Curves and Bauhaus-Inspired Colors Freshen Up a 560-Square-Foot Barcelona Apartment

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Challenge Particulars:

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Designer: Not A Studio / @itsnotastudio

Footprint: 560 sq. ft

From the Designer: “Each the colour palette of your complete condo, with a nod to the Bauhaus, in addition to the selection of furnishings and ornament, observe a really informal, recent, and enjoyable type that displays the persona of the consumer, a younger single man. After a couple of months searching for what would turn out to be his first dwelling, we lastly discovered the proper place: a small condo in want of renovation on the fourth ground of a constructing situated within the coronary heart (however away from the hustle and bustle) of one of many busiest neighborhoods within the metropolis.

“The price range for the renovation was fairly tight, so we selected to maintain the unique distribution intact, modifying solely the partition between the lavatory and kitchen (transferring it a couple of centimeters) to acquire an space of ​​columns within the latter, and ​​thus leaving a cleaner, extra spacious, and linear kitchen.We eradicated the separating door between the hallway and the lounge and likewise the door between the eating room and the kitchen, rounding all of the corners of the partitions adjoining to the openings to create fluidity of motion and a way of union between these areas. We recovered and restored the unique structural parts of the ceilings, whereas on the lounge wall we scratched the present plaster to disclose the passage of time and the totally different layers of paint to which the condo had been subjected through the years.”