The interior of this St. Petersburg apartment designed by ARCA Design studio is a cozy modern space with bright color accents and Scandinavian motifs.

Area: 100 sq. m

The apartment is located in St. Petersburg, in the residential complex «Neo». The owners — a family with a daughter — wanted to get a cozy home space, warm and comfortable, where every meter of the area is usefully used.

View from the living room from the kitchen. The main accent in the interior is a full—length wall painting made by hand by St. Petersburg artists. The sofa is made to order. Armchair, Dantone Home. Coffee table, Volta Coffee Table, Commune. Chandelier Spruzzo, ST Luce. Carpet, the company «Star carpets».

Attention in the living room is attracted by the library of a beautiful greenish-blue color. «This is the favorite color of the head of the family. The shade is complex. We picked it up for a long time, we did more than one color sample before it satisfied both us and the customer,» Irina Petrova notes. Floor lamp KARE Design, Skagen collection.

«Home for us is a place of peace, relaxation, energy filling and development. Reliability, sincerity and trust are the main things in our family. I want a feeling of movement inside, so that the space is interesting, it was interesting to dive into it and look at it,» this parting words of the customers determined the concept of the project, its functional, stylistic and emotional content.

View from the living room to the kitchen. For the work of the owners from home, a neat and elegant desk (Buro 120×60) in light walnut color was placed next to the library. The paintings are from the owners’ collection.

The typical layout was optimized by designers Irina Petrova and Polina Paatashvili for the needs and lifestyle of the household. The entrance to the living room was changed: initially it is located from the corridor. It was closed and made an entrance from the kitchen. The entrance to the dressing room has also changed — now you can get into it directly from the hallway, which made it possible to avoid arranging a closet in the hallway.

Kitchen area. The lemon tone of the kitchen is set off by the complex dark herbaceous shade of the apron and chairs — a beautiful and organic combination of two natural colors. The kitchen is made to order.

The hosts often receive guests — this is how the combined living room-kitchen appeared. At the same time, the kitchen can be separated from the living room by glass doors: in case the hostess is busy cooking, and the owner wants to watch TV.

The hostess loves the texture of rattan. Therefore, a wine cabinet with rattan doors was placed near the window. Mark Wood chairs NF. Chandelier Vega, Cosmo.

Every meter is usefully used in the kitchen: a small couch with drawers is installed near the window, and on the sides of it are two showcases with glass facades and a wine cabinet with rattan doors.

One of the wishes of the owners was the color — its original combinations and bright shades that would color the gray Petersburg everyday life. «The hostess of the house is a creative, enthusiastic nature, very emotional,— says Irina Petrova. — She wanted the interior to inspire, it was interesting to look at, so that it was not boring and gave joy.»

Hallway. On the floor — Hajnowka engineering parquet (Carmelo Select oak), VIVES porcelain stoneware. Console, For Miss. Mirror, IKEA. Chest of drawers, Lulu Space. Chandelier Croco, Lightstar.

Indeed, the palette of the interior is unique and very diverse. Special attention is drawn to the library in the living room of a rich spruce-blue color, made to order according to the sketches of the studio.

General view of the bedroom. Wallpaper, Factura. Carpet, the company «Star carpets».

However, the business card of the project is, of course, kitchen furniture. The first yellow kitchen in the portfolio of the authors of the project. An unusual configuration also makes it unique: the designers abandoned the upper cabinets and decorated the hood with a wooden box.

«In the bedroom, we abandoned the closet, which allowed us to create an interesting layout: behind the wall behind the bed, we equipped a spacious walk-in closet. You can get into it from both sides of the bed. The openings are decorated with thick curtains. This solution made the bedroom area as easy as possible, allowed us to do with a minimum of furniture,» Irina Petrova notes. Viva dressing table, Lulu Space salon.

Bathroom. The floor is lined with Grey Wax granite. Bathroom furniture is made to order. Pendant lamp Frost Long, Eurosvet.

The designers took classics as a basis and delicately used traditional elements in the design: panels, moldings, cornices, doors with a traditional layout. But the general mood is set by elements of the Scandinavian style, so beloved by customers. «The owners love the stingy, restrained nature of the North, they are close to the aesthetics of the Nordic countries,— explains the idea of Polina Paatashvili. — We also really like the laconic design and original Scandinavian interiors, and we tried to beat this theme in the design. Easy, unobtrusive, without templates. It turned out to be a very atmospheric space, with its own character and charm.»

Children’s room. Bed (KIDI Soft from 3 to 7 years old), Ellipse. Wallpaper, Factura.

General view of the children’s room.

Apartment plan.

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