This lookbook collects eight houses with spacious open-plan interiors, the place totally different ground designs have been used to subtly outline areas for cooking, eating and lounging.
Open-plan interiors are an everlasting development in residential design, used mostly to mix kitchen and dwelling areas and create a social coronary heart for the house.
Nevertheless, that is now competing with a rise in householders choosing broken-plan layouts that cater to totally different actions and convey extra selection to their interiors.
On this roundup, we discover the center floor: open-plan rooms the place mix-and-match flooring is used to softly demarcate kitchens, eating and dwelling areas, visually lowering the scale of the area with out truncating it.
That is the most recent in our lookbooks collection, which offers visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For extra inspiration see earlier lookbooks that includes discreet lifts, concrete bogs and non-boring beige house interiors.
Cas 8 Home, Spain, by DG Arquitecto
An ornamental vary of mosaic tiles is used throughout the flooring of Cas 8 Home, a Twenties penthouse in Valencia that was not too long ago modernised by native studio DG Arquitecto.
As a part of the mission, the studio created an open-plan dwelling space with an built-in kitchen. Right here, the tiles assist to set aside zones for lounging and meals preparation, with out breaking apart the room.
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Hackney Home, UK, by Utilized Studio
London architect Utilized Studio used mix-and-match chevron flooring within the rear extension of this home in Hackney, the place two totally different finishes assist divide the area.
On one facet, black granite tiles define the kitchen space, complemented by jet-black timber cabinetry. The other facet of the room, which is used for eating, is lined with picket planks teamed with white partitions and matching furnishings.
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Klinker House, Spain, by Colombo and Serboli Structure
Color-blocking marks out totally different areas within the Klinker House, which Serboli Structure created throughout the shell of a fire-damaged residence in Barcelona.
Within the open-plan dwelling space, a terracotta-hued strip of micro-cement flooring decorates the kitchen, which has an identical ceiling, splashback and cabinetry that’s contrasted with a impartial tiled lounge space.
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Villarroel, Spain, by Raúl Sánchez Architects
This open-plan cooking, eating and sitting space within the Villarroel condo is split into two sections by the flooring, which marries grey-coloured stone slabs with heat wooden.
This displays structure studio Raúl Sánchez Architects’ general design technique for the house, which was to rearrange it into zones with out partition partitions, choosing “materials codes” that distinguish rooms from each other as an alternative.
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Mài House, Vietnam, by Whale Design Lab
Chunky white-marble terrazzo is teamed with easy cement for the flooring of this monolithic, multi-purpose room within the Mài House in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis.
The graphic terrazzo used for the kitchen and meals preparation space additionally covers its cupboards and worksurfaces, making the world really feel like its personal room regardless of opening out into the eating space.
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Home Mellinet, Belgium, by Atelier Fréderic Louis
Structure studio Atelier Fréderic Louis opted for a extra refined terrazzo for the ground within the kitchen of Home Mellinet, which shares the identical room because the eating space.
Whereas the terrazzo provides a useful really feel to the kitchen, the eating space adjoining has picket parquet flooring that establishes a hotter and extra intimate environment extra suited to gathering on the dinner desk.
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Nagatachō House, Japan, by Adam Nathaniel Furman
Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman designed the colorful Nagatachō House in Tokyo as a “visible feast”, with open-plan rooms which can be crammed with an eclectic combine of colors, patterns and textures.
On the coronary heart of the plan is a candy-pink kitchen suite, which is completed with watermelon-green vinyl flooring. It connects to a sitting room with a contrasting tender lilac carpet that “appears like icing”.
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House in Paris by Septembre Structure
Glossy poured-concrete flooring is juxtaposed with rustic picket planks on this giant, light-filled multi-purpose room, which is situated in a renovated Parisian condo.
The concrete is used to mark out the kitchen space, which is ignored by a lounge and eating area with Les Arcs chairs by architect Charlotte Perriand and an announcement Tulip desk by architect Eero Saarinen.
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That is the most recent in our lookbooks collection, which offers visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For extra inspiration see earlier lookbooks that includes discreet lifts, concrete bogs and non-boring beige house interiors.
