Boundless Everyday Living by Degree Design
Boundless Everyday Living by Degree Design is a study in measured openness, where domestic life is held in balance between permeability and composure.
Conceived as a quiet canvas rather than a display, the home approaches function with restraint, allowing light and movement to pass through the interior with an unforced clarity.
The plan is shaped by the realities of shared living: a household of three and a dog, daily cooking, and the need for a workspace that can shift into a guest setting when required. Rather than relying on fixed partitions, Degree Design uses sliding elements to negotiate privacy and connection, enabling the study to alternately retreat from, or merge with, the main living area. A separate kitchen door further reinforces this practical intelligence, containing cooking fumes while keeping the communal zone calm and settled.
At the threshold, a change in flooring establishes an immediate sense of passage, signalling entry with subtle definition. An electronic wardrobe, positioned in the entryway as a functional necessity, is tempered through composition: its mirrored grey surface is gathered into a column-like volume that reads as an architectural marker rather than an appliance. This reflective verticality sets the tone for the interior’s broader optical strategy, where glass and mirror expand perception and lighten the boundary between surfaces.
Material continuity becomes the project’s central discipline. Stainless steel, green stone, and mineral paint move from entry into adjacent spaces, streamlining the palette while extending its presence across key moments. Whites and greys provide the ground, while hand-applied plaster introduces a tactile softness that diffuses the light and quietens the atmosphere. Within this reduced language, details carry weight: serpentine stone paired with stainless-steel shelving, and a sculptural wall lamp that brings a concentrated, poetic glow.
Bespoke interventions are integrated with an assured economy. Stone and stainless-steel shelves appear across the entry, study, and bedroom, offering both utility and compositional structure. Two broad sliding doors become pivotal elements, combining ironwork, striped glass, and mineral paint to form planes that can conceal, reveal, and recalibrate the interior’s sense of depth. Even the smallest gesture is considered, including a discreet opening at the base of the bedroom sliding door, allowing the dog to pass through without interrupting the serenity of the larger spatial order.
Throughout, the home is articulated by clean vertical and horizontal lines that subtly organise the interior, establishing an underlying axis without overt display. It is an approach that privileges calm over excess, and clarity over ornament, crafting a domestic setting where daily habits are supported with precision and the atmosphere remains quietly expansive.
