Square: 86м2
Address: Moscow, Vernadsky Avenue
Type of house: Kirpichny, "Stalinka"
Project status: Professional photo shoot
Year of implementation: 2016

A 3-room design project. apartments of 86 sq.m.


The clients are a married couple with two school-age children, lead a busy lifestyle, travel a lot, and work from home. They need privacy and a separate workplace. According to the wishes, the designed space includes the following areas: a combined kitchen-living room-dining room, husband's office, wife's office, son and daughter's bedrooms, a storage area for sports equipment, a dressing room, two bathrooms, a laundry room.

The incompatible tastes of the spouses had to be married in the apartment. She loves urban style: cool shades, geometry, office lights, prints with urban views. It is an eco-style: lots of wood, natural materials, comfort and warmth. The result is an eclectic interior with yellow larch on the floor, dark ceiling, smooth painted walls, in which a neutral tone base is diluted with bright accents in furniture and decor.

Planning solution

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The main wish of the customers is to turn an old and irreplaceable 3-room apartment into comfortable modern housing for four people. And do it legally. The center of the apartment is a combined kitchen-dining room-living room. The kitchen area was moved to the place of the former corridor: the abandonment of the gas stove allowed a legitimate kitchen niche to be allocated in a non-residential area. The addition of a balcony has added air and space to the room where the family gathers together at the dining table and on the couch watching TV. Her husband's workplace was placed next to the entrance to her daughter's bedroom. A storage room was allocated in the entrance area, and a mini-dressing room for the growing princess in her daughter's bedroom.

My son's bedroom was designed on the site of the former kitchen. Nearby there are two full bathrooms with a bathtub and a shower. The laundry area was moved from the bathrooms to the hallway. The private master suite is located in the back room. Through the dressing room we get to my wife's office, where, in addition to a desk and a chair, there was a place for a printer and document storage.

Kitchen

The kitchen needed to be made as functional as possible. There are two children in the family, which means that you have to cook often and a lot. A cupboard for storing dry food and dishes was moved to a niche in the living room, and household appliances and a sink were placed in the working part of the kitchen. The set is two-tone: the upper veneered zebrano facades support a yellowish shade of solid larch on the floor, and the lower ones are made of smooth MDF - a neutral base for the Color Bridge tile patchwork. The tabletop and apron made of natural black granite are in tune with the dark ceiling, enhance the graphic design of the interior. The dining area is simple: a simple IKEA folding table and Eames chairs.

Living room

The main stylistic element in the living area is the dark ceilings. Initially, the customers liked the idea of a dark ceiling in the sketches, but they doubted and did not dare to take such a bold step. Doubts were dispelled after a trial paint job. Now the dark ceiling of the living room, which extends onto the walls through laconic molding and expands the space, is the hallmark of the interior. The project uses English paint from Farrow&Ball and Little Greene. The color of the ceiling is supported by shades of Dorian Stradivari doors, skirting boards and cast-iron Soviet radiators. An array of larch trees is laid on the floor under colorless oil. The balcony wall is decorated with 19th-century brick cuts from the Workshops of the German brothers. A bright color accent is a sofa with a folding mechanism from the Trendy Mebel factory. The lamps in the form of "pancakes" by MDM Light fit seamlessly into the style of the apartment. The owner's desk built into the niche is made according to the designer's sketches to order in the carpentry workshop.

Daughter's room

At the time of construction, the daughter of the customers turned 6 years old. The girl is fond of drawing, loves fairy tales about princesses and Disney cartoons. Hence the beige-pink shades in the interior design. The color was introduced only in details, for example, in curtains, which can be easily replaced at any time. There is a cozy sofa and bookshelves under the IKEA loft bed. For maximum natural lighting, the workplace was placed opposite the window, and to the right of the table was a functional modular IKEA Callax shelving. This piece of furniture is indispensable for children's rooms. The niche sections are equally convenient for storing books, boxes with toys and clothes, decor and accessories.

Bathrooms

Small and boring bathrooms sparkled with colors and space. An Eleven&Co polyhedron in blue and blue tones was chosen for the bathroom: geometric tiles cover the floor, the side of the bathtub and unevenly enter the wall in one corner, setting the dynamics of the room. The continuation is a white tile from the same collection. The remaining wall space is painted in a consonant gray-blue shade with Benjamin Mooge moisture-resistant paint. The hexagonal theme was supported by IKEA mirrors. The height of the mirrors was not chosen by chance: the husband looks at the top, and the children at the bottom.

The shower room has the same dark ceiling as in the living room. Here, the dark ceiling visually expanded the narrow room, removing the "well" effect. On the walls are Equipe kabanchik tiles with grout to match the ceiling. IKEA furniture.

My son's room

An eleven-year-old son's bedroom echoes the placement of furniture in his younger sister's room. Instead of a walk-in closet, an IKEA wardrobe stood in the corner, otherwise the contents of the children's rooms are the same, so that children do not have resentments and disagreements. The boy chose the color scheme for his personal space himself: favorite colors are blue and yellow. The accent wall behind the bed was highlighted with wallpaper with Borastapeter ships. There is a painting by Olga Shagina on the shelf.

The master bedroom

The atmosphere of a big city reigns in the customers' room. The wallpaper for the accent wall was chosen carefully: in the bedroom, I wanted to avoid too office and uncomfortable pictures. We decided on stylish York wallpapers. The walls with Little Greene paint, depending on the light level, change from gray to match the wallpaper to transparent blue. Cosmorelax pendant lights create a soft bedside light. Moon-stores metal table replaced the classic bedside table. Interior windows were placed above the doorway, which let natural light into the adjacent study.

The textiles in the project are custom-made in a sewing workshop.

review of the project

Project author, designer: Tatiana Bezverkhaya
Photographer: Yuri Grishko
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Tatiana did the redevelopment project for us, the apartment design, supervised the correctness of the construction work (author's supervision) and at the same time did a lot of additional work.
 I really liked the initially scrupulous approach, if a work plan, then with a list of works and a schedule, if a cost estimate, then an estimate divided into premises and construction stages, i.e. detailed and careful study everywhere.
 We spent a lot of time together defining what we like and what we don't like. We couldn't formulate it clearly ourselves, and Tatiana brought many collections of photographs of apartments and objects in different styles and colors, and we collectively chose what we liked. 
 Following all the discussions and after reviewing several options, we agreed on the layout and design of all the rooms. And we received from Tatiana a complete apartment project with all the necessary plans: floors, ceilings, electrics, lighting, tile layouts on walls and floors, all with dimensions and comments. 
 After the start of construction, Tatiana strictly monitored the builders so that they strictly followed the project, and she was always at the construction site twice a week. If there were any technical issues (for example, they put full-fledged glazing on the balcony, it was necessary to strengthen the balcony), then I found an expert in the right field and offered solutions that were not expected from the designer at all. 
 That is, there has always been a feeling that Tatiana cares and she feels responsible not only for the design, but also for the implementation of the entire project.
 
 We are very pleased with the result, and we would never have come up with many of the solutions that Tatiana suggested. And some, as it seemed to us, "controversial" design solutions eventually turned out to be the best decorations of the apartment.
 There have never been delays in the timing of design or other work, everything is timely and in a format that is convenient for us (we preferred email and meetings).
 
 We highly recommend Tatiana to all our friends, and if we decide to make new repairs ourselves in the future, we definitely won't have a question about choosing a designer.
 
 P.S. Among other things, Tatiana has great vitality and optimism, which infects everyone around her.

Individual, client, Vasily

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