The customers managed to fit into this apartmenta living room, a bedroom, a home office, a library, a dressing room — and all this in a fairly modest area. How did they do it? This apartment is located in St. Petersburg, and the clients of the project are a young family: the husband is an architect by profession, the wife is an economist. Both love to throw parties, are into sports: alpine skiing, cycling, travel a lot and take photos. And the husband also works from home, so he needs a comfortable environment for productive creativity. Designer Elena Ruchkova took on the implementation of this task. Elena Ruchkova, designer In 2006, she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry, during her studies and after graduation, she worked in architectural studios, since 2010 she went on maternity leave, in parallel she is engaged in freelancing, developing visualizations, working drawings and implementing private and public interiors. She took 2nd place in the student interior competition Neuhause. ruchkova-elena.ru The area of the apartment is small, but the requirements for it were quite high: in addition to the work space for the architect, there needed to be space for a library - the customers had accumulated a huge amount of professional literature; and also a place for an impromptu photo exhibition of the works that the family does. And, of course, a large dressing room was needed to store bicycles and skis. And there should also be enough space left for receiving guests.
There were no fundamental requirements for the bedroom,Therefore, the customers were offered to make it small, simply separating the bed with a small partition, in favor of the living room and work area. And part of the kitchen area was occupied by a cabinet for sports equipment. The problem with the library was solved by hanging shelves under the ceiling along the perimeter of the apartment.
The decorative finishing of the apartment is minimal,For this reason, it was decided to focus on designer furniture and lamps. So, in the living room there will be two chandeliers Modoluce Icaro (Italy), in the bedroom on the wall as a sconce - Foscarini Yet (Italy), on the ceiling - an IKEA chandelier. But in the corridor, hall and kitchen - built-in lamps Modular (Belgium). Elena Ruchkova, designer: - With the choice of color scheme, everything was simple - from the very beginning, the customers wanted the apartment to be in light colors and with dark parquet boards in the living room, and they wanted to make accents on objects and fabrics. And the customer really liked the carpet of a certain color, but, alas, it did not fit in size. Therefore, I decided to lay tiles on the floor in the corridor based on it. By the way, the customer is also interested in paper modeling, he even has several large paper models. We made them part of the decor - so that they would stand out against the white wall, we painted the wall behind the sofa in one of the tile colors.
In Scandinavian style, windows are most often notare closed with no curtains to make the room lighter, but when there are neighboring windows opposite, it is not very comfortable. Therefore, fabric blinds were used here. On the floor in the living room - a carpet from Designer Carpets VP9 ARug (Germany), the customer brought it himself from a trip. On the walls, paintable wallpaper is painted with Benjamin Moore paint (USA). One of the walls in the hallway will be painted with paint for drawing on it with chalk. Editorial opinion: - It is wonderful when customers are passionate about something. In this case, their creations can be used to decorate the interior. In any case, residents need to store their handicrafts somewhere, and an attempt to fit them into the interior is a great opportunity to arrange them usefully. The husband is fond of paper modeling, so his works decorate the living room, and the wife loves photographs, which also fit in well here.
The Scandinavian style was chosen for the apartment.The customers wanted a dark floor and light walls, which is typical for this style. The details were made of unpainted wood (the work table along the wall), light paneled doors - in a classic style, supported by paneled kitchen fronts (IKEA) and a high wooden baseboard. At the same time, modern lighting systems were selected and accents were made on details: a Togo sofa by Ligne Roset, a Smeg refrigerator.
How to accommodate a bedroom, living room, office, library, dressing room on 60 meters
