Living Room & Reading Nook

Quinta Maluhia

Living space

A double-height living space, reimagined from the fireplace out: the rough natural-stone chimney was re-faced in warm beige tiles and flanked symmetrically by dark walnut floating shelves above low white sideboards. A white bouclé modular sofa and a black organic-shaped coffee table now gather on a woven jute rug, while amber glass pendants float in the void and sheer curtains frame meadow views. Beneath the gallery, a once-undefined corner became an ochre reading nook with a black floor-to-ceiling bookcase and two terracotta lounge chairs.

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After: the same chimney breast re-faced in beige stone tiles, framed by dark walnut floating shelves and low white sideboards, with a bouclé sofa and a round black coffee table on a jute rug

Before: rough cream natural-stone chimney with a grey fabric sofa and bare side benches in the double-height living room

Before After

View from the staircase across the white bouclé sectional and black coffee table toward two floor-to-ceiling windows with sheer white curtains and meadow views, with the ochre reading nook and its terracotta lounge chair under the gallery

Reading nook with two terracotta lounge chairs and matching cube poufs on a round patterned cream rug, a black floor-to-ceiling bookcase, ochre-painted walls and ceiling and a black multi-arm ceiling lamp

Symmetrical view over the back of the bouclé sofa onto the stone-tiled fireplace column flanked by dark walnut floating shelves and a low white sideboard, with a glass sliding door to the garden

Detail of three dark walnut floating shelves styled with books, potted plants, brass candlesticks and wicker flower baskets, next to the lit fireplace in its black steel frame

White bouclé chaise facing a floor-to-ceiling sliding window with a view over green meadows and autumn trees, framed by sheer white curtains, a black floor lamp and a potted ficus

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