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Lighting
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Lighting a hallway you actually walk through
Hallways are where a house is read in sequence. We light them like a gallery, not a corridor.
A hallway is where a house is read in sequence. It deserves more thought than it usually gets.
Light the walls, not the floor
We wash walls with low, warm light and keep ceilings dark. It draws you forward and makes the far end of the corridor feel like a destination.
A single lamp at the end of the axis does more than a row of downlights ever will.
Elise Vermeulen
Founder, Enfilade Studio
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Essay
The case for fewer doors
Every door is a decision. We remove most of them, and make the ones we keep worth walking through.
Materials
Limewash, honestly
It cracks, it clouds, it changes with the weather. That is exactly why we keep specifying it.
Projects
Inside Maison Verbeke
Fourteen months, one sightline and a garden wall that took three tries to get right.