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to the rest of the house,” says Bulcock. “You can see it from the ground level when you enter, and you can look down from it to the rest of the house.” This openness also applies to the design of the suite itself, which forgoes the usual division of bedroom, bathroom and closet/dressing room. “From the start, the client didn’t want to have enclosed spaces, but just wanted everything in the open,” says Bulcock. Most unusually, this applies to the way clothes are stored. Instead of a separate dressing room or walk-in wardrobe, storage is provided by an o