This kitchen and breakfast room was inspired by the owners' Scandinavian heritage, as well as by a café they love in Europe. Bookshelves in the kitchen and breakfast room make for easy lingering over a snack and a book. The Heath Ceramics tile backsplash also subtly celebrates the author owner and her love of literature: the tile pattern echoes the spines of books on a bookshelf...All photos by Laurie Black.

Photography by Peter Vanderwarker This Second Empire house is a narrative woven about its circulation. At the street, a quietly fanciful stoop reaches to greet one's arrival. Inside and out, Victorian details are playfully reinterpreted and celebrated in fabulous and whimsical spaces for a growing family - Double story kitchen with open cylindrical breakfast room Parents' and Children's libraries Secret playspaces Top floor sky-lit courtyard Writing room and hidden library Basement parking Media Room Landscape of exterior rooms: The site is conceived as a string of rooms: a landscaped drive-way court, a lawn for play, a sunken court, a serene shade garden, a New England flower garden. The stair grows out of the garden level ordering the surrounding rooms as it rises to a light filled courtyard at the Master suite on the top floor. On each level the rooms are arranged in a circuit around the stair core, making a series of distinct suites for the children, for the parents, and for their common activities.

This kitchen and breakfast room was inspired by the owners' Scandinavian heritage, as well as by a café they love in Europe. Bookshelves in the kitchen and breakfast room make for easy lingering over a snack and a book. The Heath Ceramics tile backsplash also subtly celebrates the author owner and her love of literature: the tile pattern echoes the spines of books on a bookshelf...All photos by Laurie Black.

Home design - transitional home design idea in Calgary

Please see this Award Winning project in the October 2014 issue of New York Cottages & Gardens Magazine: NYC&G http://www.cottages-gardens.com/New-York-Cottages-Gardens/October-2014/NYCG-Innovation-in-Design-Winners-Kitchen-Design/ It was also featured in a Houzz Tour: Houzz Tour: Loving the Old and New in an 1880s Brooklyn Row House http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/29691278/list/houzz-tour-loving-the-old-and-new-in-an-1880s-brooklyn-row-house Photo Credit: Hulya Kolabas

Example of a transitional hallway design in Minneapolis

A great way to make your bookcase stand out is to turn all your books so that the spines face into the shelf, creating a more cohesive and clean look. Accessorizing can be a daunting challenge, but we feel that keeping things simple with only a few statement pieces has a larger impact in it's relationship to the space as a whole. Design: Wesley-Wayne Interiors Photo: Stephen Karlisch

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Small elegant light wood floor kitchen/dining room combo photo in Minneapolis with white walls

Example of a beach style freestanding desk light wood floor and brown floor home office library design in Chicago with gray walls

An estate home just wouldn't be complete without a library. Beaded panels above each built-in bookcase hold gorgeous hammered silver picture lights. The club lounge chairs are upholstered in a dreamy teal that plays off the colors in the rug and drapery. The ottoman and back pillows on the chairs are upholstered in a regal stripe that mimics the book spines that fill the shelves. Design by: Wesley-Wayne Interiors Photo by: Stephen Karlisch

In this digital age, the library is still your sanctuary – an intimate space filled with books and precious objets d’art. Clockwise from lower left: Bicester Executive Chair, Chippendale’s Signature Desk, Art Deco Box, Bouilotte Lamp, Holton Wing Armchairs, Parliament Club Fender, The Stand Off sculpture, Brass Acorn Candlestick, Tazza after the Antique, A Puppy, Pleading brass sculpture, Parkland Chase study of two hounds, Octagonal Tea Caddy, Indigo Lamp, Impala at Rest Sculpture, Walpole Bookcase, Hickory Box, Acorn Foot Canterbury, Upholstered Wing Armchair (contact us for more information), The Drawing Room Chandelier, Tiepolo’s Library Bookcase, Serpent Coils Tazza, Lions of Medici Sculpture (one of a pair), Barber Pole Caddy, Shakespeare Globe Paperweight, The Wise Old Owl, Regency Horse-Head Paperweight, Shagreen Inlaid Box, Made to Suit Games Table, St John Games Chair, Doberman Sculpture (one of a pair). The library also features a selection of library panels and carved faux book spines.

Photo and styling: Corynne Pless © 2013 Houzz
Inspiration for a transitional living room remodel in New York

This elegant 2600 sf home epitomizes swank city living in the heart of Los Angeles. Originally built in the late 1970's, this Century City home has a lovely vintage style which we retained while streamlining and updating. The lovely bold bones created an architectural dream canvas to which we created a new open space plan that could easily entertain high profile guests and family alike. Photography by Riley Jamison

Photography: Lepere Studio
Trendy dark wood floor family room photo in Santa Barbara with white walls and no fireplace

Living room library - large modern open concept living room library idea in Miami with gray walls and a media wall

Photo: A Darling Felicity Photography © 2015 Houzz
Example of a mid-sized eclectic medium tone wood floor home design design in Seattle with white walls

Inspiration for a large coastal family room remodel in New York

Photo: Rikki Snyder ©2016 Houzz
Inspiration for an eclectic home office remodel in Providence

This property came with a house which proved ill-matched to our clients’ needs but which nestled neatly amid beautiful live oaks. In choosing to commission a new home, they asked that it also tuck under the limbs of the oaks and maintain a subdued presence to the street. Extraordinary efforts such as cantilevered floors and even bridging over critical root zones allow the design to be truly fitted to the site and to co-exist with the trees, the grandest of which is the focal point of the entry courtyard. Of equal importance to the trees and view was to provide, conversely, for walls to display 35 paintings and numerous books. From form to smallest detail, the house is quiet and subtle.