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Apartment by Pedro Varela & Renata Pinho
A yellow wall of storage divides this Portuguese apartment by architects Pedro Varela & Renata Pinho (photographs by José Campos).
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The renovation involved replacing the floor, adding storage and remodelling the kitchen, laundry room and bathroom.
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The enormous yellow unit includes a pull-out stool with a smiling face for the client's future child.
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The information below is from photographer Jose Campos:
The redesign of this apartment had to deal with specific issues: replace the existing floor, redesign the kitchen while keeping the laundry space, and create lots of storage room.
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The bathrooms and master bedroom intervention is a welcome bonus to what was essential.
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Walls were remade out of carpentry work and house different solutions, from storage, to seating, partitioning and doors.
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Playful solutions such as assymetric round holes substituing knobs, and a smiley face substituting a handle, are carved in a yellow closet which is the project's inner core.
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The kitchen is like a big flipping machine, with a replaceable counter, convertible laundry room and hidden storage in a clean layout.
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A unified flooring and the furnishing/replacement of walls with closets gives the feeling of a bigger, somewhat openspace.
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The bathrooms have two different geometric themes: one round, the other triangular; while the master bedroom uses wood to complement IKEA furniture.
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