Filed under: Your Home, Bathroom, Living Room, Furniture
Find yourself slumping in front of the TV every evening? Three designers weigh in on how your home can inspire you to be a little more creative with your down time.We've already explored how your home can make you look younger, wake up early, destress after work and stop fighting. Now, we're putting it to work again. We reached out to the New York Design Center's new Access to Design designers to get their thoughts and tips on how your home can inspire you to get more creative. (You can also get great advice and find a designer at accesstodesign@nydc.com.)
Courtesy of Vanessa Deleon
Interior designer Vanessa Deleon suggests looking to nature for inspiration. So bring the outdoors in! Doesn't this room make you want to write, draw or break out the board games?
Photo: Peter Dressel; Courtesy of Coffinier Ku Design
Interior designer Michelle Slovak votes to rezone the family room.
"Why not designate a corner of your living room for ʻhands onʼ activities other than video
games? Board games donʼt have to be ʻboredʼ games -- there are lots out there. Instead
of the typical square, ʻgame tableʼ, choose a round, pedestal table. This gives you more
room to pull up extra chairs. Make sure the chairs are comfortable. We like chairs that
can do double duty in the living space like these from Dennis Miller."
And Etienne Coffinier and Ed Ku of Coffinier Ku Design start with the bathroom.
"We had a client who works in financial services who told us that he loved to unwind from the stress of work with a great steam. It was obvious that we could have given him just a traditional steam in his shower but we thought we'd have a little more fun and created a real mini-hamam in this New York City apartment by turning one of the bathrooms into a full steam room. The contractor waterproofed the entire room and we tiled every inch of it with a combination of slate, tumbled marble and pebbles on the floor. The rainhead shower is in the center of the room so you can move seamlessly from brushing your teeth or shaving to relaxing in the steam to having a quick cool-down shower. Very crazy but he says he often does some of his best work in this room."