Dark House

Photo: Sergey Ananiev; Style: Yulia Mamedava

• Interior Designers

Dark House project is located in a forest near Minsk. It is a modern and minimalist house with total square of 260 m2. Our customers, a young family with a daughter, wanted to completely reimagine the house and turn it into the one that would fulfil their needs and represent their preferences. The process of reimagination they entrusted to us.

photo_credit Photo: Sergey Ananiev; Style: Yulia Mamedava — Photo: Sergey Ananiev; Style: Yulia Mamedava

In their interior our clients favoured dark natural textures and brutal surfaces. When we started designing the interior, we decided to leave aside the trends and concentrate on personal style of the clients and functionality of the house.

We created a bright and functional living space made with natural dark shades in veneer panels, furniture and other elements of the interior. The main focus was made on a soft decorative plaster that we used in every room to sustain a unified house concept. In this interior we also used wide porcelain tiles with a rich stone texture, oak veneer panels with the doors integrated in them. All the elements of the interior create a harmonic image of the architectural space.

Our clients also wanted to reorganise the house. So we turned the garage into a cabinet, a guest room and a space for houseware. Let’s move to the second floor, where we created a modern composition of rooms including a master suite with bedroom, bathroom and a big walk in-wardrobe.

The main feature of the house is a majestic view of the forest that you can observe through its windows that we widened exactly for this purpose. Now the window in the living room is more like a door that leads you to nature that creates a comfortable and relaxing atmosphere.

To make the interior unique we created a contrast between dark shaded decorated walls and soft beige surfaces of the house. You can find a lot of art in the house: pottery and paintings made by young Belarusian artists. All the furniture was custom made for the clients. Including the stairway enclosure that provides security and makes the interior look more airy.

The interior is made with a sophisticated color palette full of dark brown and dark grey shades contrasting with the bright milky color of a plaster on the floor and ceiling. We chose this color palette to make the house look modern and comfortable throughout the years.