{"id":226407,"date":"2025-10-26T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226407\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:58:13","slug":"seven-double-height-living-rooms-with-a-sense-of-high-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226407\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven double-height living rooms with a sense of high drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a Japanese book lover’s house to a brutalist holiday home in Mexico, the living rooms<\/a>\u00a0compiled in this\u00a0lookbook<\/a> feature lofty ceilings and interiors to match.<\/p>\n

This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides curated visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring homes with built-in sofas<\/a>, secret rooms<\/a> and kitchens that double as partition walls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/a>Photo by Joe Fletcher<\/p>\n

Three Chimney House, US, by T W Ryan Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n

A white-brick fireplace<\/a> mantle stretches all the way up to the gabled roof of this country house outside Charlottesville, Virginia<\/a>, emphasising the generous verticality of the space.<\/p>\n

The mantlepiece also serves as a kind of partition wall, separating the sitting room from the kitchen and dining area on the opposite side.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Three Chimney House \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pennsylvania<\/a>Photo by David Sundberg of Esto<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania Farmhouse, US, by Cutler Anderson Architects<\/a><\/p>\n

American studio Cutler Anderson Architects connected the second-floor bedrooms of this farmhouse<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Pennsylvania<\/a> via a narrow open corridor, allowing the living room downstairs to have soaring ceilings with top-to-bottom glazing.<\/p>\n

In hot weather, the interior can be shaded by double-height rolling shutters\u00a0that prevent solar gain while still allowing some daylight in through their gaps.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Pennsylvania Farmhouse \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Library<\/a>Photo courtesy of Shinichi Ogawa & Associates<\/p>\n

Library House, Japan, by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates<\/a><\/p>\n

Library House in Japan<\/a>‘s Tochigi prefecture was designed for an avid reader and his ever-growing book collection.<\/p>\n

To accommodate the volumes, local architects Shinichi Ogawa & Associates<\/a> fitted his lounge with six-metre-high ceilings and filled an entire wall with built-in shelves, illuminated via a long narrow skylight.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Library House \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Queen's<\/a>Photo by Pierce Scourfield<\/p>\n

Queen’s Park House, UK, by Daytrip<\/a><\/p>\n

A clerestory window underscores the lofty ceilings of this extension, created by local studio Daytrip<\/a> for an early-20th-century Edwardian house in London<\/a>‘s Queen’s Park.<\/p>\n

The newly added double-height volume combines a kitchen, dining and living room, where vintage cane chairs by designer Tito Agnoli replace traditional soft furnishings.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Queen’s Park House \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Built-in<\/a>Photo by Rory Gardiner<\/p>\n

Casa Alf\u00e9rez, Mexico, by Ludwig Godefroy<\/a><\/p>\n

Faced with the task of creating a holiday home<\/a> on a tricky sloping site in a Mexican pine forest, architect Ludwig Godefroy<\/a> delivered a towering structure that prioritises height over width.<\/p>\n

This is most noticeable in the living room, where a small wood-burning stove is crowned with an eight-metre-long flue pipe.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Casa Alf\u00e9rez \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Camp<\/a>Photo by Montse Zamorano<\/p>\n

Camp O, US, by Maria Milans del Bosch<\/a><\/p>\n

New York architect Maria Milans del Bosch used a Japanese technique called shou sugi ban to char the cedar<\/a> wood used to clad the upper half of her own holiday home in the Catskills<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The process emphasises the timber’s natural grain and helps to draw the eye up towards the house’s slanted roof, with built-in shelving nestled among its exposed beams.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Camp O \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dailly<\/a>Photo by S\u00e9verin Malaud<\/p>\n

Dailly, Belgium, by Mamout<\/a><\/p>\n

This backyard house in the Schaerbeek suburb of Brussels<\/a> incorporates materials reused from a warehouse that previously occupied the site.<\/p>\n

Among them are profiled bricks<\/a> that now form one of the walls in the double-height sitting room, which is topped with a blue-painted gabled ceiling.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Dailly \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides curated visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring homes with built-in sofas<\/a>, secret rooms<\/a> and kitchens that double as partition walls<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a Japanese book lover’s house to a brutalist holiday home in Mexico, the living rooms\u00a0compiled in this\u00a0lookbook…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,32649,74413,11127,4631,40339,41654,43912,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-226407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-interiors","tag-living-rooms","tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","tag-roundups","tag-sectionall","tag-sectioninteriors","tag-sectionlookbooks","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}