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HOME & INTERIORS
MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACE
more and become the ‘Everything room’. A space to cook, eat,
chat, relax, feel cosy and connect to nature.
This is definitely the aspiration of a lot of our clients. With busy
lives putting more and more pressure on our time. When we are
home together, we want to enjoy that time together, to reconnect
and recharge as a family.
HOW DO YOU DIVIDE UP
A MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACE?
How do you create this everything room? The design, layout,
lighting and material palette is absolutely crucial to the success of
this space.
Firstly, the layout; zoning the room allows you to clearly define
the purpose of each section of the space. For many open plan
spaces there are essentially three zones for the room: cooking,
dining and relaxing.
THE DIFFERENT
ZONES
Open plan spaces are
obviously larger rooms, so
that presents a challenge if
you want to create a cosy
seating area. For one of our
recent projects the family
wanted to add glass to the
rear of the extension to
enjoy a connection to nature.
However, they also wanted to
add a fire into the space to
feel cosy and relaxed.
The solution was to divide
up the window wall into two
large sections of Crittall doors
and add a ceiling hung,
feature fire. By creating this
strong feature, it also clearly
defined the cosy area of the
space. Big expanses of glass
in spaces is fantastic, but they
do restrict how we zone a
room. By splitting the glass
sections, it gave us some wall
space back to add this integral
element of the design. We
then also positioned the
corner sofa to enjoy the
garden views and added a
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