
Caisson StudiosInspiration for a medium sized contemporary enclosed dining room in Los Angeles with white walls, medium hardwood flooring and no fireplace.
Ernesto Santalla PLLCExcerpted from Washington Home & Design Magazine, Jan/Feb 2012
Full Potential
Once ridiculed as “antipasto on the Potomac,” the Watergate complex designed by Italian architect Luigi Moretti has become one of Washington’s most respectable addresses. But its curvaceous 1960s architecture still poses design challenges for residents seeking to transform their outdated apartments for contemporary living.
Inside, the living area now extends from the terrace door to the kitchen and an adjoining nook for watching TV. The rear wall of the kitchen isn’t tiled or painted, but covered in boards made of recycled wood fiber, fly ash and cement. A row of fir cabinets stands out against the gray panels and white-lacquered drawers under the Corian countertops add more contrast. “I now enjoy cooking so much more,” says the homeowner. “The previous kitchen had very little counter space and storage, and very little connection to the rest of the apartment.”
“A neutral color scheme allows sculptural objects, in this case iconic furniture, and artwork to stand out,” says Santalla. “An element of contrast, such as a tone or a texture, adds richness to the palette.”
In the master bedroom, Santalla designed the bed frame with attached nightstands and upholstered the adjacent wall to create an oversized headboard. He created a television stand on the adjacent wall that allows the screen to swivel so it can be viewed from the bed or terrace.
Of all the renovation challenges facing the couple, one of the most problematic was deciding what to do with the original parquet floors in the living space. Santalla came up with the idea of staining the existing wood and extending the same dark tone to the terrace floor.
“Now the indoor and outdoor parts of the apartment are integrated to create an almost seamless space,” says the homeowner. “The design succeeds in realizing the promise of what the Watergate can be.”
Project completed in collaboration with Treacy & Eagleburger.
Photography by Alan Karchmer
Auda & Auda PhotographyAuda and Coudayre Photography
This is an example of a medium sized contemporary dining room in San Diego with beige walls.
This is an example of a medium sized contemporary dining room in San Diego with beige walls.
Klang & AssociatesPhoto of a contemporary dining room in San Francisco with carpet and feature lighting.
Feldman Architecture, Inc.Joe Fletcher
Atop a ridge in the Santa Lucia mountains of Carmel, California, an oak tree stands elevated above the fog and wrapped at its base in this ranch retreat. The weekend home’s design grew around the 100-year-old Valley Oak to form a horseshoe-shaped house that gathers ridgeline views of Oak, Madrone, and Redwood groves at its exterior and nestles around the tree at its center. The home’s orientation offers both the shade of the oak canopy in the courtyard and the sun flowing into the great room at the house’s rear façades.
This modern take on a traditional ranch home offers contemporary materials and landscaping to a classic typology. From the main entry in the courtyard, one enters the home’s great room and immediately experiences the dramatic westward views across the 70 foot pool at the house’s rear. In this expansive public area, programmatic needs flow and connect - from the kitchen, whose windows face the courtyard, to the dining room, whose doors slide seamlessly into walls to create an outdoor dining pavilion. The primary circulation axes flank the internal courtyard, anchoring the house to its site and heightening the sense of scale by extending views outward at each of the corridor’s ends. Guest suites, complete with private kitchen and living room, and the garage are housed in auxiliary wings connected to the main house by covered walkways.
Building materials including pre-weathered corrugated steel cladding, buff limestone walls, and large aluminum apertures, and the interior palette of cedar-clad ceilings, oil-rubbed steel, and exposed concrete floors soften the modern aesthetics into a refined but rugged ranch home.
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