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Period flat · Classic with colourful accents

A period apartment reimagined – with colour and elegance

A city-centre period flat with moulded cornices, framed wall panelling and herringbone oak parquet. We chose deep green for the kitchen fronts and the armchairs in the larger bedroom, and sunshine yellow for the bathroom tiles.

Style
Classic with colourful accents
Spaces
Living room, dining area, kitchen, entrance hall, two bedrooms, bathroom
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Kitchen with deep green fronts, a run of light cabinets above the worktop, a stone-effect worktop running down to the floor at the end of the peninsula, bar stools and pendant lights with ribbed glass shades
We designed a concealed light strip beneath the top run of green cabinets.
01 / The concept

A classic framework, a different colour in each room.

The moulded cornice, the framed wall panelling and the herringbone oak parquet recur in several rooms of the flat and form the shared base. We chose neutral tones for the living room and more saturated colours for the kitchen, the larger bedroom and the bathroom.

What ties the flat together

Herringbone oak parquet

French herringbone oak parquet runs through the living spaces and the circulation areas.

Moulded cornice with concealed lighting

A moulded cornice runs along the ceiling, with a concealed light strip behind it.

Framed wall panelling

Framed panelling covers the lower part of the walls. It is warm grey in the living room and the larger bedroom, and white in the smaller bedroom.

02 / Entrance hall

An upholstered seating niche between the wardrobes.

The built-in wardrobes in the entrance hall have warm grey framed fronts, and we designed a seating niche into the run of wardrobes.

On the wall opposite the seating niche we arranged a group of capsule-shaped mirrors. Beside them hangs a larger metal-framed mirror, with a marble-topped console table below it.

Entrance hall with built-in wardrobes with framed fronts and an upholstered seating niche, with the dining area and the living room visible through the passage
From the entrance hall, the dining area and the living room are visible through the passage.

The seating niche and the wardrobes up close

  1. Framed wardrobe fronts

    We designed long, vertical metal handles for the framed doors.

  2. Channel-stitched back panel

    The back of the niche is upholstered with vertical channel stitching and fitted with coat hooks.

  3. Concealed light strip

    We set concealed lighting into the top of the niche.

  4. Bench with drawers

    There are drawers beneath the bench.

Entrance hall wall with capsule-shaped mirrors and a larger metal-framed mirror beside them, with a marble-topped console table below it, on herringbone parquet
The narrow mirrors hang at different heights on the wall.
Upholstered bench with a vertically channel-stitched back panel, and a framed drawer front with a metal handle below it
The drawer front has the same framed design as the wardrobe doors.
03 / Living room and dining area

From the dining area, both the living room and the kitchen are in view.

The living room connects to the dining area and the kitchen through a wide opening. Seen from here, the deep green of the kitchen provides the accent.

On one side, the dining area is bounded by a glass block wall with a rippled surface. It lets light through, but anything behind it is visible only as a blur.

View from the dining area: a glass block wall on the left, the living room ahead and the deep green kitchen peninsula on the right; herringbone parquet and moulded cornice
Separate moulded cornices frame the ceilings of the living room and the kitchen.
Living room with a light corner sofa by the window, round glass coffee tables, warm grey wall panelling and a moulded cornice
The corner sofa by the window, with warm grey wall panelling behind it.

A light corner sofa, warm grey wall panelling.

In front of the corner sofa we chose two round coffee tables with glass tops, and for the ceiling a fan with wooden blades.

Light living room with a corner sofa and framed wall panelling, with the deep green kitchen peninsula and four bar stools through the wide opening on the right
From the living room, the kitchen peninsula is also visible through the opening.
Dining area with a dark wooden table and four black upholstered chairs, beside a glass block wall with a rippled surface
A dark wooden dining table with four black upholstered chairs.
04 / Kitchen

Deep green fronts, a run of light cabinets above the worktop.

In the kitchen, the tall units and the base units have deep green fronts with a marbled finish. The greige, stone-effect worktop continues onto the splashback.

We designed open shelving on one side of the kitchen. We chose four bar stools to go beside the peninsula and pendant lights with ribbed glass shades to hang above it.

Kitchen with deep green fronts, a run of light cabinets above the worktop, a stone-effect worktop running down to the floor at the end of the peninsula, bar stools and pendant lights with ribbed glass shades
We designed a concealed light strip beneath the top run of green cabinets.

Fronts, worktop and cornice

  1. Deep green tall units

    The same front is repeated on the top run of cabinets, so the green frames the light cabinets.

  2. Light cabinets above the worktop

    Concealed lighting runs along their lower edge and lights the worktop.

  3. Worktop running down to the floor

    The worktop material closes off the end of the peninsula, and the side facing the bar stools is deep green.

  4. Cornice with a light strip

    In the kitchen, too, a moulded cornice frames the ceiling, with a concealed light strip behind it.

05 / Bedrooms

Green armchairs in the larger bedroom, oak in the smaller one.

In the larger bedroom we chose two deep green upholstered armchairs to stand in front of the window. There is a ceiling fan with wooden blades here too.

For this room we designed a built-in wardrobe with framed doors, and the bed has an upholstered headboard.

The larger bedroom with two deep green upholstered armchairs in front of the window, framed wall panelling and a built-in wardrobe with framed doors
The framing of the wall panelling continues below the window.
The larger bedroom with warm grey framed wall panelling, an upholstered headboard, botanical-print wallpaper and a ceiling fan with wooden blades
Above the wall panelling, the wall behind the bed is covered in a pastel botanical-print wallpaper.
Smaller bedroom with a roof window, a wall niche with oak shelves, an upholstered bed and white framed wall panelling
Both the bed frame and the headboard are upholstered.

A roof window and oak shelves in the smaller bedroom.

The smaller bedroom has a roof window in the ceiling. We designed oak shelves for the wall niche between the two windows, and an oak sill beneath one of the windows.

06 / Bathroom

White tiling, a band of yellow tiles.

White large-format tiles form the base of the bathroom, broken up by a band of yellow tiles. The shower wall has sunshine yellow rectangular tiles laid horizontally.

Beside the shower we designed a built-in niche for the washing machine and the dryer, stacked one on top of the other. Opposite the washbasin is a heated towel rail.

The bathroom looking towards the shower: a sunshine yellow tiled shower wall with a shelved niche, a stacked washing machine and dryer, a floating vanity unit and a heated towel rail
We set a shelved niche into the shower wall.
The bathroom looking towards the door: white large-format tiles, a band of yellow tiles, a backlit silver-framed mirror, a floating white vanity unit and a wall-hung toilet opposite
The band of yellow tiles runs the full length of the wall, level with the lower part of the mirror.

Washbasin and wall-hung toilet on the door side.

We designed a backlit, silver-framed mirror above the floating vanity unit and a wall-hung toilet on the opposite wall.

07 / Details up close

Glass blocks, mirrors, yellow tiles.

08 / Material selection

Deep green, greige, oak and sunshine yellow.

The palette is based on the herringbone oak parquet and the warm grey wall panelling.

Mood board

Green front, stone-effect worktop, silver-framed mirror

Deep green upper cabinet fronts with a marbled finish, a light strip and a run of light cabinets below them, and a moulded cornice with concealed lighting above
Stone-effect worktop running down to the floor at the end of the peninsula, with deep green base units and herringbone parquet behind it
Backlit silver-framed mirror with the band of yellow tiles beside it

In the kitchen, the marbled green is paired with a greige, stone-effect worktop. In the bathroom, the yellow tiles add colour to the white tiling, and the mirror has a silver frame.

Deep green marbled front
Herringbone oak parquet
Greige stone-effect worktop
Warm grey wall panelling
Sunshine yellow tiles
09 / The bathroom in a drawing

From sketch to visualisation.

The line drawing was made from the finished visualisation.

The bathroom looking towards the shower: a sunshine yellow tiled shower wall with a shelved niche, a stacked washing machine and dryer, a floating vanity unit and a heated towel rail
We set a shelved niche into the shower wall.

The shared classic framework keeps the colours from breaking up the flat. The deep green and the sunshine yellow remain accents, while the neutral living room and the oak parquet give them a calm background.

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