Designer: Think about, agence design by Mélodie Violet
Location: Montreal, Qc Canada
Common Contractor: L’Ecuyer Redmond
Cupboard Maker: Charlebois Ebenisterie
Suppliers: Ciot, Ceragres, Unik Parquet, Soud’Artwork
Lighting: Artemide, Foscarini, Moooi
Picture Credit score: Studio CRBN
Press Distribution: v2com
About Think about studio design
Think about is a Montreal inside design agency created in 2014 by Mélodie Violet. Since its founding, the Think about crew has established itself as a agency famend for its supply of high-quality experience in inside design for company and main residential tasks. The agency combines ardour, creativity, and professionalism to attain the distinctive targets of every mission.
From conception to completion, Think about’s revolutionary concepts enrich their tasks in a large number of how. Think about’s dynamic method permits the crew to exceed the expectations of its purchasers. The standard of Think about’s work has been featured in quite a few respected business publications.
In 2022, Mélodie Violet launched Matière à Vivre, an initiative responding to rising demand from worldwide purchasers in search of accompaniment by the customized ornament of their interiors.
Matière à Vivre enhances the in depth experience of Think about, topping off an entire service providing for its purchasers in North America and Europe.
Think about, studio design by Mélodie Violet, is proud to current Home Caledonia, the most recent addition to its portfolio of high-quality inside designs tailor-made to the aspirations of its purchasers, and nicely past. Two years within the making, the mission marks the third intervention realized for a similar shopper, a younger household now settled into a totally renovated outdated residence in Ville Mont-Royal, a distinguished district of Montreal.
Along with an entire inside renovation of the present premises, the mandate included the creation of a brand new extension on the rear of the home, a brand new double storage, and a brand new landscaping format.
A difficult design
In transferring from condominium life to a big home, the purchasers and their younger household had been coming into a brand new dwelling expertise. Having labored with Mélodie Violet on a number of designs tasks already, the designer was given carte blanche to create an ambiance in line with their needs.
The couple wished to spend money on high quality supplies and distinctive design parts, presenting Think about with the problem of discovering the precise supplies for the precise area, whereas guaranteeing the presence of refined hyperlinks all through.
“The previous proprietor lived there for 30 years and had made no main modifications in that point,” reveals Mélodie Violet, inside designer and founding father of Think about. “The mission was basically a change from the previous to the current, and on to the long run for my purchasers.”
Modern performance
Upon coming into the house, subdued Foscarini wall lights illuminate a sublime touchdown marked by the refined replication of curves in its design parts. A big wool bench adorns the geometric flooring of herringbone tiles, embraced by a backdrop of alpaca toned partitions.
The doorway area transitions to a predominant ground characterised by a heat and up to date really feel, with the ample presence of wooden, together with oak engineered flooring, ample brown walnut, black stained oak, and hickory.
The rear extension was designed to seamlessly mix into the unique construction, and it homes the upstairs master bedroom, the primary stage eating room, and parts of the house’s generously spacious kitchen. Sub-Zero built-in home equipment set the tone of the sunshine and spacious kitchen, anchored by a brown walnut island topped by a sublime quartzite.
Above the island, a collection of small hand-blown glass lights, set at various ranges, fantastically illuminate the practical cooking space. Overhead cabinets above a gray quartzite backsplash function a brown walnut end. Matte black stained oak denotes the cupboard doorways under the sink, and extends fluidly to an adjoining built-in pantry.
The kitchen opens to an expansive eating room, with floor-to-ceiling home windows and patio doorways offering ample daylight and exterior backyard views. Crimson-hued chairs designed for consolation encompass a big desk floor, with two clear mesh lighting set above. Three elliptical wall lamps double as artistic endeavors, together with two reddish toned shapes that match the eating room chairs.
“The lamps themselves are very minimalist, but they supply a really colourful and inventive background,” explains Ms. Violet. “At evening, they make a big contribution to the general environment of the area.”
Heat and luxury, by design
The lounge affords an array of subdued tones, together with beige herringbone cloth couches, designed by Mélodie Violet, that hyperlink to the sample of the ground. A TV facilities a big, darkish brown walnut wall unit with open shelving for artwork on the precise, and a gasoline fire encased in black marble to the left.
Within the middle of the room, a big wooden espresso desk with black steel body ties the room’s up to date comforts collectively in an ambiance conducive to each entertaining and household time.
“Every room of Caledonia Home is a really distinctive area, however we strived to make sure that the colours and materiality would supply hyperlinks between all of them,” explains Ms. Violet. “One instance is our resolution to insert double brass traces within the ground of the eating room, which offers a type of visible delimitation in lieu of a rug.”
The double brass traces of the eating room ground prolong to the bottom of the staircase, characterised by the up to date transparency of its glass partitions, its steel railings, and its darkish oak stairs. The staircase results in an higher stage the place Mélodie Violet waved a magic wand of creativity to seize the imaginations of the purchasers and their two younger daughters.
5-star comforts
For the adults, the master bedroom incorporates comforts harking back to a luxurious lodge, together with ash blue velvet bedding by Ligne Roset, flanked on either side by {custom} hickory bedside tables and a luminous wall of gold velvet wallpaper. A sliding oak door divides the grasp lavatory into two distinct areas, with design hyperlinks flowing into each.
A slab of black marble flooring is replicated in herringbone patterns on the facet partitions of two massive quartz vanities, whereas the bathe encompasses a black varnished chevron mosaic. Moreover, a freestanding tub is framed by a big slab of greyish marble, mounted like a murals in opposition to a backdrop of waxed concrete partitions.
Designing whimsical goals
For Mélodie Violet, carte blanche to create a world of fantasy for the bedrooms of two younger women was a very attractive problem. The primary room encompasses a theme of cherry and gold, with a single wall adorned in darkish framboise wallpaper. The adjoining lavatory carries the colour scheme ahead with infusions of gold, brass, and pink parts.
The second little one’s bed room is highlighted by wallpaper that includes gold bubbles on a white background, which gently contrasts with custom-designed cherry and pink curtains. The second lavatory offers extra of a chilled ambiance, with gold touches and textured white wall paneling. Each loos function rose gold and brass fittings, in addition to small spherical mosaics and light-weight terrazzo flooring.
“The rooms are very busy, nevertheless it works nicely once you pull all of it collectively,” concludes Ms. Violet. “The ladies completely love their new rooms, and your complete household is now embraced by the heat and luxury of a house designed by their wishes.”
