Retro style in the interior of a Berlin apartment

If you like to give a second life to long-forgotten things, if walking through antique shops and flea markets is the best way for you to find interior items for your own home, then a short tour of the rooms of one Berlin apartment can be interesting and inspiring for an upcoming renovation or small alteration. The integration of retro interior items into a modern style is not an easy task, especially if the design of the premises involves elements assembled with your own hands from recycled materials. To preserve the spirit of antiquity, to bring the warmth of furniture that stores the energy of human hands and at the same time not to cross the line of the design of a modern home - the designers and homeowners of the apartment in Berlin succeeded.

Already in the hallway, the basis of the concept of decorating the space of German apartments becomes clear - snow-white finish to create a light, bright and clean atmosphere, the use of natural material - wood to create a warm and cozy image. In some areas of the Berlin apartment you can find interior items - furniture and decor, made from used material. For example, in the hallway from old wooden boxes it was possible to organize a storage system for shoes and accessories. Convenient, inexpensive, and most importantly - original. A similar statement can be called the slogan of designing an apartment in Berlin.

Consider the interior of a spacious and bright living room, in the design of which you can find retro elements, household items that have received a second life, and modern motifs. And again, the snow-white finish in combination with wooden parquet creates a light and airy atmosphere, not devoid of warmth and comfort. Against the background of white walls, even dim interior elements look contrasting. The blue shade of the upholstery of a comfortable sofa of angular modification looks colorful in a snow-white environment. Campaign sofa in the recreation area was an original coffee table, made of old boards.

Opposite the sofa, a video zone is organized. In the space of the storage system, presented in the form of a rack from the end of the last century, there was a place not only for equipment.

Vintage furniture with light scuffs, crests and chips carries the warmth and memory of past years, recalling the glorious past days. For some, such furniture is the result of a successful raid on flea markets and antique shops, for others - the memory of relatives who left a legacy of the interior.

Retro furnishings and antique decor items look surprisingly organically in a modern German dwelling. Warm natural shades, light attrition - everything plays into the hands of the interior, creating a touch of cozy comfort.

You won’t surprise anyone with open book shelves all over the wall, but the shelf of the original modification can bring uniqueness to the design of the room. For a rare interior item, an appropriate environment is needed - for an old sewing machine, a special nightstand and an unusual floor lamp in the form of a tripod without a lampshade were required.

Small elements of the interior, decor and cute little things filling our life play no less role in shaping the image of the room than large furniture and even decoration. From small pieces of a kaleidoscope a general picture is compiled, an amazing pattern of space.

In the spacious living room there was a place not only for the recreation area and the video segment, but also for the location of a full dining room. There was no way to set up a dining table with chairs in the adjacent kitchen space.

A dining table with drawers, stools and chairs, which are a combination of a metal frame and wooden backs, seats and countertops, have created an original dining group. This composition has country, retro and modern chic. But the main feature of the design of the dining segment, as well as other areas of the Berlin apartment - in the pursuit of uniqueness, the designers did not forget about comfort. Convenience and functionality.

Next to the living room, which is also a dining room, is the kitchen. The long but narrow space of the kitchen made it possible to place a parallel set of furniture, but there was no space left for the dining area. Unusual wall decoration, carried out with the help of manipulations with raw plaster, creates an original image of the kitchen space.

The use of ceramic tiles for lining a kitchen apron is the most practical option for surface finishing, which experiences not only constant exposure to moisture, but also frequent temperature changes. The wooden tabletop of the working area of the kitchen set has become an excellent addition to the snow-white facades of storage systems and household appliances.

Original elements of the interior diversify the image of the whole room, like. For example, the integration of a small piece of ceramic cladding into a wooden countertop in a kitchen cabinet. Or the presence of antique scales is not so much to fulfill its main function, but as a decor of space. Indeed, far from every kitchen you can find bright fruits or colorful greens placed in scales with counterweights.

In order not to heavily burden the interior of an elongated kitchen, it was decided to use open shelves instead of the upper tier of kitchen cabinets. Such a design technique allows you not only to create enough storage cells for spices, appliances and other kitchen utensils, but also to create an ensemble in which all the contents will be in full view of the owners.

There are many modern elements of interior and equipment in the cabinet space. To ensure that the design does not get out of the general outline of design, elements from the last century and even country objects were integrated into the space of the room.

Open shelves made of light wood with snow-white design of internal cavities became a storage system for a large number of books, magazines, papers and documents.

The space of the bathroom does not change the basic design concept of Berlin apartments - snow-white finish, as a symbol of cleanliness and freshness. After all, it is precisely such qualities that we all expect from a utility room for water procedures. Only small elements of the interior made of wood and bright textiles violate the snow-white idyll of the bathroom.

The open balcony of the German apartment also deserves attention. It's amazing how functional such a small space can be. Not only a recreation area, but also living plants in pots and tubs took refuge on the balcony - even a mini-garden of mobile variation was placed comfortably.