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Newly opened club and event venue, the VUE is a combination of elegance and intelligence. Where most clubs only open at night, the VUE transitions from day to evening, with a design that looks great in strong daylight as well as club lighting. LUX design has created the venue so that corporate functions are held during the day and on Friday and Saturday nights, it smoothly converts into a nightclub.
To ensure that the space looks great during the day and night, there had to be a move away from the traditional nightclub design seen in most Toronto venues. Instead of the silver and back motif that looks good only in the dark, LUX Design has opted for exactly the opposite. Instead, gold and white were used for the accents. To combine the classic look with modern edge, grand columns with a graphic flare define the space. At the booths Audrey Hepburn, Betty Davis, and Marilyn Monroe greet the guests in larger than life picture form.
If there was not enough to look at, the venue is next to the Royal Woodbine Golf Club, which means that instead of alleyways or office buildings, the view is of lush greenery. Meetings here can always be followed by a round of golf.
The VUE offers stylish sophistication for almost any event. A night on the town or a business meeting is entitled to the same amount of classic, well designed elegance. LUX design has created a space to suit the needs of everyone from a CEO to a socialite, day or night.
Downtown Toronto is the land of condos. Any given day when you look around, you can see yet another condominium getting its glass façade plastered on. The little upkeep, the convenience of having everything walking distance, and the price of condos compared to houses ensure that demand stays high.
With so many condos how do you make your living space unique? How do you make the condo fit you instead of the other way around? The answer is design. A professional designer knows how to make an empty space a home and at the same time raise the value of your condo drastically.
Even though this is an added expense to an already possibly expensive apartment, the results are well worth the price. For example, LUX Design has taken a condo in downtown Toronto and renovated it for a total cost of $25, 000. The price of the condo went up by $95, 000.
Although every case is different, a usual condo renovation includes new flooring, lighting, and furniture. Most of what you pay for, you take with you to your next home (that is if you ever decide to leave). A good renovation will also take into account space planning. Because most of these condos are so small, it is hard to fit everything that you want into the space. Good space planning ensures that the layout of the furniture works for you and your needs while it still looks fantastic.
There are many perks to living in a condo, especially in downtown Toronto. To really take advantage of the property, bring out its full potential. It might raise the value of your home, but it will definitely raise the quality of your life.
As the saying goes, the bigger the better; and we believe it. From SUVs to data plans, we like limitlessness and freedom. The same can be said for our apartments. In out dream land, we all live in penthouse suits with a bathroom the size of a football feild. However, in a reality known as downtown Toronto, most condos are the size of a pinball machine. As we try to compact our lives into an 8 by 8 living room, certain tricks can be utilized to make us feel like we have a bigger space. We shy away from bright colours, plaster mirros onto walls, and stuff space saving mechanisms into every corner. Although this can all work, the end result can sometimes be a bland, lifeless room. The trick to expansion is literally a trick, that is to say, a trick of the eye. LUX Design has proven that going against your instincts and following the science of perception can not only add depth to a space, but also a much needed visual boost. Instead of painting all your walls a white, butter cream, or beige, add a dark colour to one wall, most preferably the feature wall, right across from the most frequented line of vision. Although a dark room does in fact make a space seem smaller, just one wall adds depth to a space. It sucks the space back giving you an extra few square feet without so much as hammering in a nail. Other than making your space look larger, it can also add some visual interest. Although dark colours work best for this, LUX has experimented with different shades, patterns and textures. Your space might not be the biggest on the block, but that does not mean it cannot be the most interesting. All it takes is a little optical illusion.
