City Maisonette — 5th & 6th Floor

A maisonette on the 5th and 6th floor of a city-center apartment building, designed as a home that earns its altitude. The brief was to create two floors that feel related but distinct — one open and social, one intimate and private — without imposing a rigid hierarchy. The result is a warm, layered interior that draws from natural materials, organic forms, and a muted palette punctuated by deliberate moments of color. Nothing here is accidental. Every room was treated as its own small world.
6th Floor — Private Level
6th Floor

5th Floor — The Social Heart
The fifth floor opens up completely. Kitchen, dining, and living room flow into a single uninterrupted volume, anchored by natural oak joinery, a Carrara-effect marble island, and a terracotta accent wall that frames the TV unit like a painting. The kitchen runs in sage-green cabinetry — matte, handleless, clean — with under-cabinet LED strips that keep the worktop honest at any hour. A white marble column island marks the transition from cooking to dining without closing it off. In the living area, a low fireplace and layered pendant lighting — rattan, open-cage, geometric — create the kind of warmth that doesn't depend on the season. The millwork shelving unit behind the sofa zone holds the room together, its warm-lit niches displaying objects chosen for texture over statement.

The upper floor belongs entirely to rest and the private rhythms of daily life. A teenager's bedroom is designed as a compact universe: a built-in study desk beside the window, backlit open shelving framing a gallery of small objects, and a bed recessed into a warm storage wall — everything within arm's reach, nothing wasted. The palette plays youth against refinement: blush-toned walls, a deep graphite storage unit, terracotta accents, and a sculptural loop wall light that doubles as art. Across the landing, the bathroom speaks a different register — floor-to-ceiling stone-effect slabs in warm beige, a walk-in shower with integrated niches, and a floating vanity in oak lit from below. The vertical mirror, framed in matte black, cuts a sharp line through all that softness. A second children's room completes the floor: sage and terracotta, a study nook tucked beneath backlit shelves, night-light clouds on the wall, and animal-print rugs that keep the space grounded in childhood without sentimentality.