Functional interior in pleasant colors that’s how you can briefly describe this apartment. She belongs to a triathlete family with two sons. 

Customers and tasks 

The owners of this apartment in a panel house of the P-44 series are a married couple with two sons aged 10 and 17. Husband and wife are actively engaged in triathlons, so it was necessary to provide a bicycle storage space in the apartment. The hostess is also fond of cross-stitch needlework. My sons are studying.

Designer Irina Akimova, to whom the family turned, had several tasks: to create a comfortable and functional living space, to think over storage systems, to equip separate rooms for teenage children. 

Redevelopment

The possibilities of redevelopment in panel houses are always limited due to the large number of load-bearing walls. So it is in this case. The designer proceeded from the existing layout with three rooms, two balconies, a kitchen and separate bathrooms, but was able to squeeze the most out of the available space. 

So, the bathroom was slightly increased due to the corridor, and in the corridor they were able to allocate a utility block, correctly calculating the space for the cabinets. Three rooms were allocated as bedrooms for each family member, abandoning the living room. A dressing room was allocated in the parents’ room, a small utility block was separated in the bedroom of one of the sons, where an ironing board and an additional storage system were located. The balcony in the parents’ room was insulated and attached by removing the window (this decision must be coordinated with approx. editorial offices).

Finishing

In the decoration of the walls, paint of pleasant pastel shades was used. Each zone is highlighted in its own color. So, the common space is a corridor, a kitchen in neutral gray tones. In the bedroom, a delicate olive was used. In the sons’ rooms, beige, diluted yellow (in one) and blue shades (in the second) were added to the basic gray. An engineering board was laid on the floor, and tiles were laid in wet areas (in the kitchen, in the hallway).

The bathroom is fully decorated with white marble tiles with gray veins. In the bathroom, the walls are painted with the exception of the area behind the toilet installation, granite with a wooden pattern was chosen for it. He’s on the floor.

Storage systems

Thoughtful storage systems were one of the main wishes of the owners of the apartment, which the designer took into account. 

A dressing room is allocated in the parents’ room, and the storage of sports equipment is organized on the adjacent balcony. In the sons’ rooms there are cabinets for things, bedside tables for televisions for various small things, shelves and racks for books, papers in areas with work desks. 

In the hallway, a wardrobe for outerwear and a chest of drawers were provided, as well as a hanger.

In the adjacent hall there is a bookcase for storing books. 

Non-standard furniture arrangement was chosen for the kitchen, but ergonomics was taken into account. Where the sink was provided, a small part of the headset was entered. And the stove with the oven and the rest of the cabinets were placed on a perpendicular wall. The refrigerator was built in.

In the corridor, which is adjacent to the kitchen, they made a utility closet and a shoe rack. They are implemented in the same design as the headset, which together looks harmonious and seems to be a continuation of the kitchen.

In the bathroom, in addition to the cabinet under the sink, there are shelves-niches in the shower and glass shelves above the toilet installation. In the bathroom, they made a closed locker above the suspended toilet.

Lighting

Ceiling lighting is implemented in the form of central lamps and spot overhead spots, which separate areas are allocated, for example, children’s desks, a kitchen set, a TV area in the parents’ bedroom. In the latter, they abandoned the central chandelier, made bedside sconces for a chamber atmosphere. In the kitchen, the ceiling lamp is also placed not in the center, but above the dining table.

In the hall there is an overhead track lamp on the ceiling, and in the hallway there is a flat round lamp. Built-in spot lighting was installed in the bathroom and bathroom.

Designer Irina Akimova, author of the project:

The apartment is located in a beautiful area of Moscow Krylatsky hills with a park with trails for cyclists and runners, there is a triathlon center nearby. This location was chosen for a reason, our customers are a family of triathletes. The main task was to make a modern functional housing for everyday life out of an apartment in a panel house. The apartment was designed with two rooms for teenagers and plenty of storage space. A training space is organized on the balcony, a bicycle machine is located here, customers constantly participate in triathlon competitions and marathons, keep in shape all year round. Each room is made in its own color palette. This technique gives the interior dynamics, provides a change of impressions on a small area of the apartment. Children are more contrasting, each with its own character. The master bedroom is calm, on semitones. The hostess of the house is a great needlewoman, she sews dolls and embroiders pictures herself, so there are her wonderful embroideries and toys in every room.

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Bedroom

Bedroom

Bedroom

Son’s room

Son’s room

Second son’s room

Second son’s room

Second son’s room

Second son’s room

Hall

Hall-entrance hall

Hall-entrance hall

Family Pet

The editorial board warns that in accordance with the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, coordination of ongoing alterations and alterations is required.

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