Renovating an apartment in Verona

The starting point, the fulcrum of the house and the primary reason that made me meet these exquisite clients: the wooden floor.

The choice: brushed natural oak

It is a natural oak chosen with an oiled treatment, a finish that makes this material even warmer and more vivid and that, combining with a brushed surface, releases its naturalness to the fullest.

Knots and color variation

Another option evaluated during the parquet decision phase was the presence of important knots that would enrich the floor and highlight the color variation, for a result that was liked so much that it was decided to bring this material into other environments and elements: the entrance shelf, the dining table and the niches of the bathroom in the sleeping area.

Below I leave you the shots in which this coherence of materials is strongly felt, in the next paragraphs I will describe each furnishing made with the same wood as the flooring.

In this apartment you can feel a welcoming atmosphere enriched, but never overdone, by practical and design custom-made furnishings.

The large entrance shelf

At the entrance, on our left, we find the large oak wood shelf, which I mentioned to you, that serves as a catch-all and that I proposed to highlight with a large full-height mirror that creates depth in this functional entrance area.

A storage unit at the entrance

To complete and define this composition we added a storage unit, matte anthracite lacquered, inside which it is possible to store shoes and slippers, jackets and coats, bags and backpacks.

The suspended sideboard

Passing through the corridor, created with a lowering of the plasterboard that creates a sort of tunnel and accompanies us towards the living area, we find a very spacious suspended sideboard useful for storing ornaments and that acts as a storage element with 4 doors.

Ottanio sofa and furnishing on a blue background

Continuing our tour we arrive in the spacious living room that hosts a large central sofa in ottanio tones, a furnishing that acts as a divider between the living room and the kitchen and that faces the TV wall. Here we thought of a very relaxing desaturated blue background paint, which we will find again in the bedroom, as a background for the suspended matte lacquered furniture: a chest of drawers supports the TV, a closed column acts as a storage module and open compartments decorate and lighten the furnishing composition.

The dining table, in my opinion, deserved a dedicated paragraph to best describe its lightness and naturalness.

The same wood

As I mentioned before, the rustic and material wood of the floor also covers and composes the table, which becomes the central protagonist of the living area, blending perfectly with the nuances chosen for the home.

Feeling of suspension

The concept that was intended to be conveyed was that of a massive shelf with an important thickness that would float in the void, that is why the choice of transparent glass for the base that supports the structure of the table.

The chandelier

I would like you to notice the attention to detail that I shared with these clients in matching transparent chairs to recall the base and to further emphasize the feeling of emptiness underneath, and a design chandelier that seems to flutter in the air space above.

The dining table can be chosen in wood as in this case, or in porcelain stoneware: our tables in large slabs of porcelain stoneware

The bathroom in the living area was designed taking into account that it would also be a space used by the guests of the house.

Green tea

As you know, this is the room where one can dare to create a wow effect for our guests and it is precisely with this intent that we opted for a lively and energetic color in green tea tones that affects the ceramics and the lacquered finishes of the bathroom furnishings.

A bowl

On the unit with deep drawers and a white corian top sits a countertop bowl in matte ceramic matched with the sanitary fixtures in the same finish and light green color, a shade also used for the front and sides of the suspended unit and for the side storage column.

A hidden laundry

In this room we also hid the appliances dedicated to the laundry: having nothing visible, it is not noticeable that this is also the service bathroom, in fact we inserted a washing machine and dryer inside a lacquered cabinetry with the same RAL as the wall paint, so as to completely blend in with the wall (to see this structure, watch the YouTube video!).

The master bedroom is a bit the fulcrum of the sleeping area, the most intimate and private room of the house where we blend warm colors and soft lights.

Lapland blue in the bedroom

We took care of the painting of the headboard wall, do you recognize it? It is the same shade used for the living room wall, a romantic Lapland blue.

Custom-made bed

We then designed the bed structure custom-made, our favorite as it is light and minimal and with integrated bedside tables, completed by a refined boiserie in the same matte white lacquer in which a LED strip has been embedded that contributes to a soft and relaxing atmosphere.

Now we move, in my opinion, to the most characteristic room of the house where the clients welcomed every suggestion of mine!

The wooden floor accompanies us inside the bathroom in the sleeping area, a room that envelops us and surprises us.

Decorated plaster

For the main wall we thought of a plaster decoration, it is raw lime made on site by our craftsmen who layer this natural material and model it with stencils to create unique non-repeatable decorations and make the surface three-dimensional.

Grazing lighting

This beautiful bas-relief is perceived by touch and is noticeable to the eye thanks to the well-positioned lighting that washes the wall enhancing every detail, in fact we chose to install wall lamps with grazing light and backlit mirrors to highlight this handcrafted work.

Custom-made bathroom furnishings

For the furnishings a composition was chosen with a suspended white lacquered chest of drawers, a shelf in porcelain stoneware and two countertop bowls in matte ceramic finished with elegant stainless steel taps installed on the wall.

Illuminated niches

To make this double station even more proportionate I proposed to develop two side niches covered with the same wood as the floor that break through the wall, thus emphasizing the concept of three-dimensionality and giving additional storage space to body care products.

Sanitary fixtures and shower

The opposite wall hosts the suspended sanitary fixtures, in the same matte white ceramic as the washbasins, and the large walk-in shower with an illuminated internal niche: all this area has been protected with a plaster-effect porcelain stoneware in grey shades, the same that composes the shelf.

Thank you for reading the story of the renovation of this apartment! I hope I have made you perceive the warmth and the coherence recreated through the finishes and the furnishings made in this home.

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