BROKEN-PLAN

If you want to have defined zones in rooms but still retain that open-plan feel, a screen is a great way to achieve this.

If you have steel doors in your home, a steel framed screen as a room divider is a great way to have clear functions for spaces while still giving that light, airy feeling of open-plan living. It’s also a great way to maximise on natural light in spaces that would otherwise be a lot darker if they had a solid wall.

Clever design allows subtle ways of defining zones, so rooms can be opened up or closed off as needed, making your space more versatile. Emily Rennie Design has noted the trend away from open-plan to broken-plan. “With the demands of every day modern life, especially new requirements such as working from home, it is important to have an adaptable space that can change to suit everything that life throws at you.” cast london adds a practical note: “Design your steel product before creating the opening for it to ensure the design is exactly how you would like it and everything else can be built around it.”

1. Crittall-style doors have replaced windows to define zonesdRaw Architecture. 2. An open plan wooden bookshelf painted in duck egg blue zones the kitchen from sitting room - Roundhouse. 3.

CAST London is now proudly supplying high quality bespoke steel internal and external doors, windows, and screens. Providing you with detailed drawings of how your bespoke design will look and best suit your needs. All steel products are manufactured from high quality steel in our workshop in London and can be coated in any RAL colour in various sheens. Contact us to get a quotation for beautifully bespoke steel products.

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• For a busy family sitting room a solid hardwood frame is best

• Cover in a forgiving, hard wearing fabric in darker colours or patterned. Materials such as chenille or slubbed velvet are ideal

• If you don’t like plumping cushions choose feather-wrapped foam seat and backs which hold their shape

• Try varying fabrics on different sections of the sofa. The rear could compliment the front, especially if both sides are visible

• There’s still a Seventies retro vibe around whether its boxlike or curved seating designs. That goes for colour too with dark greens, blues, mustard and warm browns popular as well as patterns

• Neutral looks are here to stay but details such as piping, buttoning and textured fabric ring the changes

• If a sofabed is required, check the size of the mattress as it doesn’t necessarily follow the size of the sofa.