Town of snuffboxes

Do the owners of the apartment - a young couple - a very busy schedule: they work 12 hours a day. With this rhythm of life of the rare free hours, of course, wants to dedicate to communication, and domestic problems to minimize. Architect was able to plan all the facilities so that they best serve the peaceful rest. To achieve this effect has helped rationalization of the maximum space.




We had to make adjustments in the plan: to expand the useful area of the loggia attached to the room. Bathroom and toilet combined. To write a large oval bath in a small room, slightly changed the position of walls between the kitchen and bathroom, the latter now in terms of looks like a trapezoid neravnobedrennaya.



In a single living room set, two partitions of the plasterboard - a separate room for storage, the other - an area near the window. So the opportunity to form a separate dressing room, storage is actually a bedroom and a cozy corner with beds attached to the loggia. To bedroom was spacious, all the furniture in it except a bed. As head of the bulkhead erected plasterboard thickness of 10 cm and was painted in juicy terracotta-peach color. Large bright room filled rectangle warmth. The light penetrating into the bedroom through the window at the top of the walls and walking through the passage of the window, was a unifying authority.




Actually, playing with lighting - natural and artificial - in the apartment became a kind of visual metaphor of "lightness of being" that we dream about the wife. In the public area more compact - in fact it is a kitchen (it is a dining room and living room), as well as the hallway - the effect of reinforcing svetonosnosti many reflecting surfaces: glossy stretch ceilings, polished artificial stone bar and ceramic on the floor, glass tabletops, light-colored finishes.

A large dressing room, which can be accessed from the bedrooms, also helped rid the area of things, make it the most free and filled with light. Anything that might give the impression of disorder and the narrowness of small-sized apartment, took his place outside the sliding door.




Instead of varying the depth of shelves and shelves of souvenirs in the bedroom and in the loggia "work" as a decorative plastic elements, not utyazhelyaya interior. In contrast, the combination of their strong lines and the overall rhythm gives it balance. The width of the shelves adjacent to the bulkhead, is changing: gypsum projections of about 10 cm in width gradually go away - Wall "comes alive, filled with play of light and shade.

The most imaginatively and wittily arranged interior kitchen. Olga, the mistress of apartment, wanted to completely "hide the kitchen" - a reminder of her domestic troubles does not promise a comfortable rest. The solution to this complicated problem that the entire area of the room was determined by the load-bearing walls. But the architect has found unusual decision: he was literally lifted into the kitchen cupboard. The exterior has only dvuhkonforochnaya cooking surface, hit the bar and almost unnoticeable. Originally beat box drawing (she is not yet available) on the cooking panel: in the form it is a projection bar, and attached to the lights turning this item in the "purely decorative".

Suddenly resolved and dining area: the windows are two leather sofas squat, among them - the table with a transparent tabletop IKEA (Sweden). Actually, the store he intended as a translation, but perfectly fit into the concept of the room. So, behind closed doors kitchen cabinet looks like a cozy mini-living room with dining corner.

One of the basic principles of architectural (strong bottom, light top) are realized with the help of colors: black upholstery sofas squat set the desired focus and Otten other colors - an impression more vivid light. Some black blotches (elements of the wall finishes, fixtures plafonds over the bar) unobtrusively combine lower and upper zones of the interior. In the bedroom the transition from heavy to light built in color: rich cognac tone parquet, warm terracotta - walls and ceiling light.

As a finishing place of rest on the loggia of color close to the tone, and comfort create interesting textures: soft fuzzy gray-sand upholstery podium, edging boards prostenka window in tune with the lively green houseplants. The color and the mirrors have become the primary means of visual increase in the bathroom. Decorated with "Palace" pattern tile with a "watered" surface coated dark mosaic screen tabletop washbasins and baths, which are two beautiful white bowl, smart lighting glass gave the interior refinement.



Thus, despite the minimal size of the apartments, there is everything necessary for the full life of a young family. Well-structured, comfortable and settled originally designed all areas, ergonomically designed every detail.

Dynamic Interiors

Two-bedroom apartment in a new brick house is a series of rectangular rooms of almost equal size, a short D-shaped corridor leading to the kitchen. The owners love to visually enlarge the interiors, to make sense of space, but not at the expense of functionality: required several utility rooms, two bathrooms, separate bedroom and a room spouses son.





Architects have proposed a radical change in the spatial solution: static and a bit boring boxes of rooms after the reconstruction had been deployed along the diagonal on a common axis of the flat. As a result, the rhythm of the internal space has gained momentum, it is appropriate energetic way of life of all family members: a lot of hard working parents and their son-starring.




Canopy, with the exception of cast concrete, dismantled and re-built from bricks, only the wall between the hall and living room, and between the dressing room and lounge, which are built penaly sliding partitions made of plasterboard. In this arrangement the walls had been partially modified. The core of the apartment was the hall of song, which went door to majority of rooms and utility rooms. Holl shape elongated rectangle and deployed at an angle of 45 ° to the front door. It appeared in the small triangular space, they turned to the subsidiary: such "corners" in the apartment are never superfluous, and if there are more, the better.






In the entrance hall and formed a compact intermediate space with banquettes - it can be entered to sit down, not getting into the field of view of those who are in the living room. Close - wardrobe in it - two bracket with hangers and shelves for shoes. Dismantle the wall, "aperture" in front of the entrance was not possible, and it also emerged corner where equip storage. As a result, in the hall are seven doors, three of them made the sliding, so as not to clutter the space.

Kitchen-dining room is separated from the living room, only a small monolithic pylons, it is adjacent to the bar of the plasterboard. In parallel, it built a new wall of the living room - it "goes" baffle, delineate the front zone and a hall. Along these two parallels built furniture - dining table and sofa. It seems that both the room like a slightly unfurled to their former locations. Effectively focus on the diagonal corners of the entrances. Planning a bedroom and a son of the room has changed less, but these rooms are seen in unusual perspectives, as well as their inputs are located on the corners. With this "reshaping" the bathroom and guest bathroom are not able to maintain the correct geometric form. But the architects skillfully defeated it. By analogy with the kitchen to the bathroom a prismatic niche decorated with "sea" ikebana. WC, to the reconstruction with adjoining pantry uzenkoy have increased, so that the toilet was a cozy place and a place for the isolated postirochnoy.




After re-opened if space: Flat think twice actually. From the hall opens a perspective view of the front zone and private rooms, a variety of plans for sequence creates the illusion of more than the reality scale. The dynamic diagonal angle energized. This followed amenities: business premises are located "near" but not in view.

Expressivity planning in support of their trim, designed to nuances. The color of most rooms built on the contrast of dark (furniture with an oak veneer finish, tinted by wenge) and light (vybelenny oak floor and part of - the furniture, beige ceramic, tender olive wallpaper). Against the backdrop of the walls is made of light dark window sills, door and window frames, Skirting boards and shelves. Podshivnoy kitchen ceiling razgraflen on large squares of decorative beams. The quiet tone changed only son in the room: sofa and chair are covered with carrot-colored cloth, the same color is present in the decoration lamps.



Elegance dining gave "silver" niches that supported the design of chairs. With their help, have decided to introduce an element of the game, epatazha: around a minimalist dining table set with chairs covered susalnym silver claret seat backs and the style of Al deco. The last echoes burgundy chandelier hanging above the bar and the vase in a niche.


The interiors are decorated with an unusual and a bit theatrical lighting system. Light sources are many and varied. In addition to hanging ceiling lamps, table lamps and sconces are widely used spot lights, built-in ceiling. Emanating from them "fans" light effect "tear out" any significant detail (for example, a panel of Japanese-style room, a silver surface niches) and create more complex than the traditional coverage, the cut-off figure.





House, of course, has a bright, strong character and is a rather sharp energetic combination of efficiency, practicality and artistry.

The house without looking at the angle of light under the right angle

When required to erect a small house in one of the central areas of Tokyo Nakano, architects firm prizadumalas. This is an array of densely built, and only at the proposed site and is free can be set unless a couple of cars. Get the maximum benefit under the most adverse circumstances - this is possible?

The task complicated environment: there existing buildings and fences, restricting access to the future of the cottage to direct sunlight. At shading employed luxury high tree, but chop down a beauty, no one was settled, the more so in this place, it was hardly the only joy for the eyes.
Yet Japanese craftsmen of the company's Schemata Architecture achieved the desired effect - have been building, if not the most comfortable in the world, then, in any case, suitable for residence, and most importantly - good lighting inside the natural way.



Schemata Architecture calculated the "magic angle", which was equal to 63.02 degrees. No, not the one under which to throw stones into the river, and the one under which the planners have cut one of the sides is almost rectangular in structure.

This section, which is (in the form above) the angle of 63.02 degrees with the adjacent road, became the main façade of the house, and it is focused almost all of the cottage window (not counting the very small in the other walls).

Glass on the "oblique facade" done simply enormous - from floor to ceiling. So these "63.02" allowed to combine in a decent building floor area with good lighting. Indeed, placement of windows on the wall, looking straight into the street, would not make sense because of the narrowness of the building, but on the side walls - because of the shadows of the buildings-sosedey.Imenno by reason of this strange house rake and was named 63.02 House. But 63.02 is better than just 63's or even 60 - the architects of the Land of the Rising Sun is silent.



I must say that this is not the first example, when the developers of the building had to write it in a very limited area, and it is far from rectangular. The most striking example, perhaps, is the Brazilian private house, the facade of which has a width of just 1.1 metra.Ploschad to 63.02 House has taken on the ground, was less than 25 square meters, the total usable area is the house - 71.4 square meters.

Perhaps a permanent dwelling in such a narrow construction of (the width, you can easily appreciate the image) - not a pleasant prospect. But the mission at 63.02 House several inoe.Eto will rent, lease, or a small "residential office" (SOHO), increasingly popular "hybrid" of working space and accommodation, convenient in some situations. Remember, by the way, nice project Life.lab?




So if you say that Japanese small house is not a masterpiece, we will answer: just need to look at him with the proper perspective. At an angle of 63.02 degrees.

The origins of modern

The interior of this apartment consistently reflects the individuality of the hostess. Concept as follows: Modern, so beloved owner, a foundation - minimalist. "Historic" tone asked exquisite furniture Medea (Italy) with inlaid wood and patinirovannymi linings in the form of flowers on long stems in the living room-dining room, and the "quotation", as modern statuettes made to the design of Alphonse Mucha, and the vase. Its decor is inspired by paintings of Gustav Klimt. Modern, as you know, "nurtured" all sorts of ethnic styles. Therefore, in the interior of Ethnic was quite appropriate, especially since it is a hobby hostess, who likes to travel and bring a national travel souvenirs.






The apartment is re-fired. Originally it at one end was an isolated room (now a bedroom), and the remaining space was a highly elongated rectangle, combined with an almost square kitchen; its monotony only partially violated the bay window and a balcony. In addition, from one end to another apartment across the living room stretched along the narrow dark corridor. During the redevelopment long wall between the living room and the corridor wall was replaced, making it 3 times shorter than the wall: the space as if opened and zadyshalo "has become a more" harmonious ". Loggia adjacent to the site increased by partially abolished corridor: it staged a combined kitchen-dining room. The new partition has become a kind of decorative screen, which is built around a composite core of the apartment. Its role is focused and wide stained-glass panels, and a string of dot luminaires with pendants, beads - they are "obegayut" her on the ceiling, stained glass podsvechivaya. This wall also became a representative display of surfaces in the apartment and later from the hall decorate it in black and white photographs.




Stained glass: modern ethnic elements

The top part of the new partition between the living room and hallway was enclosed in a wooden frame big multicolored stained glass in the technique of "Tiffany" (it consists of pieces of colored glass, separated by a copper foil). Panel met in order for the original graphic designer. It should have been reconciled with the modern Mexican Ethnic string sign in the hallway, and stylized flowers, and whimsical line of Ar Nuvo added expressive black-and-white zigzag.


Bay window with a fire place


In the central part of the bay windows - bespoke marble fireplace. Being electric, it does not need a chimney, so the designer was able to place it under the window, putting mantelshelf even with the window sills. Cream surface of the portal is decorated with flowers on long stems, made of dark marble. Supporting style, they follow the pattern "flower" in the linings of furniture in the Art Nouveau style.


Structural changes and the raised bay window: in the previous version of it at random adjacent to the living room, giving it an irregular shape. Moreover, because of the load-bearing pylons, in many ways adjacent to the outer wall, unbalanced were even half of its arc. This error is corrected: "Extra" the angle between the bay windows and pylons cut off - as a result on the right flank of an isolated room apartment - Room. On the left edge of the bay windows highlighted the narrow closet-showcase. When the bay window has acquired the correct form, is strictly middle of installed electric, but on the contrary, precisely in the axis of symmetry, position the bulkhead with stained glass windows, which corresponds to a deep ceiling plafond. The existing symmetry reduced by installing on both sides of the centreline of the scheduled two sofas of different configuration and contrasting colors.





"Silk" plafond

To simulate the surface of the bottom Jacquard silk deep plafond ceiling in the living room covered with a decorative plaster Valsetin (Valpaint, Italy). To get the hue flicker, caused the material to the surface from different angles by using a special tool. Internal ceiling cornice frame plafond, decorated with stucco molding with floral motifs. The point in this whole song has chandelier Vistosi (Italy), represents a cascade of glass parts. In highlighted form, they create additional game highlights.





Since the living room had become the center of attention, the kitchen chose nebroskuyu but stylish Biefbi (Italy), compactly placing it along the wall. Household component so muted, that next to the kitchen you can now make the solemn feast. Guest bathroom expanded through the hallway, and it was even for washing machine and shower Jacuzzi (Italy). The interior is very rich in various kinds of ethnic grievances that have successfully reconciled with modern aesthetics. With all their diversity between the individual elements of the decor of the premises can be traced interesting parallels. A variety of design techniques balanced cautious decision walls and floors. Most of the walls covered with plaster. Bamboo parquet - only in the bedroom and office, all other floors are laid with ceramic granite, dynamic public space, a wide diagonal stripes of three colors, vylozhennye of this material. They freely cuts the spacious living room-dining room and partially occupy the corridor. And ceramic granite faced wall with stained glass.



According to the designer, design of flats built on the contrast of strict and elegant, severe and sensuous. The abundance of plant motifs and complex polychrome ascetic should pick colors, harsh textures, basic shapes. It is no coincidence that his impression of the house mistress was a friend of words, sounding like an ancient Chinese aphorism, or sign the Japanese panel: "A flower on the stone."

With a view of the kindergarten

In this cozy space, and placatory architect was able to accurately translate a strict balance in the pairs of opposites: between the chamber and the comfort of a large-scale generalization, asceticism, and the warm tone color, convenience and expressive spatial solutions.


Young couple, Ignat and Svetlana, expecting the first birth, decided to buy a new apartment, draw up its interior with the help of a professional, and quickly begin to live in it. New building in the Moscow area Lianozovo brought them through the neighborhood with a large park, fresh air and isolated spacious courtyard, where the kindergarten. At this stage of life of 78 m2, it is sufficient, and even low ceilings (2,5 m) appear naturally in the space chamber. Therefore, instead of the popular studio is now planning on staying three rooms: living room, bedroom, and another, an unusual form and multifunctional - it serves and the Cabinet, and the dressing rooms, and guest.



One of the biggest successes of architect - highlight speakers corners so-called furniture columns. Made it twice in two ways. The most problematic in the general composition of apartment carrying pylon - between the hallway and living room - with the two sides reached a bottom-up volumetric longline design reminiscent of a large bookcase. Its size - 260 × 45 × 45 cm, thumbs down - 80 × 50 × 50 cm Attributable to both the living room and hallway, visible from most rooms and it was reflected in a mirror at the entrance, she literally brings together around a flat space. When you move in the home through an easy silhouette "bookcase" advantageously presented in a variety of angles, as if inviting walk around. In the bathroom - the same principle, but based on "subtraction weight": shelves not frame pylon, while continuing his outside, and buried in his column and covered glass doors. But even there, and it reveals what is generally ignored by the designers of interior - plastic wall volume.



However, combining elements of the apartment is still there. Thus, in shared kitchen and living room bearing bulkhead penetrate large opening, which frames the broad U-shaped frame of the channels, the protection of sheetrock. In the living room, kitchen and hallway no doors - only free-standing pylon, partially surrounded shelves, effectively "holds" the corner, not letting these three spaces fully merge.




Such a moderate openness has enriched all three facilities, increasing their visually. A small kitchen does not seem to have a close, separated from the rest of the home box. Living room, becoming the pass, as if to build a space at the expense of the neighboring rooms, and this has contributed to the device in the hallway mirror wall. In the absence of the doors of the hall is now open for interesting views of the front apartment.



Design corner pylons in the sitting room echoes console composition of dark-dyed oak, made to order, consisting of low long pedestals, cabinets and shelves. One side of the regiment would have crashed into the facade of the cabinet, and another intrudes into the large fotopanno performed Photographers Andrew radicular. Fotopanno printed on canvas and stretcher spanned by the size of 180 × 160 cm Actually, the whole composition of the furniture looks like a huge kubisticheskaya frame for the panel. This "set" refers to the borders of art, and at the same time itself violate them. Its active invasion further underlines the fragility of the world depicted in the photo: bylinok dried, leaves, branches - in fact, the dirt, but the full original beauty, which became apparent during multiplication. For the seeming randomness of the composition is a big job: the stalks dry perekomponovyvali repeatedly, in different lights, and shot in different angles. In total more than 40 duplicates, and the most expressive of them the honor to decorate the living room.



Adjustments to the original plan raised entrance hall and bathroom. From the old "crushed" the plan of the premises decided to leave: the corridor eliminated in favor of a more spacious (4.3 m2), bathroom, and then the room you can now pass through the living room. Moving the aperture, in turn, demanded the redevelopment of the most remote from the entrance room of unusual shape: a plan of the house is broken shape and appearance at the junction of the sections of acute facilities, like dart in a garment, it was inevitable. Designers have proposed to give an acute angle under the pantry. During the reorganization of acute storage saved, but decreased and leveled, and log into it from a small room to mask the door with a mirror. As a result, living room also has acquired the form of isosceles trapezoid. Slenderness room attached and furniture, filled the corners and allowed to form an axis of symmetry - a direct passage to the loggia. It serves postirochnoy: there are a washing machine, ironing board, closet, clothes hung out to dry. In another loggia (the door to it is out of the kitchen) window sill of the bleached oak turned into a bar (260 × 28 cm) had a number of rotating bar chairs. From a window overlooking the courtyard with a children's garden, which will go daughter. The walls are adorned with photos of the trip and brought the plate. You can sit at the desk with a glass of wine, to work with the laptop (thus becoming a loggia in the "club of interests", the mini-cabinet). Next - open access to the smoking balcony.



The main advantage of this apartment is an architectural, rather than dekoratorsky approach to design. The apartment is not a set of decorated surfaces, and a solid volume-spatial composition, calculated on the perception of different angles. Most facilities tend to be flat square. Not surprisingly, the square became the leitmotif of apartment decor. Correct and stable geometry based on a direct angle, complemented forms inherent organic nature: these are, for example, designs for curtains and chandeliers shape. The natural theme support, and natural materials for decoration, furniture and textiles. The space "tone" color contrasts, almost graphic, based on various combinations of dark and light surfaces. In general, interior solved simply and wisely. Without setting task and excessive cost, using simple techniques and a fairly limited set of shapes and colors, ergonomic set up a space in which it would be nice to live a young family.









"Triangular" room

Of the acute form of the room tried to extract the maximum benefit. The most acute and therefore the most inconvenient corner turned into a storage and covered mirror door, effectively zamknuv sharply reducing prospects premises (when viewed from the loggia). Sofa obramili plate, transferred to a desk with a triangular tabletop and placed in the corner opposite the closet the size of 436 × 260 × 70 cm It is adjacent shallow triangular niche with open shelves. Thus, the elevation of furniture formed two parallel, between which a space not only for free movement around the room, but in order to solve the sofa. Plus evidence of successful solutions is the plan - a beautiful slender triangle with slightly asymmetrical filling, brings to mind the courageous decisions of Russian Constructivism 20-ies. last century.

Interior Drama

Intelligent and successful couple dreamed of a comfortable modern accommodation. In the process of repairing the idea of "quiet" design has transformed itself: diverse and colorful images of each area in this apartment replace each other, like a theater set in a festive show.

My current apartment has found the person is not immediately. By the time the owners appealed to the architects design studio "Domus Style", they already had experience of working with another author. He "inherited" remains only an updated plan - at least the partitions and studio space.




Especially for the living room walls and hallway of this apartment studio wizard developed texture and decorative plaster kolerovku Baldecor. In the hallway walls resemble natural stone. The walls of the space like a studio-lit affectionate sun. The color contrast enhances the effect of variation of the extent of: living room seems immense.

The hostess did not want to present in the interior of such stamps as "pure" classic or high-tech. But bright accents on a background of a modern neutral style was desired. Specific colors, it does not specify the exception of the bathroom: Svetlana was its turquoise-blue. In the future, while creating an interior is the owner of zhiveyshee took part in the selection of furniture and decoration materials, in discussing the concept of each area. The result was unexpected: a combination of color and diversity of style, so have made a small apartment in a real theater interior. Thus, the input area is associated with corners of the lobby of the theater: the mysterious twilight of walls, against the background of which are elegant banquette upholstered in silk, and a huge mirror in an unusual frame of colored cut glass. Mirror surface is made up of individual pieces, and fastened patinirovannyh glass rosettes. Under the ceiling - chandelier, though consisting of a fragile coral branches, covered with silver rime. The light passing through them "lace", throws up at the ceiling and upper walls of light and a thin ligature shadows.





Of this mysterious space opens the prospect of a spacious, brightly lit room, which is dominated by bright orange accents. The transition from the inlet zone in the "studio" there is almost the same impression of the exciting contrast lighting and scale, as you exit the lobby to the auditorium. Moving into the living room is performed on the diagonal, along a wall closet. In the same direction and placed a bright parquet with a complex texture, which can be brown, gray or pink hues. All of these "hints" to guide the eye to the zone of relaxation, no accident: living room-dining room-kitchen in the center is divided into two halves back corner sofa, but did not think it always comes back, and slide off to a cozy corner and hospitable home.


Public Zone "highlighted" to orange, its complementary dark brown (fronts of kitchen units and furniture in the area of home theater, stand under the aquarium, decorated with wenge veneer, chairs and dining table frame, cover the skin) and gold (floor). Large orange plane stress two areas: a sofa and hinged box above home cinema provide a representative area of the right, the bright orange tile kitchen "apron" on the left closes the prospect.

Proper orthogonal layout of the main areas creates a sense of stability and balance. But on the opposite side of the prospect with a diagonal wall, through apertures in which other species are reviewed intriguing premises. In prostenke between the two diagonals, specially made for him a niche, a large aquarium with exotic inhabitants, the left - pass into a small vestibule, followed by the door in the bathroom, dressing room and a bedroom. The situation last traditional: a minimum of furniture - a bed with side tables and chest of drawers with a TV, standing in front. Here there is appeasement through gentle noble invoices and soothing combination of white flowers melted cream and black coffee.





But the bathroom sparkles and overflows, as precious aquamarine. Bright cold gamma refreshes tired warm shades of opinion, and blurred the boundaries of visual space. Chic guest bathroom, on the contrary, heavily trimmed with tile-red. Opening the door leading into it from the hallway, you can not disturb the aesthetics of the latest fear - domestic details skillfully hidden, and striking a mirror on a red wall complements the image of the entrance area.



Now, when the rebuilding finally completed, the new landlady has full creative plans: still going repairs, she was born a daughter, and a need to update the details. In that future changes will be not less than impressive, there is no doubt.

Falling house provides a platform green

Salad of radish grown on the roof of the bar or cafe? Perhaps this is an original dish. Especially when the bar and the roof is not his, and the walls too. But there are overhanging upper apartment building, equipped with its own irrigation system and a terrace with beds.






The Locavore Fantasia in his surroundings. Most of all, the building resembles Stadium podium, but their vegetable gardens and orchards are located directly under the beds - flat, and the entire structure (its slope addressed in the sun) - blind area with cafe. Columns, sustaining "slope" is a sculptural ornaments (illustration Work AC).



Which house stood at the intersection of Canal Street and the streets of Varick Street in New York - already it does not matter. And this is what built in its place, it might be interesting.
Recently, the owner of this small quarter - the company Trinity Real Estate - cleared the area and decided that it will be available until the plans are not changed, a park of sculptures.

Creation to the park, which is expected to survive for two or three years, will be selected by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.


The Locavore Fantasia - This apartment building, crowned by this farm. At different levels you can find miniature fields of grain and golf courses (those that agronomists temporarily left "fallow"), gardens and other beds, while upstairs - tanks to collect rainwater.

"We are interested in urban agriculture - explains Emel - and attempts to make our cities more sustainable by reducing the miles, which overcomes the food from the manufacturer to our door."

Color Therapy

The house is located almost in the center of the city, had an addition to the main building, and different levels of facilities have already been asked. I had only to refine them. Planning was a rational. There is no clear division on the floor there. But if we speak generally, on the first floor housed fireplace, bar, dining area and kitchen, on the second - with a gym room, children's bedroom and that combined with a balcony. It is from a bedroom window opens the best view - the mountain is not visible, even the roofs of neighboring houses.



Most active here in the interior color of the kitchen. For her we have chosen the rich red and burgundy wallpaper and curtains with a stylized plant pattern. Of course, all is well in the measure, it is in the bedroom instead of red muted burgundy. The living room couches placed orange and green - is a joyful mix of cheers up.





The first step of the staircase in the living room - it is the present acting Aquarium, good in detail. Customers immediately liked the idea, and I have consulted with experts, how to make a step-Aquarium "residential" to settle there fish. The third step was the shelf - it comes on a corner living room and rests against the wall near the fireplace, which is set up a niche for firewood. The right of the stairs open bar with stand, in the round "Inside" which "float" glass. Instead of a wall in the guest bathroom done - from floor to ceiling - a window in the living room. From the living room glass, of course, a mirror, but it is visible from the bathroom the whole living room. But the original of all, I think, is the mixer - it hangs from the ceiling! When to come here, automatically switches lights hidden under the ceiling and begins Color - light overflows in different colors - blue, green ... in the bathroom when the bedroom light is the frieze around the bath - glass with roses, illuminated with white or blue light. They repeated pattern wall tiles in the sand between two layers of glass and illuminated from within. The same line on the floor connects the shower area, bathroom and went into the bedroom.



Regarding accessories, I try to pick up everything, down to tableware and items for the bathroom. Of course, when my work is finished, customers are buying items that match the style and color to the interior. For example, the owners purchased a burgundy hours in the kitchen. Or are their friends call me to ask what a gift is perfectly fit into the interior. Yes, and I myself, when I see something good, be sure to inform customers. Generally, in the process of working on the house, we make friends with them, brought the tradition of joint dinner on Thursday and going to relax together!




Customer: "After the renovation the house has become a comfortable and convenient living. Here one room flows into another, and that we really like. In the warm season, we often resting on the veranda where there is a large projection screen, in the winter like to meet in the kitchen. Often, we use the lights - in the bathroom with a bedroom, a bar in the living room - with interiors look more interesting."

On the synthesis of comfort and the illusion

Today we present the apartment that architect Valentin Kuzmin designed for himself. In doing so, she had to take into account the constraints: area - 64,2 m2 total, including two balconies, inconvenient layout, as evidenced by the plan, and a number of construction defects. However, for arranging their own homes any architect is ready to go for risky experiments, even with a small budget, and therefore uses a much larger arsenal of techniques.




Consider the disadvantages of the original project: a large dark room, tiny bathroom, very narrow room, which were going to have a bedroom (it can not be furnished to the normal size), and a tiny bay window in the living room. Add the obvious curvature of the walls, especially in the center of the apartment. Therefore, in connection with the re had to solve two problems at once: the transfer of the partitions and search for ways to disguise those curves lines that were not brought to the absolute correctness.

So, cut the central space of the room, slightly increased the area of a bedroom. It is now possible to get to the bathroom. The latest increase is almost double from the hall. Its main part attached to the living room, and the remainder allocated a small anteroom. In one corner of her find a job (about 1 m2) for a new guest bathrooms. It adjoins the wall of the bathroom, so the pipe from the riser had to pull in quite a small distance. At the site of the former guest bathroom is located a modest-sized kitchen. It is bordered dining. Partitions, first separate the two rooms in this area was removed. Living room slightly increased at the expense of a kitchen-dining room, and move partitions.

To the hostess did not feel sad solitude, between the living room and kitchen done opened window. Now, by cook, you can also watch TV from the kitchen (this is especially a consideration in choosing a site for the equipment). Sills serves as a bar from the living room. From the kitchen tabletop is built, it is tables, which sit comfortably. Beneath that are the hosts hidden folding chairs, there is, for neutral faces, hidden dishwasher.

According to the architect, the main problem of the small apartment was not enough space to accommodate all functional areas. The hosts needed an office, but it was not extra meters. A compromise solution suggested the experience of living in Germany. In this democratic country, distributed version of the Cabinet with ... dining room. Large dining table can not be better suited for working with line drawings. In addition, at any time convenient to have on hand all the necessary materials for work. Note that the principle of combined functions - the main story of this apartment.





Let's see, what are the main features of layout and design, becoming an awkward little space in the picturesque and spacious interior.

Let's start a tour is taken from the hallway. It is quite tiny (3.5 m2), but it does not look like. From furniture to fit it just thumb-table and stool, pouf. On the left side of the door - a huge mirror (they are faced with the door wardrobe in recess). It not only doubles the hallway, but also reflects the prospect of a long room with windows at the far end. Separated from the living room hallway is not the door, and light curtains from organza, hung on a metal arch bars. From the hallway from the guest bathroom wall Scotia, to opening new horizons for the living room, to keep him comfortable configuration. Deliberately "delete" with the help of gypsum ceiling decoration, it staged a falshokno-"okulyus" - all "Lantern" backlit. Visually, the design emphasizes the hallway area and increases the height of the ceiling, creating the impression of close wells. Another characteristic of the design claimed in the hallway: the prostenkah even "pass" zone razveshany picture. They are, incidentally, many in all corners of the apartment. Paintings attached to the interior artistry and individuality, as well as participate in the rhythmic organization of space.

From the entrance hall opens through the prospect of three oriel windows. At first glance, it seems that we are in a country house. Finishing of the outer wall of the artificial stone, electric (in the first minute, it seems real), a winter garden, wicker furniture - all signs of suburban life. So like, settled in the fire, relax in the rocking chair and talk tete-a-tete in the elegant winter garden chairs. But this elegant corner cost the owners a lot of anguish. Incorrect ovoid form mini-bay window at first did not fit in any concept. Random curvature of the walls require Herculean efforts of the architect and the workers find a compromise between the ideal and the real possibilities, or else threatened to turn into a bay window useless appendix. We had to abandon the idea of the dome: the curvature would not be able to cover up even kilos of plaster and putty. But helped by the use of lacquer Rotoll TOLLENS (France) attached to the surface of the ceiling mirror shine and excellent retro-reflective ability. The same coating used on all the slope. Glitter nail polish illusory reduce their thickness, and is complemented by the summer of multiple reflection of juicy green windows.

Is it possible to locate a number of such diverse elements as strict geometric rack and a cozy winter garden in a tiny bay windows, framed stone texture? Especially considering that the wall at this point does not converge at an angle of 90 °, and a few bolshim that requires less delicately. The round white pillar at the border between the winter garden and the shelves has been a distraction the facility and to mitigate the transition from the "Green Corner" to correct the open grid shelves. Capital with illumination and unusual treatment of the base (it was replaced by a mirror embedded in the coupling diameter 60 cm) made in the interior a sense of intrigue and exoticism.




Now, no one point of the living room and it is impossible to notice the slightest curvature of the walls. To avoid losing precious centimeters, shortcomings concealed decorative ways. In part, therefore, on the floor of ceramic granite has a pattern "cell," him "the careful direction, building a longitudinal and transverse axis of the room. Only this time now and decorative striking. In fact, the pattern successfully diverted from the wrong angles of view in the area of windows. Along the walls between the living room and bedroom shelves built from plasterboard (as architect's drawings). At one end of his TV set. In another corner of the living room adjacent to the outer wall, put saucy double sofa. It is specifically expected length partitions between the dining room and living room and a width prostenka between the bulkhead and the door to the balcony. Sofa slightly overlaps a corner niche balcony doors, but it is almost imperceptible. Elegance of a corner for the rest set off an abstract canvas Vladimir Kuzmin. The right of the door in the dining room wall, attached to the bar, designed by V. Kuzmina. Under the tabletop of ceramic granite arranged a mini-rack for magazines. It is possible, and placing an open bar: height and depth of the shelves are designed for this option. Another zone is near the living room prostenka between the hallway and bedroom. Footstools may serve to posidelok, and can easily go in the other corner.




The very same dining room in the apartment - no less important place. From the main zone separates it into a glass door aluminum profiles (model Quadrante of RIMADESIO, Italy), which provides excellent sound insulation. The partition between the dining room and living room has a different thickness. To achieve parallelism canvases bearing wall (from the dining room), near the window it did in the 5 cm thick, compared to the end that is closest to the door.





Dining room can become a real architect's office. On its "business" of show pyatisektsionny cabinet along the wall opposite the door, and the selection of lamps. A ceiling mounted rectangular frame-bus with six office lights of three different species. Some serve as sources of focused flow with a minimum scattering angle, the other - with a wider, others provide a bright, but uniform coverage throughout the area as a whole. In the dining room there is a third option: it can serve as a guest room, its dimensions are for the installation of the bed.






In contrast with the warm orange walls of the dining room kitchen range designed entirely neutral. Minimalistichny design provides the best backdrop for the environment "cabinet", which separates the kitchen only a small slip of the plasterboard. Looking from the living room, this area also does not irritate the eye. In the area of 4,5 m2 kitchen together with all necessary appliances. Risers hidden behind elegant hinged closet in the corner to the left of the entrance. Notably, in addition to the local illumination of working surfaces in the kitchen is a continuous, around the perimeter of the ceiling, plafond-falshokno. It evenly illuminates the entire room.





It generally affects the sound and error-free game with the apertures, mirrors, windows (real and blende) and cross-cutting perspective, several cross-cutting areas. For example, even from the door of the dining room seen in the bedroom mirror cabinet, increasing the depth of the far zone. The direction of motion of a matter of perspective and floor pattern: a door connects the rooms exactly sweeping diagonal.

After moving the walls in a bedroom set and a broad double bed, and cabinet furniture from the wall opposite. Slight relief on the ceiling and the stage of a long recesses under the ceiling gave the room easy. Above the bed head - swagger stained glass frieze. Seven panels of colored glass sintered "work" on two adjacent rooms. Evening sunset the sun's rays penetrate through and through stained glass windows, giving them great illumination and scattering by flat color flicker.




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The bathroom here is a real apotheosis of art architectural illusion, based on the game with the reflection in the mirror and workshops sets of plasterboard. The wall opposite the entrance is faced with a mirror on the tabletop sink to the ceiling, a wall of the right - from the decorative pylons to the shower. All mirrors have a special coating vlagozaschitnoe. Their share of the pylon with elegant decorative niche. The upper part is decorated with speed caps. For the decoration of the hidden sewer riser. To match the tubes can be opened the door quietly, under the tabletop (which simulates the continued pylons). The emergence of mirrors set at right angles to each other, create the illusion of circular bypass around the pylons and the "quadruple" the size of the room. And with an open door into the bedroom a disturbing prospect out somewhere far beyond the premises. Undulating terrain podshivnom on the ceiling and a round "okulyus", which is also inserted a mirror, reflecting many times, give the room a romantic look. Repeating circle motif, including the mosaic panels on the floor with the image of yin-yang symbols, decorative tiles from FORNAZETTI, in the mirrors causes the box to accept a washing machine as a piece of decorative composition.

It is dizzying spectacle that awaits those who come into the bathroom. Thanks to the game of reflections in the mirrors, the room seems to fourfold more spacious than it actually is! Cool colors fills the room a feeling of freshness and lightness. At first glance a moment lost, unable to discern how similarly organized layout here. The emergence of the fifth angle made it possible to install and voluminous shower, and large corner bath is the same model. But space still seems very spacious.

This unusual flat serves expressive virtuoso example of a space. In fact, this architect is able to change beyond recognition the face of the interior, to make the flaws lay in the dignity of a problem - at your convenience. Not Kuzmina Valentina said: "The more complex the task, the more interesting and its solutions, and the result"