Cuddle up with a book on this colorful Beach decor window seat. This custom made reading nook built on storage is the perfect place to cozy up and read a book or play on your phone. Outlets for your phone or other devices and an accordion arm lamp to shed some light on the task at hand. The vibrant cool and warm colors of red, turquoise, yellow, white, and black bring everything together in this tiny space. Maximize the space you live in with storage, style, and function. Designed by Space Consultant Danielle Perkins @ DANIELLE Interior Design & Decor. Photographed by Taylor Abeel Photography.

A perfect addition to your outdoor living is a seating wall surrounding a firepit. Cambridge Maytrx wall, Pyzique Fire Pit, Round table Pavers. Installed by Natural Green Landsacpe & Design in Lincoln, RI

This used to be a completely unfinished basement with concrete floors, cinder block walls, and exposed floor joists above. The homeowners wanted to finish the space to include a wet bar, powder room, separate play room for their daughters, bar seating for watching tv and entertaining, as well as a finished living space with a television with hidden surround sound speakers throughout the space. They also requested some unfinished spaces; one for exercise equipment, and one for HVAC, water heater, and extra storage. With those requests in mind, I designed the basement with the above required spaces, while working with the contractor on what components needed to be moved. The homeowner also loved the idea of sliding barn doors, which we were able to use as at the opening to the unfinished storage/HVAC area.

The open plan family room provides ample seating for small or larger groups. Accents of blue, yellow and teal play against the white storage bench seats and taupe sofas. Custom bench seating and pillows. Photo: Jean Bai / Konstrukt Photo

Built-in custom polished concrete fire -pit with surrounding brick bench with a bluestone cap. Bluestone patio paving with slot of gray beach pebbles. Fire-pit has natural gas with an electric spark starter. Bench seating has a wood screen wall that includes lighting & supports vine growth.

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The unique design challenge in this early 20th century Georgian Colonial was the complete disconnect of the kitchen to the rest of the home. In order to enter the kitchen, you were required to walk through a formal space. The homeowners wanted to connect the kitchen and garage through an informal area, which resulted in building an addition off the rear of the garage. This new space integrated a laundry room, mudroom and informal entry into the re-designed kitchen. Additionally, 25” was taken out of the oversized formal dining room and added to the kitchen. This gave the extra room necessary to make significant changes to the layout and traffic pattern in the kitchen. Beth Singer Photography

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Finished Basement includes custom bench seats for storage, game room area, and movie area with projector.
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Starting at the bar, a welcoming entryway created by stone arches and columns leads you to the curved stone build bar-design with an espresso stained cherry curved bar top. Besides the continued rustic lantern lighting, 3-inch soffits were also installed providing direct framing from above but also eliminates the claustrophobic feel of many basements. When those at the bar are ready for more than just chatting and drinking, they can follow the hand-scraped walnut flooring, to the billiards area with espresso stained cherry baseboards, fun ‘porch-style’ swing bench seating, and an exquisitely detailed light fixture above the billiards table.

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