Apartment of 30 m2 for rent in Krasnodar
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01 Mar 2023
Designer Alyona Shcherbinina showed myDecor a family investment project — a one-room apartment in which she and her husband did almost everything with their own hands
Kitchen furniture is made to order. Alyona and her husband painted the black rectangles on the facades of the lockers themselves. The collector was very surprised by the handles at an angle, he asked several times if there was a mistake here.
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Mikhail Chekalov
The author of the project is Alyona Shcherbinina.
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Mikhail Chekalov
GENERAL PARAMETERS
Property type: Apartment
Where is located: Krasnodar
Square footage: 30 m2
Style: modern with retro elements
The main idea of the project: to create a comfortable, bright, non-trivial interior
Color scheme: pure light colors with bright accents
Author of the project: designer Alyona Shcherbinina, T. +7 (918) 499-40-17
The designer couldn't decide for a long time what would be on the kitchen apron. I wanted to avoid standard solutions and somehow connect the two rooms. A cork caught my eye, and it was pasted on the apron.
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Mikhail Chekalov
"Like at all our construction sites, it was fun here"
Initially, the apartment had a separate room and a kitchen, but the room was narrow and uncomfortable, so the couple decided to break down the part of the wall that was not load-bearing and combine the space into a single whole.
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Mikhail Chekalov
Designer Alyona Shcherbinina loves experiments, and not only with color. "I like the element of surprise, when you don't really know what will come of it," she admits. — With customers, of course, I can't afford that. So one day my husband said to me: "Alyona, let's buy apartments and you will do what you want there. And stop terrorizing customers with your crazy ideas already""
The kitchen was complicated in itself. "Some furniture makers came to take measurements, and then they just disappeared, they didn't even take the phone," says the designer. A huge cube above the refrigerator hides a gas meter and a huge exhaust pipe. There is a gas boiler hidden in the cupboard above the microwave oven. The search for a red refrigerator turned into a real quest, but the owners of the apartment passed it successfully.
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Mikhail Chekalov
So this investment apartment was bought — Alyona and her husband decided to decorate it beautifully and rent it out. Work on the interior went on for a long time — almost a year — but it was fun.
"I got the gray texture on the walls by accident," says the designer. — I undertook to paint the wall and my roller did not turn treacherously. I was terribly angry, realizing that I could not avoid the second layer, but my husband, seeing the texture in the mass, admired: "Will you repeat it on the rest of the walls?""
Plywood wood on the ceiling, painted chairs and spectator chairs from the Soviet recreation center are almost all the items in this apartment "with history".
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Mikhail Chekalov
The wood on the plywood ceiling was presented to Alyona by customers. "This tree has been hanging in their son's nursery for a long time, I did this project 10 years ago. The child grew up, we were redoing repairs in his room. One day I come to their house and look — a tree is standing on the street, in the rain. I asked if they needed it, and they gave it to me. There was no tree in the plans, and then everything went according to a different plan."
Alyona bought bright chairs in Auchan and painted them herself.
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Mikhail Chekalov
The gray rectangle behind the headboard of the bed is the former entrance to the room. "We have been looking for a simple solution for a long time," says Alyona. — As a result, from the corridor side we clogged the entrance with a stove, and from the side of the bed we pasted cardboard tubes cut in half from linoleum and carpet." There are also two grey felt elements in the headboard. These are spare parts of Ikea furniture — partitions from modular office systems. They were taken out of production, and individual elements were sold in the sales department. "I looked at them for a long time, not understanding what could be done with them, and in the end decided to buy a couple just in case. And the case did not take long to wait," the designer laughs.
The black rectangle behind the headboard of the bed is the former door to the room.
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Mikhail Chekalov
Each subject has its own history, sometimes short, sometimes stretching for decades. The Soviet chandelier above the table was bought long before the repair at Avito for 500 rubles. Two blue chairs are from Auchan, Alyona just painted them. A section of three chairs was brought from the House of culture in the city of Krymsk — they once stood in the auditorium. A gray sofa from the same DC, it was given along with the chairs to be tightened, and it became almost as new.
The picture of the girls going off into the distance is also the work of Alyona. "About 20 years ago, my ex-boyfriend and I were in Pyatigorsk. They saw this painting on the local Arbat, there was no money to buy it, so I promised him a copy," she says. — The picture was painted, but then we broke up, and I left with her. I thought she might play a bad joke in his personal life. And now there is finally a place for her."
A plywood tree on the ceiling and a vintage Soviet lamp bought at Avito found each other in this apartment and became a good couple.
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Mikhail Chekalov
Hallway. On the wall to the right is a picture of girls going off into the distance, which has been waiting in the wings for many years.
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Mikhail Chekalov
The bathroom is the result of the creative impulse of the author of the project. "Well, I don't like tiles in large quantities," says Alyona. — The wall for the installation was sewn up with the same my favorite OSB-plate. And then I just wanted to draw, quite a bit, but the soul unfolded, and that's what happened."
Bathroom, fragment. Alyona does not like ceramic tiles, so it is replaced here by an OSB-plate with an author's painting.
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Mikhail Chekalov
