The first thing most people notice when they enter into Tesseract home is the view.
The home, in classic mid-century style, makes extensive use of glass and seeks to connect those inside the house with the outside. While not connected with “nature” per se, this home does strongly connect with the view outside, which includes the city skyline, the port of Seattle, Mt. Rainier and Elliot Bay. In contrast to nature scenes, these are scenes of pretty much constant activity: cars on the Magnolia bridge, cargo ships, grain ships, ferries, and sailboats on the bay, trains traversing through Interbay, and airplanes descending into both Boeing field and Seatac. Often visitors just sit with a view outside, and sit in a trance following the constant action going on outside.
That the outside is so much inside already leads one to naturally consider bringing the outside into the decor of the inside. In particular the shapes of the city and of the port and the strong use of industrial materials can serve as an inspiration from outside in to the inside. An example that we have already tried is with this steel “coffee table”:
Here the shape of the city is reflected, in miniature, back inside. the house
While I don’t think we want to go “full industrial” on Tesseract Home, I would like to use the outside industrial view and areas as inspirations for shapes and some materials. See this Pinterest board, for some of these outside/in inspirations.