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upstairs renovation: 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, hall closet

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I need help executing a contemporary organic glam design for our upper level, particularly with the lighting (Fig 1). We are hunting for contemporary sculptural lighting in an organic glam style.


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Fig 1. Lighting plan. Circled R = recessed lights. Triangle = picture light. P = pendant. Squiggles = flush-mount sculptural lights. Big stars = large pendant and ceiling mount lights. Two bars and a circle = sconces. Ceilings are all 8' high except that there is more height in the stairwell where one light will be. The ceiling is squared off instead of mirroring the stairs.

I am more familiar with traditional/transitional design and materials (Fig 2).

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Fig 2. Rear home exterior showing the balcony off His bedroom (top left) and branches of the Norway maple far left.

We have come a long way together on this project to convert 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms to 3 bedrooms with their own ensuites (Figs 3A 3B). We added a plan for access to the attic. We decided on a room-use plan: His bedroom and office, her bedroom, and a work-out room.


Fig 3A. Home plan with upper level shown on right.


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Fig 3B. His bedroom (top) includes an office area to the right and a walk-out balcony. Her bedroom bottom left, and workout room ensuite bottom right.


The architect's plan was revised with her approval and assistance to improve access to each bedroom and in so doing captured the setting sun to light up the upstairs hallway and provided lots of shallow storage (Fig 4).

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Fig 4. Inspirational photo for the shallow storage and shoji doors planned for the center hallway. Planning on shoji doors on both sides though, and with a cut glass transom overhead at entrance to this narrowed space.

Please see my idea books for every room and then some. We developed a color scheme: dark reddish chocolate; green like coke bottles and evergreens; blue-greys like a snowy winter sky and summer storm clouds while there is still lots of white; blues like navy, cobalt, periwinkle; and violets like garnet and iris.

We selected dark chocolate cork flooring for the hall and bedrooms (Fig 5).


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Fig 5. Solid cork flooring, waxed in a cocoa. 24" x 48" glue-down.

We found the perfect dark chocolate half-cut pebble for heated flooring for all three bathrooms and their curbless showers (Fig 5 bottom right).

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Fig 5. Chocolate pebble tile (bottom right) with samples of three of the four porcelain tiles and a square of Santa Rita soapstone half-oiled.

We found high-gloss large-format porcelain tiles for the three bathrooms (Fig 6).

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Fig 6. Large format high-gloss porcelain tiles. Each bathroom will have two tiles in it. His bathroom: Honed Calcutta Green (top right) on the vanity wall, the water closet toilet wall, and the shower hardware wall; Polished Irish green (top left) on the remaining walls of the shower and water closet, and the wall opposite the vanity. Her bathroom: Mystic Grey (bottom right) on the vanity/toilet wall and the pony wall; Imperial Green (bottom left) on the three shower walls and remaining walls. Workout room ensuite: Mystic grey (bottom right) on the vanity/toilet wall extending into the shower on that wall only; Imperial Green (bottom left) on the remaining walls. The tiles will all be turned vertically.

For his bedroom and doors we selected cherry with a chocolate brown stain. For the vanities for the other two bathrooms we selected a knotty alder with a slightly more orange chocolate stain (Fig 7).


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Fig 7. Wood sample on right is for his bedroom closets, doors, vanity. Cherry with a chocolate stain. Wood sampl on left is knotty alder with a greyed chocolate stain.


We also need to develop window treatments. His bedroom has a walk-out balcony with a tree-top view of a back yard rimmed in evergreens and a nearby Norway maple (Figs 2, 3A, 3B). Her bedroom and the workout room have views of a neglected home across the street until trees we planted provide something nice to see (Figs 3A, 3B). I'm thinking top-down blinds there. We favor silk for its anti-allergen properties.

And I need to find or have made a desk for hubby 26.5" high with bullnose edges, around 33" deep and 48" wide.

A few spots like where hubby has his desk chair will need an organic glam area rug to prevent damage to the cork. The workout room needs equipment-fitting rugs under them or a larger area rug for the equipment and floor exercises.

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