Barcelona Apartment Renovation With Lots of Oak Wood

This adorable modernist apartment in Barcelona was renovated with retaining some stunning original features

This adorable modernist apartment in Barcelona was renovated with retaining some stunning original features

Today we are sharing an inspired Barcelona apartment renovation by Built Architecture, which retains the original modernist mosaic floors and high ceilings while adding storage and opening up the space.

The most unique feature of this apartment is a central furniture element, built with natural oak wood, which rises right in the center of the apartment and echoes with the stunning parquet floors. The piece reaches 234 cm. in height, which has been best suited to the monumental ceiling heights of the nineteenth century. All the rest of design solutions are built around this unique functional point.

The transfer between public areas, rooms or service spaces always occurs through a metal threshold. Equally, toilets and showers are located under the metal plate, next to the only interior courtyard that is used for natural illumination and ventilation.

This is a modernist space decorated with lots of oak wood, with high ceilings with gypsum moldings and with recovered parquet mosaic. The furniture is made of the same light oak wood or it’s sleek and white, there are eye-catchy lamps and lots of natural light incoming. The interior is offered as a blank canvas in which to easily arrange furniture, paintings, art pieces, objects and family mementos cumulated during a lifetime without feeling restricted. The neutral color palette gives a space for imagination, and the extensive use of light-colored natural wood make the apartment cozy.

This is a modern flat where original values are recovered and acclaimed through a new central furniture element, which must be as singular, surprising and innovative as it is discrete, flexible and respectful, always responding to the needs of the user.

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There was a central furniture element incorporated for functionality

There was a central furniture element incorporated for functionality

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The interior decor is modern, warm and simple due to the extensive use of oak wood

The interior decor is modern, warm and simple due to the extensive use of oak wood

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The mosaic parquet floors were restored as well as ceilings with moldings

The mosaic parquet floors were restored as well as ceilings with moldings

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The kitchen is white and modern, with a row of cabinets and a grey backsplash, the floors are dominating here

The kitchen is white and modern, with a row of cabinets and a grey backsplash, the floors are dominating here

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Same metallic pendant lamps line up the whole cooking zone

Same metallic pendant lamps line up the whole cooking zone

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All the design is built around the central furniture piece made of wood

All the design is built around the central furniture piece made of wood

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The master bedroom is full of light due to the glazed doors to the terrace, there's a shelf instead of a headboard

The master bedroom is full of light due to the glazed doors to the terrace, there's a shelf instead of a headboard

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There's another bedroom with a folding bed, almost fully clad with oak wood for comfort

There's another bedroom with a folding bed, almost fully clad with oak wood for comfort

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