A custom banquet with Eames chairs surround a classic Saarinen dining table. Modern art brings in a pop of color to the cottage's dining space. Matthew Willams Photography Victoria Kirk Interiors Co-Designer

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A cozy and eco-friendly living space complete with low VOC paints and low VOC upholstery pieces Matthew Willams Photography Victoria Kirk Interiors Co-Designer

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Surrounded by towering trees, two MAD 85” Dining Tables come together to form a welcoming outdoor banquet space. This setup is completed with coordinating MAD Dining Arm and Side Chairs, all finished in White frames and Heathered Smoke slats—crafted from EnviroWood, our signature recycled HDPE material. Gather together, connect, and enjoy the beauty of the outdoors.

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A delicate furniture set and clean white walls makes for a simple yet formal dining room in this cottage. Matthew Willams Photography Victoria Kirk Interiors Co-Designer

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LAMINATE FLOORING from Carpet One Floor & Home offers authentic wood and tile visuals, delivering a wide range of looks, colors, and gloss levels. On top of it's aesthetic appeal, this flooring product offers the benefit of having the lowest maintenance requirement of any floor on the market. Constructed using the most up-to-date technologies, laminate features eco-friendly, allergen-free surfaces, with unsurpassed scratch, scuff and dent resistance. In this kitchen, we love the warm honey colored maple this laminate mimics.

This client came to us with a unique challenge: create a modern design that matches her fun and funky personality but to make it as "green" and chemical free as possible. We rose to the challenge, researching the best options for sustainable, green and chemical free furnishings. The upholstery pieces are made from sustainable and chemical free materials, the dining table is made of sustainable wood with a chemical free finish. The rugs are from a fair-trade company that supports education for women in India. The client had hired a Feng Shui expert to provide her with a report which we used to design the space. The wallpaper behind the living room sofa is custom designed and custom-made. It is a map made up of hundred of small photos that the homeowner provided to us. It represents the area in her home that will bring travel and connect her to the people she loves. The large, colorful art piece in the dining area is hung in the area of the home that will bring joy around family and children. The hearts and pink/red colored wallpaper in the den will evoke love and relationships. The client has a colorful, fun personality and we wanted to infuse the design with it. A white backdrop allows all of the pinks, reds, navy blues and turquoises to pop, creating a lively, modern feeling. The textures in the floor and wall coverings and in the fabrics create a lived in, collected feeling and add a touch of bohemian chic style. The new modern cable and walnut stair banister is in keeping with the original modern feel of the row house and keeps the narrow staircase from feeling tight and closed in. This was a fun, creative and unique project for us. This particular client was one of Olamar's first clients eight years ago when we first opened our doors. At that time the house was nothing but a condemned shell that the client renovated, with our assistance. At that time we designed the kitchen, which is still in excellent condition and still looks amazing! Photographer: Greg Tinius

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The new design allowed us to open up the kitchen, incorporating the dining and family rooms into a great room. Custom built-in cabinetry provides additional storage and serves as a buffet area. The Shaker-style cabinets of the dining buffet have narrow reed glass doors and a Black Galaxy granite counter. The counter on the kitchen island to the right is Cosmic Black granite. The walls are painted with Accu-Pure's 50105, a match of Devine Sand. The ceilings and trim are painted with Safecoat White Lace in flat and semi-gloss, respectively. The floor in the dining area is red oak, and the floor of the kitchen alternates White Marble and Onyx Marmoleum.

A corner coffee bar and a café table look out on a sunny view of the garden in all weather.
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The Eco Dining Table is an expandable table that starts as round, and when opened becomes an oval. Table is in white glossy lacquer, and has white glass covering the two halves of the top. The extension is in white glossy lacquer. Base is stainless steel. 47"-63" x 30" Tall The Georgia dining chair is covered in a white or grey PVC and has a chrome base. The beautiful cantilever design provides comfort in a stylish design. 17"x 20"x 34.5" Packing: 2 chairs/box.

Sustainable Design Meets Smart Technology This home featured a request from the client to use as many environmentally friendly materials and fabrics as possible. Many common shade manufacturers use materials with PVC plastic, which is known for off-gassing hazardous chemicals that linger in the air in the home for years. The main floor roller shades met the client’s request for an eco-friendly fabric by utilizing motorized shades with GreenScreen fabric. In other rooms, the designer and client wanted the classic look and soft fabrics with roman shades and drapery tracks on several windows in the house. By partnering with the interior designer and fabric workroom, we were able to provide a custom solution for motorization of roman shades and drapery. Lighting Control The client is able control all of the lighting and window treatments in the house with a single control system. This eliminates the need for extra devices on the wall or remote controls that clutter up the space and get lost. By utilizing the custom window treatments, the house is able to conserve energy by keeping the house warmer in the winter, and cooler in the summer by providing insulation and blocking sunlight. The lighting control system further helps to conserve energy by beautifully dimming LED lights as well as using quick buttons that turn off all of the lights in the house, or un-occupied rooms, with the press of a single button. Motorized Window Treatments Motorized window treatments add a high level of convenience to any project, especially those with many windows in hard to reach places. The challenge with many manufacturers is a limitation of style and fabric selection, some may be a s basic as only roller shades. Often times these come with un-reliable, wireless controls. On this Birmingham, MI project completed in March 2019, we partnered with the interior designer and drapery workroom to provide a truly unique solution. The homeowner and designer’s requests included many different styles of window treatments including rollers shades, roman shades and motorized draperies. Typically, this would result in a collection of various shade manufacturers with unsightly remotes scattered across each room or stuck to the wall for control. Utilizing standard offerings, coupled with an incredible team effort by the designer and drapery workroom, we provided all of the requested styles of window treatments, and were able to control them all on a single system. This means that each room has a single, elegant keypad built into the wall that controls not only the window treatments, but the lighting as well. When leaving/entering the home, all of the window coverings can be raised or lowered with a single button press. Shades and draperies can also be set to operate based on the time of day for automatic day-to-day operation using sunlight as a guide. In the end, we achieved convenience, function and sophisticated style.