Integral reform in apartment in Darmstadt (Germany)

Interior design intervention in 2022 in a house from the year 1900.

The intervention respected the distribution of load-bearing walls and opted to generate a common entrance and kitchen space to decongest the heart of the house of dark corridors and in this way create a unic lighty space. We remove the wall of the kitchen, but leave the wooden structures.

Stripping this structure also helped us to organize and decorate the resulting space with hanging vegetation.

The original wooden flooring was rescued, sanded and primed with linseed oil and white pigment to give it more elegance. For the walls we choose warm and harmonious colors interspersed with different shades of white.

The bathroom is an important part into the Project. The headroom was not generous and had sagging fixtures on both sides. With a conventional horizontal false ceiling, the bathroom would have been quite narrow, so we decided to play with the false ceiling planes to hide the fixtures and leave the maximum height. Somehow, this limitation leads us to create a cozy “little house” that generates surprise inside the apartment. The bathroom becomes an important point of the home, not just as an hygiene space, but an almost sacred place to disconnect from the outside world.

As Ruskin said “we want the buildings not only to serve us as a shelter but also to speak to us” and we add: and we want them to do it with gentleness and respect.

@MiniArquitectura

Project: miniArquitectura + Silvia Mar Studio