The expansive main living area boasts 25-foot ceilings truly making a grand statement. In this room, they kept a neutral, cohesive palette helping to unify each of the designated spaces.

The kitchen is pretty minimalist as not to compete with the historic glass it’s centered around.

White oak floors keep the mostly white space from feeling too cold and stark.

The fireplace is clad in quartz that goes straight to the ceiling.

The living room fireplace is back-to-back with a smaller version in the media room.

“The architecture is so beautiful; I loved everything about it,” she says. “High ceilings were a must, and this building has those and everything else — lots of character and history.” Camilotti’s main challenge was to fill the generous space of the church conversion without having her furniture get lost in it.

It was such an amazing project. I had no limitations,

she says.

The converted church, a National Heritage List property dating to 1890, seduced her with its arching ceilings and timber beams. “When it came to a base color, I decided to keep it neutral in order to accentuate the original beams,” she says.

“I needed lots of courage when it came to decorating,” she says.

The living area is a huge, open space, and a normal-sized sofa would have disappeared, so I supersized!

She has always had a passion for oversize furniture, and the generous proportions of her new home allowed her to indulge her whim for extravagance. “The upholsterer thought I was crazy when I gave him the measurements for the sofa,” she says with a laugh.

She was drawn to a monochrome palette and is happy the colors worked to the building’s advantage. “I just couldn’t imagine this place in another palette — I think it works perfectly,” she says. The gleaming surface of the glossy white Koishi coffee table reflects light from the large windows.

A self-playing piano tucked under the staircase is a decadent touch and keeps Camilotti and her staff entertained during working hours. “I always wanted to integrate the office and living areas, and I think it works very well. This whole house is very me and reflects my style and personality perfectly,” she says.

An elegant Nur pendant from Artemide pools light on the kitchen island to highlight the black granite surface. The extractor fan is integrated into the ceiling, folding down only when it’s needed. The bar stools introduce a touch of brown, linking with the wooden beams. “The stools are my own design and made in Milan from cowhide and chrome,” Camilotti says.

With so much space at her disposal, Camilotti was able to zone off different areas. This comfortable corner is next to the entrance and her workstation and acts as a waiting area for visitors. The chrome and walnut table is a vintage find.

During the day the grand dining table is filled with brochures and pattern books, but in the evening, it’s transformed into a glamorous dining area for up to 12 people. “I designed the table myself,” Camilotti says. “It’s a sheet of glass resting on two enormous wooden blocks.”

Camilotti’s home is filled with expressions of her personality, such as these lily-print cushions and the Gherkin canvas, both of which she designed herself. “The Gherkin is my creation,” she says. “My degree is in fine art, and I love playing around on Photoshop. It was difficult to find something that fitted this space, so I just created an artwork myself.”

The large master bedroom has an accompanying dressing room, negating the need for bulky wardrobes that would inhibit the view of the arched ceiling. “I decided to put mirrors in the niche here to reflect the beams, which I love,” she says.

Camilotti chose a palette of gold and earthy tones for the guest bedroom, which has a slightly baroque flavor. “I took some baroque images of angels and put them on a black background for the decor in this room,” she explains. “It’s glamorous, but with the white floorboards it still feels very contemporary, which I love.”

“The window here is so beautiful, I didn’t want anything to block it,” Camilotti says. “It has wonderful colors and shapes, and is such a gorgeous composition. It’s lovely to gaze on this from the living room below.”

The master bathroom is relatively compact compared with the rest of the house, so Camilotti wanted to open up the space as much as possible. The rustic brick floor is light, and the mirrored panel around the walls makes the room appear larger.

“I absolutely love the garden,” Camilotti says. The scent from the lemon trees evokes memories of holidays in Sorrento, Italy. Though fairly small, the garden is set up for dining and relaxing. “It’s a wonderful space in which to spend time,” she says. “This and the piano are my favorite parts of the house.”

And when you walk into the huge volume of the main living area, there’s no question that he’s done just that. It’s a space worthy of a Chelsea gallery: one great white wall stretches 65 feet from the front of the building to the back and 35 feet up to a skylight.

A quasi-mezzanine‚ containing a dining area and a kitchen‚ overlooks the living room. Here, too, the art takes center stage: a Joel Otterson sculpture/shower stands in the middle of the master bedroom. But then again, the entire upstairs structure‚ mezzanine and all‚ is like one enormous sculpture, its rooms jutting out into the main space‚ huge rectangle, turned at a 30-degree angle, in a reference to the nearby Flatiron Building.

Ehrlich’s quirky design and choice of location reflected his rejection of the prevailing urban landscape and enabled him to reconcile the worlds of architecture, art and design, which back then mixed‚ in social terms at least‚ about as well as oil paint and water.

It was a more rigid caste system, says Ehrlich, who is a co-founder of Artes Magnus, a company that issues limited-edition objects like Cindy Sherman‚ Madame de Pompadour-inspired china.

You had artists getting involved in loft living and alternative spaces he remembered. On the other hand, if you were in the more professional, conventional trajectory, you lived somewhere like the Upper East Side. I had close friends from both camps, and I didn’t want to make a statement that I was with either, so I chose a part of the city that was very anonymous. There was no Flatiron district then‚ this was no-man’s-land.

But has always bought what he likes. For him, art is more like a record of where you’ve been and what you’ve thought.

I’m not into the hero worshiping and the craziness that goes on, I’m collecting my experiences.

The inside of this 1930s water tower-turned-house, however, gleams white and smooth all around – quintessentially modern despite the non-linear walls and minimalist metal spiral staircases, curves that dominate each space within this completely remodeled cylinder.

Steel, concrete and glass form the basic material palette used by Zecc in this incredible contemporary home conversion – and these choices do help to transition from the aged rustic style of the preserved facade to the modern interior spaces, but they are nonetheless almost as different as can be.

The water tower is spread over nine levels. Many challenges are faced in the design: letting more daylight in and strengthening the relationship with the back courtyard by inserting a three-level high window frame; maintaining the interiorâ€s industrial characteristics by working with materials like steel, concrete and glass; and in the tower, ensuring an effective, efficient layout for several small round rooms that lay one on top of the other, while preserving the towerâ€s spaciousness.

Taking the concept of origami, the forms in this apartment are folded to maximize space and give it dynamic at the same time. The true self of the Origami Home unfolds inside the enclosure that dominates the space. The architects say they have used this

“as the essence of the project as the beating heart the importance of which is based on the surprise of forms, in an interior full of diagonal movement.”

In this 49 m² apartment, the architects have worked the space to get more out of it by designing a truly three-dimensional space. From the entrance, the white wooden structure runs through the various parts of the space like a folding paper. It leads us through the living room, dining room, kitchen, and laundry, leaving each a distinct identity and the independence required in specific cases, such as the bathroom or bedroom. The different areas also open onto this structure to give the illusion of space and freedom of movement.

I should mention the technology used in this apartment, including a new research project, In.home, in which Whirlpool has explored the spatial relationships between product and the user. The “habitable fold” as the architects have decided to call it, includes some of the latest and most sophisticated appliances on the market, even some prototypes. For example, the laundry area, one column does the washing and drying of clothes, while another one aerates and irons your clothes with dry steam.

The wooden frame protects the inhabitants and leads the visitor while it folds articulating the ways of getting around the flat. The entrance opens into the common areas and the structure keeps private ones hidden. Following a spiral motion, stairs give access to the higher level, where the bedroom is. The black floor is Compac Marble & Quartz.

Lighting is mainly done with spotlights, highlighting the special places of the house.

The dining room has been located in the passageway between the kitchen and living area. The cutlery if Faces from Ferran Adrià , produced by Design Mix Collections.

In the dining room table has recessed black stone hob.

The space under the stairs leading to the area bedroom has been converted into a toilet. Vases are from Habitat.

The fold that forms the structure houses the bed above which is accessed by steps

The seating area is arranged in a gentle slope facing the TV. The sofa is designed by the architects. In the background you can see the laundry room.

via Home decorating trends

I like this little renovated 1904 fisherman’s cottage on Shelter Island. Very cute to me! The decor here is bold but it only involves two colors…black and white…I think it works and is done very right.

Am loving the kitchen with the floor to ceiling chalkboard wall the most! What a great idea!

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