The rooms a catalogue cannot solve.
A kitchen or a wardrobe can be solved by adapting a standard product. These cannot — they are spaces and surfaces designed around the room rather than products fitted into it. Feature Space Design is the paid ELS upgrade that authors them, and this is what it produces.
303 concept studies across 14 spaces and features, in the ELS styles. Concept studies — not photographs of completed projects.
TV feature wall
Carries the screen, the AV load, the heat and every cable behind a surface that still has to read as one flush plane.
- Cream Luxury
- Corporate & Commercial
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Cream Luxury
- Corporate & Commercial
- Muji Japandi
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Cream Luxury
- Cream Luxury
- Cream Luxury
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
- Muji Japandi
Staircase
The only joinery read from two floors at once, and the only one that has to carry a person while it does it.
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Cream Luxury
- Cream Luxury
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Scandinavian
Kitchen island
Free-standing on all four sides, so every face is a finished face — and power, water or extraction have to reach it through the floor.
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
Staircase landing
A half landing turns the flight, catches the daylight and is read from below — a room-sized surface most plans treat as leftover.
- Muji Japandi
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Muji Japandi
Screen & breeze-block partition
Divides without closing: air and light pass through while sightlines do not. In this climate that is ventilation as much as decoration.
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
Display cabinetry
Lit, glazed and open: the one cabinet judged on what it shows rather than what it hides, so proportion and lighting do the work.
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Scandinavian
- Warm Wood Modern
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
Feature wall
One surface asked to carry the whole material story of a room, usually with light raking across it to prove the texture is real.
- Cream Luxury
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Cream Luxury
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Cream Luxury
- Cream Luxury
Entrance
The first and last surface of the house, and usually the smallest floor area — storage, seating and display compete for the same metre.
- Muji Japandi
- Warm Wood Modern
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
- Muji Japandi
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Muji Japandi
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Muji Japandi
Feature ceiling
The largest uninterrupted surface in the house, and the one that decides where every light, duct and service is allowed to go.
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Scandinavian
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
Study
Sized around the person, the equipment and the daylight rather than around a standard carcase depth.
- Cream Luxury
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Muji Japandi
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Warm Wood Modern
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Warm Wood Modern
Bed backdrop
Sets the head of the bed before any furniture arrives, and absorbs the switching, reading light and charging a loose headboard cannot.
- Cream Luxury
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Scandinavian
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
- Warm Wood Modern
Bar
Wet, powered and social — plumbing, chilling and glassware inside something that has to look like furniture.
- Cream Luxury
- Scandinavian
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
Altar cabinet
In daily use with incense and open flame, and positioned by the household before any design begins — no catalogue cabinet accommodates that.
- Cream Luxury
- Muji Japandi
- Muji Japandi
- Scandinavian
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Warm Wood Modern
Prayer room
Orientation, threshold and storage are set by practice before they are set by design.
- Scandinavian
- Simple Modern Minimalist
- Muji Japandi
Concepts are the start. These are the documents.
Feature Space Design is design work, not a render. Which of these apply depends on the item and is confirmed on the approved brief.
- Design direction and setting-out for the element
- Dimensioned elevation of the finished face
- Material, finish and edge specification
- Integrated lighting positions, with driver access
- Service positions coordinated against the element
- Junction detail where it meets floor, ceiling and adjacent finishes
- Foreman coordination sheet and approval document
- Build sequence against the other trades
These items touch other trades. ELS coordinates them to one approved scope; the trade work itself is not ELS supply.
- Electrical — circuits, switching and socket positions
- Ceiling — bulkhead, cove and access panels
- Builder — structure, openings and making good
- Glazing or metalwork — balustrade and screen fixing
- Tiling or stone — setting-out and cut lines
- Plumbing — supply, waste and concealed pipework
The catalogue rooms — kitchen, wet kitchen, wardrobe, vanity, laundry — are deliberately left out. They are solved by adapting an ALUMAX product, which is a different (and cheaper) piece of work. You can see them in each style collection.
See the style collections