A feminine interior in pastel colors|PdD

The apartment in Kielce has undergone a real metamorphosis - both in terms of room layout and arrangement. Thanks to the design of Agnieszka Frankowska-Madej from ArteDesign , the interior received a cozy and feminine character.

The girls' room features a rainbow motif

Photography and styling: Patryk Dyer © Dekorian Home

Big changes

The apartment has an area of 66 m2. It is inhabited by a mother with two daughters and a dog. That's why the investor dreamed of a renovation that would bring femininity and coziness to the interior. In addition, she wanted to brighten up the home space and give the whole thing a feeling of lightness and elegance. The space had to gain in functionality. To this end, the architect made a number of significant changes. Practically, she completely changed the layout of the apartment. To widen the circulation route, the designer decided to enlarge the hall. The partition wall between the hall and the room that now houses the owner's bedroom was moved by several centimeters. The entrance to the living area was also widened. In addition, the investor's previous bedroom, was turned into a girls' room, while the location of the kitchen was reversed by 90 degrees from the original.

The owner's bedroom

Photography and styling: Patryk Dyer © Dekorian Home

With aurora on the wall

In order to optically enlarge the hall space, the traditional bathroom door was abandoned in favor of a model in which the leaf has a retractable frame.

- This not only gave us the impression of continuity of the wall, but also allowed us to use it decoratively. It just happens to be vis à vis the front door. Immediately upon entering the apartment it strikes the eye," says the architect.

The wall was decorated with a large-format wall graphic with an interesting motif, which became one of the main decorative accents of the whole apartment.

- It is associated with the aurora seen at sunrise. In the morning, when sunlight falls on it, it lights up with particles woven into the structure, catching the rays, the designer describes.

At dusk, meanwhile, light fixtures placed in the skirting boards light up the lobby. This self-lighting of the circulation path is activated by a motion sensor.

The hallway with aurora borealis wallpaper

Photography and styling: Patryk Dyer © Dekorian Home

Pastel composition

The owner was keen to get rid of the strong contrasts that dominated the previous arrangement, including black and white and venge veneer, which reigned in the woodwork, door facings and furniture. She decided that it was overwhelming and that naturally colored oak wood would be better. She also wanted a pastel and "feminine" color scheme.

So the architect proposed, as a leading duo, ashen pink juxtaposed with gray, complemented by warm, broken white. The colors were used in varying degrees of intensity in many places, thus accentuating the distinctiveness of the zones. The walls in the dining nook were painted an intense gray. The color pink appears not only in the living room, but also in the bedroom and bathroom. In the latter room, pink is not only on the walls and doors, but also on the architect-designed custom-made built-in. In the apartment we also find gold. It shines in the large-format graphic in the lobby, as well as in the rich, à la Baroque frames surrounding the living herb garden hanging on the wall in the dining nook. In addition, a decorative panel and stucco moldings were introduced into the arrangement.

A lot of pink appears in the apartment

Photography and styling: Patryk Dyer © Dekorian Home

Kitchen full of life

The owner of the apartment likes to cook. So she wished for a lot of storage space for products. For this reason, a high built-in under the very ceiling was introduced, which accommodates, among other things: a cargo system and drawers. A ventilation chimney was hidden behind the built-ins. The gas pipes, in turn, were cleverly built in by lowering the ceiling in the hall, thus leveling it with the ceiling strip that surrounds the living space.

- We gave up the peninsula in favor of a sizable island equipped with capacious drawers, providing a comfortable place to work and, in addition, plenty of space to store things," says Agnieszka Frankowska-Madej.

The kitchen island separates zones in the living room

The furniture arrangements throughout the apartment were designed by Agnieszka Frankowska-Madej. In the case of the kitchen furniture, she received a stylistic clue from the owner of the apartment. It was a photograph of a kitchen equipped with so-called frame fronts, which were then used in the apartment. At the same time, the kitchen island optically divides the living room into a lounge area and a dining area.

- The procedure of "separating" was also repeated on the floor. In the kitchen zone matte terracotta tiles of 80 × 80 cm format were laid, while in the other zones of the living space there is an oak floor," says the architect.