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For once, the office area is at the forefront. Installed in a former bathroom, it is isolated from the rest of the apartment by numerous storage cupboards, ensuring good soundproofing between the living room… and the building’s staircase.
Once through the entrance, the main room appears larger than it really is, thanks to a clever “compression-dilation” effect! Walnut wall veneer and Merbau parquet give the space a warm, elegant character.
Set back from the entrance, in a recess of the apartment, the kitchen is only revealed at a later stage. Taking advantage of the open-plan nature of the space, it is generously bathed in light thanks to the presence of a window on the street side.
Located on the top floor of the building, this apartment benefited from beautiful volumes, which until now had been cluttered by the presence of high storage units. Laura Loustau decided to open up the space to restore the cathedral ceilings and highlight the beams, which were sandblasted and treated to restore their original color.
Angled partitions, arched openings… Laura Loutsau plays with shapes… but not with colors! In fact, she deliberately favors white tones to highlight the existing space, as well as her customer’s furniture and objects.
Laura Loustau wanted to give the living room a certain degree of privacy, despite the high ceilings, so she used a raised platform. Despite continuous parquet flooring, this floor demarcation distinguishes this space from the rest of the apartment.
Laura Loutsau has completely redesigned the layout to open up the volumes as much as possible, while restoring privacy to each space. Carefully concealed roller shutter doors provide such privacy.
Every nook and cranny has been carefully thought out to accommodate storage, sometimes purely utilitarian, sometimes deliberately ornamental. In the bedroom, as in all the other rooms, the rounded shape has pride of place. It lends an air of softness to the room, despite the ceiling’s protruding edges.
The bedroom is separated from the corridor by a wall, in the thickness of which Laura Loustau has concealed numerous cupboards. A clever way of soundproofing the bedroom from the living room…
Bathed in natural light, the bathroom is all curves, giving it a very enveloping feel. Made entirely in masonry, it is covered with a light-beige waxed concrete from Marius Aurenti, which lends elegance and serenity to the whole.
The various rooms have all been laid out on the courtyard side to highlight the string of windows on the street side, which bathe the dwelling in natural light. A set of sliding doors allows spaces to be opened or closed completely according to the time of day.
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