This three-bedroom apartment in Samara is an example of how with the help of designers, you can quite budgetically turn the tasteless post-Soviet interior into a stylish, cheerful space.
Purchase of an apartment has become for the young mother of three children of the weather with a new stage in life. But with a white sheet, it did not work out - the acquired property was distinguished by the dominant in the 1990s. Aesthetics (laminate and decoration of red wood furniture, beige wallpaper under painting with a la cored texture) and did not contribute to creating a positive mood. The owner appealed to the designer with a very controversial request: on the one hand, it is completely transformed with the space, on the other hand, to try the maximum to beat an existing entourage.
The fancy lamp in the form of a sprig, wrapped with wires with cartridges and light bulbs, designer made it yourself. It focuses on a dining area with a table of old shipboards.
An additional stimulus for the creative development of children was the ability to draw shameles on the surface of the walls, completely painted stale paint
Redevelopment
The apartment has six windows located on three sides of the world, two of them - with access to angular loggias, one thing - to the balcony. In order to save, all the premises decided to leave in their former boundaries; In addition, the location and configuration of spaces as a whole answered the family's requests.
Only two raw columns were dismantled, conventionally zoning the kitchen and the living room, and instead of them, there were shallow plasterboard niches with shelves for accessories and books. The smaller room in the area turned into a master bedroom, and the middle of the three young children were divided into each other: two daughters and son.
Repairs
Initially, the reddish laminate intended to leave and even invented how to beat his color in the interior, but in the process of repairing the old flooring still decided to update, leaving the previous color.
The ceiling in the kitchen zone had to be lowered by 20 cm for the hidden installation of the ventilation system. Walls in all rooms, except the bathrooms, leveled plaster, and then tinted with a water-based paint.
On the wall behind the headboard, the artist Lisa Kamorzhin brought a laconic pattern in the form of a blooming Sakura - the symbol of the Renaissance and the beginning of a new life path
Cast iron radiators and air conditioner housings were painted in the color of the walls - such a visual merger helped dissolve instruments in space.
Design
Before the designer stood a complex stylistic task - to make friends new elements in the interior with the past owners. Nevertheless, with the help of inventive color solutions, many flavors of the apartment managed to turn into dignity.
So, in addition to the reddish terracotta laminate, complimentary tones were picked up: a thick dark blue (Navy) and the emerald, which completely turned the perception of the once irritated floor covering. Bright accents in this composition were the splashes of yellow accents.
The complex colorful palette was diluted by monochrome parts: black and white squares of ceramic modules on the floor in the kitchen and an entrance hall and a carpet with a geometric pattern in the living room. An important role in creating a comfortable environment in the recreation area is performed by the upholstery of furniture and pillows with smooth and velvet textures.
Another approach is traced in the private household room, the image of which is not built on the contrast with the color of the red tree, and on the combination of the tones related to it, as if borrowed in the ladies' cosmetics: cherry, burgundy, powder and pink and pale-lilac. The situation turned out to be feminine, enveloping, and for the tactile variety is responsible for the touch textile.
Funny accessories and colored accents will be configured on a positive way directly from the threshold of the dwelling. The hostess so fascinated the process of transfiguration of her apartment, that she began to perform small assignments from the designer, for example, handed the legs of the shelving in the hallway zone
Kitchen transformation techniques
The hostess of the apartment was to compete with non-obscure kitchen furniture remaining from the former owners. But the position was sacrament of a tricky reception: the walls and ceiling of the room were painted into coal-gray color with a matte effect. In such a spectacular frame, a dirty brown shade of kitchen facades turned into an attractive chocolate tone. Contrary to expectations, dark planes not only do not press, but, on the contrary, help create the effect of depth and dissolve the boundaries of space (the transitions between them are not specifically focused on the trim).
Thus, it was possible to visually adjust the shortest ceiling in this zone (2.5 m) - an extensive black surface above the head is perceived by the eye as a night sky leaving in infinity.
Designer Masha Yashin:
In this apartment, it was necessary to create a sense of spring update so that nothing resembled the past owners. The customer gave me a full map of Blanche, but in order to save ways we had to be repelled from the color of the old finish, save interroom doors and some furniture items. At first, the walls wanted to just paint, but it turned out that the quality of shuttering is very low. The old plaster had to delete and re-align the surfaces, which increased the planned budget. Both bathrooms decided not to touch, but only slightly transforming with the help of colorful decor elements. For storage provided cabinets in the bedroom and children's, as well as a wardrobe for outerwear in the hallway. Repair, who lasted 4 months, became a creative challenge not only for me, but also for the hostess, which I first could not even think about the bright interior or dark ceilings, but now it is that it is such a housing that it is impossible to suit her a new way of life. It was gratifying to observe how stereotypes gradually crumble and it changes its attitude towards the color and bold combinations.
Architect: Masha Yashina
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