An unusual request from a family of four: unable to find a three-bedroom apartment in central Paris, how could we turn an 88 m² four-room apartment into a five-room home?We rethought the layout completely. The kitchen at the end of the corridor became a bathroom with an adjoining shower. The WC was repositioned and optimised near the entrance, while the former bathroom became a kitchen opening onto a double reception room. The large children’s bedroom was divided into a room for the older child and a principal bedroom with borrowed light. The entrance was reconfigured to create a small room for the younger child.
- Facing the street and terrace, a double reception room extends into the kitchen and the principal bedroom, which benefits from borrowed light.
- Facing the courtyards, the children’s bedrooms are sheltered from street noise.
As ceiling height was not the apartment’s strongest feature, we favoured white with touches of colour to emphasise perspectives: midnight-blue edges on the principal bedroom’s bookcase, midnight-blue niches, a curved black corridor wall and black-and-white mosaics in the bathroom and WC. The artist’s-studio-style glazed partitions were finished in textured matt white rather than the usual black lacquer, creating an understated, elegant result.
