The 68 m2 apartment is located on one of the higher floors of an apartment building built in the 1980s, close to the city center of Ljubljana. It's previous state represented  a long gone era, one with many divisions, dark furnishings and a heavy feel to it.
It is also home to an award-winnning visual artist and graphic designer, who had moved there as a teenager. Now, some three decades later, it felt like it was time for a change and especially, the time for her home to reflect her vibrant personality and her unique and daring style.

Since the client lives alone, one of the first decisions was to remove as many doors as made sense, connect the spaces and let the light shine through the previously dark hallway. The goal was to modernize and lighten the space, but also keep some of that original brown atmosphere, which was previously largely present in the flooring, the doors, windows and other furnishings.

The budget made us consider which elements were worth keeping and restoring and where we could afford to splurge on a little more. The original parquet was therefore left in place , but was sanded, oiled and darkened, while the kitchen was entirely replaced and renewed with four slabs of marble from Marmor Hotavlje.
One of the biggest difficulties we encountered on the project was transporting the marble to the apartment, with the elevator being just a little to small for the slabs to fit easily.

The use of materials aims at finding  a balance between warm and cold, between natural materials like wooden parquet and cork floors, marble kitchen counters, soft curtains and artificial ones like plastic vintage furniture and Reform kitchen fronts and the Archizoom's superonda red vinyl sofa ...

Functionally, the previous layout was quite well thought out, so not much has changed in that aspect, we did however rearrange some parts in order to achieve a better flow and a more organized storage space and aimed at elevating function with colours and patterns, which could inspire and align better with the client, who was also largely included in the renovation process - from painting the cupboard knobs to picking out the perfect lamp and hanging her own artwork on the wall.