Man-made fairytale

Redevelopment of an apartment with a total area of ​​106.8 m2 in an apartment building of 1903 in St. Petersburg. Unusual home for three generations.

Confirmation of the "Antiquity of the Ruins" in the opening of the wall between the living room and the kitchen, the company of feathered from Spain

Three arches are decorated with shallow (about 23cm) Book racks made of drywall and niche, which is inhibited by a carved closet for audio and video equipment. In the window of the room, under the window, - the non-seated shelf seat, trimmed with wood. Air curtains (all textiles in the apartment are made according to the sketches of Jese Mikhailova) harmonize with an elegant room

The walls of this mini-bedroom are sealed with straws. The headboard and shelves with books are hidden behind the wooden chinese screen. Under thenessol-wardrobe compartment for clothes

The combination of the color of terracotta and a white paint covered brick looks very elegant. Shutters on the windows were not brought to the top of the opening: a small lumen over them facilitates the brutal appearance of open brickwork

In the desire for picturesque effects, the architect did not forget about comfort. So, the height and width of the table top meet the requirements of convenience, and its angle facing the passage between the kitchen and dining areas, smoothly rounded

In the kitchen and dining room sets of shelves and surfaces intended for decorative installations

In the distant plan, a part of the hallway with a narrow vertical rack is viewed from the kitchen. It not only serves as a showcase for the glass collection, but also separates the entrances to the guest bathroom (right) and the post-first (left)

Graphic chandeliers made of dark metal in the kitchen and in the living room - another motive connecting both premises. They first fulfill a decorative role. Functional task in the public area solves the built-in backlight

The wall next to the headboard is decorated with relief, made on the basis of plaster. There was a mass of stalks and leaves of plants, then the surface was painted. After drying, some of the plants were resetting in their place a white embossed pattern turned out. On the wall of the right - invested from the photo shutters made to order on the basis of children's photos of the Son Larisa

The bathroom, the dressing room and the bedroom combines the anfilad, and if necessary, only curtains. To provide access to plumbing communications, a gap was needed between the washbasin and the wall. It was decorated with a wooden frame in the tone of the furniture

Plan before reorganization

Plan after reserving

"And impossible maybe," I want to say the words of this interior. On-visual confirmation of the fact that ingenuity and tremendous patience are able to work wonders.

A real knitted hammock, resembling a cozy nest, is suspended on the chain to the ceiling balloker on the Moscow Avenue in St. Petersburg, in which there are three generations of the family of architect Larisa Davletbayeva (she herself, mother and son of Lawrence), seems to be the world of good miracles literally from the threshold. You open the door- and in the simpleness between the two entrance doors, the "Installation" of the elegant jars with homemade jam (the work of Mom Larisa) is opened. On the walls under the ceiling of the hallway - real Berendevo Kingdom - a collection of wooden sculpture. A little further, the eye tries to unravel the helicast perspective from the shelves and the arches above the door in the bathroom, in the frame of which Georgian black ceramics is placed. A few more steps forward, and at the turn of the guest welcomes the apotheosis of the Mediterranean theme. It seems that from the terracotta tiles of the kitchen and dining room is a hot Barcelonian sun, and for the wooden shutters, it's not a faceless wall of a neighboring house, but a bizarre Creation of Gaudi. Fasciating, barely manage to translate the view from the ingeniously built scenery on the "live" brickwork, which opened from under the layers of plaster, from there, to things from the home collection. It is impartially detecting new interesting turns of the plot: "Oh, and what is this? But what about this?" The owners are smiling - they are accustomed to such a reaction.

Weight Apartments have a special story, it only formally started four years ago, when Larisa acquired housing in an apartment building Building 1903g.Trudno to believe that the total area of ​​this housing is only a little more than 100m2. According to current concepts, the scale is not very large. But maybe this is this circumstance and pushed the hostess to unusual spatial solutions.

Repair stretched for four years - the owner of the apartment was overloaded with the main work. Judge is now coming some fingers. The first decorated room has become the laundry. Twin installed the shower cabin, in contrast, the shelves were attached to the shelves-containers for economic trifles.

At first, the repair turned into the likeness of real archaeological surveys: it was necessary to remove flooring and black floors, dismantle the partitions and completely chuck down the plaster on the bearing wall-down to the brick. By the way, he turned out to be so picturesque (in some places they even read the name stamps "Samokhvalov") that fragments of masonry collected in some places at all leave in prior odds. All old communications (water supply, gas and sewer pipes, wiring) replaced new. Interesting interesting discoveries were performed. So, coming to the "historical" layer of walls, they found that the original windows were significantly wider. In order not to disturb the established facade of the building, the openings were expanded to the original size only from the inside. The appeasement of the opening of the ceiling found out that the once house was four-story, but in the sixties he had a fifth floor. Then over wooden floor beams were laid new, metallic, and the former, no longer carrying no load, closed with duncake and laid down. Taneous oak logs Thick 350mm are perfectly preserved and almost cracked, so now they serve as a worthy decoration of the ceiling of the living room. They lie, as before, a little at an angle to each other, and this incorrect reports the interior of a special expressive reliability.

Images of chickens on a frieze - tribute to the image of the Mediterranean, where the peasant estate is difficult to imagine without a noisy bird yard. An important decorative motif of the house was given in Fig and also an image of an egg as a dual symbol of life and death. The question is that the primary egg or chicken? - Jokingly beaten by the hostess in the decorative frieze in the dining room. Larisa cut the almost abstract figurine chicken. Snny made gypsum castings, placing them at different angles, posted the main drawing. Then the legs and heads were pressed to each figure. Frisces complemented eggs collapsed in half.

Thanks to the "archaeological research", the ceiling height has increased. This, in turn, allowed to increase the useful area: in the corner of the living room, the hostess arranged herself with a sleeping place and a minibar with a total area of ​​5.29m2. This corner became one of the most unusual and elegant places in the apartment. Since the traditional staircase to the mezzanine did not want to attach (too long and cumbersome), it was replaced by three high steps-ledges from a wooden bar, shephed with plasterboard and plywood. The steps were tiled with a tree, decorated with a tile, and the side facade and the sticking were covered with colored stucco. Under the steps staged elegant niches for all sorts of little things. On the wall, to which a peculiar staircase is adjacent, the artist painted three gnomes, which Larisa calls the Guardians. These mysterious characters, as if coming from the pages of magical fairy tales, carry all kinds of items, symbolizing the qualities and skills of the hostess.

There are a lot of attack skills: "How much I remember myself, I have always been involved in the interior. A missing apartment disassembled the walls, seeking beautiful species, painted surfaces, invented the scenery. Life for me - creative search, I love to do everything with your own hands. Designed by me the apartment is always very" needleless " In each there is at least one non-standard object, made according to my sketches. So this apartment almost the whole of such finds. The most interesting thing in it is that we made it threesome: I, my son, novice designer, and Sasha, master on All the hands who performed a full range of construction and finishing works. Sometimes he had offered some options. After all, I have a polygon for new solutions. For example, Sasha arranged a plasterboard scenery on the ceiling with beams, and finished, offered: "Come on , I'll redo everything. "I went to the ceiling niche with the bottom backlight. They are especially interesting to look in the dark."

Forged stand under the wine bottles adjoins the wall decorated with a "chicken frieze" and a relief pattern in the form of a groove, made by raw plaster. The glass shelf serves as a stand for candles and a souvenir-shared apartment plan now fully complies with the nature and habits of the hostess. "According to the horoscope, I am a Sagittarius, I always miss the volume. I don't like close closed rooms. I can't imagine life in a small-sized apartment. We are the main Leningraders, and how much I remember, always lived in publications. This is a completely special world: a set of parquet, Long corridors, high ceilings with an abundance of modeling. Maybe I always wanted to live in an old house. " The apack is only one of the inner wall-carrier, the main planning task (the maximum open in the neighboring areas of the premises) was technically fully executed. "The whole apartment is passing. It can be circumvented in a circle. If we lived only with my mom together, I would not do the doors at all. After all, even the toilet can be arranged on the principle of snail." The doors are only in the bathrooms, the bedroom of the son and the mother's room, but only the last autonomous one - it leads the door from the dining room. Another door to the bathroom, you can detect a long perspective viewed up to the bedroom window of the Lavrentia.

Making the same indispensable attribute of the Mediterranean interior, as well as a smoothly plastered wall and wooden beams. Therefore, in the apartment of Davletbay, there are a lot of similar details. It looks very elegantly a stand for wine, made according to the sketches of the architect, - it takes all the commonest in the dining room between the outer wall and the cabinet with the microwave oven. No less often look high floor-standing schools in the bathroom. Another outdoor candlestick is next to the cooking surface in the kitchen. From above installed on it ... Old copper basin for jam: It turned out a wide stand, on which several candles are placed at once. In the intext "Forging themes" a thin gas pipe in the kitchen, painted black, seems made in the same technique.

Of course, the central zone of the apartment is a kitchen-dining room. "No matter how beautiful we do the living rooms, anyway, people hang out in the kitchen, because the focus has always been the center of the dwelling in any culture." Vehi apartment "hearth" seems to hang in the air. The desire to make the space transparent and permeable led to the appearance of a wide countertop based on the column and the wall. The surface is mounted a four-door gas stove, the entire wiring is hidden in the column. The second work area adjoins the bathroom wall. There is another plasterboard countertop, lined with tiles, and kitchen equipment. Next to the door to the mother's room there is a cabinet from the floor to the ceiling with a shelf for a microwave oven and closed sections for storing dishes. AV zone canteen - two identical dining tables with glass countertops on a wrought skeleton (IKEA, Sweden), continuing the theme "airiness". When there are a lot of guests, the tables are short sides so that one-side, long one is obtained.

Under the window, the mistress specifically arranged an additional sedentary place. There was a windowsill, now expanding in the direction of the arch between the dining room and the living room. The level of the windowsill is lowered, the standard design was replaced by made of plasterboard on a metal frame with wooden amplifiers, plastered and tiled.

The appearance of these open shelves over the input opening between the hallway and the kitchen, as well as between the bathroom and the hallway dictated by the need for clear zoning of the premises. Through shelves helped to keep the "transparency" of the input zone (it looks particularly interesting above the door in the bathroom, "superimposed" on the arched opening). The designs made of drywall are plated by wallpaper under painting with imitation of wovel textures and painted. The backlight is mounted in the flies.

The "heart of the house" is distinguished by warm terracotta tile shades, supplemented with white and bluish-gray (wooden doors and drywall shelves over the entrance to the kitchen). The composition of environmentally friendly plasters The architect came up with itself (the result is of greater plasticity than when using the usual finished). An open brickwork was left only in those places where it is externally preserved. Over time, Larisa is intended to be coated with it with a symil - a means, which gives the color a special brightness, but does not form an "artificial" glossy glitter.

The genuine celebration of the archaeological topic is the "ruined" portal between the dining room and the living room. "I would open it even more, but air ducts pass in the wall," the hostess admits. A small expansion of the opening in the bearing wall required the installation of reinforcing metal structures hidden under decorative architect. Ordraine decoration supplemented fragments of friezes and sockets remaining from the previous works of the architect (they were performed on copyright drawings). Following the overall aesthetics, the gas pipes were left in front of the form, painting in black, and the ceilings in some places were caught as textured wallpaper.

Under the high lies in the room of the senior family, the deeper boxes for the business of the finish character influenced Larisa's love to the Mediterranean style, especially Catalan. "I love Barcelona very much, Figueiros. There are a lot of sun, stone, wood, tiles. From the same aesthetics, white knitted things, hammock, forging, internal windows." All this is especially characteristic of the kitchen and living room. The boundary between these rooms is blurred by finishing. In addition to the game with brick masonry and simple white surfaces, a staircase on the mezzanine-bedroom and lined with terracotta tiles under the aquarium with a bilateral "portal" (from above-water and fish, lowering, in which burning candles look very beautiful) are made.

The angular location of the apartment turned out to be a real find for the game in the Mediterranean climate: during the day the sun is bypassed all the rooms, starting from the mother's room, decorated in bright milk and white and yellow colors, and the dining room. Higher highlights the living room, evening bedroom son. Its colorful blue with gray - corresponds to the color of twilight. On the windowsill, lined with a ring yellow tile, as if plays the last sunset beam. During his trip around the apartment, the sun shines the most remote zones, freely passing through the prospects of the "dining room - the hallway" and "bedroom-laider-bathroom-entry".

In the simpleness between two windows in the dining room, old brickwork is left open. The picturesque section of the wall is concluded in an elegant drywall frame, covered with colored plaster. The rotation is mounted. Several old bricks play the role of console shelves, on which porcelain from the home collection will later be placed. Kgpsokarton Rama The mistress plans to attach transparent glass doors - in this way, the old "brutal" masonry will somewhat soften the glazing of the display-showcase.

Spacious bedroom area16,3m2 is almost completely freed from things. She brings the feeling of peace and deep relaxation. Nearby, behind the door, there is a dressing room, the curtain separates it from the bathroom. There was a room that arose on the place of the previous kitchen, had to make double waterproofing and carry out the necessary coordination. The bathroom is very exquisied by a color decision (a combination of muted-purple and cream shades with a dark tree). Profiled eaves made of painted polyurethane serve as shelves for accessories and trifles. At the same time, some of them perform a double function: for example, a small protrusion of a low shelf of the cornice hides the pipe laid in this place.

Special joy delivers a french balcony in the living room. Before there were three narrow windows. But the balcony was a long dream. The sides of the window openings were expanded so that the sunlight freely penetrates the apartment, the window sills laid out tiles. After appropriate coordination, the average window opening was lengthened to the floor and put a forged fence, the drawing of which the mistress was invented. Opening the door, you can now admire the prospect of the prospectus in the frame of the shinking curtains. The topic of the road picks up a striped color of the window slopes "under the verst poles". Here on this contrast of the chamber coo and the "wind of the wanders", invisibly breathable in every corner of the apartment, and built this unique, joyful, mysterious and sensual world.

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: Lavrenty Davletbayev

Finishing works: Alexander Abdusaitov

Architect: Larisa Davletbayeva

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