Added: Jul 16, 2010

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davidlongdesigns.blogspot.com Interior Design Ideas. For stunning Luxury interior design ideas and much more - davidlongdesigns.blogspot.com including top free design tips. Interior Design - Layouts Space Planning Reconfiguring of existing spaces Kitchen, Bathroom Dressing Rooms Lighting, Electrical Audio-visual design schemes Furniture layouts Finishes - fixtures, fittings, decoration, soft-furnishings Whole House Lighting Control Dedicated Basement Cinema Whole House HD Video Linn Listening Room Crestron Home Automation Lounge Cinema Room Multi Room Audio Integrated Security Concealment Technologies Waterproof TV Modern Traditional Luxury Design decoration furniture residential interiors life stores Interior Design - Luxury Contempory New Built House from LuxuryInteriors Channel: OUT WITH THE OLD... Mary and Ian were a couple without a clear idea of what they wanted from a new home, but they were very sure of what they didn't want and that was a traditional family house. They had already had that experience when raising their children, but now that the children had flown the nest it was time for a change. Their previous property had been a restoration project and had strengthened the couple's long-held ambition to build their own home from scratch. Upon hearing of a suitable plot in the same area of York in which they were already living -- and of which they had grown extremely fond -- decisive action was taken and they quickly snapped it up. The stone-clad Edwardian villa stood on a street of similar Arts Crafts style houses and Mary and Ian were very keen to create a house which was modern in style, but would still fit in with its surroundings. The award-winning team at Crease Strickland Parkins Architects was brought in to design a stylish and contemporary home. After a terribly civilised initial consultation over a pub-lunch, plans were drawn up for a property which from the front would fit in with the more traditional aesthetic of the area, but which inside and from the back, was the open- plan home of Ian and Mary's dreams. The house was built by Repair Restoration Ltd -- based in Malton -- who ensured that with its high ceilings and abundance of natural light any initial expectations of the architect's plans were met, if not exceeded. When it came to the interior, Ian and Mary were just as selective in choosing their team, opting for York's award-winning firm, David Long Designs. Months of meetings and painstaking sourcing of materials followed and left the house as stunning inside as it is outside. The floors and walls are a chic combination of walnut and cream and provide a blank canvas for the striking, colourful accent pieces. The kitchen floor is highly polished cream stone, and the units are for the most part a similarly neutral shade, with a walnut carcase. There is one row of units' however, which lift the feel of the whole room with their vivid scarlet frontage, crafted from finest Serigraph glass and etched with an abstract black floral design. The pattern is deliberately mirrored with a custom-made door, made from cast-glass. The shade of the units is mirrored in the splash-back and then again in the living room's fitted cupboards which are lacquered in the same hue. So pleased were Mary and Ian with this injection of vibrancy, that they decided to carry it on throughout their home, coupled with the occasional touch of lime green to pick out the high quality furniture. This choice was born out of their reluctance to succumb to the impersonal minimalism which all too often goes hand in hand with cutting-edge design. David and his team chose softer, warmer fabrics to upholster furniture in a bid to make them seem more welcoming. In the master bedroom in particular, an architectural headboard is softened through the use of a beautiful floral fabric, perfectly marrying the accent colours of red and green in the window dressing and covering for matching scatter pillows. Light in its various forms is a strong theme in the house and was clearly important to the over-all design. The south-facing glass walls flood the rooms with sunlight during the day and as the nights draw in, the house's spectacular light-fittings come into their own. The double-height ceilings have allowed for the installation of two chandeliers, which combine droplets of Murano glass suspended on thin wires to create the illusion of balls of brightly coloured light floating in mid-air. In the master bedroom the light-fitting is equally as striking, if on a smaller scale. Like a tangle of wild flowers, red buds emerge from a twisted mass of wires. When switched on, the buds open slightly and gently rotate as if brought suddenly to life. 'Light in its various forms is a strong theme in the house and was clearly important to the over-all design' Architectural Planning Design - Interiors Exteriors - described in more detail under Architecture

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