Geometric Projections: An Interplay of Platonic Shapes

Space In Design demonstrates the lavish potential of a minimalist design philosophy when paired with saturated wood tones and thoughtfully drawn lines.

Based largely on a white background and furnished in a neutral palette, the interior spaces of this home present simple lines in combination with wooden and reflective accents to produce an understatedly luxurious atmosphere. An introduction to the prevailing theme of this family home is presented in the decorative feature wall in the seating area, composed of reflective strips and wooden panels that evoke shades of cedar and yellow poplar. The feature wall begins in the living space, continuing down a hallway and into the dining area, its reflective and wooden components throwing shades of brown and tan into spaces largely dominated by white on the floors, walls, and ceilings.

Lavish Luminosity: Decorative wall panels composed of yellow poplar and tinted reflective strips emit a golden sheen throughout the dining area, creating a luxurious impression in conjunction with the white expanse and grey upholstery.

While the seating area is framed in straight lines forming perfectly perpendicular intersections in the floor tiles, ceiling tray, and feature wall, the path to the dining area introduces more casual lines imposed on the reflective panels lining the walls. These nonchalant lines apparently signal a transition from the rightangles prevalent in the seating area, to a juxtaposition of squares cut into a wine rack and circles moulded in plaster on the dining space ceiling. As with the rectangular coffee table in the seating area, the shape of the dining table deliberately echoes the geometry on the ceiling directly above. This mirroring of geometry evidently serves to amplify the casual atmosphere of the dining area and the relative formality of the seating area.

Amber Reflections: The portal to the wet kitchen is composed of a single glass door framed in yellow poplar in adherence with the prevailing theme of wooden accents. The yellow shade is carried across the dry kitchen with the inclusion of an uninterrupted mirrored panel reflecting the warm glow of the globular pendant lights hanging over the kitchen island.

A climb up the black granite steps to the upper level of this home leads to a secluded seating space that is sparsely furnished with a lone neo-Oriental table – apparently kept for ceremonial tea drinking. In an effort to carry the colours from the ground level to the upper floor of this home, shades of yellow are used as accents around the staircase landing: the void is lit with hanging pendant lamps resembling glowing bursts of fireworks while yellow poplar wood is used in a pair of overlapping triangles affixed to the ceiling.

Linear Emphasis: Straight lines and perfectly perpendicular junctions are used to define the extents of furnishings in walkways and other spaces throughout this home.

The geometric theme is continued in the bedrooms, with fewer curves used in favour of including an abundance of horizontal lines to visually enlarge the spaces. In addition to making the long bedrooms seem wider, these simple horizontal lines are often seen melding with shelves and framing sections of vertically-oriented decorations on headboards or wardrobes to limit the spacenarrowing effects of these features.

Functional Lines: The geometric motif is continued in the bedrooms, albeit with curved decorative features exchanged for more horizontal lines that visually widen the spaces, and in the case of this particular bedroom – the straight lines also act as display shelving.

Expansive Effects: An abundance of mirrored panels and decorative features line the walls and furnishings space in this combination of bedroom and walk-in wardrobe, their largely horizontal orientations widening the long configuration of the space.

Azure Accents: The prevalence of white visually enlarges the space in tandem with the mirrored wall above the bed’s headboard.

Materials selected in sky blue are used to highlight furnishings and disrupt the white expanse of the floor tiles meeting with the wall panelling and furniture in this bedroom.