A stunning Tim Maguire artwork, Robert Kuo artifacts and a 1760 French commode provide a strong focal point in the Master Suite of our Point Piper Villa. Even in a space of this scale it’s still all about the details!

The master bedroom is split into this room with original fireplace, a sitting room and private porch. A wainscoting wall painted Sherwin Williams Mount Etna anchors the bed.

Tony Soluri
Inspiration for a large contemporary master bedroom in Chicago with white walls, carpet, a two-sided fireplace and grey floor.

Minimalist Mountainside - Master Suite Mark Boisclair Photography
This is an example of a contemporary master bedroom in Phoenix with white walls, dark hardwood floors, a stone fireplace surround and a two-sided fireplace.

Photo of a large master bedroom in Phoenix with white walls, light hardwood floors, a corner fireplace, a plaster fireplace surround, beige floor and panelled walls.

Lauren Colton
Photo of a small scandinavian master bedroom in Seattle with white walls, light hardwood floors, a two-sided fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and beige floor.

Large bedroom in Houston with a two-sided fireplace.

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With adjacent neighbors within a fairly dense section of Paradise Valley, Arizona, C.P. Drewett sought to provide a tranquil retreat for a new-to-the-Valley surgeon and his family who were seeking the modernism they loved though had never lived in. With a goal of consuming all possible site lines and views while maintaining autonomy, a portion of the house — including the entry, office, and master bedroom wing — is subterranean. This subterranean nature of the home provides interior grandeur for guests but offers a welcoming and humble approach, fully satisfying the clients requests. While the lot has an east-west orientation, the home was designed to capture mainly north and south light which is more desirable and soothing. The architecture’s interior loftiness is created with overlapping, undulating planes of plaster, glass, and steel. The woven nature of horizontal planes throughout the living spaces provides an uplifting sense, inviting a symphony of light to enter the space. The more voluminous public spaces are comprised of stone-clad massing elements which convert into a desert pavilion embracing the outdoor spaces. Every room opens to exterior spaces providing a dramatic embrace of home to natural environment. Grand Award winner for Best Interior Design of a Custom Home The material palette began with a rich, tonal, large-format Quartzite stone cladding. The stone’s tones gaveforth the rest of the material palette including a champagne-colored metal fascia, a tonal stucco system, and ceilings clad with hemlock, a tight-grained but softer wood that was tonally perfect with the rest of the materials. The interior case goods and wood-wrapped openings further contribute to the tonal harmony of architecture and materials. Grand Award Winner for Best Indoor Outdoor Lifestyle for a Home This award-winning project was recognized at the 2020 Gold Nugget Awards with two Grand Awards, one for Best Indoor/Outdoor Lifestyle for a Home, and another for Best Interior Design of a One of a Kind or Custom Home. At the 2020 Design Excellence Awards and Gala presented by ASID AZ North, Ownby Design received five awards for Tonal Harmony. The project was recognized for 1st place – Bathroom; 3rd place – Furniture; 1st place – Kitchen; 1st place – Outdoor Living; and 2nd place – Residence over 6,000 square ft. Congratulations to Claire Ownby, Kalysha Manzo, and the entire Ownby Design team. Tonal Harmony was also featured on the cover of the July/August 2020 issue of Luxe Interiors + Design and received a 14-page editorial feature entitled “A Place in the Sun” within the magazine.

This project was executed remotely in close collaboration with the client. The primary bedroom actually had an unusual dilemma in that it had too many windows, making furniture placement awkward and difficult. We converted one wall of windows into a full corner-to-corner drapery wall, creating a beautiful and soft backdrop for their bed. We also designed a little boy’s nursery to welcome their first baby boy.

This master bedroom retreat got a dose of glam! Previously a dark, dreary room, we added softness with blush tones, warm gold, and a luxe navy velvet upholstered bed. Combining multiple textures of velvet, grasscloth, linen, fur, glass, wood, and metal - this bedroom exudes comfort and style.

Spacious bedroom with built in cabinets, beverage fridge and sink.
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A custom designed and built master bed and nightstands makes this master bedroom unique. Reading lights are integrated into the headboard and the secondary tall headboard is backlit with LED strip lighting. The bed and nightstands were designed by Emily Roose and architect Keith Kelly of Kelly and Stone Architects.

Michael J. Lee Photography
Photo of a large transitional master bedroom in Boston with grey walls, medium hardwood floors, a two-sided fireplace, a plaster fireplace surround and brown floor.

Photo courtesy of Chipper Hatter
Mid-sized beach style master bedroom in San Francisco with blue walls, light hardwood floors, a corner fireplace, a tile fireplace surround and brown floor.

Sitting aside the slopes of Windham Ski Resort in the Catskills, this is a stunning example of what happens when everything gels — from the homeowners’ vision, the property, the design, the decorating, and the workmanship involved throughout. An outstanding finished home materializes like a complex magic trick. You start with a piece of land and an undefined vision. Maybe you know it’s a timber frame, maybe not. But soon you gather a team and you have this wide range of inter-dependent ideas swirling around everyone’s heads — architects, engineers, designers, decorators — and like alchemy you’re just not 100% sure that all the ingredients will work. And when they do, you end up with a home like this. The architectural design and engineering is based on our versatile Olive layout. Our field team installed the ultra-efficient shell of Insulspan SIP wall and roof panels, local tradesmen did a great job on the rest. And in the end the homeowners made us all look like first-ballot-hall-of-famers by commissioning Design Bar by Kathy Kuo for the interior design. Doesn’t hurt to send the best photographer we know to capture it all. Pics from Kim Smith Photo.

Lauren Colton
Photo of a small scandinavian master bedroom in Seattle with white walls, light hardwood floors, a two-sided fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and beige floor.

Carolyn Reyes Photography © 2017 Houzz
Transitional master bedroom in Los Angeles with pink walls, medium hardwood floors, a corner fireplace, a plaster fireplace surround and brown floor.