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One palette for a whole apartment

Living, dining, kitchen and bedrooms designed as one home: oak, walnut and pale stone, repeated so every room feels connected to the next.

Property: Apartment
Scope: Living and dining, Kitchen, Two bedrooms, Built-in storage
Work: Complete home interiors, Kitchens, Wardrobes & walk-ins

Concept render of a living room: linen sofa, oak lounge chair, a walnut sideboard and an oak-lined opening to the kitchen — Living room — walnut sideboard, lime-plaster walls, oak floor

The story

The brief

A family moving into an apartment wanted it finished as one home, not furnished room by room. They asked for warmth, a lot of storage and nothing that would feel dated in a few years.

Constraints

Rooms of very different sizes, a long corridor and a wide opening between living and kitchen that the family wanted to keep.

Design direction

One palette, repeated: oak floors and linings, walnut furniture, pale stone and plaster. The opening became the organising idea — every threshold is lined in oak, so moving from room to room feels deliberate.

Selected spaces

Concept render of the living room: linen sofa, walnut sideboard and the oak-lined opening beyond — Living room — linen, walnut, oak

Concept render looking through the oak-lined opening towards the kitchen — The opening — oak lining, kitchen beyond

Concept render of the window side of the living room with a lounge chair and a stone table — Living room — the window wall

Concept render of the kitchen and dining table in daylight — Kitchen and dining

Sideboard — walnut veneer
Honed stone

Design decisions

Concept render: the oak lining of an opening, its grain running the full height — Oak lining — the opening between living and kitchen

Three materials, used everywhere

Oak for the floors and the lining of every opening, walnut for the furniture you touch, pale honed stone wherever things are set down. Limiting the palette is what lets a whole home feel designed rather than decorated.

Concept render: the honed stone top of the living-room table — Honed stone — the living-room table

Stone where things are set down

The same pale stone is used for the living-room table and the kitchen worktop. It is honed rather than polished, so it softens with use instead of showing every mark.

Materials & details

What each part is made of — including the parts behind the doors.

Living storage

Carcass: Plywood
Shutter: Walnut veneer
Finish: Oil-look matte lacquer

Kitchen

Shutter: Oak veneer
Notes: Stone worktop and splash

Bedrooms

Shutter: Walnut veneer
Hardware: Recessed pulls

Walls

Finish: Limewash-effect paint

Design and reality

Concept render of the finished living room, matching the design view — The design view and the finished room. A real case study notes what changed between the two.

3D design view of the living room from the entrance: the same viewpoint, every surface in one pale tone — The design view and the finished room. A real case study notes what changed between the two.

Execution & craft

Joinery for every room was drawn together and produced as one batch, so veneer and finish match from room to room. Rooms were handed over in sequence, so the family could move in before the last bedroom was finished.

The outcome

The home feels like one idea rather than several rooms. Storage is built in where things are used, so the rooms stay as open as they look in the drawings.

Project team

Design lead
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Site lead
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Production lead
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What happens next

We call you back to understand the space and what you need
We visit to measure and talk through ideas
You receive a first layout and a clear next step

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