This apartment is currently in the process of beingimplementation. However, it is made so interestingly that we decided to show you its project. If you are tormented by the question of organizing a sleeping place, we have a great idea! This small apartment is located in Moscow and belongs to a young couple who do not have children yet. The spouses will live in it for several years, which they wanted to spend in comfortable conditions. The project was taken up by young designers Anastasia Sheveleva and Alexander Malinin from INT2 architecture. Anastasia Sheveleva, architect-designer Graduated from the Volgograd State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in 2009. Participated in summer schools and workshops in the Netherlands, Austria, Japan, Russia. Co-founder of INT2 architecture, leading architect and project designer. Loves foreign languages: speaks English, German, a little Spanish. int2architecture.ru Alexander Malinin, architect Graduated from the Volgograd State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in 2005. Participated in workshops in Europe and Russia. Co-founder of INT2 architecture, leading architect and project designer. Music is his second passion. Analog photography and travel are his third.
Redevelopment
All non-load-bearing partitions that were inapartment initially, will be dismantled during the renovation. The layout of the apartment will be kept open like a studio apartment. Visually, only the bedroom and home office area will be separated by a plywood box by the window. Well, and the bathroom with a mini-laundry, of course, will be allocated to a separate small area.
Customer's wishes
The studio is designed for a young couple, forwhich this apartment will become temporary housing for the next few years. The area of the apartment is not so large to make 2-3 isolated rooms in it, but the young family did not want this. In a rather modest area, the designers realized all their wishes. Anastasia Sheveleva, architect-designer: - The main principle of this project was the rational zoning of space, with the help of which it was possible to highlight the main functional areas: sleeping and working, living room, dining room, kitchen, bar area on the loggia, dressing room in the hallway, bathroom and even a small laundry room.
Our opinion:— One of the most beautiful solutions of this studio is the zoning of the sleeping area. It is often difficult to find a place for a bed in a small area: it remains in plain sight and this causes discomfort. Here, the bed is placed on a plywood podium and separated by a low partition. This entire structure hides a huge number of drawers, which can hold a lot of things. A home mini-office is also equipped near the bed. It is convenient to work here during the day. And in the evening, if someone wants to sleep, and someone needs to work with a laptop, you can easily move to the sofa or to the kitchen area. Or you can even go to the balcony, fortunately, even it is very comfortable and beautiful here! And this cannot but inspire fruitful work.
Furniture
Most of the cabinet furniture (kitchen, cabinets, shelves) is selected from IKEA. However, there are also unique items:
- Hans Wegner's chair The Shell chair in the living room;
- Coffee table Muuto;
- Chairs at the dining table - Eames DSW;
- Chairs at the desktop - Eames The Wire сhair;
- Bedroom box will be made to order from coniferous plywood, also on order will be made cantilever shelves and a bar table on the balcony.
Lighting
The project will use overheadscylindrical ceiling lights. They will help to maintain the height of the ceilings in the rooms. In the living room there will be a hanging lampshade from IKEA. Above the desk there are hanging lights from the Russian industrial designer Katerina Kopytina. On the side of the bedroom there are overhead LED reading lamps. On the balcony there is an IKEA rail for lighting shelves with magazines and lamps on cords above the table.
Color
The color scheme of the interior is quiteoriginal and somewhat reminiscent of the Scandinavian style. It is built on the contrast of a white background and color accents. Shades of blue and light blue are used in the main area, bright yellow on the balcony, and green in the bathroom. The beauty of the white background and bright accents is that if the interior suddenly gets boring, it can easily be transformed by changing these very accents.
On the wall in the kitchen, the designers createdmagnetic slate surface for convenient storage of spices. Here are also placed jars with edible greens (basil, dill, cilantro), which are attached to the wall with clamps. To create a complex volumetric surface of the wall in the living room and visually separate the bedroom and living room areas, wooden slats were used, which are attached to the wall at a certain pitch and painted together with the wall, thereby giving the surface a 3D effect.
The apartment has a combined bathroom and toileta small laundry room, which was decorated with original tiles. The design will be printed on a white 10 x 10 cm tile. A cheat sheet of the main symbols for clothing care will be printed on it. In the kitchen, multi-colored ceramic tiles by Marazzi with a diagonal pattern were used as a kitchen backsplash.
