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This category deals with apartment design, being a comprehensive end-to end guide on creating amazing apartments regardless of their size and thickness of your wallet. Along with hundreds of ideas for flats in many different styles – modern and retro, country and hi-tech, art and classic, vintage and eclectic, Provence and Scandinavian – we are glad to share a good piece of advice with you. Like how to zone space in a studio apartment; what colors, materials, lighting and furniture to utilize while decorating a luxury apartment; what designer tricks can be used to make a garden apartment appear larger and more functional; what kind of décor details would be appropriate for this or that style, and many other useful tips and ideas for a perfect home.
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Bachelor’s Apartment with Masculine British Temper
Stylish and modern interior design of this two-room apartment with “masculine” temper is the reflection of habits and lifestyle of its young single owner. The architects insisted on total re-planning of this newly-built dwelling to get a customized and absolutely individual interior.
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Gorgeous Neo-Classical Apartment in Gray & Beige
This integral and extremely beautiful interior design is composed of details. But you will enjoy watching them both separately and collectively. This apartment in neo-classical style seems to be a part of a magical fairy-tale. It was created for a young couple sharing traditional views…
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Apartment Interior Inspired by a Journey to Belgium
Probably, every family at least once faces a challenge – how to make a decent renovation of the house if the budget is pretty limited. And of course, the interior must be practical, functional and beautiful. The owners of a typical two-room apartment (75 sq….
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Two-Level Apartment Transformed into a Chalet
“Chalet” concept is quite well-known and most people have a clear idea of how chalet-style interiors look like. Historically this Swiss word was used to indicate small cabins built among outdoor wilderness for rest of shepherds and wayfarers. Of course, their interiors were minimalist, extremely…
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Apartment with Noble Color Palette: Emerald, Azure, Ochre & Purple
Today’s two-level apartment is not just pretty functional, but also very stylish – deep, saturated accent colors used here are extremely noble – emerald, ochre, purple and azure blue. They make it very individualized and distinctive. The initial layout was transformed considering the peculiarities of…
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Can a Black & White Apartment Be Cozy?
The concept of this interior is based on contrasts of black and white colors and active use of glossy and mirror surfaces. This was the client’s wish that guided the interior designer’s choice of materials, furnishing, lighting and décor. Generally when we think about black-and-white…
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Fresh and Airy Seaside Studio Apartment
This tiny studio apartment is cozy, light and seems to smell like the sea. It’s an excellent real-life example of how white interior diluted by water-color accents becomes softer and fresher – a perfect choice for a summer residence. Working on this project named Mattina…
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Lilac and Beige: Restrained Traditional Apartment
How to arrange a space, which now belongs to a young family couple, but will soon be presented to an old lady? How to make a two-room apartment equally comfortable for representatives of different generations? The answer is soft, restrained color scheme and traditional interior…
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How Dutch IKEA Employees Live in Russia
Can you imagine a rented apartment of a Dutch gentleman living in Moscow and being in charge of Interior Design Apartment in IKEA Company? It’s a very interesting mixture indeed. Roy Hasling has worked for IKEA for 11 years already. As soon as he got…
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Futuristiс Totally White Apartment with Panoramic Windows
Can an apartment in a big foggy northern city be always light and sunny? Is it possible to design a living area of 272 sq. m. without a single sharp angle? Today’s interior project says “yes” to both of these questions.
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Tropical-Island-Style Apartment Project: Yellow, Orange & Green
Many people prefer to design their apartments and houses in reserved, neutral or pastel palette – this makes them feel comfortable after a difficult working day. But for others relaxation is rather associated with bright, highly saturated colors, typical of toys and tropics: yellow-canary, blue,…
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Ascetic Contemporary Retiree’s Apartment with Parametric Elements
Decoration of this one-room newly-built apartment took about 6 months. Its design concept was worked out by professionals of Dmytro Aranchii Architects Studio, which specializes on parametric architectural trends. Their approach may be identified as creative and mathematical at the same time, as it combines…
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Tortora Color in Interior Design
“Tortora” is an Italian word used to indicate a light-brown color with the shades of grey, or simply dove grey. This color is becoming increasingly popular in the world of interior design for several reasons: it’s neutral, it gives sense of protection and it visually…
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Huge Creative Apartment with Art Gallery & Roof Exit
This huge apartment with an area of about 500 sq. m. has an interesting history. First of all, it used to be a 17-room communal apartment shared by 17 families living here in Soviet times together respectively. Secondly, it belongs to a father of 7…
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Berlin Bachelor Pad
It’s always interesting to look at interior design projects, which are deemed special and “completely different from all other projects” by the designers who made them. Today we will speak about such an interior. It’s located in the heart of Germany, in Berlin, and belongs…
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Self-Designed Apartment with English Motives
Irene, a young woman from the Ukraine, has moved to a newly-built neighborhood in the suburbs of Kyiv at the end of 2011. The place was especially charming for her thanks to fresh air and a forest view opening from big windows. During 1.5 years…
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Minimalist Family Interior with White Walls & Lovely Wallpaper
Helen and Victor have long lived abroad, and on coming back to Moscow knew exactly what kind of interior they want to see in their future home. What they mostly desired was minimalism, white walls and plenty of light and air. It wasn’t an easy…
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English-Style Apartment of a Hunting Club Member in Moscow
When Andrew got the keys to his new apartment, he had no idea what kind of interior he wanted to see there. He asked professional designers for help and they came up with an idea to decorate this spacious flat in English style. Why English?…
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Minimalist “Sterile” Apartment with Loads of Gloss & Wall Décor
Glossy surfaces, white walls and light flooring – this is what a mature family couple wanted for living apart from their grown-up children. Let’s have a look at their apartment.
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Provence-Inspired Apartment with White Furniture & Gray Walls
This apartment was inherited by Hanna from her Grandpa just a few years ago. Now the space looks so neat and fresh that you might think that it’s newly-built. Actually, the dwelling was built back in 1950s and had a very inconvenient layout featuring two…
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Snow-White Apartment with Orange and Red Accents
Fondness for cleanliness and sunlight: that’s the first thing which comes to your mind when you first see this apartment. Its owner works for a big architectural bureau and takes private orders from time to time. When she and her husband came to moving to…
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Modern Minimalistic Apartment with White Walls and Floors
Nowadays many people strive for minimalism and neutrality in their apartment design. That is why Scandinavian motives become increasingly popular every year. Today’s apartment interior is designed in this very style: it has plenty of open space, neutral color range – mostly white, gray and…
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Eclectic & Brutal Female Apartment with Loft Motives
Female apartments are not necessarily pastel and neo-classical. Some girls feel comfortable in quite brutal and “mannish” interiors. And here is one of them.
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How to Turn an Open-Concept Apartment into a Family Home
A big apartment is what many people are dreaming of. But if a small dwelling assumes just a few variants of space-zoning, a big open-concept one proposes so many that happy owners of big areas may get confused. Let’s take a look at one of…