Double height living area

With the main aspect of the brief being to include lots of storage, we ensured this was the case. Behind stools on the island we included full depth cupboards and added four larder cupboards throughout the space, each with different storage configurations to cater for different storage needs including a wine rack, internal drawers and pull out chrome shelves. We also included a tambour unit, designed to hide away worktop appliances such as the toaster and tea/coffee canisters to keep the streamlined, clean look of the kitchen. Alongside this, a Quooker hot tap meant there was no need for a kettle on the work surface either. Jonathan Gooch

Designed by longstanding customers Moon Architect and Builder, a large double height space was created by removing the ground floor and some of the walls of this period property in Bristol. Due to the open space created, the flow of colour and the interior theme was central to making this space work.

Features: Custom Wood Hood with Pull Out Spice Racks, Mantel, Motif, and Corbels; Varied Height Cabinetry; Art for Everyday Turned Posts # F-1; Art for Everyday Corbels # CBL-TCY1, Beadboard; Wood Mullion and Clear Beveled Glass Doors; Bar Area; Double Panel Doors; Coffered Ceiling; Enhancement Window; Art for Everyday Mantels # MTL-A1 and # MTL-A0; Desk Area Cabinets- Main Kitchen: Honey Brook Custom in Maple Wood with Seapearl Paint and Glaze; Voyager Full Overlay Door Style with C-2 Lip Cabinets- Island & Bar Area: Honey Brook Custom in Cherry Wood with Colonial Finish; Voyager Full Overlay Door Style with C-2 Lip Countertops- Main Kitchen: Golden Beach Granite with Double Pencil Edge Countertops- Island and Bar Area: Golden Beach Granite with Waterfall Edge Kitchen Designer: Tammy Clark Photograph: Kelly Keul Duer

Double height ceiling offers a light flooded entrance. Polished porcelain tiles and glass balustrades bounce the natural light around, and open timber treads enhance an airy feeling. A trio of George Nelson pendant lights are enjoyed from both the ground and first floors. Photography by Sam Penninger - Styling by Selena White

Catherine Nguyen Photography

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Interiors by Christy Dillard Kratzer, Architecture by Harrison Design Associates, Photography by Chris Little, antique limestone floors in Dijon color, teak countertop for large island, kitchen furniture, soft English floral fabric for valance on large window, double pendant shade island light fixture, creams and light yellows with a touch of green in vases, vanilla marble countertops and backsplash, rattan barstools with creamy leather seats, great natural light floods space, large open space to move about, brown and white/ cream dishes are a nice accent and work well with the English feel to kitchen, Chris Little Photography

Gavin Fraser

Design Objectives: - Create a restful getaway - Create updated contemporary feel - Provide a large soaking tub - Take advantage of soaring vaulted ceiling to create drama Special Features - Ceiling mounted pendant lighting on angled vaulted ceiling - Wall hung vanities with lighted toe kick - Custom plinth block provides deck for roman faucet - Easy to maintain porcelain tile floor & quartz countertops - Rainhead & personal body sprays in bath Cabinetry: Jay Rambo, Door style - Torino, Finish - Canadian Oak. Tile: Main floor - Exedra Calacatta Silk, Shower floor - Exedra Calacatta, Shower walls, plinth & ceiling - Exedra Callacatta Silk Plumbing: Tub - MTI, Faucets - Danze, Sinks - Kohler, Toilet - Toto Countertops: Material - Silestone Hanstone Bianco Canvas, Edge profile - Square Designed by: Susan Klimala, CKD, CBD Photo by: Dawn Jackman For more information on kitchen and bath design ideas go to: www.kitchenstudio-ge.com

Tony Soluri

The grey and silver lounge with modern coffee tables and a stunning floor lamp is the perfect place to relax and invite guests. This space flows into the dining room, where the unusually tall ceiling allowed for this stunning, iconic chandelier, it illuminates both floors at the same time.

This West Village is the combination of 2 apartments into a larger one, which takes advantage of the stunning double height spaces, extremely unusual in NYC. While keeping the pre-war flair the residence maintains a minimal and contemporary design.

Master bathroom suite with slab and mosaic Calacatta Marble floors, slab counters and tiled walls. Crystal chandeliers and sconces highlighting custom painted inset cabinets.

The new house sits back from the suburban road, a pipe-stem lot hidden in the trees. The owner/building had requested a modern, clean statement of his residence. A single rectangular volume houses the main program: living, dining, kitchen to the north, garage, private bedrooms and baths to the south. Secondary building blocks attached to the west and east faces contain special places: entry, stair, music room and master bath. The double height living room with full height corner windows erodes the solidity of the house, opening it to the outside. The porch, beyond the living room, stretches the house into the landscape, the transition anchored with the double-fronted fireplace. The modern vocabulary of the house is a careful delineation of the parts - cantilevering roofs lift and extend beyond the planar stucco, siding and glazed wall surfaces. Where the house meets ground, crushed stone along the perimeter base mimics the roof lines above, the sharply defined edges of lawn held away from the foundation. The open steel stair stands separate from adjacent walls. Kitchen and bathroom cabinets are objects in space - visually (and where possible, physically) disengaged from ceiling, wall and floor. It's the movement through the volumes of space, along surfaces, and out into the landscape, that unifies the house.

Double height ceiling with grand fireplace

double height ceiling with open riser stair case.

LG House (Edmonton Design :: thirdstone inc. [^] Photography :: Merle Prosofsky