Idea Space makes great architecture and interior design accessible to you, bringing fresh, innovative ideas that reinvigorate your home and workplace. Whether you're looking to improve the functionality of your Manhattan townhouse, spruce up your suburban abode, or invest new life into that quaint country retreat, we make home renovation a pleasurable and productive experience.
We can also capture your ideas of what "home" should be and create a brand new house that is custom-built for your lifestyle. Additionally, Idea Space can convert your drab and dysfunctional office-whether in midtown Manhattan or northern New Jersey-into a light, bright, comfortable and welcoming setting for customers, clients, and employees. Our close partnerships with clients continually inspire us to create the atmospheres of their dreams.
At Idea Space, we don't just renovate, we renew, bringing more energy, vitality and enjoyment to our clients' lives through the spaces they inhabit. By working together through a collaborative process-with client, consultants, fabricators, and builder-we explore financially responsible design options that contribute to a more livable, sustainable, and profitable environment.
We can also capture your ideas of what "home" should be and create a brand new house that is custom-built for your lifestyle. Additionally, Idea Space can convert your drab and dysfunctional office-whether in midtown Manhattan or northern New Jersey-into a light, bright, comfortable and welcoming setting for customers, clients, and employees. Our close partnerships with clients continually inspire us to create the atmospheres of their dreams.
At Idea Space, we don't just renovate, we renew, bringing more energy, vitality and enjoyment to our clients' lives through the spaces they inhabit. By working together through a collaborative process-with client, consultants, fabricators, and builder-we explore financially responsible design options that contribute to a more livable, sustainable, and profitable environment.
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Julie China is an interior designer passionate about making beautiful spaces that are both functional and comfortable for her clients.
This passion began at an early age with a strong interest in art, design and drawing.
She studied interior design with a full scholarship to the Art Institute of Philadelphia where she was awarded 'Best Portfolio' at graduation in 1995.
During her time in Philadelphia, Julie began her career designing high end corporate office interiors for a well-established Philadelphia firm.
This passion began at an early age with a strong interest in art, design and drawing.
She studied interior design with a full scholarship to the Art Institute of Philadelphia where she was awarded 'Best Portfolio' at graduation in 1995.
During her time in Philadelphia, Julie began her career designing high end corporate office interiors for a well-established Philadelphia firm.
After many years living in her one-bed, one-bath Upper West Side Apartment, our client needed a more expansive, flexible live-work environment that reflected her unique style.
Idea Space's renovation achieved a greater sense of visual connection between the living room and kitchen, first by widening the existing opening between them and adding another vertical opening in the same wall, which together, bookend the upper kitchen cabinets and frame the TV on the living room side.
A soapstone countertop wraps around the wall and drops down to a continuous ash wood console/work surface, further blurring the boundary between the two spaces.
Idea Space's renovation achieved a greater sense of visual connection between the living room and kitchen, first by widening the existing opening between them and adding another vertical opening in the same wall, which together, bookend the upper kitchen cabinets and frame the TV on the living room side.
A soapstone countertop wraps around the wall and drops down to a continuous ash wood console/work surface, further blurring the boundary between the two spaces.
Our full gut renovation of this 1908 farmhouse happily marries casual modernity and Victorian authenticity.
Supporting the owners' vision of a more playful and fully livable home, we also preserved the unique features of its original construction.
The client chose the house because, We fell in love with the land, the porch, and all the beautiful old wood.
We were simply trying to make the awkward things about it work.
The kitchen was major; we just needed it to be more useful.
In the end, those changes transformed the whole house.
Supporting the owners' vision of a more playful and fully livable home, we also preserved the unique features of its original construction.
The client chose the house because, We fell in love with the land, the porch, and all the beautiful old wood.
We were simply trying to make the awkward things about it work.
The kitchen was major; we just needed it to be more useful.
In the end, those changes transformed the whole house.
Building upon our prior work in the home, this project had two major objectives.
Goal #1 was interior-focused: Improve the functionality for this busy family of four, particularly on the second floor.
Goal #2 was exterior-focused: Make the two-story addition appear natural, like it was always there.
Doing it right meant problem-solving.
We redesigned the sunroom with additional structural capacity and added a second floor above with two new bathrooms and a dressing room.
But the addition had to seamlessly integrate a new roof line and exterior elevation with the existing 100-year old home.
Goal #1 was interior-focused: Improve the functionality for this busy family of four, particularly on the second floor.
Goal #2 was exterior-focused: Make the two-story addition appear natural, like it was always there.
Doing it right meant problem-solving.
We redesigned the sunroom with additional structural capacity and added a second floor above with two new bathrooms and a dressing room.
But the addition had to seamlessly integrate a new roof line and exterior elevation with the existing 100-year old home.
The first floor of this South Orange, New Jersey Victorian consists of an entry foyer, living room, dining room and a kitchen that had been expanded in an earlier addition to the home.
The existing 'L' shaped kitchen footprint that wraps around the living room was a spatial challenge that called for a better sense of connectivity.
Given the client's interest in cooking it was important that the kitchen have proper flow between the food prep areas, appliances and the kitchen table.
At the same time the ability to interact and socialize with family and friends was a priority.
The existing 'L' shaped kitchen footprint that wraps around the living room was a spatial challenge that called for a better sense of connectivity.
Given the client's interest in cooking it was important that the kitchen have proper flow between the food prep areas, appliances and the kitchen table.
At the same time the ability to interact and socialize with family and friends was a priority.
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