Apartment Refurbishment

Apartment Refurbishment in A. Vespucio-Enrique Browne
Apartmens Antuninska - Dubrovnik, private accommodation..Apt IV sleeps (2+1) persons and also undergone a full refurbishment. ... Apartment 3 (One dbl bed, 1 twn sofa bed, liv/kitch, sh, wc. a/c, Safe, ...By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Interiors , Refurbishment , Selected , Chile, Enrique Browne, Residential, Wood

Architects: Enrique Browne y Asociados Arquitectos
Location: Santiago, Chile
Collaborators: Hernán Fontaine, Agustín Infante & Nicolás Saieh
Project year: 2007-2008
Constructed Area: 294 sqm
Contractor: Empresa Constructora Mena e Infante
Photographs: Felipe FontecillaThe

Project is the transformation of a 20 year old apartment in a historicist building. Since it´s located in the 6th floor, it has excellent views to the west guaranteed. The remodeling considered a program different from its original, plus a guest room. This and other reasons influenced in the desire of generate bigger and more integrated spaces.

The possibilities of intervention were very restrictive because: a) It was a requirement to keep the exterior untouched; b) Almost all the walls were of structural reinforced concrete, making it hard to modify and; c) the floor-ceiling height was very low.The proposal integrates and magnifies the spaces as possible.

For example, by unifying the living room and the dining room or by making the bedrooms bigger. The spatial quality and variety is achieved with wooden bands in the ceiling that unite the spaces, hid the beams, illumination and other fittings. These bands descend to the floor in certain doors, connecting the ceiling to the floor. Another descends to the table of the dining room.In the kitchen an inverse treatment was used. A red ceramic band climbs from the floor to the table and stove and it returns to the floor again. The changing natural and artificial light gives variety to spaces. The bathrooms had a special treatment with wood to give them warmth.

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Decorating Ideas When Shifting From a Home to Small Apartment

One of the most painful parting experiences of your life comes when you are trying to move from a large home decorator to a small apartment. For those who love the home furnishings furniture that have been so carefully hand-picked for their home equity rates, it becomes tough to leave a few of them out as their lives are revamped and resized. Here are some useful tips that will help make the transition smooth and easy for you.

Pick only what you need and get rid of all the junk

“Why waste them, when you have them?” This is surely the most difficult part as most people have a tendency of holding on to things believing that they will be useful “some day”. But when space becomes a premium you cannot continue to think like that. You will have to almost ruthlessly let go of stuff that has no place in your new apartment.

a garage sale before you move

No one is trying to suggest that you take a big dumpster and throw away all the stuff that you own. Have a garage sale before you move for all the stuff you wish to not really carry along, but would still serve good for others. If you cannot find takers for something that is still in pretty good condition, feel free to donate. It will both help lift your morale and will make packing, moving and home re-decorating a lot easier for you. We are sure the guys at places like Salvation Army will accept such donations.

Bring in furniture that is space-conscious, versatile in use

Multi-tasking is the modern mantra when it comes to furniture collection and once you get around the market, you will be astonished of what you can find in terms of highly flexible and space saving interiors. These might cost you a bit more than the traditional stuff that occupies more space, but they sure will be great as long term investments. Think about shifting to a hide-a-bed couch or even a Murphy Bed that folds up neatly into the wall and provides shelve space during daytime. This is just the tip of the iceberg. You can find folding tables, chairs, hanging beds and even folding bathrooms. Product designers out there are working overtime just for you!

Pick a single theme and use get the arrangement right

This obviously goes for every place that you live in, but it’s more important when you are moving from a home equity rates to a small apartment. One will have to change their lifestyle and designing ways when moving from a home decorator to an apartment as the new place has comparatively less room - hence a multitude of variations will be hard to portray in such a small area. Sticking to a single running theme and intelligent use of lighting along with arranging furniture collection in a non-cluttered manner will help immensely in accentuating the apartment’s beauty.

Use the walls as a way to store stuff

Unless the walls in your apartment are too thin and weak, you can always hang something on them. Its a extra space storage option that most people overlook. Remember that using the walls intelligently will create more room and by hanging stuff up, you will add your own unique flavor to the space around.Moving from a home equity rates to a small apartment is a conundrum that most people face in their lives these days and while it appears like a challenging task, a clear mind, un-cluttered design and willingness to invest in ergonomic and versatile furniture can help shape up your new apartment as good as your old home equity rates, or maybe even better.

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Apartment

Find and rent apartments, houses, condos and townhomes. View floor plans, photos and 360-degree views.Alfhemsgatan 7, Linnestad by Nils Jacobsson.

With an attractive location on Rose Street is given the unusual välhållna 20-century apartment. Charming planned and with the beautiful time-typical features such as high ceilings, stucco, ekparkett mm. Corner Position with large windows in two directions gives a nice light. Fine cuisine from 2005, stylish bathrooms from 2006. Good BRF.

Responsible agents : Nils Jacobsson

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Marco Polo apartment by Carola Vannini Architecture

Carola Vannini Architecture | Marco Polo apartment. Antes de la intervención. Carola Vannini Architecture | Marco Polo apartment. Después de la intervención ...The project’s purpose was to create a space that meets the client's need to completely change the previous apartment's distribution and look. The day area has been completely open, in order to create a light space with wide perspectives.

In order to do so, the kitchen has been partially enclosed behind a green brick wall that doesn’t reach the ceiling, thus preserving the perception of the continuing space. The wooden floor doesn't stop against the walls, but folds into vertical surfaces and creates the kitchen on one side, and the bookshelves wall on the other side. Most of the kitchen is visible from the open-space living room area, so a minimalist design was chosen to agree with the rest of the house’s style or home decorator. The night area is completely private: a sliding door brings from the living area to the master bedroom, the guest bedroom/office, the walk in closet and the two premier baths to bathrooms. Color and material engineering are very important: a mix of dark green (kitchen wall, sofa and ergonomic chair), brown (parquet and furniture) and white (walls), gives the space a relaxing and quite feeling and becomes the trait d'union of the all apartment.

MASTER BATHROOM:
The master bathroom has been conceived to create a warm and relaxing space through a careful use of colors: black, white and red, live together in a refined armony while defining the space architecture. All details and furniture such as shelves, wooden furniture, and decorative elements, have been designed by the architect. The black glass premier baths follows the geometrical lines of the space. Architecture and design are here intentionally melded in order to create a space where the gaze folds into the different volumes.
GUEST BATHROOM:

The tiny guest bathroom creates a refined balance between dark colors and warm material engineering, such as the wengé wood floor and the walls' grey concrete veneering. Over the grey walls, the white fixtures pup out with their square shapes. The lighting design only illuminates important details, while suggesting the ironic idea of an art exhibition where fixtures become artworks and walls become their caskets.
MASTER BEDROOM AND GUEST BEDROOM:

The master bedroom is characterised by a white glass wall that gives a surreal feeling the space.
Design concept, color and material engineering all agree with the rest of the apartment. The folding floor here becomes bed and then wardrobe, while keeping the perception of the continuing space. A large niche frames the bed and underlines it through a refined lighting design. The master total bedroom and the guest total bedroom are separated by a big sliding door. This allows the clients to completely merge the two spaces when (most of the time) they prefer to use the smaller room as an office space or simply as the master bedroom's continuation.
KITCHEN:
The kitchen has been designed to be partially separated from the living room. A brick wall, designed as a curtain, hides part of it. An opening is created at its centre, in order to let the table slide into it. This allows a flexible use of space and a nice communication between different functional areas. Again, the wooden floor folds and creates the wooden table that crosses the brick wall while becoming the long kitchen work-top. The fluidity of space and functions is underlined by the use of the same kind of wood for floors and furniture. The extra space storage units underneath the worktop have a clean design: the handles are recessed in the thickness of the doors and the appliances are hidden by the dark wood doors. The special paint that has been used doesn’t cover but emphasizes the wood’s grain. The wooden kitchen furniture has been designed to hide its real functions: the doors conceal large cabinets, the green neon is used to light the worktop but also to emphasise the space's depth through a new green surface.

Arquitectura en Italia & Planos de casas

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Trastevere apartment - Roma by Carola Vannini

Memoria original en inglés:
Carola Vannini nasce a Roma nel 1973 e si laurea in Architettura presso la ... The apartment situated in the heart of the Trastevere section of Rome and ...This apartment (located in the historical center of Rome) has completely been reorganized and modified in both, interior distribution and style.

The use of warm colors and material engineering had the purpose to create a cosy environment while opening the space and emphasising the existing ancient building's structural material engineering. The all day area has been conceived as a stage setting where architecture, art and design work together. The lighting design played a very important role, because the apartment is located at the first floor of a narrow street and doesn't have a generous natural light. The recessed lighting spots and the use of walls which emphasise the space's depht, opened the volumes and underlined the main furniture collection elements.

The kitchen faucets is partially hidden by a partition that encloses two glass sliding doors. When the doors are open, the kitchen's ancient brick wall can be seen from the livingroom. The wooden kitchen's furniture very well connects to the other architectural elements and material engineering. The night area is completely private and separate from the rest of the apartment through a small corridor that brings into the master total bedroom, the studio, two walk-in-closets and the master bathroom. Confort and warmth are the main characteristics of this space. The use of material engineering like dark wengé wood and refined fabrics, have been very important in order to create a cousy and comfortable flair. The master bathroom, designed for two people, is large and bright. Glass, wood and white resins work together in a refined balance.

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A Chapel Converted Into a Modern Apartment

98 Responses to “A Chapel Converted Into a Modern Apartment”. Pages: « 1 [2] Show All. 51. Mr. Smiley Says: January 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 pm ...

The decline in church attendance over the last several decades has meant that countless churches across the Netherlands have lost their function. They are crumbling, are demolished, or are put to new uses. Their specific architectural features often fall by the wayside in this process.

Not every church can be turned into a municipal exhibition hall, and if, for example, a residential use is chosen, the original spatial qualities are usually lost. A dutch firm named Zecc has converted an old chapel into an apartment, carefully respecting and enhancing the character of the original building.

The chapel was part of a large housing complex of the Friars of Utrecht, which at its height, around the mid-20th century, housed 217 residents. The remaining 13 elderly friars, however, moved to a nursing home decorator in 2005, and the complex was divided up and converted into about 40 apartments.

The design team chose to keep many of the original features like the high gothic stained glass windows and the original choir organ. To allow more light to enter the space, they cut a Mondrian-inspired glass window into the front of the house facing the street perhaps paying homage to Rietveld’s nearby infamous Schroder House. The entire living area has been whitewashed, while the private spaces above were painted dark. In conclusion this place might be controversial, but it looks very modern and stylish. - Via

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