Apartment renovation

Anastasiou Misseri reworks an enclosed three-bedroom apartment into a luminous two-bedroom residence, where built-in architecture and a restrained material palette carry a single, continuous narrative.

Inside an early-2000s apartment block, Anastasiou Misseri took on a dark, enclosed three-bedroom apartment whose common areas had been left fragmented. The renovation focused on reorganising those areas into a cohesive living environment, improving both visual and functional flow. Conceived in close collaboration with the clients as a curated pied-à-terre, the project trades a third bedroom for spatial clarity and refined detailing.

The decisive move is architectural rather than cosmetic. By relocating the kitchen, the designers were able to introduce a continuous built-in element that begins as kitchen cabinetry and resolves, without interruption, into a display shelving system in the living space. It is a single gesture that ties cooking, gathering, and the showing of objects into one legible run — fitting for a home shaped around the appreciation of art. Beside it, a raised carpeted platform lifts a reading nook slightly out of the flow of the room, defining an intimate corner without the need for walls.

Removing one bedroom did more than open up the plan. It freed the space for a generous walk-in wardrobe folded into the master bedroom, allowing the private rooms to share the same uninterrupted spatial logic as the living areas. Throughout, custom joinery in wood veneer and coloured lacquer sets the interior temperature, warm and precise in equal measure. Bespoke pieces — the kitchen table, the TV unit, the dresser — are treated not as furniture placed within the architecture but as extensions of it, drawn from the same language.

Holding the composition together is a disciplined use of marble. It appears as a continuous skirting that wraps around each room, as the kitchen worktop, and again in the bathrooms as sinks and as the lining of walls and floors. Recurring with deliberate consistency, the stone becomes a connective thread, carrying the eye from one space to the next. Every element has been considered and designed to serve a coherent whole — a residence where spatial clarity, refined detailing, and a carefully chosen palette read as a single, unbroken narrative.