Auto Body Shop to Modern Black + White Loft in Turin

Within the coronary heart of Turin, Italy, Loft M50 has undergone an entire transformation due to inside designer Paola Marè, who took an previous auto physique store and turned it into an enviable trendy residing house. The design scheme is pushed by black and white furnishings and components that breathe new life into the house’s industrial previous.

The removing of a central dividing wall, coupled with the excision of a portion of the roof, permits for a big, open flooring plan to offer the house its loft-like really feel. With the roof part gone, an inside courtyard emerges creating a non-public outside sanctuary within the metropolis heart. The ethereal expanse is framed by giant sliding glass doorways that confide in lengthen the loft’s footprint whereas growing the pure mild that enters the house.

The pure mild that passes by the skylights, home windows, and courtyard sliding doorways was fastidiously studied all through. A lighting design plan is now carried out into every house to be able to improve the daylight and create particular moods tailor-made to every useful zone.

Three steel mezzanines make use of the loft’s vertical house, with one working because the bed room, full with an uncovered bathtub and personal toilet, the second is a lounge, and the third homes visitor quarters. Two totally different staircases on reverse ends get rid of symmetry as every one stands out for its personal visible attraction. A minimalist staircase with white on the highest and black beneath begins as a low console desk and seating space earlier than rising as much as the lounge.

The predominant palette of the inside fluctuates between pristine white and black iron, warmed by touches of birch plywood particulars and Beton porcelain tile flooring in a pearl coloration.

The third mezzanine hovers above the partially hidden galley kitchen, which is adjoining to the open eating room.

The second staircase, resulting in the bed room, is its personal sculptural masterpiece comprised of black steel. The piece doubles as a storage shelf beneath whereas prominently appearing as one other focus within the house.

Beneath the elevated platforms, lives the loft’s entryway, a walk-in closet, the primary toilet, and a research with its personal entrance. A sliding picket slat door offers the studio privateness when wanted. The open slat design helps keep a visible connection to the remainder of the inside even whereas closed.

Pictures by Jana Sebestova.

Caroline Williamson is Editor-in-Chief of Design Milk. She has a BFA in images from SCAD and may often be discovered looking for classic wares, doing New York Instances crossword puzzles in pen, or transforming playlists on Spotify.