Entrance, Passage and Study Reveal – MCM Home

A couple of weeks back I shared our Mid Century Modern Living Room with you. Today I’ll show you the few spaces around which I missed out in the last post, i.e. the entrance, passage and study.

Entrance, Passage and Study

I loved sharing our mid century modern living room with you last time. But there were so many pretty spaces and pics to share, that I didn’t want to clutter it all up into one post.

I hope you loved the living, dining and terrace as much as I do. Let’s now move on to the little spaces around the main living area, that lead into or out from it.

Bringing to you today, the entrance, passage and study of our Mid Century Modern Home. Before you read further though, it might be a good idea to look up the living room first, in case you missed.

The Entrance

Let me begin first, with the entrance.  The entrance to the home, when we first saw it, looked something like this.

The door you see straight ahead is the service entry to the flat. On the right of the photograph you can see the edge of the main door into this home. A marble wainscoting runs right across the entire lobby.

The client wanted a separate safety door. We decided to go with a brass finish grill on this, along with a long brass handle. The main door behind it has been left completely plain, clad only with this beautiful veneer.

We used the exact same design on the service door which is just around the bend. The space in between was ideal to fit in a small sideboard which doubles up as a shoe cabinet. We added a simple, engraved name plate on the wall with a spot light shining right on it.

Finally, the greens add the bright spot and make this entrance truly welcoming.

The two identical doors with their beautiful brass grills, on either side of that elegant shoe cabinet truly claim the entrance and help define it as belonging to this home.

The Passage

As we move into the living room, you will remember the living and dining spaces from the last post.

There is also a very long passage between the living and dining areas, that leads to the bedrooms inside.

As you can, long here is truly long… it’s twenty five feet long!

Let me show you how we ‘shortened‘ and ‘widened‘ it as best we could.

First, we actually, physically shortened it. Compared to the rest of the living room, our dining area was quite small. After putting our dining table in place, we didn’t even have space to fit in a side board. So we pushed the dining wall back a little to accommodate the side board.

The wood paneling you see on the ceiling above the side board is where the original wall was. Pushing it in by just a couple of feet allowed us to put our side board there. This also shortened the passage length by that much.

The Study

Next, the client wanted a small study behind the side board wall. (Scroll up to the full plan above to see these slats just behind the dining area). Can you imagine such a tiny study with 4 walls around it and no window at all? That would have been an extremely claustrophobic room.

We completely did away with wall and door on the passage side. The slats are angled in such a way as to give the person sitting on that chair a view of the living room. They give a feeling of openness while protecting privacy.

These slats worked beautifully not just for our study, but also helped to further shorten our passage.

The Mirror

We decided to ‘widen‘ whatever was left of the passage, by cladding the remaining wall with mirror. This automatically doubles its width and you no longer feel like you’re walking down a narrow alleyway when you step into this passage.

The opposite, longer wall is our client’s personal art gallery. We have an art track along the entire length which they can use to display and change their artwork as and when required.

This also makes for a great view from the dining table, and from the bedroom doors, as it reflects into the opposite mirror wall.

Back To The Study

The tiny study was easy enough to plan. At the ‘front’ we have the study table with open book shelves above it. A fabric clad soft board just below the shelves makes a convenient spot to pin up those reminders.

That gorgeous chair with the quirky printed upholstery is the show stopper and completely has my heart.

We have a floor-to-ceiling cabinet ‘behind’. The bottom half has storage drawers and cabinets, with glass cabinets for books and display on top.

Before and Afters

The entrance to the home…

We redesigned the doors and added a side board that works as a shoe cabinet.

A view of the passageway from the dining area.

We pushed the dining wall back to give us space for a crockery unit and opened the passage out further by opening up the study wall.

The long, narrow, twenty five foot long passage…

We visually widened the space by paneling one entire length of wall with mirrors.

I hope you’ve loved this little spaces that go a long way into making this home as beautiful as it is.

Coming up next will be the kitchen of this mid century modern home. It is by far my favourite kitchen that I have designed yet. Sign up here to make sure you don’t miss that reveal!

Do leave me your questions and comments below. I’d love to hear what you think.

Until next time,

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Photography: Biju Gopal of @bizou.photos