Private House - Dublin Bay

This project comprised the complete refurbishment of a large private house overlooking Dublin Bay. The house had plenty of natural light with wonderful views but very little character.

The brief was to create an ambience appropriate to the magnificent setting. This was partially achieved by using antique furniture and paintings purchased over the years by the client and ourselves for their previous house, with the addition of some new pieces.

For the formal drawing room we sourced the new oversized comfortable couches to compliment the large room, upholstered them in cream damask, and then recovered our client's own antique chairs in a coordinating cream and pale green fabric. Windows were dressed in cream damask edged in green and hung on substantial hand painted and gilded curtain poles. A large low table between the couches was custom made from old wood so that it would be in keeping with the furniture. The pale green carpet was continued out to the hallway, where the walls were hand painted in faux finish to resemble sandstone blocks, and the full height window was dressed in cream linen interlined curtains pulled back by thick cream cord tie-backs.

The first two photographs show the entrance hall, the following two show the drawing room and the last a bathroom which is part of a suite with dressing-room and bedroom. Jane Reddy Interiors designed the custom made furniture throughout the suite in cherry wood and also designed two narrow full length windows in the bathroom on either side of the free standing vanity unit, lined and framed in cherry and dressed with wide slat wood Venetian blinds. Granite counter tops complement the black and white checkerboard floor.

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