FEATURE WALL IS OUT, FEATURE ZONE IS IN! by 0813 studio commercial interior designers.

ZONING:

Design 101. In any space, we divide it into different zones for different functionalities. For instance, in a typical open office communal area, the common set-up for zoning - Kitchen, Dining, Meeting(formal/informal); in a typical store layout, it consists of - Front of House (Sales, Display, Customer Interaction), Back of House. Same philosophy applies to your home - Bedroom, Kitchen/Dining, Living, Rumpus, Bathroom... it just sometimes in your home, you will have dividing walls which naturally provide the boundary of different zones.

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MAKE IT A FEATURE:

The way to describe 'Feature Zone' is instead of just ONE painted wall with accent color, we suggest selecting the whole zone and designing it something different, either just the simplest a different color, or adding more feature material to the zone for a different texture and different tone, or structurally at the different height, with additional structural piece. You might have noticed the word 'DIFFERENT' is heavily used here. This is to show the feature zone can be easily distinguished from other zone that provide enough contrast which naturally draws enough attention to the zone.

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