Balance is Elegance

It is a small apartment with a living area of 91 square meters. The original functional space layout seemed unreasonably scattered in this roughcast apartment. As the window in one of the rooms is set at the building’s dark corner, the original living area suffers poor daylight. The owner is a young couple living with their two lovely pet cats. The husband is a programmer and the wife is a designer. Accordingly, a multifunctional living space with sustainable and flexible layout is mainly required to meet various daily-life needs, such as SOHO working, guest meeting, family gathering, indoor sport doing, pet caring and future kid nourishing. The young couple focus on creating an eco-friendly interior living environment with high space utilization rate: recyclable materials and detachable furniture are selected for sustainable space development in the future; easier transportation, disassembly and installation was available in the whole construction process, so as to avoid excessive dust and unnecessary labor use.Diverse balances are playing in an elegant and harmonious way in this small apartment - the balance between living space and work space, the balance between human life and pet life, and the balance between the owner’s self-needs and eco-friendly demands. Free and comfortable daily living ambience is also created by casual mashup selection of various furnishing materials, such as log furniture, modern furniture, custom-made furniture, metal, leather, cloth and suede, making this apartment escape from a certain monotonous fashionable style. The aura of fresh vintage eclecticism is filled in this small but eclectic apartment.