The Escala Arquitetura office created a room for the residents’ grandchildren and opted for light decoration to highlight the view
A couple decided to renovate their apartment. 250 m2 after the three children left home. To achieve this goal, the architects Carolina Escada and Patricia Landau, of the studio Architecture in scale. “The clients asked to maintain the existing integration between the kitchen and living room, to reserve a bedroom for the grandchildren who visit them regularly and to create many storage spaces throughout the entire apartment,” explains Patricia.
To the Entrance hall there were two original structural beams in the building that could not be moved. The architects then decided to exploit them, adding fake plaster beams to give the idea of a internal illuminated pergola. “It’s an interesting detail that has an impact on anyone who enters the apartment and walks down this corridor until they reach the living room,” says Carolina.
As the couple’s room it was located at the back of the apartment, in the new layout the architects brought it to the seafront (occupying the place of the old office) and the bedrooms that belonged to the children were transformed into two wardrobes and a bedroom for the grandchildren. “The couple’s new bedroom now features a super bathroom with a private walk-in, as well as two wardrobes integrated linearly via sliding doors. In this way, we have created a large and integrated space that meets the needs of both, while maintaining privacy of the two. each spouse for daily use, when necessary,” explains Patricia.
Although it was already integrated into the living room, the kitchen was very compartmentalized and had a part closed with brickwork, as well as non-functioning cabinets. The architects eliminated the service room to make it larger and with smoother circulation, and designed a top with double basin for the preparation of savory foods and another, with a single basin, for desserts.
At the access to the kitchen, near the green marble counterthe generous sliding door that hides the new storage unit, covered with a full-height mirror to replicate the sea view at the back of the room.
In terms of “color palette”, in general, the architects favored light and light colors so as not to detract from the view of the sea, present both in the common areas and in the couple’s suite. “Customers’ preference for the color blue and shades of turquoise and pink guided the choice of bedding and wallpaper for their bedroom,” explains Carolina.
In the decoration of the social area, which follows the contemporary stylemixed with the personality of the residents, some existing furniture was used and restored, such as the coffee table, the armchairs with the turquoise seat, the chaise-style armchairs in the TV room, the dining chairs, the cheese cupboard, the trunks, the armchairs and pouf.
In the kitchen, the Tulipa stools were upholstered in caramel leather and the Guatemala green marble worktop was retained. For the rest, everything is new, among which stand out the Collana swivel armchairs, by designer Daniel Simonini, the Saarinen dining table (which received a customized marble top, less oval than the standard, to accommodate eight chairs) and the comfortable sofa Monaco, extracted from the Contemporary Archive. Among the works of art, the architects chose the painting by artist Danielle Karkav, in shades of green and pink, as the focal point of the living room decoration. The other paintings were already part of the clients’ collection.
In terms of “materials and finishes”, the demolition of peroba flooring It is original to the apartment and has been preserved. To contrast the darker tone of the material, without visually weighing it down, the architects invested light colored furniture and natural fiber carpets.
In the social area, the walls are white so as not to take away the view of the sea, while in the bedrooms of the couple and their grandchildren, the wallpapers were chosen in light shades of white, beige and off-white, with light touches of blue . “These colors made the couple’s room welcoming and peaceful. The wood warms and rebalances the environment”, underlines Carolina.
Finally, in the dining room, the great protagonist is the full-height bookcase in white lacquer, full of shelves and with a large central nichewhich was designed by the carpentry office specifically to display, in an organized way, the objects that best represent the family’s emotional memory.
Source: Terra
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