©Design Manifest

The historical inspiration behind the Haverford Carriage house goes deeper than just molding profiles and fixtures.  The clients loved the idea of a great room (living/dining/fireside) that was geared towards hosting and entertaining- luxurious and elevated with a dash of drama.  Their idea of the perfect kitchen was more “downstairs at Downton Abbey” than glam though, and it was so important to the design that the spaces still had amazing flow with each other despite their different viewpoints.  

I linked the kitchen and adjacent dining rooms using a tightly edited color palette of brick, blush, rust and light neutral oak wood finishes.  Lighting fixtures in rich brass tones link the spaces, as do the subtle touches of black on the pendant lights in the kitchen and the custom chair cushions in the dining room.   The dining chandeliers are a full on moment of hospitality glam and the massive, raw wood dining table meets their scale and drama while bringing the design conversation between rustic and polish into closer dialogue, and providing another link to the brick, plaster and natural wood textures in the kitchen.

The result is two spaces linked so deeply and deliberately that moving through them is an experience of total harmony.