A Bachelor’s Apartment with the Combination of Zen and Contemporary Style
May 14, 2010 by karina
Filed under Interior Contracts, Portfolio
The young man, who resides in this apartment, is a Yoga-Master and his main requirement was an open space for his daily exercises. In the first phase we designed his living room and incorporate the yoga-place right in the middle of the room. Furniture from family heritage as well as collectibles from various journey around the globe merged into a serene, meditative atmosphere, which he likes to call his Zen refuge.
In the second phase – his bedroom – he imagined a contemporary style, more sophisticated as he has experienced in Europe. The Indian furniture, which were already present in his house were converted into the new style and the new built lower shelves added to the straight and clear lines which are the main focus in this new bedroom. Soft brown tones and the right lightening for several moods add to the same serenity that is the continuum in this apartment.
In the living room a large space left empty for Yoga, despite the room does not look like a yoga-hall. Its a blended fusion of all the decorative items with the Indian inherited furniture.
Illuminating the niches creates a beautiful ambiance in the whole living room.
The paper-umbrella makes a beautiful lamp and the cranes painted on it represent longevity.
Beside the sofa is even space for a meditation corner.
The white Buddha brought from Thailand is the focal point of this room and adds to the meditative impression.
Two Indian bedsteads became a new comfortable realm for sound and secure sleep with a new upholstered bedhead in the same material as the overall bedspread. The big cushions in contrast colours not only set an accent to the predominant brown, they also provide a snuggly place for reading in the bed. The painted brown frame around the window has a continuance in the stripe on the right wall, which creates a frame round the bed even without the vertical stripes.
In the night the room embraces the inhabitant with coziness and security.
For his bedroom he imagined a brown wall-paint on the window wall, which we considered to mighty and the contrast between the light window and the dark wall would have be unproportional for that room. Instead, we agreed to a stripe, which brings the warmness of the brown colour, but does not overwhelm in its weight of one wall. This colour scheme continues in the curtains, bedspread and furniture.
Clear forms and straight lines reign the room. Here the contrast between the white wall and the dark brown furniture is purposely set.
One former kitchen-shelf has been transformed into a writing table with a pullout for the laptop (the other became the bar in the living room). According to Feng Shui the desk was placed into one of the auspicious direction of the owner, well considered that no sharp corner hits the bed.
Karina S.V. is an Interior Designer and Feng Shui Expert, certified by Lillian Too, Feng Shui Master. She studied with Lillian and graduated from Lillian Too’s Institute of Feng Shui in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.