Here is a simple design approach to giving your home a modern look. Fry Reglets have been a designer's staple for making modern architectural expressions for years. These simple pre-fabricated shapes for drywall construction can help you create modern interior expressions. A contemporary expression of interior walls is to create walls that appear to "float" inside the room. You can create this floating effect by creating reveals at the bottom and top of the wall (you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the linked "pdf"). Where traditional home design would have you use base molding and crown molding to cover up the imperfect transition from wall to ceiling and wall to floor, a modern design aesthetic would have this be a shadow line (i.e. reveal or open space) rather than a built-up assembly like molding. It may be a subtle effect, but in the picture you can see how the ceiling plane feels as if it is continuous and the walls seem to float between spaces. This effect helps extend the feeling of an open plan and gives you a sense that the space you are in extends beyond the wall the separates the space. By creating this "floating" expression you enhance the wall's presence as a planer object and make it appear not so much as a barrier, but more like something that is moveable or less permanent. The great thing about this design approach is it is fairly easy to construct. The one thing I would caution is that if you choose to go this route in your design you must commit. This will have implications at doors and other openings so be prepared. I can get into the specific solutions at doors in a later post. As always if you have any questions about the concepts in this post leave a comment below.
What do you think? Is this an aesthetic that appeals to you? Is it to modern for your home? Can this be implemented in a traditional home? Where is it appropriate? It certainly fits into its context on the picture above, but what about your house? Why?
Cheers,
Levi
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