Classic Elegance Timeless Home Renovation

Design interior of the whole house, starting with the first floor. We are looking for contemporary/transitional styles that portray clean, crisp, rich, simple yet elegant looks. We plan to spend more on 1st floor in rooms like foyer, great room, kitchen, dining, wine, powder room, lanai, and bathrooms upstairs and less in other areas. The key area - foyer/great/kitchen/wine should create a wow feel, with nice ceilings, with above mentioned style characteristics and without extravagant spend. We feel that empty space and simplicity also add elegance to the house and we don't have to load up all areas in a room with lot of stuff to make it look great. We like very high-quality materials only but cannot afford them throughout the house. The way we solve that is to avoid loading up the house with lot of stuff and keep it simple and choose areas selectively.

12 feet ceilings on the 1st floor and 10 feet on the second floor. We are hoping to have nice ceilings in foyer, great room, kitchen, and dining rooms that complement each other with nice lighting.

Flooring type - Everywhere hardwood, expect tiles in kitchen, scullery, mud, laundry, all half and full baths. We are thinking of having glossy hardwood floors. Not sure about the cons though.

Stairs are going to floating stairs (example https://www.viewrail.com/floating-stairs/flight/) with empty space under them. The wall where you placed console table doesn't exist.

Finishes & Painting - We like to have perfect looking door/window trims and walls with highest quality paint - like Sherwin Williams Emerald Designer Edition Interior Latex Pain and level 5 finish for drywalls throughout the house. If it becomes very expensive, we want to limit this to foyer, great room, wine/art, kitchen, powder room, dining, and study.

We like flush mounted cleaner look of hunter douglas like shades (remote operation) for windows. Please use your judgment to suggest shades/curtains as appropriate.

All appliances in kitchen will be wolf/sub-zero and their model numbers are decided/available.

The so-called wine room next to great room is not meant completely for wine. The room's name is little misleading. The designer need to use his/her creativity to use that room effectively. Our thinking now is to have a under counter wine refrigerator and use rest of the space for art like swarovski, etc. with tinted/clear glass wall/doors. But we leave this up to the designer to recommend the right design.

The inspirational photos shared have been collected over the last few months and contain certain aspects we found to be interesting. They are not supposed to be used literally.

- The chosen designer will provide additional consultation or potential improvements on the layout plan before designing other areas
- The project includes specifications for all materials and finishes and the required drawings for contractors.
- The designer should be available to help and answer all questions during the build phase (1.5 years).
- The designer should provide suggestions for existing furniture. We have some high-quality furniture that we would like to reuse in this new house.
- Consultation on decor for a small hallway (Hallway Garage to Kitchen) included


To start with, the two designers should take entry foyer, great room, wine, and kitchen as a starter/priority area and submit their designs. Since this area is one big open space, I will be able to get a better sense of each designer’s approach.

Thank you!

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