Under the Drum: A Dining Room Reimagined
This Greenwich dining room started out cramped. The homeowners didn’t need space for a larger table, but they wanted a room that felt more generous and far more dramatic.
To make that happen, we bumped out the exterior wall and created a sweeping, bay-style curve of windows. The glass fills the room with natural light and frames the surrounding woodland and lawn, so the view becomes part of the design.
Overhead, a sculpted drum ceiling banded in bronze and cream hovers above the round table. Together with the tall, high-backed chairs, it creates an intimate space within the larger room, one bounded not by walls but by the forms themselves. The circle above echoes the circle below, and the upright chairs form a soft perimeter in between. You feel held, even with all that glass and open space around you.
A textured plaster wall adds depth and warmth, while a sleek pendant light keeps the focus on the architecture.
The curvilinear theme doesn’t end at the dining room. We carried its flowing lines through the rest of the home, so the new space feels like a natural extension of the architecture rather than an add-on.
