Bedroom interior images

We have been working with the bedroom and its furnishings with the aim to make it a space that has a different quality to rest of house.

a) setting light furniture against darker, warmed toned walls & keeping legs of furniture thin or having the furniture suspended from wall

b) combining beige bed with the custom designed side tables

c) keeping same wall colour throughout & designing a range of bedroom furniture (uses same profile in the legs of each piece)

Recent bedroom renders

One of the things we have been doing recently is reworking the furniture and furnishings of the bedroom. The rooms dimensions are approx. 4.3m x 4.5m so we have had to design furniture large and robust enough for the needs of the clients (2.6m high wardrobe, and a king sized bed) whilst maintaining that the furniture has an elegant and light look and not crowd or block in the room. By keeping the walls light and anything that may look blockish like the tall door panels of the wardrobe we are trying to let the room appear spacious.

Sinuate

This screen was originally designed to separate the kitchen from the living room. A prototype is now being developed. The system allows for variably spanning gaps that allows the user to store items in it from both rooms. Due to the thinness of the material, when viewed in front elevation the screen almost disappears back into the room yet when viewed at an angle and up close (like in this view), attention is called to its surfaces and what could be stored within it.

Location shot

 Other views of Milan

Renders

Below are some low res renders of the new rooms currently being constructed in the apartment:

View of main bathroom looking towards window 

Cross section view through bedroom, shower room and main bathroom

A opaque sliding glass door separates the bedroom from the bathroom area

  

View of bedroom looking from corridor 

towards sliding glass door into bathroom

View from lounge area towards kitchen (through sliding doors)

  

View of kitchen

December Updates

During our recent site visit the following issues emerged.

Firstly once the old plaster was removed the corridor wall was revealed to be too thin with a thickness of less than 50mm. This would be insufficient to accept cabling ducts, and also appeared fairly unstable when pushed. For such reason it was suggested to remove such wall and re-build a deeper one slightly offset towards the corridor. This would reduce the corridor width but at least it would succesfully hide the water risers in the corridor.

Secondly, the new brickwork walls had been erected; giving a perception of the new spaces and their dimensions.

When demolishing the existing toilet walls another soil vent pipe was discovered. Its dimensions are sufficient for servicing both toilets hence eliminating the necessity to open up the floor slab to remove the obstructed pipe.

This will require increasing the thickness of the shower wall to accept and hide the soil vent pipe.

Finally the walls of the living / kitchen spaces have been levelled and are ready to be rendered once cabling has been inserted.

This will be the next batch of information to be produced by mid January.

soil vent pipe in shower room

thin wall along main corridor to be demolished and re-erected

'Scrigno' System for sliding door being inserted inbetween bedroom and bathroom

new reception room

levelled brick walls ready for the kitchen

new brick wall being constructed in main bathroom

new brick wall being constructed between shower room & service bathroom

open living and kitchen room

November Site Progress

Once the suspended ceiling was removed it appeared that all the structural ceiling consisted of exposed brickwork, which would require re-plastering. For such reason it was decided to increase the extent of the new suspended ceiling to all the rooms of the house. It also became apparent that some of the perimetral walls were not straight and flush hence levelling work became necessary.

offset seam between adjacent walls

exposed ceiling revealing unrendered brickwork