What to do if the apartment layoutimpossible to change? How to make such housing as comfortable to live in as possible? These are the questions that designers from DveKati managed to solve when they were designing the interior for a young successful girl. We often write about successful redevelopments, but today we will talk about how to make a space comfortable without changing the layout. This apartment is located in Moscow, in the Sokolnicheskaya Square area. Architects Ekaterina Mamaeva and Ekaterina Svanidze from DveKati studio worked on its interior. Ekaterina Mamaeva and Ekaterina Svanidze, architects The girls are our permanent experts and are often published on the pages of our online magazine. You can find out more about them .
Without redevelopment
The owner of the apartment in question,is a girl named Alla. She works as a financier in a large leasing company. When our heroine bought an apartment, she realized that this home needed a major overhaul. She decided to turn to the architects of the DveKati studio for help. Alla showed the specialists the layout of the apartment (panel house of the P-3/16 series), where the space was divided by two load-bearing walls into three isolated rooms: a bedroom, a kitchen and a living room. In this state of affairs, it was difficult to change anything. The designers offered options for moving the openings in the load-bearing walls, which is permitted by law, but requires a technical report and approval. The owner decided to take the easier and faster path. It was decided to work with the existing standard layout without making significant changes. The only modification was to create a separate mini-dressing room in the bedroom, because the owner of the apartment follows fashion trends very well and likes to replenish her wardrobe with new dresses.
Transformations
Designers added light to the narrow corridorwith the help of built-in ceiling lighting and mirrors on the ceiling - they visually break the space and create a visual effect of volume. The living room was successfully zoned thanks to the construction of a massive portal made of plasterboard sheets. It became a kind of decorative object of the apartment, despite the fact that it was also equipped with a convenient mezzanine for storing things. Two attractive lamps were also placed here, which create a romantic atmosphere in the evening. Ekaterina Mamaeva and Ekaterina Svanidze, architects: - In the bathroom, to our great pride and without compromising the space, in addition to the main plumbing equipment, we managed to place a cabinet with a rather large washing machine (60 cm deep). There are also spacious shelves for storing household chemicals and towels.
Chocolate with menthol
Girls love chocolate, in this case it isreflected in the color scheme of the interior. The owner of the apartment is crazy about the combination of shades of milk and dark chocolate with turquoise. They formed the basis of the color scheme for the interior. The contrasting ensemble of beige and blue did not go unnoticed. This is especially clearly visible in the bedroom, where the softness of the light shade is diluted with fresh splashes of blue. Particular attention is drawn to the improvised portal, which is the first to "greet" everyone who enters the apartment. It is covered with graphic chocolate wallpaper with an ethnic-floral pattern. You could even say that this is the "calling card" of the apartment.
Eco or ethno - that is the question!
Modern with eco-inspired notes - that's how they define itthe style of this interior was created by the architects from DveKati themselves. They were guided by Alla's wishes, and she wanted the decor to be fashionable, cozy, and to be able to move some of the furniture from the old apartment. So, in the living room, there was a wall covered with oak boards, which, by the way, decorated the floor in this room and, in terms of texture, perfectly matched the wallpaper on the portal. The natural motif can also be seen in the wave-like pattern of the porcelain stoneware that covers the wall in the kitchen. But in the bedroom, behind the headboard, ethnic motifs were used, which can also be seen in the pattern of the floor porcelain stoneware in the hall. Despite their belonging not to the eco-theme, but to the ethnic style, they also have a smooth, rounded, natural shape. Ekaterina Mamaeva and Ekaterina Svanidze, architects: - In order to dilute the resulting symmetry of the openings, in the bedroom, kitchen and hall, mirrors were used here and there on the walls and ceiling, which, distorting the space, break up the strictness of the layout. The same technique with mirrors was used in the bathroom, it gives additional perspective to the space.
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