Minimalism in the interiorHow to increase the space

• Photo 1. Living room. The supporting walls are made of bricks. In order to preserve the expressive texture of the surface, they were covered with an enveloping layer of plaster mixed with PVA glue for viscosity and painted. Perhaps, in the modern market of decorative materials it would be difficult to find a more spectacular finish.
• Photo 2.In the room with a beautiful front view of the embankment of the Moscow River staged a living room. Accurately calculated and thoughtfully arranged vertical and horizontal forms and volumes allowed to achieve the necessary harmony in the interior. In addition, every detail is functional.

First, architect Michael Dautov, focusing onfuture integrated space, made changes to the layout. Now there are only two isolated rooms in the apartment - a bedroom and a large bathroom. The next step was the ubiquitous distribution of embedded structures. For example, all household appliances and other household items were hidden not in the utility room, but in deep closets built between the bedroom and the bathroom. At the same time, this “wall” separates the bedroom from the corridor. The cabinets are set up with a “jack”, that is, some of them open toward the bedroom, and some - into the corridor and the hallway. The composition ends almost in the kitchen. Therefore, on reflection, in the last closet a refrigerator was placed ... “Every centimeter of space was on the account,” says Mikhail. The architect also used a number of design techniques designed to visually enlarge and at the same time beautify the space. The texture of the supporting brick walls was preserved, the original lighting system was arranged in the form of light strips in the wall, not to mention the long mirrors that play an active role in the corridor and bathroom.

• Photo 1. In the room with a beautiful front view of the embankment of the Moscow River staged a living room. Accurately calculated and thoughtfully arranged vertical and horizontal forms and volumes allowed to achieve the necessary harmony in the interior. In addition, every detail is functional.
• Photo 2. Glowing stripes in the wall look very impressive. This result was achieved as follows. Fluorescent lamps were placed in specially hollowed out niches and covered with plastic covers flush with the wall. Soft light does not hurt the eyes, but it is enough for all areas of the apartment.
• Photo 3. The wall behind the headboard is sewn up with MDF panels, finished with cherry veneer, which were made according to the sketches of the architect at the Moscow production.
• Photo 4. Scarlet bathroom - the only bright room. In small apartments, basic rooms are rarely made active in color, because too saturated tones in a confined space press down and eventually become stale. A bathroom is not a place where you stay constantly, and the bright color of its walls does not have such a strong effect. In addition, a certain color shock is an additional aesthetic and emotional impulse, which is very necessary in the morning to wake up and come to life.
• Photo 5. A bathroom with a window in a city apartment is a rarity and luck. And in this case, the owner was doubly lucky, because it goes into a quiet cozy courtyard with lindens.

According to Michael, when working on this interiorFirst of all, they were thinking about functionality: “There is nothing superfluous, just made for beauty.” The resulting living space can be described as exquisitely monotonous. True, a rather strict coloristic solution is diluted with bright patches, in particular, with the color of the fabric on the sofa. The architect believes that such inserts only emphasize the restrained color structure of the interior as a whole. “And besides, there is always an opportunity for self-expression: the cowberry-colored sofas were disliked - they changed the upholstery or ordered covers. By the way, complete with these sofas, there are one more, spare covers. It is much easier to replace them than, say, repainting walls. ”

In a collection of ideas

The wall between the lower and upper kitchen cabinetsdid not traditionally finish with tiles or decorative panels. It was covered with glass, through which the brickwork is visible. Glass reliably protects the surface from splashes during cooking.

A gap was made in the wall between the kitchen and the bathroom andlaid with glass blocks. During the day from the bathroom (which has sunlight through them. In the evening, when the electricity is turned on in the bathroom, the light in the kitchen takes on a beautiful pinkish tint. The reason for this is the bright red tiles on the walls of the bathroom).

Cutting off the roughness of the brick on the necessarysquare and having achieved a flat surface, a pre-ordered mirror was pasted into the recess. Due to a sufficiently large reflective surface, the corridor space visually increased. The function of the usual sconces above the mirror is performed by the same built-in lamps in the form of a strip. The same technique was successfully used in the design of the bathroom.

Another interesting detail is the fridge,mounted in the end wall of wardrobe cabinets. Despite its non-standard, the design is not complicated. In one of the cabinets instead of the usual door hinges installed hinges used for refrigerators. All anticipated changes were negotiated and agreed upon when placing an order at the factory. Inside the resulting box have built a refrigerator.

The space of the bedroom would be extremely easy. Accordingly, large wardrobes for this room were contraindicated. Then the architect suggested an original and justified step: to look for wall-mounted and console lower cabinets in the kitchen furniture collections. It turned out that finding such modules for a small room is much easier than choosing a dressing room option, and they are much cheaper. This experiment resulted in an ideal storage system - compact, spacious and beautiful at the same time. And the surface, which would serve as a worktop in the kitchen, is used in the bedroom as a convenient shelf for TV, music equipment, favorite books and other necessary things. And the whole composition comfortably got into a niche behind a specially built partition, the height of which is designed exactly under the furniture.

Interview with the owner

“Mikhail Dautov made an apartment for one of myfriends And despite the fact that the interior was designed in a completely different style than I prefer, I immediately liked this work. When we began to think over how my apartment would look like, I outlined the task to the architect in a few words. He proposed a number of interesting solutions, and the work went. As a result, everything planned was implemented quickly and adequately. The apartment is small, but I wanted to have as much space as possible here and as little as possible of the decorative elements that usually eat up this space. Here, high ceilings, and we tried to maintain a given height. All technical details were removed in cabinets. Nothing superfluous, no congestion with details, clear contours, simple geometric shapes. In short, minimalism in its pure form - that's what we wanted to achieve. Many of my guests say that the apartment is too restrained, but I feel comfortable here. It is unlikely that I could exist in another space. A clear, slim interior fits my character and image of the house. ”

Planning solution

Initially it was an apartment in a Stalin-era building.30s with a standard layout for that time: a small entrance hall, a narrow (less than two meters) long corridor that rested on a bathroom, rooms on the both sides of the corridor, plus an isolated kitchen. On the question of what changes were made to the dwelling’s configuration, the architect, smiling, replied: “Everyone broke down except the load-bearing walls.” There was a large bathroom in the place of the kitchen, a niche in the place of the bathroom. The corridor was expanded by the bedroom. A room with a beautiful view of the embankment of the Moscow River has become a living room. Thanks to the small kitchen in the niche and the absence of partitions in the public area, it was possible to create an open and fairly free space in the living-dining room. The architect says that when working on this apartment, he mainly sought to identify and emphasize all those decorative and spatial possibilities that had already been laid in the interior by Soviet builders.

Entire object

Floor: porcelain tile (Italy) Load-bearing, brick walls: plaster, paint Partition between bathroom and kitchen: brick Ceiling: gypsum board Light: Delta Light (Belgium) Windows: Bavarian House (Russia) Doors, racks, wall panels from MDF finished with cherry veneer in the bedroom : on an individual project (workshop of V. Krot, Russia) Plan before redevelopment: Total area - 63.0 square meters. m, ceiling height - 3.35 mPlan after redevelopment: Total area - 63.0 square meters. m, ceiling height - 3.25 mText by Nikolay Bardenyuk Photo by Dmitry Livshits

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