Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Architects: Lookofsky Architecture
Source: Archdaily
A freshly revisited Nordic style: it’ s the choice of a young couple, who refurbished a 1920s apartment in Stockholm. We all know that light is not enough in Scandinavia during winter months: a place with white and yellow walls creates a cheerful and cosy atmosphere.
The project, at first sight simple, is based on a skillful use of the storage walls. Two-colour melamine panels shape the full and empty spaces of the architecture, while at the same time outlining daily functions.
The wall of the kitchen, 7 metres long, is located in a multifunctional room, created by joining two pre-existing rooms. In homage to the sharing feeling that today informs the life of the new generations, the daily functions are housed in niches dividing the space into different sections. Thus, the wall of the kitchen becomes a playful composition, which animates the space thanks to the variations in depth, and “represents” the scenes of daily life.
The storage wall in the bathroom and one of the walls in the bedroom are also “built-in walls”, made up of panels painted yellow or white. The vertical surfaces thus become canvases to be filled, while fulfilling the practical function of storing all the objects for daily use, for a home always perfectly tidy.
The apartment is all about yellow, the sunny colour of choice, and also a celebration of life, enlightening the Scandinavian darkness along the winter months. Bright and royal, the color yellow is associated with gold. Combined with white, it widens the spaces, lights up the long cold nights in Stockholm, and endlessly lengthens the summer days, when the sun never sets.
