Old meets new in a city-centre abode
Mixing historical styles within a home is never an easy feat. Tasked with breathing life into a turn-of-the-century apartment, the owner opted to crash old and new into one another head-on.
Original parquet wooden floor and intricately molded ceilings renovated with Absolute in the living room contrast cleverly with the apartment’s more radical features, like a monolithic stainless steel cabinet set and blue Cementoresina floors in the kitchen.
Spare furnishing and carefully chosen design pieces straddle eras. From mid-century seating to contemporary lighting, to an old master-style portrait hanging watchfully over the kitchen, the space sits in a perpetual state of flux, unsure of where it’s going, where it’s been and how it will get there.
Contemporary elements such as Cementoresina floors in intense KK 29 blue are a functional choice for environments such as bathrooms and kitchens, an addition that forms the perfect backdrop to the apartment’s original features, such as the 1960s coloured wooden window frames.
The velvety walls of the living area in calm shades of green KK 56 and pink grey KK 119 emphasize the warm white of the ceiling, creating seductive chromatic vibrations and adding brightness to the space.
Strong lines and bright colours characterize a bathroom with an eclectic design. The ultramarine blue KK 29 rises from the Cementoresina floor to the Wallcrete walls, providing contrast to the ochre furniture and minimalist white-tiled bathtub, where Fugabella Color grouts recalls the continuous surfaces.