Friday 4 October 2013

Ladies room




Creating an open plan living space


The problem here: three smallish un-used room.
Solution: creating of an open plan space to host the kitchen, dining and sitting room




This is a drawing showing our proposition:

 
After view of the kitchen
 



 Before photo of a living area. The window needs to be shown as it is, a beautiful bay window.

 After photo: blinds with a warm pattern fabric (lined with insulation fabric) were fitted, and the settee covered with a stripy matching fabric.

 

 

 

Monday 28 November 2011

Design for a bar restaurant

Here are some images of a bar restaurant I designed.

This first picture is the image of a concept board, which is used to check that I am on the same wave length as the client. None of the image actually shows something that will be used in the scheme, but illustarte the feeling that will be created in the place when completed.


In such a project the use of different and interesting material is very important. All the materials used have been gathered on a sample board, and gives a good idea of the overall feel of the place.


Here you can see the fantastic shiny wall paper for the bar area (shiny grey on the top left of the board), another wall of the bar is covered with a mesh material which is lit by coloured LED lights to give a very atmospherical ambiance. The bar is built using shiny glass material in brown and grey colour. The flooring in the bar area is metallic, which adds more reflective atmospherical lighting. The scheme chosen for the restaurant area is much softer with voile curtains covering the walls which are paionted in a soft pink, a lovely patterned linoleum flooring, leather seats.

Here is a perspective drawing of the bar area.

Thursday 20 October 2011

60ies style house in Forest Hill


This project is for a young professional, very busy with his work who needed some advice to chose colours and equipment.
For the living area, the brief was a modern comfortable place in a black and white scheme, with a black leather sofa.
Here is the sample board for the dining/sitting area

This is a computerized image of the space view from above. This is not a photo like image, this is a computerize rendering to help understand the planning of space. The colours are seen on the sample board.
Here is the sitting area with a black leather sofa and a white leather rocking chair.
I designed the rug to finish the scheme. The rug is made bespoke by Misha-rug company.
On the other side of the room is a big built-in cupboard, to hide the television and other equipment. The client showed me what sort of wall unit he wanted and I designed this one, that is made by a carpenter.
A bright red chair prevents the black and white scheme to be boring and cold.

Here is the dining area. A cupboard is built above the radiator, and transform it as a real feature with a nice shelving space.

Very often staircase are a place where to pass as quickly as possible simply because it is boring. Staircases are also very often dark and narrow, un-interesting. I decided for this project to use a beautiful dark wall paper (cut out lace from Vivienne Westwood) on one wall. This wall is lit by beautifull glass Art Deco wall sconce, and every other stair is lit by a stair wall light.
Here is the sample board.
Arrived on the first floor, you enter the master bedroom, which is a sophisticated retreat all in shiny silver and beautiful dark purple.
The brief was a comfortable and modern retreat, empty of un-necessary furniture. Here is the sample board:
This is a computerized image to understand the use of the space.
The second room on the first floor is the guest bedroom/office. Here the Brief was a multifunctional room to be used as an office and as a guest bedroom. The sofa is a sofabed and there is plenty of storage.
Here is the sample board:
Here is a computerized view of the office/guest bedroom
The top floor bedroom is another multifunctional room. It is the "boys' playroom", where you can listen to the music, have a drink... and it is also to be used as an occasional guest bedroom.
The colours are bright and exciting.

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Advise only living room in Hounslow



This is the furniture layout made for a living room, with the adjacent dining area located in a lean to conservatory. When I first visited the place, the dining area wasn't a nice place to stay and the living area was a closed space. As my client wanted her family to spend more time in the dining area and have a comfortable and modern living room, I decided to open the living room onto the dining area, and use upholstery to link the two spaces.

My client wanted pattern and violet colours and keep the space spacious.

Here is the sample board showing the different material chosen for the scheme:



My client also wanted to have a computerised image of the room, so I have prepared the following three D images. The first one is a global view of the room, which is close to an axonometric drawing.



Following are other views of the room as if you were standing in it:






Living room



Sample board for a living room with a masculine touch for a flat



Visual for a living room with a masculine touch

Living room for a flat in Greenwhich

This is an "advice only" project for the living room of a flat in Greenwhich.
For This project, I have created a scheme for a relaxing yet stylish room. All the materials were sourced, including wall and floor covering, upholstery, furniture... and a window treatment completed the scheme.

Here is the sample board showing the different components of the scheme.



Here is a visual, an axonometric drawing of the prposed scheme for the living room.


To make sure the scheme is as green as possible, eco paints are used (no VOCs off gased, and the paint is not a petroleum based product but is made with natural ingredients)
Bamboo fabric is included in the scheme.

Bedrooms



This is a board I prepared to show the design created for three bedrooms in the same house. One bedroom is for a little girl the second one for her brother and the third one is the master bedroom.

Monday 1 March 2010

Axonometric drawing f a bathroom

This is an axonometric drawing of a bathroom.
The brief specified the use of glass, a large bath and large shower, bidet and W.C., double basins and enough storage.
I have chosen to add floor LED lights as an atmosperical lighting and for safety reason.
The scheme is blue-green, reminded water and enlighten by yellow (the sun).