Living Design Ideas with a Freestanding TV
Jane Thomson Interior DesignThere’s nothing more satisfying and heart-warming to work with clients on multiple projects. I consider myself so fortunate to have met and worked with my Cremorne clients.
The first time, I completed a full renovation of their then Mosman federation home back in 2007.
This wonderful couple trusted me implicitly. As a designer, it’s one of the best feelings when clients are so willing to take on and run with your ideas. Getting to know your clients and forge lifetime friendships is an absolute privilege.
So, in 2019 Ken and Pip, now empty-nesters, contacted me to help them with their brand-new abode.
A considerable departure from their very traditional style that they’d left in Mosman. They wanted a new look. A complete departure, to a simple, sleek, and comfortable look, yet with an on-trend, but timeless feel.
I’m so lucky to have worked with these amazing people.
Stonehouse + Irons ArchitectureConcrete block walls provide thermal mass for heating and defence agains hot summer. The subdued colours create a quiet and cosy space focussed around the fire. Timber joinery adds warmth and texture , framing the collections of books and collected objects.
Chapman BuiltCustom gas fireplace, stone cladding, sheer curtains
Contemporary formal open concept living room in Canberra - Queanbeyan with carpet, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround, white walls, a freestanding tv and beige floor.
Contemporary formal open concept living room in Canberra - Queanbeyan with carpet, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace surround, white walls, a freestanding tv and beige floor.
Ande Bunbury ArchitectsBuilt in storage hides entertainment equipment and incorporates a folded steel stair to a mezzanine storage space in this apartment. Custom designed floating shelves easily allow for a rotating display of the owners art collection. By keeping clutter hidden away this apartment is kept simple and spacious.
SOS ArchitectsPhoto of a modern living room in Other with grey walls, porcelain floors, a freestanding tv and timber.
3 Marks of ExistenceInspiration for a contemporary living room in Sydney with white walls, medium hardwood floors, a standard fireplace, a freestanding tv and brown floor.
Housing Industry Association - HIAA combination of bricks, cement sheet, copper and Colorbond combine harmoniously to produce a striking street appeal. Internally the layout follows the client's brief to maintain a level of privacy for multiple family members while also taking advantage of the view and north facing orientation. The level of detail and finish is exceptional throughout the home with the added complexity of incorporating building materials sourced from overseas.
Coastal Vacation EstatesLuxurious modern sanctuary, remodeled 1957 mid-century architectural home is located in the hills just off the Famous Sunset Strip. The living area has 2 separate sitting areas that adorn a large stone fireplace while looking over a stunning view of the city.
I wanted to keep the original footprint of the house and some of the existing furniture. With the magic of fabric, rugs, accessories and upholstery this property was transformed into a new modern property.
Rivers + Steel City HomesDesign ideas for a small formal enclosed living room in Other with white walls, medium hardwood floors, no fireplace, a freestanding tv and brown floor.
Gardner HomesThis great room is filled with natural light thanks to the expansive windows and tall ceilings. Gorgeous beams and tongue/groove ceilings provide the perfect backdrop for the modern farmhouse esthetic. The horizontal stairway leading to the second level adds a slightly industrial touch to keep things fresh and modern, and compliments the updated gourmet kitchen. Floating built-in shelving allows the owners to personalize the space, while not detracting from the massive floor to ceiling brick fireplace that anchors the room.
Authentic Custom HomesSiggi Ragnar
Photo of a large mediterranean open concept family room in Austin with beige walls, concrete floors, a corner fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and a freestanding tv.
Photo of a large mediterranean open concept family room in Austin with beige walls, concrete floors, a corner fireplace, a stone fireplace surround and a freestanding tv.
Kwik Clicks Photographicssmall living room with tv unit and sofa on timber flooring.
Mark Robinson
Mid-sized contemporary open concept living room in Brisbane with multi-coloured walls, dark hardwood floors and a freestanding tv.
Mid-sized contemporary open concept living room in Brisbane with multi-coloured walls, dark hardwood floors and a freestanding tv.
Jennifer Grey Color Specialist & Interior DesignDesign ideas for a mid-sized eclectic open concept living room in Los Angeles with grey walls, carpet, beige floor, no fireplace and a freestanding tv.
Mihaly SlocombeTwin 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.
Clare Elise InteriorsStunning Living Room embracing the dark colours on the walls which is Inchyra Blue by Farrow and Ball. A retreat from the open plan kitchen/diner/snug that provides an evening escape for the adults. Teal and Coral Pinks were used as accents as well as warm brass metals to keep the space inviting and cosy.
Yellow by Aurélie DelinDesign ideas for a mid-sized contemporary open concept living room in Paris with a library, white walls, light hardwood floors, no fireplace, a freestanding tv and beige floor.
Wyckoff Heating CoolingDesign ideas for a large modern formal open concept living room in Other with white walls, light hardwood floors, a standard fireplace, a freestanding tv and beige floor.
Ateliers YOMAMid-sized modern open concept living room in Marseille with white walls, light hardwood floors, no fireplace, a freestanding tv and beige floor.
Anne Rose BOUYER - KAURI ARCHITECTURECréation d'ouverture dans mur en béton pour décloisonner les espaces, avec intégration de claustras et mobilier sur mesure.
Le meuble télé intègre également un meuble plus haut qui permet de faire rentrer la table escamotable de la cuisine.
By HousePhoto of a mid-sized midcentury open concept living room in Lyon with a library, white walls, light hardwood floors, no fireplace, a freestanding tv and brown floor.
Living Design Ideas with a Freestanding TV
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