location: Kyiv, ukraine
total area: 61,3 m²
year: 2026
This 61.3 m² apartment in the center of Kyiv is built on the contrast between a restrained architectural envelope and dense, expressive objects. The space does not try to look larger or more neutral than it is. Instead, the project works with intimacy: saturated tones, dark wood, deep textiles, metal, and textured surfaces create an interior with a clear sense of structure and character.
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(01) RESIDENTAL
The palette is based on grey-blue mineral walls, dark parquet, chocolate curtains, and warm brown wood. The effect is not a simple light-versus-dark contrast, but a composition of half-tones: the cool wall base balances the warmer materials, while reddish-brown accents give the space depth. In the kitchen, pale wood, small-format ceramic tiles, and metal lower cabinets form a lighter composition that does not separate the kitchen from the living area, but continues its material language.

A key part of the project is rhythm. The square grid of wooden panels in the TV area and bedroom, the vertical folds of the curtains, the small tile module, chrome frames of the chairs, and striped bedding all repeat the same logic at different scales. This makes the apartment read as one continuous space rather than a set of separate rooms.
The objects have an almost collected quality: a low leather sofa with a 1970s Italian character, slim metal-framed lounge chairs, a paper pendant in the bedroom, a pleated floor lamp, a metal coffee table, graphic textiles, and ceramics. They do not compete for attention. Instead, they create tension between soft and rigid, matte and reflective, solid color and complex texture.
What makes the interior memorable is not one dominant gesture, but its urban density. It is a space where every material has weight, every line supports the composition, and decoration appears not through excess, but through a precise relationship between color, form, and surface.
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