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DECORATING | DESIGN IDEAS

dining AREA

THE SPACE The dining area
(left and previous page) has a large
chandelier and a floor-to-ceiling
mirror to one side of the table.
SALLY’S SOLUTIONS ‘The
banquette seating, which provides
valuable storage, is fitted 40mm
from the wall and conceals “Contour
HD24” LED strips (£117 for a metre)
to uplight the textured wallcovering.
They have a wonderful warm light
like traditional tungsten – a total
move away from the vast collection of
LED strips, which are too cool. This is
a technique I often use in restaurants
to add warmth and drama. To create
a sense of scale, I hung an Italian
chandelier I bought at Norfolk
Decorative Antiques (antiquelighting.
co.uk) years ago; I had been waiting
for the perfect location for it. GSB
Builders (gsb-building.co.uk)
ADDED By day, the dining area, with its table and banquette, has lots of natural light thanks installed a beam across the skylight
INSIGHT to the skylight. Lighting has to be introduced only at dusk, when preset scenes can from which to hang the chandelier.
help to change the mood from a home office space to an intimate dining room. On either side of the beam are LED
spots, which provide a focus on
the table area. The coloured glass
pieces displayed in the niches are
hardly noticeable in the day but lit
up at night, they really come alive.’

KITCHEN

THE SPACE The kitchen, which faces the dining
area, is the working heart of the house. During the
day, natural light floods in from large skylights.
SALLY’S SOLUTIONS ‘It was essential to introduce
a sense of intimacy at night. I decided to make a feature
of the shelf above the worktop. As with the banquette,
I had LED strips concealed in extrusions above and
below the shelf, which makes it appear to float (right).
Miniature “Fazer” LED downlights in the ceiling
light the sink (from £119), while “Square” downlights
(from £164) above the island provide task lighting.’

76 NOVEMBER 2015 HOUSEANDGARDEN.CO.UK