Luxury: As Illustrated by 6 Brookville Road

Luxury to Jaci Foti-Lowe is simply, “time and space.” As the Director of Hub Furniture, a busy mother and an expert master class presenter, Jaci outlined the key elements of creating luxury at Neometro’s 6 Brookville Road.

Luxury is achieved when you “take the fundamental principles about texture, colour, materials and translate that into your aesthetic, there’s no prescription.” Ultimately, “it’s about how you feel.”

“My house is not glorious or highly defined or designed but there are things in it, when I turn all the lights down and I activate things around me. I feel like I am in the best place in the world. In thinking about spaces, think about the nooks and crannies in the corners that you can activate to feel like ‘this is where I belong’ and fundamentally that’s the definition of luxury.”

It’s much harder to achieve than buying a tonne of cushions and walking away. According to Jaci, “it’s actually the holding back and the restraint that sometimes can deliver the biggest results.”

Jaci’s key points on luxury are illustrated below with photography by Derek Swalwell of 6 Brookville Road.

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“The idea of layering curtains on a space is a very successful way to soften the periphery, to soften light and get that lovely warmth into a space. It makes you feel good about it.”

“It’s important to have a commitment to inside and outside and making the two work together. It doesn’t matter whether the view is long and deep or short, as long as it’s green and rich.”

“A really beautiful floor is probably more than 30 or 40 percent of the result of a room. My dad who’s an architect always said to me “Just pay good attention to the floor and the rest will kind of sit on it beautifully.”

“I always judge a restaurant by its bathroom and the same can go for a home. if you’re given a bathroom that you can’t change, you can affect the way people feel when they enter it through lighting, towels, beautiful soap and fragrances.”

“Details like handles, other handles and mixing materials really gives the impression that everything you touch has been thought about. Although it doesn’t have to all be about the architecture, you can mix materials like timber and steel just as much in your furniture selection.”

“Luxury doesn’t need to be tricky and it doesn’t need to be expensive and it doesn’t need to answer all the problems a space has, but it can have a sense of playfulness and have the confidence to address nooks and crannies. I think at the end of the day when you move through an entire space, all of those little things come together and for me, addressing all those senses in one way or another, in a way that resonates with you to makes you feel good. I think that’s got to be the ultimate luxury.”