Upper West Side Brownstone
A residential dining room precedent that blends historical wood paneling and coffered ceilings with contemporary furnishings.
- What we like about this project
- A decorative patterned screen partition divides the dining space from the adjacent stair void.
Materials
- wood
- velvet
- tile
- plaster
Visual identifiers
- coffered-ceiling
- wood-wainscoting
- green-velvet-chairs
- tiled-fireplace
Style tags
- transitional
- residential
- warm-minimal
Visual tags
- residential
- brownstone
- dining-room
- traditional-detailing
- warm-interior
- Geometry
- Rectangular dining room with rich wood wainscoting and coffered ceiling; opens visually into adjacent circulation and stair zones.
- Structural guess
- Historic brownstone masonry and timber floor joists.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic dining scale, roughly single-story height with substantial detailing.
- Lighting
- Warm interior pendant cluster over the dining table complemented by soft ambient daylight entering from adjacent upper openings.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, richly textured, and intimate.
- Environmental context
- Interior space within an urban brownstone residence.
- Spatial experience
- A warm, enclosed dining hall transitioning outward toward a lighter, perforated screen stair opening.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating coffer panels on the ceiling align with wainscot detailing along the perimeter walls.
- Style reading
- Transitional brownstone interior
- Program
- Residential dining hall
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- wood, velvet, tile, plaster
- Visual identifiers
- coffered-ceiling, wood-wainscoting, green-velvet-chairs, tiled-fireplace
- Style tags
- transitional, residential, warm-minimal
- Visual tags
- residential, brownstone, dining-room, traditional-detailing, warm-interior
- Geometry
- Rectangular dining room with rich wood wainscoting and coffered ceiling; opens visually into adjacent circulation and stair zones.
- Structural guess
- Historic brownstone masonry and timber floor joists.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic dining scale, roughly single-story height with substantial detailing.
- Lighting
- Warm interior pendant cluster over the dining table complemented by soft ambient daylight entering from adjacent upper openings.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, richly textured, and intimate.
- Environmental context
- Interior space within an urban brownstone residence.
- Spatial experience
- A warm, enclosed dining hall transitioning outward toward a lighter, perforated screen stair opening.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating coffer panels on the ceiling align with wainscot detailing along the perimeter walls.
- Style reading
- Transitional brownstone interior
- Program
- Residential dining hall
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior