Bespoke Furninture - Drinks Cabinet  

Relationship: Client Project

Date: April 2014

"Lisa is a cutting-edge consultant. She’s great for kitchens, bespoke cabinets and anything house and design related. You will not find a more diligent or creative designer"

Lisa Melvin Design and Springburn Joinery join forces to create bespoke furniture tailored to clients exacting requirements.

Media Entertainment Centre & Contemporary Wood Burner Cleverly hidden away the media entertainment centre, created using a mixture of natural and man-made materials ranging from glass, granite and Xylo Cleaf, is accessed using a HAWA bi fold door system. The secret drawers and hidden shelving are ideal for housing comfy throws for cold winter evenings, firewood and board games. The structured surface pattern, Spigato, is inspired by the world of fashion reinterpreting and reshaping the classic motif of tweed and geometrical design. A Dik Geurts Vision 100 wood burner by Wood Burner Workshop was incorporated into the design and gives out a very toasty 10kw of heat. Liquor & Drinks Cabinet

A ‘one of a kind ‘ commissioned piece of furniture. Secret bronze glass doors on the side of the cabinet reveal storage for glasses highlighted by LED lighting. The front of the cabinet boasts a Fisher & Paykel CoolDrawer featuring Fridge, Freezer, Chiller and Wine Cooler temperature settings. Sitting directly above the CoolDrawer the twin doors disappear to reveal a bronze glass clad liquor unit with ambient LED lighting underneath the shelves. The cabinet carries a Mondrian theme with silver and bronze glass and driftwood cladding panels.

Bespoke Furninture - Client Living Room (Winning Combination)  

Relationship: Client Project

Date: April 2014

"Lisa is a cutting-edge consultant. She’s great for kitchens, bespoke cabinets and anything house and design related. You will not find a more diligent or creative designer"

It is an old American expression, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” says Sarah Coates, who lives in this extended family home with husband Tom and their children, Edgar, Calvin, Susannah and Rosalind. “The flood we had over Christmas 2013 was unfortunate, but we turned it into an opportunity to implement some plans we had for our house sooner rather than later,” explains Sarah.

Three years earlier, just before her twins were born, Sarah enlisted the help of designer Lisa Melvin to transform their two bathrooms.

“I knew exactly who to go to for the kitchen, utility and boot room/wet room fitting out.” Sarah took a hands-on approach by pulling ideas together from magazines and arranging meetings with her builder and Lisa to develop a timeline for the project. “Ideally I wanted the major building work to begin during the children’s holidays so we could be out of the way.”

The bootroom and wet room planning and construction commenced immediately. The brief being to repurpose the current kitchen and wardrobe units into a highly functional space for this busy family of six, including a large island to accommodate sewing and crafts and a general work and storage area, while adding in an extra shower room.

“For the lounge we set out to transform the current large odd-shaped kids’ playroom (with leaking flat roof) into a formal lounge and dining space for entertaining,” adds Sarah. “Lisa and I worked together on key elements including lighting, flooring and colour schemes. The theme throughout our home was cleverly hidden away storage.

Lisa worked closely with the fire and multimedia specialists to accommodate both the TV system and contemporary wood burner into her unit design going back to the drawing board on several occasions. Lisa’s in-depth research into the double HAWA folding mechanisms (the first to be installed in the UK) concluded with training from HAWA technical team flying in from Switzerland to demonstrate the installation and operation. A similar single door system was installed also, part of the liquor & drinks cabinet in the kitchen – a system which allows the doors of the unit to effortless fold slide and hide away into the unit. The media entertainment centre includes secret drawers and hidden shelving which are perfect for storing comfy throws for cold winter evenings, firewood and board games for the children.”