Today we are going to the Barcelona neighborhood of Sarrià to discover this Integral reform signed by the interior designer Pia Capdevila. The reform project focused on updating the day area, since the kitchen area was very small, there was hardly any natural light, and the spaces were too compartmentalized.
Pia Capdevila’s premises for reforming this house were to obtain a house with wide spacesbright, comfortable and functional designed for a large family with three small children.
Basically, the priorities of the owner family were four: to get a comfortable kitchen with a large office designed for a family
with young children, having a room as spacious as possible and with maximum natural light, having a good dining room and, as a result of confinement, having a small space for an office area to be able to work from home.
The hall
Upon entering the house, we find the hall. A space that makes a jog that helps to clearly delimit the day and night areas. In this area, two custom-made cabinets with maximum capacity were designed and placed in this space, and a chest of drawers with a mirror was added.
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Between the hall area and the access to the day area we find a distributor with three spaces, a guest room with a bathroom, a laundry room and a small room. The latter communicated with the corridor through a 1.30m opening with a sliding door to gain a space attached to the living room and create a small area where the children could play near the day area.
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The day area: living room and kitchen
Within the project, one of Pia’s main concerns was transferring natural light from the living room to the kitchen, since the kitchen hardly had any natural lighting. To achieve this goal, from the interior design studio she decided to design a transparent dividing element that visually communicates the area of the two dining rooms, the office dining room and the dining room of the day area located in the living-dining room.
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The lounge area includes a gallery with a large window where the interior designer placed the office area on one side and a reading area on the other. She designed a piece of furniture to measure that brought together four functions: distribution of spaces, TV cabinet, storage and office. The space for the TV and storage was located in the center of the room in front of the sofas. This extends towards the gallery to create the office area with a desk and several shelves.
Behind the custom cabinet with the TV is the dining area. Pia Capdevila designed a large space with a large extendable table and some shelves that already existed in the house and that they wanted to keep to dress up the space. The backs of the chairs are upholstered in three types of prints in tune with the wallpaper on the back wall, and with the cushions and accessories in the living room.
Next, the space that we find transversally is the kitchen and the office. It is a space with the peculiarity that we must cross it to access the room. Kitchen and office. The space for the kitchen was distributed in such a way that the area with less light was the work area with the electrical appliances and the area open to the living-dining room was the office area.
For the kitchen, neutral lines in wood and white have been used with a Nordic and timeless look. From the interior design studio, a very functional design was sought in which the work area was located on one side and the cooking area on the other. The kitchen furniture responds to neutral lines with a white Nordic look in a Rekker motorized design with opening sensors in the wall units and indirect lighting inside the base units, and a wooden countertop.
In the area where the living room was originally located with a living area with a fireplace, the new office area has been installed. To create it, a large piece of custom-made furniture was designed to cover the hole in the old fireplace with two upholstered niches that take advantage of the space, and a bench with a lot of storage capacity that replaces the chairs at the office table.
night area
Since the original distribution of the night area fit well with the needs of the owner family, Pia Capdevila did not structurally modify this area. Instead, she did do a decorating project for the entire area. Thus, the floor and windows were changed, and a complete update of paint, colors and finishes was made.
The master bedroom includes a dressing room and bathroom. At the foot of the bed, a custom-made piece of furniture was designed with many drawers to achieve maximum storage, and a module as a dressing table that becomes a second work area to telecommute if necessary.
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The dressing room has been designed without doors and in a stained oak colour, and the bathroom has been decorated with a timeless look in light gray tones to add light, peace and calm.
The largest room was for the two children and the smallest for the baby. The double room includes a rail bunk bed with plenty of storage under both beds. The dimensions of the baby’s room marked the need to decorate it with just the right and necessary furniture in a pale pink.
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Styling: Mar Gausachs
Photos: Jordi Canosa
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