This custom home was built for empty nesting in mind. The first floor is all you need with wide open dining, kitchen and entertaining along with master suite just off the mudroom and laundry. Upstairs has plenty of room for guests and return home college students. Photos- Rustic White Photography

Wing Wong, Memories TTL
Inspiration for a mid-sized eclectic medium tone wood floor enclosed kitchen remodel in New York with a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, white cabinets, quartz countertops, multicolored backsplash, custom tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances, red walls and no island

Bedroom - country medium tone wood floor bedroom idea in San Francisco with white walls

Michael Carroll. Solid Apollo LED. In this elegant and simple kitchen renovation, the owners wanted to add extra lighting to two places in the kitchen that normally do not receive enough light - the under cabinet area and in the cabinets. The owners wanted to find a simple solution without having excess installation requirements, such as drilling and work to fit large traditional lighting fixtures. Here instead they looked to Solid Apollo for the slim and easy to install LED Strip Light - shown here in the beautiful Warm White color, which suits the wood cabinet colors. The LED Strip Light has an extremely low profile and includes double sided sticky back tape for an easy to install and permanent installation. The photos shown here show the completed kitchen with the LED Lights turned on, another photo of the renovation in progress and several photos of the dimmer, simple barrel connections, and the slide and lock LED Strip connectors for quick easy-to-hide connections. The dimmer used here is the iTouch LED Dimmer, which is a simple in-line LED Dimmer for quick and easy on/off and dimming control. And with the included double sided tape, the slim dimmer can easily be hidden in a discrete location, compared to unsightly traditional wall dimmers that upset the carefully chosen back splash designs and require excessive effort for installation.

Michael Carroll. Solid Apollo LED. In this elegant and simple kitchen renovation, the owners wanted to add extra lighting to two places in the kitchen that normally do not receive enough light - the under cabinet area and in the cabinets. The owners wanted to find a simple solution without having excess installation requirements, such as drilling and work to fit large traditional lighting fixtures. Here instead they looked to Solid Apollo for the slim and easy to install LED Strip Light - shown here in the beautiful Warm White color, which suits the wood cabinet colors. The LED Strip Light has an extremely low profile and includes double sided sticky back tape for an easy to install and permanent installation. The photos shown here show the completed kitchen with the LED Lights turned on, another photo of the renovation in progress and several photos of the dimmer, simple barrel connections, and the slide and lock LED Strip connectors for quick easy-to-hide connections. The dimmer used here is the iTouch LED Dimmer, which is a simple in-line LED Dimmer for quick and easy on/off and dimming control. And with the included double sided tape, the slim dimmer can easily be hidden in a discrete location, compared to unsightly traditional wall dimmers that upset the carefully chosen back splash designs and require excessive effort for installation.

Michael Carroll. In this elegant and simple kitchen renovation, the owner wanted to add extra lighting to two places in the kitchen that are normally too dark - the under cabinet area, and in each of the cabinets, and he wanted to do this without having to do extra drilling and having to create excessive large lighting fixtures. Here LED Strip Light in beautiful Warm White was used in both applications, which not only created bright linear lighting, but was easy to install with minimal installation work and the LED lighting lit the entire surface without creating odd shadows. In each of the pictures the finished renovation is shown and also pictures of the work in progress, showing how the simple barrel connectors, and slide and lock LED Strip Light connectors easily come together for easy connections that do not require soldering. All of the lighting for both the undercabinet areas and in the cabinets are controlled using the iTouch LED Dimmer, which comes with strong double sided sticky back tape which, as shown here, has been carefully tucked up and behind the lip of the cabinet, for easy on/off and dimming control without the unsightly and design-disturbing traditional light switch.

## I. Spatial Composition & Architectural Volume This bedroom operates as an exercise in controlled asymmetry, its plan organized around a freestanding headboard wall that reads less as partition than as inhabited architecture. Framed in a crisp oak reveal that traces its full perimeter, the wall detaches from the ceiling plane and terminates short of the right-hand elevation, generating a threshold that draws the eye into a secondary corridor volume beyond. This device — the *poché* wall as spatial pivot — establishes a layered enfilade: the intimate sleeping zone in the foreground, a transitional dressing passage in the middle distance, and a slot of daylight at the terminus. The ceiling is articulated with a shallow recessed tray and delicate stepped cornice, a restrained gesture toward classical Parisian *moulure* that regulates the room's proportion without ornamental excess. Sightlines are deliberately choreographed: the bed sits low and horizontal, the joinery plinth of the nightstand cantilevers from the wall to preserve floor-plane continuity, and the herringbone parquet visible beyond the threshold introduces a directional pull that animates what would otherwise be a static rectilinear volume. The result is a composition of nested frames — millwork within millwork — that lends considerable depth to a comparatively compact footprint. ## II. Materiality, Color & Texture The palette is tonal rather than chromatic, calibrated within a narrow band of oatmeal, greige, and pale putty, and enlivened almost entirely through surface incident. The dominant wallcovering — a vertically striated, marquetry-like textile of tessellated ivory and taupe fibers — supplies a subtle warp-and-weft rhythm that shifts under raking light, functioning as texture masquerading as pattern. Against this, rift-sawn white oak framing introduces a honeyed, gently reddish undertone, while the bespoke bedside cabinet deploys a radiating sunburst veneer in a blush-tinged walnut or eucalyptus, its book-matched geometry providing the room's single moment of overt figuration. Textiles carry the tonal counterweight: the channel-tufted headboard in a muted heather-aubergine linen offers the deepest saturation in the frame, cooling the prevailing warmth, while cotton percale with contrast tape borders, a slubbed lumbar cushion, and a hand-stitched matelassé coverlet with tambour scrollwork build a gradient of tactility from crisp to plush. The doorway's parchment-and-verdigris art panel — appearing as a gilded, oxidized *gessoed* screen — supplies a patinated, almost frescoed counterpoint, while unlacquered brass at the sconce introduces the only metallic warmth, deliberately restrained. ## III. Lighting, Atmosphere & Style Profile Illumination is handled with notable discretion. Natural light enters obliquely from an off-frame source at right, filtered through a floor-to-ceiling striated linen drapery that diffuses rather than admits, producing an even, shadowless wash consistent with northern European daylight. A secondary aperture — the narrow vertical slot glimpsed down the corridor — acts as a luminous punctuation mark, terminating the sightline with a slender bar of brightness that draws the occupant forward. Artificial lighting is intentionally sparse and task-oriented: a brass scissor-arm sconce with an unbleached linen shade, adjustable and near-vernacular in its mechanism, provides articulated reading light while contributing a note of atelier informality against the otherwise refined joinery. The absence of visible downlights or decorative pendants reinforces the room's quietude. Stylistically, the scheme resolves into a sophisticated **Soft Minimalism** inflected with contemporary Parisian classicism — the restraint and tonal discipline of the former, the millwork rigor and proportional literacy of the latter, warmed by a *wabi*-adjacent appreciation for patina and handwork. It is a room that eschews statement in favor of atmosphere, achieving luxury through material intelligence and the calibrated withholding of contrast.

Michael Carroll. In this elegant and simple kitchen renovation, the owner wanted to add extra lighting to two places in the kitchen that are normally too dark - the under cabinet area, and in each of the cabinets, and he wanted to do this without having to do extra drilling and having to create excessive large lighting fixtures. Here LED Strip Light in beautiful Warm White was used in both applications, which not only created bright linear lighting, but was easy to install with minimal installation work and the LED lighting lit the entire surface without creating odd shadows. In each of the pictures the finished renovation is shown and also pictures of the work in progress, showing how the simple barrel connectors, and slide and lock LED Strip Light connectors easily come together for easy connections that do not require soldering. All of the lighting for both the undercabinet areas and in the cabinets are controlled using the iTouch LED Dimmer, which comes with strong double sided sticky back tape which, as shown here, has been carefully tucked up and behind the lip of the cabinet, for easy on/off and dimming control without the unsightly and design-disturbing traditional light switch.

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It’s always a great surprise to find old tiled flooring hidden underneath carpet or linoleum which appears especially common with 19th century properties where it’s not unusual for the owners to uncover fantastically patterned, original Victorian tiled floors and, naturally, they want to restore them to their former glory. If you have a property of this type you might want to look under the carpets. The majority of the time, however, these tiles have been covered up for decades, allowing for thick layers of muck to build-up and are invariably damaged carpet grippers, surface glue and adhesive tape. This was pretty much the case with this customer who lives in the town of Warminster and was keen to have her own newly discovered Victorian hallway brought back to life, and called me down to see what could be done. Upon arrival at the property, I determined that the tiles would definitely require a very deep clean, including the remove of numerous glue stains, followed by the application of a new seal. Before I could begin the deep cleaning process, I needed to remove the carpet grippers and surface glue, attempting to remove as much as possible by hand using a scraper. For the particularly stubborn areas, I applied Tile Doctor Remove & Go, a powerful stripper specially designed to break down adhesives and solvents, and left it to dwell for 20 minutes to eat through the glue deposits. I then attached a black pad to a rotary machine and scrubbed the area thoroughly to clean the affected areas, before removing the resulting slurry using a wet vacuum and rinsed with clean water. Once I was satisfied that all of the glue had been removed, I proceeded to soak the floor using a solution of the high alkaline cleaner known as Tile Doctor Pro Clean. This is a versatile product that can be used on a wide range of natural stone floors to deal with heavy soil build-up. I left the Pro-Clean to dwell for ten minutes, and then scrubbed it into the tiles to remove the ingrained dirt and also to break down any old and ineffectual seals. The floor was then once again rinsed thoroughly with clean water which was then extracted using a wet vacuum before being left to dry for a couple of days. Upon our return to the property I immediately tested the floor for damp using a damp meter. This is an extremely important test to carry out before sealing any kind of tiled flooring, due to the fact that excess moisture left over from cleaning can cloud the sealer and damage its ability to protect against dirt and stains. Thankfully, the damp test revealed no excess moisture, and I was able to proceed with sealing the tiles. My choice of sealer was Tile Doctor Seal and Go, a water-based topical sealer that simultaneously provides both a stain resistant surface seal and a durable and aesthetically pleasing low sheen finish, also being water based it doesn’t give off a smell as it dries. This is a very cost effective product that is highly suitable for use on Victorian and Quarry tiles, I applied five costs to achieve the desired finish. The customer was very pleased with the final results. It’s always satisfying to restore original Victorian tiled floors to looking their best once again – and this one was no exception. Stuart Ford Wiltshire Tile Doctor