Color minimalism

Convenient layout, minimalist forms and bright decorative accents of steel in this Novosibirsk apartment with an optimal background for the life of a young couple with a little daughter. Although the initial conditions of housing assumed a completely different image

Convenient layout, minimalist forms and bright decorative accents of steel in this Novosibirsk apartment with an optimal background for the life of a young couple with a little daughter. Although the initial conditions of housing assumed a completely different image

Young spouses with a two-year-old daughter purchased an apartment on the fifth floor in a new building. The building with a monolithic concrete frame and brick filling is located in a very picturesque place: it is distant from the center area with a fairly rarefied building, which allows you to admire the surroundings, in particular a beautiful grove. Types of windows themselves are so good that the framing for them, according to the owners, was required very restrained. Their main wish to create a convenient structure of interiors and to arrange them in style minimalism was not agreed with the existing layout. She became the main problem that was required to be resolved.

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1. Lighting in the bedroom is varied: air chandelier under the ceiling, three plasters above the table and refill light.

2-3. Finishing the front zone, as well as a number of guest bathroom, built on a combination of white, beige, black and dense-pink. Without the opportunity to reduce the length of the elongated corridor, the architect played on combinations of colored planes and a paradoxical solution to emphasize the elongated proportions of the contrasting niche in the ceiling.

4. The bathroom uses a combination of white, eggplant and gray. The two-color glossy tile of the horizontal of the format helped optically increase both rooms, a glossy stretch ceiling and a large mirror over the washbasin strengthened this effect. Niche with upper backlights are intended for small accessories, but can play and independent, purely decorative role.

Initially, the apartment was three small rooms and a set of close tape compartments (uncomfortable tambour, several pantry, miniature bathrooms) and an uncompressed long corridor. The transfer of the latter should be noted that not all problems can be radically solved even an experienced professional. The corridor was clamped with carriage walls, and to cope with this was to be purely optical techniques. But it was possible to combine small premises, making a more spacious studio and an inlet zone, and get rid of extra partitions and doors.

Glass "Curtain"

Getting rid of extra partitions, the architect did not want to upward new deaf obstacles, even if it was required for considerations of practicality and psychological comfort. But the glass "Kulis" with backlit helped to cope with the task. The brick pedestal was set by a bulk hollow panel-made glass with a height of 1.7 m and 77cm wide, into which water flooded. The basis of the result was necessary for the mass of the design is 250kg. Inside the partition consists of separate compartments, they allow you to evenly distribute the fluid. At the top left the technological gap in 5 cm between the panels and the ceiling through it into the container is poured water and then poured as evaporation. The main decorative effect lies in the fact that when the compressor is turned on, the air is fed and the bubbles should be rising from the bottom.

Alert and bottom panels are built-in backlights to switch to color mode. This "air" design is played up and other decor elements: glossy kitchen facades and the insertion of the stretch ceiling, the mirrors on the walls in the dining area and next to the bar.

The architect of the Ksenia Eliseeva project is recognized: "In an effort to minimalism, I proceeded from the wishes of customers, but allowed myself some kind of liberty, adding vivid accents and unusual minimalism ornaments on wallpaper and wall. After all, young, active, fun spouses love to communicate. Ahwan - very prominent woman It is always interesting and stylishly dressed, prefers bright tones in clothes and interior. Yared that in "clean" minimalism and her, and her spouse will be boring. "Thus, cheerful and elegant accents appeared in some housing areas: in wallpaper with active blacks - There are two walls of the living room and one in the hallway; part of the facades and the walls behind them in the kitchen, the cloth of its stretch ceiling and the ends of the corridor purchased the juicy color of the fuchsia; the bedroom was decorated with tender lilac tones on some walls.

Niche and decors

Even a shallow niche can give a living space a more cozy appearance, especially if it comes to bedrooms. Experts argue that the attractiveness of the niche is due to the peculiarities of our psyche, formed in prehistoric times: a deepening in the wall creates an image of protected and safe shelter. An experienced architect takes into account this, caring for psychological comfort, as in this case. Niche behind the headboard was provided with side illumines. The rear wall was separated by the same light laminate ("bleached oak"), which is most of the floor in the apartment. Dies with a thin pattern of fibers, laid horizontally, resemble eco-friendly wallpaper from straws, but they are more convenient in the installation and reliable in operation. The table located close to the wall and jack with the side wall of the wardrobe is designed to take into account the complex profile of this zone: two bearing supports are adjacent to the wall. Between their protrusions, all the simpleness over the table was covered with a mirror blade. Places of joints of the supporting structures and countertops were edged with a plastic corner.

The studio was conventionally divided into three functional areas: a kitchen with a bar counter, dining and sofa. Their boundaries are designated different colors with strips and decor of the walls (different color in color, wallpaper pattern, mirror inserts). The problem of an unsuccessful neighborhood (the main bathroom is facing the kitchen-dining room) decided to build a decorative partition between them.

Decorative motifs

Black and white wallpaper with a continuously curly plant pattern clearly designated the boundaries of the hallway and the living room. Their drawing has become a decorative leitmotif in other zones. So, in the kitchen they were issued a "apron", saving the wall above the working modules and closed with thick glass. On the wall of the corridor, the same ornament, but made on the stencil acrylic dark pink paint, introduced the only color accent into the inlet zone and served as a "preamble" to the design of the studio, as well as the wall decoration in front of the entrance to the parents' room. Starting a simple one next to the window and with a dressing table, covered with decorative plaster, are decorated as well as the wall of the corridor, but only using white paint, which is more distinctly and at the same time airly looks over the lilac plaster. Sethimat the finish of one of the mirror doors of the wardrobe, it is saved by a film with a similar decor. Thus, this end-to-end topic gave all the premises of semantic and decorative unity.

Not retreating from the essence of the minimalist program, to implement the customers, the authors of the project brought the charge of positive emotions into the functional situation with a few, but carefully calculated receptions. Bright accents emphasized the individuality of each interior and the project as a whole.

The authors of the project are told

Plan to repair Capital walls We left the plaster, new built from drywall, like a part of the ceilings (for the latter in both bathrooms and partially in the kitchen used tension systems). Double-glazed windows decided not to change: it turned out enough professional cleaning, during which the windows were treated with a special composition, so that they became like new. The loggia was insulated, fell porcelain on the floors, and the walls painted. On the loggia now "prescribed" ironing board and drying for linen. Item between the hallway and the bathroom is equipped with a shop with racks, a water tank and a vacuum cleaner. From the air conditioners the owners refused.

The plan after repair as the girl is only 2 years old and its preferences are only formed, we have not yet made any accents in the nursery: they picked up the wallpaper with an unobtrusive pattern and in the same style lamps under fabric lampshairs.

Architects Olga Simagin, Ksenia Eliseeva