apex gaming88 Making a Small Space Seem Big With Bold Colors
When the architect Ximena Zenteno Ladrón de Guevara gets a peek inside her neighbors’ apartments in Madridapex gaming88, she feels a sense of joy about her own.
“When you see the typical kind of old apartment, where you can see the fridge and you can see, like, right away, everything,” she said, “I feel happier.”
What Ms. de Guevara gets when she opens the door to her own apartment is the element of surprise she was after when she commissioned the local architecture studio OOIIO to redesign the approximately 538-square-foot studio apartment in Madrid’s Carabanchel district. Once a working-class neighborhood, it has become an enclave for artists, writers and architects like Ms. de Guevara.
“You don’t expect this kind of apartment in a small place, in a neighborhood like this,” said Ms. de Guevara, 35, who is originally from Peru. “I like that. I wanted it to be a surprise.”
A surprise, indeed. The compact apartment, which is longer than it is wide and has just one window, is a vibrant blend of blush, berry, teal, turquoise and mustard yellow accents employed in curvaceous built-in furniture and nearly floor-to-ceiling ceramic tiles.
“We love colors in the studio,” said the architect Joaquín Millán Villamuelas, founder and creative director of OOIIO, which is also in Carabanchel. “We try to escape from the regular palette of grays, creamy beige. And we always try to go extra far.”
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