Calm in the City: A Cramped Apartment Becomes a ‘A Warm and Cozy Home’ for a Couple with Young Kids

Conti, Cert., the Barcelona-based agency that garnered a spot on The Remodelista Checklist: 20 Architects, Tastemakers, and Designers to Watch in 2023, not too long ago reached out with a charming new undertaking they oversaw for friends-turned-clients. “They had been within the course of of shopping for this house, and needed to revamp it utterly. They had been on the lookout for extra gentle, a better distribution, and a really heat and comfortable residence to carry up their youngsters,” says Andrea Conti, who, together with Isa Cert, based the studio with the aim of designing easy, elegant, and timeless houses.

Along with reconfiguring the upper-floor, three-bedroom house to be extra open and ethereal—”It was a extremely partitioned dwelling, with a number of darkish rooms, low ceilings, and cramped corners,” says Andrea—additionally they sought to revive a few of the residence’s unique architectural particulars (the flat is in a traditional Nineteen Fifties constructing). “Each time we discover vaulted ceilings, that are referred to as Catalan ‘volta’ right here, or molded doorways, we attempt to get better them. On this undertaking, we tore down the low roofs aiming to search out this ceiling. If we can not restore or get better these options, we construct them with new supplies, at all times sustaining the unique essence of the house,” explains Andrea.

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Images by Claudia Mauriño, courtesy of Conti, Cert.