A Great Bed Head-Board with Shelving.

Here is a cool example of an effective and useful head board around the bed.
This is from the Sydney home of stylist Megan Morton and she says this “Can you imagine what it’s like to wake up knowing all these amazing books are behind me?!” Yep, she's pretty happy with this. See the rest of her interesting home here.
Photographs via The Design Files.

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Successful Television Integration.

I think this is a great example of having a TV in the living area - locating it in the bookshelves means the black rectangle doesn't stand out as much. This is a great move.
Happy Friday everyone.
Photograph via Lonny.

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New Work - Joinery with Sliding Doors

The new entertainment unit with the doors closed.

Doors opened for TV watching.

Plenty of storage.

Open shelf for easy use with remote controls.

Beading detail and traditional style handles.

Here is a joinery unit that I designed  earlier this year. When I first met my clients and asked for their brief, I was directed to a small TV sitting on a coffee table, piles of books and various TV paraphernalia sitting in an unordered array under a window. They wanted to move up to a bigger TV but not have it dominate the room; to hide away the subwoofer which still needed to have an opening so that it can still work and to store the huge collection of DVDs, CDs and other personal items that was hogging up a wardrobe in an adjoining bedroom. Taking on board their brief as well as the traditional surroundings and furniture of their home, this is the result. The sliding doors cover the TV when not in use, the subwoofer is in a cupboard next to a opening covered in grill cloth (like a stereo speaker), the joinery is the same colour as the wall so that it is not imposing, we copied a beading detail of an adjoining sideboard for the panelled doors and we use traditional handles to tie in with the rest of the interior. The clients are happy. Mission accomplished.
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

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292 - Kitchen Before and After

The Kitchen - before

Looking to the kitchen from the Living room (which was also my office).

The New Kitchen.

The galley style kitchen - so much more storage space.

Yay - a dishwasher! How I love it.

I moved back to 292 last Friday on a cold wintery wet day. However, a warm new home welcomed me. It is lovely to be back and enjoy the fruits of our labour from the last half year.
I have unpacked most of my things and slowly pulling together all the rooms. The easiest one to sort out was the kitchen. Looking back on the before photos, it is a huge improvement!
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

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New Work - 'Minerva' Store Update

Before - the original 'Minerva' layout with the old counter on the right by the threads area.

After - now the new magazine area with new window display cabinets.

Before - the original front of the store on the left side with display units and a large antique table.

After - The new counter now at front of the store between the antique table and window display cabinets.

There is also a new back unit for the counter (you can just see the corner of it).

'Minerva' is a book store and gallery that I designed a couple of years ago. My client called me back to replace the old counter (we had kept it on board for budget reasons) and to add more shelving in the front area of the store.

We removed the old counter and created a new magazine area. We designed a new counter and located it by the main entrance on the left hand side for more visual impact and a better view for those working behind it.

I took the 'after' photos above the other day while it was getting finished. The clients were still setting up the store, locating the new computers/phones and getting the books/magazines back in place - however, it was already looking pretty good. The clients are happy with the results.

Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

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