Brook Green Cottage.
Interior Design & Cabinet Making
A residential interior precedent featuring custom olive green built-in shelving that conceals a secret doorway leading to a dramatic red powder room.
- What we like about this project
- The bookshelf frame integrates a vertically-paneled red door that swings open to reveal a hidden powder room.
Materials
- wood
- paint
- brass
- ceramic
- glass
Visual identifiers
- built-in-bookshelves
- secret-door
- olive-green-joinery
- red-powder-room
Style tags
- eclectic
- custom-joinery
- residential
- bold
Visual tags
- hidden-door
- custom-joinery
- bold-color
- residential-interior
- threshold
- Geometry
- A wall of custom built-in shelving in olive green frames a concealed doorway, revealing a compact red-walled powder room beyond.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic room scale, intimate passage connecting spaces.
- Lighting
- Warm interior illumination highlighting the joinery and creating a focal point on the sink and mirror within the powder room.
- Atmosphere
- Playful, dramatic, and tactile through contrasting color palettes and concealed thresholds.
- Environmental context
- Interior residential setting with adjacent doorway and wooden flooring.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates a threshold moment where a functional bookshelf acts as a secret passage, shifting from muted green joinery to a vibrant red interior.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical bookshelf bays juxtaposed against the swing of the paneled secret door.
- Style reading
- Contemporary eclectic residential interior
- Program
- Residential powder room entry / hallway joinery
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- wood, paint, brass, ceramic, glass
- Visual identifiers
- built-in-bookshelves, secret-door, olive-green-joinery, red-powder-room
- Style tags
- eclectic, custom-joinery, residential, bold
- Visual tags
- hidden-door, custom-joinery, bold-color, residential-interior, threshold
- Geometry
- A wall of custom built-in shelving in olive green frames a concealed doorway, revealing a compact red-walled powder room beyond.
- Spatial scale
- Domestic room scale, intimate passage connecting spaces.
- Lighting
- Warm interior illumination highlighting the joinery and creating a focal point on the sink and mirror within the powder room.
- Atmosphere
- Playful, dramatic, and tactile through contrasting color palettes and concealed thresholds.
- Environmental context
- Interior residential setting with adjacent doorway and wooden flooring.
- Spatial experience
- The composition creates a threshold moment where a functional bookshelf acts as a secret passage, shifting from muted green joinery to a vibrant red interior.
- Composition rhythm
- Vertical bookshelf bays juxtaposed against the swing of the paneled secret door.
- Style reading
- Contemporary eclectic residential interior
- Program
- Residential powder room entry / hallway joinery
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior