Kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, baths and basements as design studies: one starting room shown in several directions: what changes, what stays, and the three or four decisions that move the room. The images are concept renderings, not photographs of completed projects; every study lists its palette, materials and a cost estimate.
Almost every house has one of these rooms: the beige spare room with builder-grade carpet, a basic bookcase and a plain desk that works but says nothing.
The before in every one of the thirteen transformations below is the same primary bedroom: wall-to-wall beige carpet, popcorn ceiling, oak bed and dresser from the same big-box set, and a wall of patterned curtains.
Most game rooms have the same problem from day one: they were assembled rather than designed.
This study reimagines a tired, beige guest room as a kids' bedroom in thirteen concept directions, starting from the room stripped back to its architectural bones.
The plain beige spare room is one of the most common starting points for a home office, from rentals and first apartments to the back bedroom of a Charleston bungalow.
One space, twelve outcomes. This study takes one outdated, standard builder-grade kitchen and shows it in twelve distinct design directions.
This study shows one utilitarian basement room reimagined in eleven different ways, from bunker to bright guest suite, as concept renderings of the same below-grade bedroom.
Teen bedrooms are one of the trickiest briefs in residential design.
Charleston-area living rooms come in every shape (Mount Pleasant townhouses, Daniel Island new-builds, King Street loft conversions, Sullivan's Island bungalows, Kiawah weekenders), and a common question is the.
A garage is the most honest room in the house. Nobody dresses it up for guests, so it ends up holding every tool, bin, and bike a household owns, and then gets apologized for.
Start with a beige-on-beige builder bath of the kind found all over Summerville, and ask what can actually be done with 75 square feet.
Take a 1920s Charleston single-house with a neglected basement room that has been used as cluttered storage for two decades, a problem with a dozen familiar versions.
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