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Home Office Design Ideas with a Built-in Desk and Red Floor

Twin Peaks House
Twin Peaks House
Mihaly SlocombeMihaly Slocombe
Twin Peaks House is a vibrant extension to a grand Edwardian homestead in Kensington. Originally built in 1913 for a wealthy family of butchers, when the surrounding landscape was pasture from horizon to horizon, the homestead endured as its acreage was carved up and subdivided into smaller terrace allotments. Our clients discovered the property decades ago during long walks around their neighbourhood, promising themselves that they would buy it should the opportunity ever arise. Many years later the opportunity did arise, and our clients made the leap. Not long after, they commissioned us to update the home for their family of five. They asked us to replace the pokey rear end of the house, shabbily renovated in the 1980s, with a generous extension that matched the scale of the original home and its voluminous garden. Our design intervention extends the massing of the original gable-roofed house towards the back garden, accommodating kids’ bedrooms, living areas downstairs and main bedroom suite tucked away upstairs gabled volume to the east earns the project its name, duplicating the main roof pitch at a smaller scale and housing dining, kitchen, laundry and informal entry. This arrangement of rooms supports our clients’ busy lifestyles with zones of communal and individual living, places to be together and places to be alone. The living area pivots around the kitchen island, positioned carefully to entice our clients' energetic teenaged boys with the aroma of cooking. A sculpted deck runs the length of the garden elevation, facing swimming pool, borrowed landscape and the sun. A first-floor hideout attached to the main bedroom floats above, vertical screening providing prospect and refuge. Neither quite indoors nor out, these spaces act as threshold between both, protected from the rain and flexibly dimensioned for either entertaining or retreat. Galvanised steel continuously wraps the exterior of the extension, distilling the decorative heritage of the original’s walls, roofs and gables into two cohesive volumes. The masculinity in this form-making is balanced by a light-filled, feminine interior. Its material palette of pale timbers and pastel shades are set against a textured white backdrop, with 2400mm high datum adding a human scale to the raked ceilings. Celebrating the tension between these design moves is a dramatic, top-lit 7m high void that slices through the centre of the house. Another type of threshold, the void bridges the old and the new, the private and the public, the formal and the informal. It acts as a clear spatial marker for each of these transitions and a living relic of the home’s long history.
Rénovation partielle d'une maison parisienne
Rénovation partielle d'une maison parisienne
Emilie Melin architecte DPLGEmilie Melin architecte DPLG
Inspiration for a mid-sized mediterranean study room in Paris with pink walls, terra-cotta floors, a built-in desk and red floor.
North Dakota Craft Room
North Dakota Craft Room
O’Hara InteriorsO’Hara Interiors
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Ranley Grove
Ranley Grove
Owen ArchitectureOwen Architecture
Design ideas for a contemporary home office in Brisbane with a library, white walls, brick floors, no fireplace, a built-in desk, red floor and exposed beam.
Coastal Elegance
Coastal Elegance
Nesting Place InteriorsNesting Place Interiors
Jessie Preza
This is an example of a large beach style craft room in Jacksonville with white walls, terra-cotta floors, a built-in desk and red floor.
440 House
440 House
Fougeron Architecture FAIAFougeron Architecture FAIA
Photo of a mid-sized contemporary study room in San Francisco with white walls, medium hardwood floors, a built-in desk and red floor.
Winton House
Winton House
Renaissance Restoration of Rochester LLCRenaissance Restoration of Rochester LLC
Old porch turned into office
Design ideas for a mid-sized traditional home office in Other with a library, yellow walls, terra-cotta floors, no fireplace, a built-in desk and red floor.
Project: Carlton Cloister ft. Austral Bricks
Project: Carlton Cloister ft. Austral Bricks
Brickworks Building ProductsBrickworks Building Products
Location: Victoria Architect: MRTN Architects Product: Nubrik Chapel Red Photographer: Shannon McGrath
Midcentury home office in Melbourne with red walls, brick floors, a built-in desk and red floor.
Crocker Road (Guest House) - Remodel
Crocker Road (Guest House) - Remodel
LITTRELL Architecture + DesignLITTRELL Architecture + Design
Kat Alves
Home office in Sacramento with beige walls, brick floors, no fireplace, a built-in desk and red floor.
Shipton
Shipton
Visbeen ArchitectsVisbeen Architects
Small traditional home office in Grand Rapids with grey walls, brick floors, a built-in desk and red floor.
Ristrutturazione Complesso La Querce
Ristrutturazione Complesso La Querce
Arch. Alessandra CiprianiArch. Alessandra Cipriani
Stanza studio con libreria
This is an example of a mid-sized mediterranean home office in Florence with a library, yellow walls, terra-cotta floors, a built-in desk, red floor and vaulted.
Forest Hill Residence
Forest Hill Residence
JENNY FRANCIS DESIGNJENNY FRANCIS DESIGN
This is an example of a mid-sized contemporary home studio in Other with white walls, dark hardwood floors, no fireplace, a built-in desk and red floor.
Home Offices
Home Offices
Nataliya @ Closet Factory (CT & NY)Nataliya @ Closet Factory (CT & NY)
Mid-sized traditional study room in Boston with red walls, dark hardwood floors, no fireplace, a built-in desk and red floor.
Cantilevered Desk
Cantilevered Desk
Where Wood Meets SteelWhere Wood Meets Steel
Built in cantilevered desk for home office in bedroom.
This is an example of a mid-sized modern study room in Denver with beige walls, carpet, a built-in desk and red floor.
OSLO Cowork. Obra minimalista
OSLO Cowork. Obra minimalista
Unamunzaga ObrasUnamunzaga Obras
Design ideas for a scandinavian study room in Bilbao with white walls, a built-in desk and red floor.
Coastal Elegance
Coastal Elegance
Nesting Place InteriorsNesting Place Interiors
Jessie Preza
Photo of a large beach style craft room in Jacksonville with white walls, terra-cotta floors, a built-in desk and red floor.
Sarasota Interior House Painting
Sarasota Interior House Painting
Sarasota Painting & Wall CoveringSarasota Painting & Wall Covering
Inspiration for a mid-sized traditional study room in Tampa with blue walls, dark hardwood floors, no fireplace, a built-in desk and red floor.
AP House Urbino
AP House Urbino
GGA gardini gibertini architettiGGA gardini gibertini architetti
Ph ©Ezio Manciucca
Small contemporary home studio in Other with concrete floors, a built-in desk and red floor.
Teaneck Tudor
Teaneck Tudor
Soft Furnishings by StephanieSoft Furnishings by Stephanie
Ivory linen traditional roman shades with Lee Jofa band detail. Flat panels in matching fabric and banding cover french doors
Inspiration for a mid-sized arts and crafts study room in New York with blue walls, terra-cotta floors, a built-in desk and red floor.
Mission Hill
Mission Hill
The Artisans Group, Inc.The Artisans Group, Inc.
This beautiful LEED Certified Mediterranean style home rests upon a sloped hillside in a classic Pacific Northwest setting. Part of a bustling and prominent neighborhood with great urban walkability, the graceful Aging In Place design features an open floor plan and a residential elevator all packaged within traditional Mission interiors. With extraordinary views of Budd Bay, downtown, and Mt. Rainier, mixed with exquisite detailing and craftsmanship throughout, Mission Hill is an instant gem of the South Puget Sound.

Home Office Design Ideas with a Built-in Desk and Red Floor

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