Jake Fitzjones

Emily O'Brien

Double height great room with custom dining table and large porcelain slab fireplace surround Architect : John Lum Architecture Photography : Paul Dyer

Photographer: Alex Thornton Photography

The walls of windows and the sloped ceiling provide dimension and architectural detail, maximizing the natural light and view. The floor tile was installed in a herringbone pattern. The painted tongue and groove wood ceiling keeps the open space light, airy, and bright in contract to the dark Tudor style of the existing. home.

We updated the master bathroom, by opening up the former 3-wall shower and taking down the half wall separating the toilet. The tall vertical accent bands, in the shower and behind the toilet enhance the 8' ceiling height. It feel like this 8' x 14' room doubled in size, thanks to the glass frameless shower enclosure, the sleek freestanding tub and the light colors. The bathroom is modern in its design, and classic at the time with the use of marble and traditional wall sconces. Photography credits: Tyler Trippet Photography

A huge double height dining and banqueting hall designed for the wow factor and with flexible use to seat 21 or become a meeting hall for canapes and cocktails. Contemporary modern rustic and with original wall art and eclectic curios.

A huge double height dining and banqueting hall designed for the wow factor and with flexible use to seat 21 or become a meeting hall for canapes and cocktails. Contemporary modern rustic and with original wall art and eclectic curios.

A huge double height dining and banqueting hall designed for the wow factor and with flexible use to seat 21 or become a meeting hall for canapes and cocktails. Contemporary modern rustic and with original wall art and eclectic curios.

A huge double height dining and banqueting hall designed for the wow factor and with flexible use to seat 21 or become a meeting hall for canapes and cocktails. Contemporary modern rustic and with original wall art and eclectic curios.

The grand living room is designed with double height wall designed in italian marble cladding with cove light on either sides. The subtle yet elegant sofas with highlight piping on the edge really defines the sofa's design. The hint of golden base in center table and sofa legs gives a feel of luxury.

Girls bathroom remodel for two sisters from two small separate bathrooms originally to a new larger, "Jack and Jill" style bathroom for better flow. Cesarstone white counter tops, tub deck, and shower bench/curb. Wood look porcelain floor planking. White subway tile with glass bubble mosaic tile accents. Construction by JP Lindstrom, Inc. Bernard Andre Photography

Originally designed by Delano and Aldrich in 1917, this building served as carriage house to the William and Dorothy Straight mansion several blocks away on the Upper East Side of New York. With practically no original detail, this relatively humble structure was reconfigured into something more befitting the client’s needs. To convert it for a single family, interior floor plates are carved away to form two elegant double height spaces. The front façade is modified to express the grandness of the new interior. A beautiful new rear garden is formed by the demolition of an overbuilt addition. The entire rear façade was removed and replaced. A full floor was added to the roof, and a newly configured stair core incorporated an elevator. Architecture: DHD Interior Designer: Eve Robinson Associates Photography by Peter Margonelli http://petermargonelli.com

The stretch ceiling here is white high gloss, with a black graphic printed in the corners. Off screen, there is blue lighting on the left, which is reflecting off the ceiling. The issues that annoyed the family in this condo are common to new condo units: Low ceilings covered with a popcorn finish, small rooms, low light in the bedrooms and living room, and no ceiling light fixtures. Concrete ceilings are not only difficult to drill into to install fixtures, installing wiring behind them for such fixtures is impossible. There are often conduits for building services embedded in the concrete along with structural steel reinforcements, so drilling without x-raying first is dangerous. Laqfoil stretch ceiling provided a solution to all of these issues for this condo unit. A high gloss finish was chosen, as the reflections visually double the height of the space. Installing a stretch ceiling also naturally conceals the popcorn ceiling behind it, but in this case, was also used to conceal the wiring necessary to add ceiling lights in every room. The wiring was simply attached to the existing popcorn ceiling. Laqfoil stretch ceiling is supported around the perimeter only, by tracks, or profiles which are only about 0.75" thick. The ceiling membrane itself is less than one millimetre thick. We also added a small vector graphic, printed in each corner of the living room ceiling, for a unique aesthetic effect.

Soft, fresh-from-nature hues mix with warm woods in a bath whose style and sensibility are born of the sea. Explore our Carmel-inspired bathroom design. Benjamin Moore paint in Guilford Green HC-116; product/sheen: Aura Bath & Spa, Matte