Modern two-room flat designed to create an additional bedroom thanks to the vertical wood sticks

Architects: Geometrium DSGN
Location: Moscow, Russia
Year: 2017
Area: 775 ft²/ 72 m²
Visualizations courtesy: Geometrium DSGN
Description:

“The client for this project is a mature family with 3 children. Two older sons are living separately, while younger daughter is a student and lives with the parents. The family pursues an active lifestyle. They travel a lot and go in for skiing.

Planning concept

Initially it was a two-room flat in which we should place children’s room for the daughter and bedroom for parents separately. We should plan three living areas: one kitchen-dining-living room, children’s room and bedroom.

A big dining table was the main request of the family, because their sons often come to their place for a dinner.

The second request was a big dressing-room, for which clients were ready to give up on guest bathroom.

The main question, that needed approval, was uniting of balcony with the living room. We informed the client, that balcony’s partitions couldn’t be demolished, but after we received approval, we continued our works. Technically balcony’s partitions weren’t carrying ones and were built of the simple blocks, so it didn’t influence on the building construction.

Finishing

In finishing we didn’t extended away from our favorite materials. We used painting for walls, parquet plank and ceramic granite for the floor. For color scheme being more specific, we partly used wooden lathes 2×3 sm on the walls, which became the part of interior design. In actual fact these lathes substituted wooden panels, being more budget variant with the same effect.

Storage systems

Besides the dressing room there are made-to-order built-in wardrobes in both children’s room and living room. In the children’s room, clients wanted out-of-the-box solution for storage, like a mix of open and closed storage systems. In the living room there is also made-to-order rack.

Lightening

In this project we used general lightening in the form of built-in lightening fixtures Сentrsvet. Also, for general lightening we used surface-mounted luminaire in the living room niche and track ones for the kitchen. The light from them is directed and soft at the same time. Despite the lightening is directed, it lightens zones and provides general light for each zone.

We also used mood lighting of led tape in the flat. The tape could be regulated by color and brightness with the help of desk and mobile application. So you can easily create the atmosphere you need.

Functional lightening is provided by floor-lamp and desk lamps. In the bathroom mirror lightening is accomplished with the help of the special built-in lamp. The light doesn’t attract attention and fulfills its function; these are the rules of contemporary design.