Apartment in the River House residential complex | VKarpenko Architectural Workshop

The customers are a young couple with a young son. The host is an enthusiastic editing director, whose hobbies include cycling, surfing, and photography. The hostess is a creative lawyer, whose hobbies include music, Jazz, and travel. A technical specification was developed, which includes the color preferences of the customers, their wishes for ergonomics and space filling, and a list of the furniture and interior items that they already had at that time.

The main task, as in every project, is to optimize the source space to meet the customer's requirements. And in this project, executed in a Scandinavian minimalist style, it had to be worked out at a high level. Therefore, much attention was paid to hidden storage systems and ergonomics of common areas (living room, kitchen).

Since the apartment was in concrete at the beginning of the design and construction work, there were no bindings and restrictions (except reinforced concrete structures) that hindered the work.

Of the main rooms in the apartment, there is a combined living room-kitchen, in which the apartment's inhabitants spend most of their time, a master bedroom with an adjoining bathroom, a children's bedroom and auxiliary rooms for a guest bathroom and a wardrobe. Due to the global redevelopment, the partition between the children's room and the living room had to be moved in order to increase the area of the play area.

During the design, natural materials and natural colors close to the natural ones were used: wood and stone. The natural warm gray shade of the walls is a good base for bright furniture and art objects filling the interior. The warm shade of the oak floor allows you to soften and make the interior of the apartment more cozy.

A bright dominant feature in the living room interior is a retro bicycle suspended on a wooden shelf, which highlights the apartment owner's main hobby. A red surfboard and a desktop, which was designed individually for the project, made it possible to create a memorable image of the bedroom.

The living room furniture includes bright and authentic THECO Arona armchairs and a BoConcept Billund table.

The lamps are accents in the entire interior of the apartment and allow you to fill each space with your personality. For example, the space lamp P376 from designers Jørgen Kastholm and Preben Juhl Fabricius clearly binds the kitchen table. The bedside tables in the bedroom are accentuated by Jorn Utzon pendant lamps, and the austere look of the bedroom is diluted by the Formakami chandelier from Jaime Hayon.