- Area: 6 sq.m
- Layout: Corner
- Furniture Color: White
- Facades: -
- Style: Loft.
- Association: from the living room
- Gender: -
- Apron: Tile
- Ceiling: painted
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"We were inspired by Loft New York," the owners of the apartment are divided with citydog.by by the secrets of reincarnation.
In this apartment, General KGB once lived, after whom his son decided to sell a prestigious, but launched two-room service. Huge dark racks in the whole wall, entrance to the kitchen near the toilet, closed spaces and many, many, many furniture trash.
"There was a wooden table in the apartment, I always imagined what important documents were followed by him," Alexandrin's apartment owner laughs.
The heroine admits that when they bought this apartment with her husband, they immediately decided: they will redo it from and to. As a result, only windows remained. To turn an apartment in what you see now, Elmar and Alexandrine needed about a year. The designer performed a friend of Polina, who helped the guys to implement their dream - "more light and freedom."
On traveling to the world, they "like evil" came across exclusively white apartments and apartments. Alexandrina laughs: they say, we are accustomed to such an extent to live "in white", which and our apartment began to see only in this color. How much, a well-known business, makes little spaces visually more. Such a solution is valued and permanent guests, which married couple rent apartments like apartments.
- Maybe for Belarus it is not yet familiar, but there was not even a question for us, in what color our apartment will be. We once had guests, a husband with my wife, so when the wife went into the apartment, said, they say, I feel like in the hospital, to which the husband replied: "Oh well, Kaif!" It was very funny, "Alexandrin smiles.
As for the technical side of the repair, the most difficult and time-consuming process was redeveloped, which was carried out in several stages. The apartment cleaned all the walls so that the studio apartment turned out, they changed the entrance to the kitchen and made an adjacent restroom and a bath. Inspired by the guys Apartment in New York, where they lived for a while.
Alexandrin and Husband are confident: when you travel around the world, you think about how your native country looks in the eyes of foreigners. It is not surprising that a small ringer-business of this family helps to form a very positive impression of Belarus and Minsk:
- For us it was very important that people came to us, their shock from an unfamiliar country was minimized. It was our goal - to create a small small oasis. Everything is important here: Materials that we used, furniture, which is made with soul and love. People feel it. We have almost everything "done in Belarus": a bed from under Minsk is a natural tree covered with wax, no chemistry! The entrance doors from the Dudok is a very characteristic thing in our apartment. We have no TV, for us it was fundamentally.
The holistic in the idea and design of the apartment became such only thanks to uncompromising, Alexandrina believes:
- When people start repairs, they want something new, but they are not ready to give up the old. Therefore, you see such "segments": "But here the archer was cut out," "I removed one wall here" and so on. Such compromises are immediately visible, they are striking. Any project that you will start with a good idea, but you will not bring to the end, it will not look 100%. This is the most basic error. Therefore, do not be afraid to do everything from a clean leaf, to the maximum. And do not forget to consult with professionals. Because especially redevelopment is very difficult!