Results of the year: top 10 best houses in Russia and neighboring countries 2021

We have compiled for you a hit list of the most popular houses published on the pages of ELLE DECORATION this year

1. The house of film director Timur Bekmambetov, Kazan

The house of film director Timur Bekmambetov and his wife Natalia Fishman-Bekmambetova stands on the banks of the Volga River, just a 15-minute drive from the Kazan Kremlin. "We needed a simple small house, unlike the "prestigious" mansions that were offered for sale," says Natalia. — It was important to me that our own house was invented by a local architect, built from local materials, furnished with furniture made here, had a connection with local traditions, but fashionable and modern." This idea was realized by architect Peter Safiullin. See the whole project in our special material.

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The house of Natalia Fishman-Bekmambetova and Timur Bekmambetov. The project of architect Peter Safiullin.

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mikhail loskutov

2. The house of decorator Katya Gerdt, Moscow region

Decorator Katya Gerdt dreamed of her own house in the Moscow region since childhood, but she decided to move to the countryside only during the pandemic. The house was in the process of rebuilding — it's good that at one time Katya's husband Denis Evstigneev built a bathhouse on the site — the family temporarily settled there while the main house was being renovated. More information about this interior can be found at the link.

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• Interior of the month: the house of decorator Katya Gerdt in the Moscow region

Living room. Armchairs, vintage, Italy, 1960s. Vintage chest of drawers, Belgium, 1960s. Paintings from the owners' personal collection.

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Mikhail Loskutov

3. The house from the cabin, St. Petersburg

Designer Aida Beglova turned an ordinary cabin into a summer house worthy of Pinterest and spent less than three hundred thousand rubles on the entire project. "I had dreams of a huge house in my head, and there was only enough money for a barn. And then a spontaneous idea came up: what if we make a nano-house out of an ordinary construction shed? We needed a little imagination, a little creativity and a pinch of love, and an ordinary cabin turned into a cozy house with Swedish motifs," says the designer. What she did, read in our special material.

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Sergey Pozdeev STYLE: Ekaterina Pozdeeva

4. Dacha of journalist Evgenia Mikulina, Kratovo

Journalist Evgeny Mikulina, founder of the online resource DesignChat.com , for many years I rented a dacha in Kratovo. And after the birth of Sasha's youngest daughter, she decided to settle in this old village near Moscow and bought an old pre-war cottage. A huge plot, a pond nearby, but there was one thing: the house was too small. An architect was invited to reconstruct it Nikolai Lyzlov, and the garden was handled by the St. Petersburg bureau "Moss". You can view this project in detail by following the link.

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• Dacha of journalist Evgenia Mikulina in Kratovo

The old country house was rebuilt, increasing the height of the attic floor, but otherwise its appearance and proportions are preserved. The verandah bindings have been restored. The garden around the house is the work of the Mokh landscape bureau.

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STEPHAN JULLIARD

5. Modern interior in a wooden house, Moscow region

The owners of this house are close to the ideas of Alvar Aalto and like the style of the mid-XX century. Designers Roman Voronov and Marina Pennie immediately outlined the direction in which they plan to develop the interior, taking as a starting point the architectural principles of Aalto, its ergonomic, concise and functional solutions. Read more about this project at the link.

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• Modern interior in a wooden house in the Moscow region

Chandelier, Heathfield & Co. The staircase is made to order. Tile, Peronda.

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Sergey Ananyev style: Julia Chebotar

6. Country house of designer Irina Reicher, Perm

This country house near Perm was conceived as a place to relax for three generations of the family of designer Irina Reicher. It was built on the site of an old summer house, with which many childhood memories were associated, and in working on this project Irina tried to recreate this cozy atmosphere of a Soviet dacha, preserving vintage furniture and decor elements. What she did, see in the special material at the link.

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• Bright and cozy designer's house in Perm

View of the living room. Dining table and chairs, vintage.

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Julia Gorshkova

7. Country house, Bashkiria

The house is built on a plot where the customer's father's house already stands. "I really wanted to show that the old things that the owners have preserved can be used in a modern interior, giving them a new sound," says designer Lilia Asfandiyarova. "To support this theme, I decided to take the traditional English style as a basis and add national motifs to it, because the cottage is located in a Bashkir village where people still live in houses with carved shutters."

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• Bright country house in Bashkiria

Living room. Dining group, Castor. Chandelier, Arti Lampadari. Storefronts and TV cabinet, Metamorfosi. The curtains are made to order by Ambiente Design Centre. Fabric, Morris & Co.

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Roman Spiridonov

8. Country house designed by buro511, Moscow region

The owner of this plot — a young and successful top manager of a media company - wanted his house to merge with the forest and serve him as a "safe haven" where you can hide from the noisy metropolis and its problems. It was such a dwelling designed for him by architects Arthur and Ksenia Kariev from buro511. For the owner, luxury lies primarily in an eco-friendly environment and materials, so the textures of wood, stone, metal and glass predominate in the decoration. The austere, brutal interior is built on a combination of natural materials and designer pieces of furniture.

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• Country house with glass facade

The table is made to order according to the sketches of designers. There is natural slate on the floor.

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Ilya Ivanov

9. 280 m2 house on the shore of the Gulf of Riga, Baltic States

Nature and interior in this wooden house, built according to old Latvian technologies by designer Tatiana Fokina and her Studio Caché bureau on the Riga seaside, look like a single, organic whole. The light from the huge windows floods the living room, the pine trunks going up behind the windows echo the seven-meter pipe of a modern suspended fireplace. "It is this combination of simple shapes and natural materials, eight—meter ceilings and the warm texture of old wood, modern art and antique objects from around the world that creates a feeling of "timeless" in the interior, as the customer wanted," says the author of the project. Read more information about this house at the link.

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• Ecodesign: 280 m2 house on the shore of the Gulf of Riga

In the living room there is a seven—meter suspended fireplace, Focus. Sofa, Timothy Oulton. The floor is lined with vintage American oak boards, Ebony & Co.

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Madara Gritane

10. 130 m2 country style house, Sochi

This house with rustic wooden trim stands on a plot of only three acres. But with such a view of the mountains, you don't need any more! It belongs to a family with three children who have long wanted to settle in the mountains near Sochi. "The main idea was the inextricable connection of the house with the forest, mountains and the boxwood reserve located nearby," says the author of the project, designer Zhanna Navolotskaya. See the entire project at the link.

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• Country style: 130 m2 house in Sochi

A three-meter sofa with a built-in storage system is made to order, @oz_gruppo. Pillows, Zara Home. Carpet, "Carpet World", @sochi_kover.

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Mikhail Chekalov Style: Evgenia Kulikova

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