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The apartment with a total area of ​​76.5 m2, located in an old house, is successfully combined with modernity and history.

To save area, the refrigerator is partially embedded in the closet. Achetoba cabinet was convenient to use, its volume is divided into small cells, as in the storage chamber

The kitchen headset (Mebelu Dizaina Fabrika) took the most comfortable place in the living room, at the entrance. Adjustable lamps suspended on strings (Paulmann) allow you to accurately set up the lighting of both the working area of ​​the kitchen and the living room. The location of the lighting system on the ceiling is as it were invited to the living room gesture

In the workshop of the artist, in one tangle, the past and present, a minimalist chandelier descends the past stucked outlet. You can draw in the family, upholstered velvet chairs at the Torrshetor in the style of Hi-tech

"Brutal" aesthetics of a gas column installed on a non-combustible durable wall combined with painted pieces of a foreign beam transformed into decorative stands

Sinks (Pozzi-Ginori), toilet (IDO) and a bath- like snow-white shells among the "distorted" yolk

Lamps over washbasins (model Cleo, Massive) and mixers (Kludi) are perfectly harmonized with original narrow, but not very comfortable mirror

The original multifunctional-nata shelf (IKEA) can be used in any room. There is a bottle holder, and you can hang the towel on it. Gostny-gaze, in the hallway for slippers. AESLI Place a cunning design horizontally, it is easy to install floral pots

Wooden panels framed the entire door opening in the wall with a thickness of 60cm. If on the side of the bedroom to put the second door, it will create not only additional sound insulation, but also a sense of security

Plan before reorganization

Plan after reorganization

The owners of this apartment were not going to recreate the interior of the early XX century. They just wanted to organize a dwelling in an old house, which would not contradict the historical context and corresponded to modern ideas about comfort. So the design reflected a natural change of epochs. The past logically flows here in the future, and the new generation begins life from scratch, but based on memory and tradition.

Built in 1913. In the center of Riga, the house obligated to a careful and respectful attitude. In addition, the "reconstruction" today was completely unacceptable, when only the walls remain from the old building, and the most important values ​​of the specialty, creating a special atmosphere of reliability, are irretrievably lost. Architect Mara Schönberg and Customers (Astra's daughter and her friend Hirts), on the contrary, decided to keep these treasures and even supplement. The ozin design was laid wishes for a young couple: the maximum preservation of the "soul" of the old house and the creation of a joyful, optimistic atmosphere. The connection of strict modern furniture and historical context with all picturesque "tracks of time" (especially for doors, as well as individual items of family furniture) gave the interiors of unusualness and expressiveness.

Reflection in the past

The guitles, the owner of the apartment answers questions.

- What was your participation in the project?

-I work a lawyer in the field of construction law, and I was interested to look at what was happening from a practical point of view. Details and design we invented with Astro. The author of the planning became Mara, it is a great, experienced architect; The designer is my girlfriend Astra, she has a shared taste. Well, I led the construction site.

-Do not confuse the location of the kitchen in the key zone of the apartment?

The Architector helped us very much about choosing a place. This is her great merit. She insisted on setting the kitchen front along the walls of the living room. Ireism turned out to be optimal.

- What do your guests say? Are they and your opinions coincide?

- The apartments like it. Amna is most impressed by the feeling of antiquity. Her so much remained in our life! Former doors (splash peers) and baths are the brightest finds. Or a story with the radiators for the bedrooms, they were going to throw them away as unnecessary during the reconstruction of one house. Surprisingly, it turned out to be the last two serviceable radiator in the whole building! It is even more wonderful that they approached the size.

-What would you like to refine in the apartment?

- I would not want anything. But now we have a child born, and it seems that there are already not enough for three places ... A new scenario is required: we will think where to arrange a nursery.

In the center of the living room from the ceiling, a pair of plafimes in metal housings is quite low: over time, a large-sized dining table will appear under them. The living room has to strengthen beams, their brutal power could make a dissonance into an easy interior atmosphere. But now it is clear that they not only do not contradict the decorative solution of the interior, but, on the contrary, create a "sculptural" decoration in the spirit of techno. Open structures contrast painfully with historical details and traditional decor.

Silvery gray facades of kitchen cabinets and "Apron" create an interesting contrast with bright red sofas. The cold and brilliance of the stainless steel are underlined with warm golden-yellow floors from the pine massif. The Cabinet is also needed by a lawyer of a guy, and aster - it works in PR-companies, and in his free time draws. So the office is also the artist's workshop.

Evidence of the vintage became open areas of brick masonry, wooden floors, massive wooden doors, brass ventilation grille, cast iron radiators. The missing pair of radiators The owner of the apartment found in another old Riga house- there they made a renovation and all the "native" devices were going to take out to the landfill. Wooden doors and the framing of door openings are preserved at an initial form from time to build at home. They were carefully cleaned with paint layers and left without any finish. Today, these elements of the interior affect guests with their picturesque texture and thoroughness.

Contrasts in the time and distinct aesthetics of individual zones and items in this apartment is not an end in itself. Just an architect and tenants decided not to hide and not smooth out the contrast between what was preserved, and what was brought by the needs of modern life. It is the naturalness of intonations and gives the interiors inimitable expressiveness, but not suburban. For example, a strange detail-boiler, which occupies an honorable place in the living room. In fact, this is not a boiler at all, but a gas column. It was established here because, according to the technical requirements of another place, it was simply not found: the existing standards were not allowed to arrange it in a new bathroom. Therefore, the "hot heart" is at the very same thing. The unit with laying of pipes and all technical accessories is not shuddered, but is exposed to the appearance as an avant-garde sculpture in the style of techno. Novelty and modern design of the device are well read on the background of natural brickwork, which in this place is cleaned from plaster and paint.

Another landmark is a cast-iron bath on graceful gilded paws. Girts looked at her in a communal apartment where he lived before. Long and tense negotiations with the owner of the apartment were crowned with success, the old model was exchanged for modern. A happily acquired antique bath had no better look and demanded painting. During cosmetic repairs, its "personal number" was discovered, confirming that this is a unique piece of service. Oddly enough, the bath perfectly fit into the bright yellow interior of the bathroom and harmonizes with technological models of shells and toilet.

The joy of being

Walls, tabletop washbasin and even flower pots - all in the bathroom painted in the color of egg yolk, invariably causing a smile. Old brickwork looks in this chicken paradise expressive orange spot. The hosts noticed that such a color decision was the best way to raise the mood even on a cloudy day.

A cool blue color appears in the bedroom. Bed (IKEA) Roads with ancient grandfather's chest Antique furniture before belonged to Grandma and Girts Grandfather. In addition, it is a chair and a written table, in the bedroom, in the hallway, the mirror. Moreover, it is not just elements of the situation or souvenir antiques, artificially decorating rooms behind glass cabinets and is in proud inviolability. Old things here are the participants of modern life and the actors of family legends, over the years, only increase their attractiveness. For example, a written companion of the grandfather retained the traces of hacking: the Germans opened the boxes during the retreat and grabbed their contents with them. What there are layers, money, or some jewels, has long been forgotten, but the World War II remained forever.

In the left corner, an old brass ventilation grill began under the ceiling. On the table, the grandfather was found in writing, about the appointment of which young generations are no longer known: inks and press papier at the time of repair found that under the "cultural layers" floors from the pine board were well preserved from organic and linoleum. Only in some places it had to be replaced, for which they picked up the boards of the same age. Paul twisted, covered with wax, and he shone a pleasant amber color. Now in all rooms, even in the hallway, bathroom and working area, the kitchen-under your feet. "Live", warm, it does not require heating, but, though, needs careful care. However, Girts and Aster, modern urban residents who dream of a natural environment, it does not seem too burdensome. ATO, that somewhere the surface of the floor is abruptly, is not scary. According to Girts, the "worn" coverage looks good. Wtt that the floor is not perfect, and the old, like the doors, has its own highlight.

Equally carefully reacted to the old ventilation lattice found during the repair, with beautiful carvings. It was cleaned and installed in the office - now it is used to be appointed. More from the "antiquities" in the bedroom and the office there is an elegant authentic stucco, which only cleared and twisted during repairs.

Carefully preserved massive vintage doors have become the "exquisite seasoning" to modern home interiors of the color scenario of the apartment "written" with bright open colors - red, yellow, white. The silver metal of lamps, kitchen facades and equipment balances the prevailing warm gamut. Inclipts of bluish shades (doors, curtain-screen and bedspread in the bedroom) is like the lumen of a gentle summer sky, creating a romantic mood. The only place where the yellow overshadows everything is a bathroom. It creates an almost physical feeling of a dazzling flow of sunlight causing the skin, "warms" even in the most cloudy day and gives a feeling of comfort and a positive attitude at any time of the day.

The "old walls" provide a young pair durable rear and, as anchor, retain the stability of their "family boat". Now, the elements of modern design naturally associate the interior with the needs of today's day.

Overpowering

Architect Mara Schumnberg needed a small redevelopment, which involves the increase in the bathroom and the selection of three rooms: living room, bedroom and office. Well: for the kitchen required to find such a place so that it occupies as much precious area as possible.

The bathroom was transferred to the place of the previous kitchen. Between one of the small rooms and the former bathroom dismantled the partition, the space for a large living room was organized. Although it did not affect the supporting abilities of the building, the designer engineer demanded to strengthen the ceiling designs, because the bending of the upper floors was recorded. The IVOT under the ceiling of the apartment appeared powerful 2-way beams, additionally fortified by transverse beams.

The peculiarity of the current planning is the absence of corridors. From the hallway you can go into the office, living room and bathroom, and from the living room, to the bedroom. The kitchen is now located along one of the walls of the living room (next to the trajectory of the bedroom movement).

Since the place for cooking is in one space from the living room, the aesthetics of the kitchen and the volume is very concise: in fact, it is a kitchen cabinets built into the same line between the inputs in the bedroom and the office, as well as the refrigerator.

The editors warns that in accordance with the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, the coordination of the conducted reorganization and redevelopment is required.

Designer Decorator: Martins Schönbergs

Architect: Mara Shenberg

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