The shared living area of a family house with direct access to the garden. Cooking, dining and relaxing share one open space, with large areas of glazing facing the garden. The living room has a TV wall with an oak panel and a sand-coloured corner sofa, and olive-green bar stools stand beside the peninsula.
The boundaries between the living room, the kitchen and the dining area are marked by the strip of suspended ceiling above the peninsula, the dining table's own pendant light and the TV wall.
Here, ‘soft’ minimalism means that we paired clean-lined forms with warm oak, soft upholstery and olive green.
Above the living room hangs a pendant light made of two black rings. A concealed light strip runs beneath the wall units above the TV, and vertical light strips sit inside the display cabinet.
Two white globe lights hang above the peninsula, and a black linear light above the kitchen.
Above the dining table hangs a pendant light with four white globes mounted on a horizontal bar.
The TV wall is the focal point of the living room. Alongside the light, textured wall surface, we designed a vertical oak panel and a lit, dark-framed display cabinet.
For the living room we chose a pendant light made of two black rings, which hang at different heights.
A concealed light strip glows along the underside of the row of units above the TV.
The panel runs from the row of wall units down to the low chest of drawers, and the TV sits where the panel meets the textured wall.
The shelves of the display cabinet are lit by vertical light strips, which are visible in the front view.
The sofa has sand-coloured upholstery. Behind it is the same light, textured wall surface as on the TV wall.
A row of units sits above the TV, with a long, low chest of drawers below it. The drawer handles are formed by a black profile that runs between the two rows of drawers.
For the kitchen we chose ceiling-height, matt off-white fronts and a stone-effect splashback. The strongest colour comes from the olive-green upholstered bar stools at the peninsula.
We designed a display cabinet at each end of the run of kitchen units. The one on the dining-area side, a dark-framed unit with shelves, is lit by concealed lighting.
Two white globe pendant lights hang above the peninsula.
A horizontal slatted front breaks up the run of smooth, matt off-white fronts.
A narrow, black-framed glass display cabinet sits at the corridor end of the bank of tall units.
The peninsula is finished with a white end panel that runs down to the floor, with three olive-green upholstered bar stools beside it.
The dining table has a light top on black crossed metal legs, with beige upholstered chairs around it.
These two details break up the smooth, matt surfaces.
The palette is built on a light base of matt off-white fronts and textured walls. Oak and the sand-coloured upholstery add warmth, while olive green and matt black provide the accents.
Olive green appears in the textured upholstery of the bar stools, and oak in the vertical panel of the TV wall. Black recurs in the ring pendant light, the linear light, the legs of the dining table and the handle rail of the drawers.
The line drawing was made from the finished visualisation.
Each of the three zones has its own focal point: the TV wall with its oak panel in the living room, the olive-green bar stools in the kitchen and the four-globe pendant light in the dining area. The background is the same in all three: light, matt surfaces.
At InteriorVibe we design the complete interior architecture of your flat or house in one to three months. Space planning, visualisation, bespoke joinery and precise construction documentation — from one hand.
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