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Vibrant Minimalism

Minimalism held warm, colourful and close to nature.

An apartment in Simeonovo, intended for rental, asked for a strongly minimalist interior that would not read as sterile. The plan stays clear; character comes from colour, play and a few natural textures rather than a cold geometry.

Warm woody tones and structured forms sit with unexpected accents, a yellow sofa, graphic art, a timber dining table. The bedroom drops into a darker register for rest, with a vertical cut in the wall that breaks the plane.

Location
Simeonovo
Type
Apartment
Designer
Irena Rumen
Award
House of the Year 2022, Third Prize, Ideal Home
Editorial
Ideal Home, 2022
Living room with a yellow corner sofa, graphic drawings on a shelf and a walnut kitchen to the right.
Kitchen corner with walnut cabinets to the ceiling, dark stone and a black track light.
Dining room with a timber table, grey chairs and a yellow metal bookshelf by the window.

Living

Yellow on a calm white ground.

Minimalism here is not a cold geometry. A white wall, a track of spots and slim black tables keep the plane clear, while the yellow sofa, graphic sheets and twigs in a vase bring colour and a hint of nature without crowding the room.

Living room toward the window: yellow sofa, beige rocking lounge chair and a television on the white wall.
Detail toward the sofa: black side tables, a modern-art book and red and white vases.
Fluted walnut sideboard, a disc pendant and prints of a yellow bicycle and a Brooklyn poster.
A view along the dining table toward the living room and the yellow sofa.

Dining and kitchen

Colourful shelves against a quiet kitchen.

The dining room joins living to kitchen: a timber table, a soft diamond rug and two open bookshelves, black and yellow. The kitchen is held in walnut and dark stone, lit by a black track, so the colour stays with the living rooms.

Geometric sliding panels in black, beige and walnut, with the living room beyond.

Bedroom

A darker register for rest.

The bedroom is deliberately darker: a graphite wall, a beige bed and white as the counterpoint. A vertical cut in the wall, geometric fields of walnut, black and beige, breaks the monotony and returns the same play seen on the sliding panels in the living rooms.

Bedroom with a dark wall, beige upholstered bed, a yellow throw and a desk by the window.
Bedside: a walnut nightstand, a concrete pendant and geometric wall cladding.
Bedroom toward the geometric wardrobe panels, the graphite wall and a large portrait print.

Recognition

  • 2022 House of the Year, Third Prize, Ideal Home
  • 2022 Ideal Home, 2022

Photographs

The apartment, room by room.

The opening is edited. Alternate views and the plan live here, click any image to view it fully.

Living

Living room with a yellow corner sofa and walnut kitchen.
Living room toward the window and the rocking lounge chair.
Detail: side tables, a book and vases in front of the yellow sofa.
Geometric sliding panels toward the living room.

Dining

Dining room with a timber table and a yellow metal bookshelf.
Dining table looking through to the living room.
Fluted walnut sideboard, disc pendant and yellow prints.

Kitchen

Kitchen with walnut cabinets, dark stone and a black track.

Bedroom

Bedroom: dark wall, beige bed and a desk by the window.
Bedroom toward the geometric wardrobe panels.
Nightstand, concrete pendant and a yellow throw.

Bathroom

Bathroom with stone tiles, a black basin and a glazed shower.

Floor plans

Floor plan of the apartment in Simeonovo.