Design Details: Master Suite

I'm so flattered when I come across one of my design projects featured in an interior design blog.  One project that seems to be popular is a turquoise and white bathroom that was shown on House of Turquoise and Willow Decor and a few others in the last year.  Here's a look at some of the details of that project:

The master suite is located in a wing off of the first floor living space.  The client wanted to take advantage of a water view at the back of the property which meant that the bedroom itself needed to be located at the end of the wing.  The challenge was to create a unique way to access the master bedroom from the main living area, preferably without creating a dark, narrow hallway. So I designed a gallery-type hallway that is open with French doors to a patio on one side and to the vanity portion of the bathroom on the other side.  This light and bright hallway is open to the outdoors and is decorated with beautiful artwork.

In the bathroom, beyond the vanities, is a set of french doors that leads to a large outdoor shower.  The vanity space can be visually closed off from the hallway with a pair of sliding shutter doors which provide privacy but still allow a breeze through the space.

The vanities consist of two drawer banks which flank a frosted sea glass tile countertop and front face. The three mirrors above are built-in with sconces between and tie into the mouldings of the doors the side of each vanity.  A beautiful bubble glass chandelier in the same frosted sea glass color hangs in the center of the room and creates a visual statement.

Part of the reason I feel this design works so well  is that the room and the details are all very symmetrical.  Each vanity on each wall is flanked by two doors.

On one side of the room, one door leads to a private water closet and the other to a large shower.  

On the opposite side of the room I wanted to create the same symmetry.  One door leads to the walk-in closet and I felt it was important to also add a door to the left of this vanity.  Behind this door we custom built a large medicine cabinet.  From the outside this looks like a regular door but when it's opened you find narrow shelves that are the perfect depth for medicine and cosmetics and we even added electrical outlets and cut-outs in the shelves to hold a hairdryer.

From the walk-in closet you can conveniently access the laundry room.  And one of the the homeowner's favorite features is the pocket door that leads from the laundry room to the walk-in pantry off the kitchen - making it easy to sneak a cup of coffee from the pantry in the morning without changing out of your bathrobe.

At the end of the hall is the master bedroom.  While the ceilings are already high, we added a bumped up peak treated with tongue and groove paneling.  The French doors provide an indoor/outdoor feel while offering great views to the pool and the water view beyond.

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