How to create a modern interior in a smallhome, comfortable and safe for a small child, and also functional and beautiful? In our article - useful and practical tips from a young family who renovated their tiny house entirely with their own hands Ben and Viv Yapp and their one-year-old son Covey live in a house with a total area of 82 square meters, converted from an old cowshed on a dairy farm. Rebuilding and remodeling old buildings in London has long been a common and even fashionable business. But this case is special, because everything was done exclusively with their own non-professional hands: from laying wooden floors and painting the walls to restoring an antique chair found at a flea market.
True, Viv thinks she hasa significant advantage over her neighbors. She is a person close to contemporary art, an art director at a small London advertising agency and an illustrator. Nevertheless, the restoration and renovation of the house became the family's first experience in construction and decoration.
And they started from the main place in the house - the children's room.Because the whole idea was connected with the birth of a son, to whom the happy parents wanted to give some experiments. Even the alphabet hanging above the crib is not a typical print bought at a local hypermarket, but an art object, in which each letter was drawn by friends and relatives who came to visit the couple to see the newborn. One of the books on the shelf is called "When You Get Older." Ben wrote it for his son, and Viv did the illustrations.
Viv Yapp, owner:— We didn’t think much about styles — we took what we liked and tried to combine them. The result was a mix of modern and vintage elements, a bit of organics and a lot of coziness. It may sound rather banal, but I am inspired by art, or rather by what is made by human hands, not by a machine. I even sometimes matched the color of the walls to the graphics I would hang on them. But ours. We made it entirely ourselves, every drawer. We only ordered the tabletop from a company that does complex woodwork — the tabletop is oak.
The most difficult thing was, the young people admitparents, to fit all the children's things and useful devices into a small space so that there would be no feeling that everyone was living in one big nursery. On the other hand, they did not want to limit their son - and therefore it was necessary to make the whole house safe for him. All the "adult" pieces of furniture were selected taking into account the youngest member of the team: round tables or tables with rounded corners, light chairs, radiators with soft ends, etc.
from grandfather.The chairs, however, had to be bought at a flea market. Ben was initially very unhappy with them – they looked too ugly. But after Viv repainted them and reupholstered them, they became his favourite items in the house.
Viv and Ben say, looking at their interior,no one believes that a professional has not worked on them. They advise those who want to give their small home a “designer” look to think less about trends and more about objects and things that they really like, artists that attract them. According to the couple, people just need to be bolder in mixing different objects and colors.
House of 82 meters: do-it-yourself repairs – etk-fashion.com
