Our company name is an homage to Buckminster Fuller, for his forward-thinking views on efficiency and the impact building science could have on the world. His signature design, for which he is most well known, is the geodesic dome. It is an amazing concept that delivers a lot of structure with very little in the way of materials. From an interior design standpoint however, the issues with living in a circle are not insignificant. Furniture is mostly square. Art and TV’s are mostly flat.

In Philadelphia, where the rowhouse is king, we have rectangular lots and limited space. So when we walked into a house in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood last winter at the request of designer Nicole Cole, we were surprised to find a round powder room inside a standard rectangular rowhouse.

The first floor of the house needed updating, and Nicole’s plan took care of that (with new finishes and new built-ins in the front of the house), but one of the biggest changes came from changing the size and shape of the power room. Our clients gained a wine fridge, more counter space, more storage, and a discrete frame TV (that hangs on a flat wall!) See more before and after pictures of this transformation below:

After: The wall where the frame TV sits was the outer wall of the round powder room before.

Circle Gets the Square