Twin Peaks House is a vibrant extension to a grand Edwardian homestead in Kensington. Originally built in 1913 for a wealthy family of butchers, when the surrounding landscape was pasture from horizon to horizon, the homestead endured as its acreage was carved up and subdivided into smaller terrace allotments. Our clients discovered the property decades ago during long walks around their neighbourhood, promising themselves that they would buy it should the opportunity ever arise. Many years later the opportunity did arise, and our clients made the leap. Not long after, they commissioned us to update the home for their family of five. They asked us to replace the pokey rear end of the house, shabbily renovated in the 1980s, with a generous extension that matched the scale of the original home and its voluminous garden. Our design intervention extends the massing of the original gable-roofed house towards the back garden, accommodating kids’ bedrooms, living areas downstairs and main bedroom suite tucked away upstairs gabled volume to the east earns the project its name, duplicating the main roof pitch at a smaller scale and housing dining, kitchen, laundry and informal entry. This arrangement of rooms supports our clients’ busy lifestyles with zones of communal and individual living, places to be together and places to be alone. The living area pivots around the kitchen island, positioned carefully to entice our clients' energetic teenaged boys with the aroma of cooking. A sculpted deck runs the length of the garden elevation, facing swimming pool, borrowed landscape and the sun. A first-floor hideout attached to the main bedroom floats above, vertical screening providing prospect and refuge. Neither quite indoors nor out, these spaces act as threshold between both, protected from the rain and flexibly dimensioned for either entertaining or retreat. Galvanised steel continuously wraps the exterior of the extension, distilling the decorative heritage of the original’s walls, roofs and gables into two cohesive volumes. The masculinity in this form-making is balanced by a light-filled, feminine interior. Its material palette of pale timbers and pastel shades are set against a textured white backdrop, with 2400mm high datum adding a human scale to the raked ceilings. Celebrating the tension between these design moves is a dramatic, top-lit 7m high void that slices through the centre of the house. Another type of threshold, the void bridges the old and the new, the private and the public, the formal and the informal. It acts as a clear spatial marker for each of these transitions and a living relic of the home’s long history.

The hallway provides easy access to the kitchen, the laundry area and then directly into the Master Bath. The Master Bath is separated from the rest of the space with a pocket door, which provides for privacy without taking up space like a traditional door. The hallway on the guest side of the apartment flows through to the guest bath and bedroom and includes wider doorways and pocket doors for easy bathroom access.

Il corridoio distributivo della zona notte presenta una serie di nicchie e spazi di risulta chiusi con delle pannellature scorrevoli continue al cui interno sono state ricavate delle cabine armadio. Le pannellature e le porte delle camere hanno le stesse colorazioni per uniformare il più possibile l’ambiente e renderlo intimo, in contrapposizione allo spazio aperto della zona giorno.

Un semplice spazio corridoio può diventare un tema di progetto. In questo caso la divisione tra la zona giorno e la zona notte avviene mediante un corridoio completamente giallo, rivestito con pannelli in legno che nascondono due porte filomuro dal''estetica minimale. Le porte danno l'accesso alla camera da letto ed al bagno.

Для облицовки стеновых панелей и межкомнатных полотен использовался уникальный облицовочный материал - шпон tabu Анегри. Двери скрытого монтажа в нестандартном размере. Благодаря качественному современному оборудованию, мы часто выходим за рамки стандартов. Причем, стоимость за высоту двери до 2400 будет идти без наценки, т.е. как за стоимость стандартного полотна.

For this knock-down rebuild family home, the interior design aesthetic was Hampton’s style in the city. The brief for this home was traditional with a touch of modern. Effortlessly elegant and very detailed with a warm and welcoming vibe. Built by R.E.P Building. Photography by Hcreations.

Stunning entrance at @sthcoogeebeachhouse

Rénovation complète d'un appartement haussmmannien de 70m2 dans le 14ème arr. de Paris. Les espaces ont été repensés pour créer une grande pièce de vie regroupant la cuisine, la salle à manger et le salon. Les espaces sont sobres et colorés. Pour optimiser les rangements et mettre en valeur les volumes, le mobilier est sur mesure, il s'intègre parfaitement au style de l'appartement haussmannien.

Photo : Romain Ricard

The elegant entrance hall with crystal chandelier, painted timber panelling, wallpaper, stone fireplace etc..

zona pranzo con armadio in legno noce canaletto cannettato. Pavimento in parquet rovere naturale posato a spina ungherese. A sinistra porte scorrevoli per accedere a diverse camere oltre che da corridoio

Service : Guest Rooms Location : 大阪市中央区 Area : 52 rooms Completion : AUG / 2016 Designer : T.Fujimoto / N.Sueki Photos : 329 Photo Studio Link : http://www.swissotel-osaka.co.jp/