The apartment in this project belonged to the family. It had been rented out for a while, but now the clients wanted to reclaim their home in Barcelona, adapting it to their needs and tastes.
The goal was to restore the character of this historic 1895 apartment, with typical features of Eixample homes, such as high ceilings, exposed beams, exposed brick, and tall balcony doors, and combine them with an updated layout and a more modern decoration.
The layout is entirely designed for the family of 5 members. In the daytime area, we find the kitchen-living-dining space, fully connected to allow the family to always be together during various tasks, highlighting the impressive table that invites long dinners around it. An open space that represents a radical change from before the renovation. To achieve this, it was necessary to reinforce the long beams that run through that space.
It has two bathrooms, the larger family one with a bathtub, and a smaller guest toilet. Before reaching the bedrooms, the hallway has been utilized to gain extra storage space.
In the nighttime area, we have ensured that the youngest ones enjoy spacious rooms with enough space to play or accommodate a study area in the coming years. Additionally, for their beds, we chose the pull-out model from the manufacturer Tegar so that they can double the capacity of these rooms with a simple movement.
Regarding decoration, a key premise was to distinguish between elements that we wanted to blend with the space and those that we wanted to give maximum prominence.
The kitchen furniture is an example of this since we aimed to match it with the paint finish to reduce its importance, thus allowing original elements like the recovered exposed brick or the spectacular exposed beams to capture all your attention upon entering. The hallway closet and the foyer shoe rack have also allowed us to continue with this concept. In the bedrooms, however, and to generate differentiation between the daytime and nighttime areas, the closets have taken on more prominence with an anthracite finish.
Finally, it’s worth highlighting the significant improvement in the energy efficiency of the property, mainly due to the installation of zoned ducted air conditioning and the thermal insulation done in the ceilings (with the terrace just above).
Photographs: Irene Diaz
The apartment in this project belonged to the family. It had been rented out for a while, but now the clients wanted to reclaim their home in Barcelona, adapting it to their needs and tastes.
The goal was to restore the character of this historic 1895 apartment, with typical features of Eixample homes, such as high ceilings, exposed beams, exposed brick, and tall balcony doors, and combine them with an updated layout and a more modern decoration.
The layout is entirely designed for the family of 5 members. In the daytime area, we find the kitchen-living-dining space, fully connected to allow the family to always be together during various tasks, highlighting the impressive table that invites long dinners around it. An open space that represents a radical change from before the renovation. To achieve this, it was necessary to reinforce the long beams that run through that space.
It has two bathrooms, the larger family one with a bathtub, and a smaller guest toilet. Before reaching the bedrooms, the hallway has been utilized to gain extra storage space.
In the nighttime area, we have ensured that the youngest ones enjoy spacious rooms with enough space to play or accommodate a study area in the coming years. Additionally, for their beds, we chose the pull-out model from the manufacturer Tegar so that they can double the capacity of these rooms with a simple movement.
Regarding decoration, a key premise was to distinguish between elements that we wanted to blend with the space and those that we wanted to give maximum prominence.
The kitchen furniture is an example of this since we aimed to match it with the paint finish to reduce its importance, thus allowing original elements like the recovered exposed brick or the spectacular exposed beams to capture all your attention upon entering. The hallway closet and the foyer shoe rack have also allowed us to continue with this concept. In the bedrooms, however, and to generate differentiation between the daytime and nighttime areas, the closets have taken on more prominence with an anthracite finish.
Finally, it’s worth highlighting the significant improvement in the energy efficiency of the property, mainly due to the installation of zoned ducted air conditioning and the thermal insulation done in the ceilings (with the terrace just above).
Photographs: Irene Diaz
