Byt Dlhé Diely

The three-room apartment was located in a ten-year-old, but poorly executed apartment building. Moreover, it did not meet the needs of a growing family in terms of the number of rooms and layout. The task was therefore simple: to convert the three-room apartment into a four-room one and to complete everything during the summer holidays. The project thus took place from preparation to execution under time pressure. This, however, likely benefited the approval of the concept. The clients agreed to the radical solution of demolishing all internal partitions and starting completely anew. The risers, orientation, and area of the apartment remained fixed, but everything else needed to be done from scratch. In the free space of the original apartment, we placed a service box hiding a new toilet, bathroom, pantry, and part of the kitchen equipment. The fourth, new room we inserted into the space of the original dining room and kitchen. These newly inserted elements were accentuated with an oil-treated oak veneer, which on one side accentuates the most important features of the apartment and additionally hides the doors to the new rooms. The living space with a kitchen, dining area, and two children's rooms unfolds around the inserted elements. Although the children's rooms are in their original places, they have different proportions that reflect the new requirements of the family. At the clients' request, the living space was also divided, within which there is a deliberately oversized dining area with a spacious round table at the expense of the living corner. This is to ensure that the family spends most of their time together at the table as they did before.

Along the entire western facade, which is best exposed to sunlight, we placed a strip clad with white spruce boards on both the floor and ceiling. This area is intended to extend the loggia directly into the apartment. It is supposed to provide comfortable seating on a fold-out sofa that we built into a previously unused corner of the apartment. It offers enough space for houseplants and also conceals a spacious shower (in the original pantry), which belongs to the parents' bedroom. The original massive frames of the loggia glazing with impractically placed opening sections were replaced with new, maximum subtly, aluminum glazing.

The original apartment lacked sufficient storage space and was cluttered with items from floor to ceiling. Therefore, we designed built-in wardrobes stretching along two walls of the apartment from one end to the other. The wardrobes take on the white color of the original outer walls, creating a backdrop for the oak veneer in the bedroom and service box. The chalky color behind the kitchen is ready for children's creativity, with stainless steel elements for magnets from trips. This wooden-achromatic color scheme of the apartment is complemented only by a vibrant yellow polyurethane floor coating in the bathroom and toilet. The walls of the hygiene areas feature a single ornament, anti-slip patterns on tiles intended for swimming pools. The materials used are of high quality, giving the owners hope that they will remain so permanently and that the next renovation will be carried out only when their children do so.