Rustic Villa by Whitespace

The dining area, fireplace and stairs, collectively christened the ‘grand family room’, were admittedly a design challenge. The area featured a dead space, a plain stairway, a bijou dining area and no place for storage. The width of the stairway was doubled to craft a sequence of cosy, upholstered seating nests on alternate steps. The under-stairs cubby holes were then added for storage, the dead space converted into a striking indigo feature wall, and a petite dining booth conjured against the wall.