Photo: Kirill Ovchinnikov. 
Design of a two-bedroom apartment
Rules of the game
"Starting a new project, I least of all think aboutcolor of walls, - Anna Erman admits. - It is much more important to develop a comfortable layout, make quality communications and put a good floor. This is the basis on which you can then string any decorative solutions. " This time the formation of the foundation was delayed. "My customer - a meticulous person, he went into all the details, but he was constantly distracted. At first he actively studied: he graduated from a law school, wrote and defended a diploma. Then he spent two months at the training camp in the army. So the work moved slowly, "- says Anna. Strangely enough, the endless delays went to the apartment only for the good. Initially, the owner dreamed of a strict and restrained interior, and the black ceilings could only dream of him in a terrible dream. But - the water grinds the stone. "When it came to finishing, we've known each other for a year and a half. During this time, the customer realized that I can be trusted, and was ready for unexpected ideas. "
Entrance hall. The outer wall of the guest toilet is covered with wallpaper Stro-heim & Roman. At the wall - bench Chair One, design by Konstantin Grcic for Magis.
On the kitchen-living room floor is a parquet board made of walnut. Kitchen furniture by Del Tongo. Lampshades are made of natural veneer.
Entrance hall
It is believed that the best way to visually increaseA small room - paint it in white. But Anna used a more radical method: black does not push the walls - it erases them. The only point of support in the "boundless" hallway was a walled wallpaper. It is illuminated from above and from below, so there is a feeling that immediately behind it is a huge, light-flooded space. In fact, behind the wall is a guest toilet (the customer did not want to spend precious meters on an additional bathroom, but Anna convinced him that in an apartment divided into a private and public area, otherwise it's just impossible). The unusual finish of the floor is dictated by the harsh necessity: in fact the owner wanted to put ceramic granite here, but neat slabs measuring 30 x 30 cm would emphasize the incredible curvature of the walls. "For their alignment would have to narrow the hallway by as much as twenty centimeters!" Therefore, we have added ceramic granite slabs of ground pebbles (riverstone), which conceals unevenness ", - explains the designer. "Men need only one thing - the plasma on the wall. It is impossible to convince them. We have to divert attention from the screen by means of decor. "
The walls are painted with opaque Oikos paint. Wallpaper from Stro-heim & Roman. On either side of the coffee table are chairs from Porada. Under the plasma screen - a curbstone from Molteni.
Living room
"Plasma panels disfigure the interior as nothinganother, "Anna believes. And since the customer did not think of a living room without a home theater, she had to work hard to find a compromise between technology and aesthetics. She placed plasma and symmetrically placed columns around her on a background of wallpaper with a complex active pattern - thanks to this equipment is perceived as a work of abstract art. To make this installation look even more impressive, the wall and even the ceiling were painted black. "Many people think that the dark ceiling looks lower than the standard white. But they are wrong: it's not a color that is dangerous, but a sharp contrast between the ceiling and the walls. But if you paint them with the same paint, then the border between them will be erased, and the room will seem incredibly high. " Judging by the photo, the interior turned dark, but it is not. "First of all, there is a lot of natural light here," the designer explains. - Secondly, the mass of fixtures: five lamps with lampshades in the center, another in the corner for breakfast, plus soffits in the kitchen area (just in case I also provided sockets for floor lamps). And then, take my word for it: people pay attention to the ceiling last. As for the walls, only one of them is painted black. The rest are beige, as the customer demanded. "" A high cabinet, in which it is possible to build household appliances, is indispensable in the kitchen-living room. It helps to make the cooking zone very compact. "
The breakfast corner is equipped in a niche (it was provided by the original layout). The "apron" of the kitchen is made of frosted glass.
The owner asked to separate this corner of the living room to admire the view from the window. Armchair, Pierantonio Bonacina.
Furniture
Anna insists that the abundance of black surfaces inhouse should not be misleading: "We are not far from the original wishes of the customer. Just repaint the walls and ceiling in white or beige, and you get the most ordinary modern interior, in which there is nothing radical. Look, for example, on furniture - it is very high-quality, but absolutely neutral. " The house has representatives of the best Italian brands (chairs from Porada, a bed from Emme Mobili, a cabinet for technics from Molteni), but among them there is not one recognizable subject. "I did not want to make an interior that will become obsolete in six months," explains the designer. - And in this case, you should avoid becoming familiar, replicated objects. An exception can only be made for items that have already become classics of design. Such, for example, as a pendant chair from Pierantonio Bonacina. These are eternal values! "
Bedroom
"The owner of the apartment is a young man, but verycircumstantial. He does not like hasty decisions. Only the choice of microwave oven it took several weeks, and finding the right picture for the bedroom could take a long time. To the wall at the head of the head was not empty, I came up with an asymmetric design with lighting and shelves, where you can store books. "
Emme Mobili brand bed is covered with a blanketFabrics with an optical pattern from Cravet. Curtains are sewn from the fabric of Chivasso: "First we bought a fabric for the curtains and curtains, and then we selected a wall paint for it. This allowed to muffle too active a pattern. "Anna Erman recommends: 5 terms of a good interior- Good planning. I mean not only the location of the walls, but also the arrangement of furniture. It must be thought through before the repair is started. Without this, it is impossible to find the optimal location of the sockets and draw a conclusion for the upper light. - Quality wooden frames. There is no more miserable sight than white plastic double-glazed windows. - In the kitchen, combined with the living room, there should not be a tile "apron" and tiles on the floor. - Large bathroom. A tiny bathroom, packed full of plumbing, is a real horror. I do not understand people who make a huge living room, but only five meters away. - Guest toilet is the face of the apartment. You can not save on its design.
One of the walls, the sarcophagus of the bathtub and the partition are lined with tiles from Viva Ceramica. Anna does not like this finishing material, but the customer was implacable.
In the niche (she was in the apartment initially) arrangedshelves for bath accessories. The washbasin and the bathtub are equipped with mixers from Axor. Comments to the plan "We worked long and painfully on the layout: the customer wanted at all costs to turn a two-room apartment into a full three-room apartment," Anna says. "Eight different variants were invented and rejected, and in the end we realized that we would have to forget about this idea - there are too few windows in the apartment. Then we took as a basis the plan of the BTI and divided the space into two zones: public (entrance hall, kitchen-living room, guest toilet) and private (bedroom, dressing room, master bathroom and small study). " 
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