Architecture and interior design thread

Liz picked this up today. A cool writing bureau to replace the god awful old one.
I’ll let you guess which is which.

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I quite like the top one with everything hidden in draws....

Phew, I put the old one outside with a please take me sign and it went in 1/2 hr if it makes to the end of the road without falling apart I’ll be amazed.

Liz has good bureau taste. I am a little concerned about that heart thing on the door handle though…😉

Haha! A gift from my niece, that is slowly making its way to the bin…

I’m triggered by the surface mount socket that projects beyond the worktop…

Aghhhhhhhhhhh!
It’s an optical illusion, I promise.

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as it's sunday I did spend probably more than 3mins looking for it

I can relax now

I need some interor door inspo. Something with some glazing in it. It's for a dining room/utility doorway but there's an exterior door and window nearby so some light permeating through is key.

What's good?

Embrace your inner griege

bead curtain

Is it wide enough for double doors. You can get a fair few reclaimed "french" doorsets that are lovely. Basically the same as your picture. Glasgow Architectural Salvage had some lovely sets with glazing a while back.

Or again, a nice old pine door with some frosted glazing or whatever would work. Depends on the house age/aesthetic/vibe I guess.

Crittall style with reeded/fluted glass?

should have mentioned i'm in an edwardian terrace with high ceilings and architrave round the doorframe, etc.

@andos standard doorway size (for the type of building). Will def check out the salvage place.

I'm half guessing you want a must have door,(style) over, i must have a door.. point is there maybe hidden expenses (time and fiddly stuff) in fitting anything (especially salvaged) . Carefully choosing salvaged is how I'd go despite the trend for sliding stuff

If you can cope with the fudgery in style vintage crittall will sit in their own frame cutting much of the headache

Yeah defo try the salvage place. Its great.

Just on experience, avoid painted doors that you might get stripped. We did this and found a huge chunk had woodworm/beetle damage after getting it stripped. They were really transparent and did say before we bought it that they can never guarantee whats underneath (apparently burnt wood is a common thing to find!!!?!).

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/stockholm-chair-walnut-idhult-black-90573278/

have to say I think these are lovely.

What are your current doors like? Panelled right?

My immediate thought would be that you take one of your existing door designs and have glass set where the panels are.

Left field option is to go modern and get a modern slider panel door with etched glass/similar.

My reading of your brief is that this is off the utility room. So sliding might be less intrusive. However, you won't get as good noise dampening.

it needs to be a proper door - the extension is so badly made that we need to tear everything out of there, probably back to the brick, and start again. So the door will the interface with a cold/dusty area for quite a while.

Liz and I spent a couple of hours wondering round the Design Museum yesterday. I went to look at the skateboard thing and also the sustainable buildings exhibition, but ended up looking at their floor, stairs and wall treatment. I enjoyed it and Liz is now fully on board the ply interior aesthetic.

on board... ply

Nice.

Glad you spotted it, it was lost in my text to a friend (ex-friend now obviously)

Previously I mentioned only wanting to build in 2/3 of the footprint of a barn/cowshed we’d looked at and having an open topped area. This shows the concept pretty well. It’s not how I’d finish or use it, but this works for the owners. https://youtu.be/4i8WENruig0?si=EO-ENKo-4d95GPb6

It’s great to see places actually being used as they are designed.