Interior Design& Creative Solutions
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"Interior design is
how the user engages with it. It is more than decor."
PROJECTS
Arbour Walk Nursing Home
Cedar Care Homes, Bristol
The client, Cedar Care Homes, built Arbour Walk in 2019, a resident and nursing home with over 80 bedrooms supporting Mental Disorder and Complex Dementia.
Covering 3 floors, each with lounges and dining rooms designed as restaurants, pubs and cafes.
Leisure facilities include: cinema, hairdressers, barbers and an indoor garden.
Winner of Healthcare Design Awards
Category: Best Specialist or Dementia Care Design, 2024
Lounge & Restaurant: Arbour Walk Nursing Home
A beautiful and sensory environment, using a rich burgundy colour in a calming tones, this sets off the mood for the top floor lounge and dining room.
Creating a restaurant theme for the dining area enables the residents to identify the purpose of the room.
The use of blossom trees adds a sensory element for the residents to enjoy, and following this into the servery area.
This colour palette transitions in the lounge area, with a paler wall colour allows the user to identify certain objects and items clearer.
The Pub: Arbour Walk Nursing Home
Recognition is important for dementia care, as it provides a sense of connection.
The first floor dining area was designed as a pub for just this reason. It makes sense for the user as to why they are in a situation where they are having dinner with lots of people.
It is also a past time which many would have participated.
Bold colours are used to support the residents with slight visual impairment to recognise there is an object.
Oak wood is used for the furniture, which adds warmth to the cool blue, and also contrast.
Indoor Garden: Arbour Walk Nursing Home
The indoor garden is located on the top floor of Arbour Walk, where the residents can all access and provides beautiful views.
It is also a place where they can enjoy all year round no matter the weather outside.
Combining newly cut grass smell, bird sounds and texture from the plants, this creates an immersive and engaging experience for the user. Creating different seating types in the large 150sqm area helps zoning and provide new sensory environments in an otherwise large open plan room.
Culverhayes Nursing Home
Cedar Care Homes, Bath
Culverhayes Nursing Home is a converted former school.
Elaine Law Interiors was commissioned to design a new lounge, dining and entrance area, drawing inspiration from the original building and typical architectural designs of Bath, a Georgian style was adapted.
A large comfortable and beautiful lounge needing to accommodate 16 residents, including an area for games and activities. Connected to the lounge via a thoroughfare, this area was created as an indoor court to support the transition from the lounge to the dining area, which was enlarged and transformed into a cafe, adjoining a smaller lounge for moments of calm for the residents.
Dining & quiet lounge: Culverhayes Nursing Home
An atrium links the dining room and the lounge. It is also the main thoroughfare for visitors to enter from the reception and residents from their rooms.
Created to appear as a courtyard with a café front for the dining room, it gives the area more purpose and a clear definition for the residents transitioning from one room to another.
The quiet lounge is set off from the dining room, and provides the residents a calmer relaxing environment from the bustling and larger main lounge.
With soft furnishings of velvet textures and calm colour tone.
Foyer: St Teresa's Nursing Home
A thoroughfare brimming with original Georgian interior was under utilised.
The area lead to a side entrance before proceeding to the garden was transformed into an oasis of calm and relaxation.
Now used by the residents as a quiet area to sit and contemplate, or meeting with their visitors, it is equally used by the staff to have meetings.
Dining room, St Teresa's Nursing Home
An out dated dining room needed modernising and seating capacity increased from 18 to 24.
Drawing inspiration from nature, colours from the Mau Loa range by Skopos was used as the vision.
It's soft teal and orange colours made a striking contrast, without being too bold.
Flanked by trailing plants above the banquet seating and around the windows, this provided an immersive environment, to an otherwise dark room lacking in natural lighting and low ceilings.
The use of rattan was to enhance the natural materials, and this was dispersed around the wall panelling, pendant lights and furniture.
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