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This home of 120 square meters is designed for a young family. The suite consists of a hallway, bathroom, living room area with kitchen, master bedroom with bathroom, kids room, and a guest room. The designers were driven by the desire to achieve an interior that attracts softness and impeccable comfort. The design recreates the romantic vision of the world of the owners. The apartment is located in Varna, near the Black Sea coast, which brings additional charm to the property.
Aqua Flash is an interior design for a 60 square meter apartment. The open layout allows abundant daylight and flexible movement. Glass-recessed sliding doors are shaped as two asymmetrical semicircles and set with colored glass. Sunlight passes through the colored glass and mixes with backlit illumination from hanging and floor-to-ceiling cabinets, creating changing colorful reflections indoors. Bright orange, violet and olive furniture contrasts with black laminates, pale pine veneers and cement backdrops. A wall piece of bent neon tubes adds evening ambiance.
Forge Loft is a loft apartment created inside an old forge in Leszno, Poland. The forge is part of a 19th-century pump factory that is being converted into a living complex. The interior is based on contrast. Original brick walls, concrete floors and lintels are kept as raw witnesses of the past. New elements are neutral and elegant, forming a frame for the historical structure. Black surfaces, perforated steel, a steel railing and a spiral staircase set the background, while warm accessories and soft textiles soften the industrial character. The apartment covers 120 square metres.
Luxe Benin is an apartment interior located on the fifteenth floor of a building in Taipei, Taiwan. The design combines classical lines with modern details and biomimetic elements. Floor to ceiling windows fill the living room with natural light and open views of the city. A circular sofa forms the central seating area, and a sliding art door conceals the television. One wall is finished with multicolored marble mosaics that recall landscape painting. Private rooms flank an open communal area with a tea space for relaxation.
C R is an apartment interior design completed in Lisbon, Portugal. The apartment occupies the former social floor of a building first built as a Hotel Particulier, where eleven rooms shared a single bathroom. The original mural and ceiling paintings were preserved and restored by artisan painters. Five new bathrooms, along with bedrooms and a kitchen, were added by means of structural furniture and partitions in glass, mirrors, stainless steel and brass. Velvet and marble follow the original colors, joining 18th and 21st century design.
This architecture is a four-unit rental apartment for single person households in central Tokyo. It was designed based on the Japanese philosophy of Chisoku. And it was designed with bare concrete frame that maximize the limit of the site, and also with wooden booths where minimum living facilities and appliances were hidden inside. As a result, a freely space with a height of 3.5 meters was created. The residents use this blank space as an opportunity to enjoy their lives and to use it to collaborate with the local community. The project was designed to capture this blank space.
Nero is a residential interior design for an apartment in Chisinau, Moldova. The renovation joins two smaller apartments into one home of 260 square meters. The plan is divided into a parents area and a child area, which can be reached separately from the main entrance hall. Plasterboard was removed to expose the ceiling structure and to raise the height of the living area. Existing columns are hidden inside furniture and built structures. Walls are painted, with accent walls in ceramic or bronze metallic tiles. Ceilings and floors are finished in wood.
The project is a living space created for a family of four with two kids. The dreamland atmosphere created by the home design comes not only from the fairy tale world created for children, but also from the futuristic sense and spiritual shock brought by the challenge on traditional home furnishings. Not being bound by rigid methods and patterns, the designer disintegrated traditional logic and presented a new interpretation of lifestyle.
Sonus Fortium is an apartment interior design covering 110 square meters. The home contains three bedrooms, an open study, a living room, a dining room, a dressing room and three bathrooms. Gray and black tones are combined with earth and leather colors and varied textures. Long vertical lines shape the wall decor, the grid like shelves, the ceilings and the open closets. The closets use dark steel frames without door panels to keep the space visually free. Wallpapers replace stone surfaces to lower the cost. A wooden floor adds warmth.
Turbine is a residential interior design for an apartment with an interior area of 120 square meters. The family public space is organized around a cylindrical wooden bookshelf that wraps an existing T-shaped structural wall. A balcony, platform, study, viewing area, sports area, family gallery and bar are arranged around the bookshelf and connected as one coherent space. The bookshelf was built on site by carpenters. Large wooden and metal framed glass doors slide on heavy pulley tracks fixed to the beam. Metal rods and hooks allow residents to move the paintings.
Fantasia Luwan 68 is an apartment interior design in Shanghai, with an area of 140 square metres. The apartment stands in the Luwan District, an area known for Shikumen architecture and Western Baroque buildings. The design refers to local Shanghai culture and aims to bring comfort and warmth through wooden panels and white leather. The dividing wall between the living room and the kitchen was removed to create a single wider space. Partitions between the study, kitchen, dining room and terrace were also removed, so movement through the home is continuous.
The approach towards the project was an intent to calibrate clients' brief with the mediation of planning and designing spaces having an individual identity and yet fall in the similar fabric of minimalism, modern styles, and contemporary living. Each room is defined by encompassing architectural detail, material and color scheme. An apt use of materials and colors play a vital role in enhancing the quality of spaces. The project outcome reaps the diligent fruit of conscious designing, detailing and use of felicitous materials and give the apartment a timeless cozy feel through the day.