Dark colors in the interior
Location: Saint-Petersburg
Designers: Evgenia Chucharina, Alexander Rodin
Area: 65 sq. m.
Year: 2019
The main goal of this project was a major redevelopment. It was a typical apartment – a long corridor and cut rooms. However, it was designed and got:
- a spacious kitchen-living room;
- the kitchen must be dark , and the living room must have a large TV with a good speaker system;
- a bedroom with a big bed and a built-in closet;
- a separate cabinet with a big working table, the desk should be combined with the window sill.
The first thing that was done – it was removed all of the partitions, thus we got a kind of “open space” in which we began to create.
We did not divide the space of the apartment into rooms in the classical sense of the word. All the rooms are divided into functional zones with the help of a clever arrangement of furniture, lighting and color accents. Each space flows from one another. For example, the living room is one “combined” with the kitchen, but it is separated from it by another level of the ceiling, not separated by a door or a glass partition. So we combined the spaces into one room.
We placed the kitchen behind a wall with a washroom and a dressing room with a passage through the living room. The kitchen has a small round table which can be comfortable for two people but if necessary it can be rearranged to make room for up to 4 people.
The living room is visually separated from the kitchen by a sofa. A TV set with speaker system is placed on the wall so that it can be watched while sitting in the kitchen.
The same wall, or rather a partition, separates the cabinet which we decided not to make a separate room in order not to make it too small, but was designed right in the hall in order to make a place for concentrated and quiet work with the beads.
The main thing was the table which we combined with the window sill and made of ash wood. It is a removable structure which can be taken off and put in the closet if necessary.
In this project, we used a lot of dark colors, often playing on their contrast with the materials. The clients are very fond of dark colors, and we used this opportunity for creative experimentation. The peculiarity of the dark color is that it goes perfectly with the wood and is a background for the softer tones and accents of color and also adds depth to the space. And traditionally the colors of St. Petersburg are dark colors: the color of the old stone – dark gray and dark brown, black, lead color of rain.
High ceilings, preserved bare brick walls and detailed lighting create a cozy atmosphere, emphasizing the atmosphere of old St. Petersburg.
