The apartment with lizard is a bold, surrealist home in Kiev

High up above Kiev’s right bank Dnipro River, this is 1,141-square foot, one bedroom apartment is everything except plain. Designed by Ukrainian Studio metric bureau For creative couple and their cat Apartment with lizard is a fearless exploration of bold design choices. “Our clients were open to risks,” says Switlana Moscalenko, designer and founder of the metric bureau. “They were most worried about emotional experience – dramatic images, contrasting colors and original ideas.” One partner, with a fashionable background, replaced something with the care of the Cosmic Carnival – dramatic, unconventional and dripping with the personality. The second sought a peaceful withdrawal for peaceful reflection. The result is a dream to solve which balances color and calm, where theatrical moments meet functional lightness.

Modern living room with blue sofa, circular windows, dark wooden floors, built-in shelves and green accent. The sculptural gray chair and candles add decorative touches.

From the moment you get inside, the apartment sets the tone. Monochrome red input – walls, ceiling, and even light – feels like it enters the room in the doll. The sliding glass separates this blow from the rest of the house, where the living space is anchored in deep green. In its center, a mass circular opening sliced in fur fur becomes a focus and meditative escape. Instead of the daily chair, the portal invites you to tilt, watch out and switch on with the 26. balcony, paved in the fishing, in the form of water.

A person standing in a large window with this oval shape frame, which looks outside the landscape of trees and remote buildings, in a modern room with dark walls and blue furniture.

Modern, an angular black armchair sits on the floors of dark wood next to the green wall, black unit for the shelf and the owner of the candle sculpture with three red candles.

Ukrainian parts bring warmth and identity living room: blue sofa in shape in the form of a svoy studio, sculptural voo armchair and mushrooms on similar cafes. Veneer Alpi, designed by Postmodern Master Ettore SottSassIt supports built-in metal shelves, adding a layer of art in a currently collection of books and facilities.

Modern living room with green walls, blue sofa, dark wood Floor bracket and red glass panel rooms with vertical slats and circular background window.

Modern entrance with red walls and doors, painful of ribbed glass panels, contains blue sofa, round coffee table with books and wall black coats and polishing.

Red room with textured black jacket hanging on bars, built-in shelves, a small decorative object on a lower shelf and partially open wooden doors.

Indented in the walls of entries are metal shelves that keep the steam shoes on neat mode. It is above, hidden plates cover up easy access to the technical systems of the apartment.

Modern living room with blue section, black round table for coffee, black shelves and view of green cuisine in the background.

Modern kitchen with green lower cabinets, upper woodcuts, black countertop, built-in devices and a small dining room with chairs and sculptural lamp.

The kitchen is equally characteristic, with a cabin on the same green color as well as living space and a mirror concrete that illuminates the room architecture. The red alpes veneer emphasizes the upper cabinets, while the whimsical portrait of lizard in formal clothes – the work of Ukrainian artist Valeri Kuznetsov – presides the world. Around the circular dining table, unassigned red and white chairs keep playful mood, illuminated by the above-mentioned pendant lamp from Denmark Oo.

Green minimalist kitchen cabinets with Matt black countertop, black-back plan, and upper cabinets containing a characteristic sample of the red wood; Black electrical outlets are visible.

Modern kitchen contains green cabinets, black counterattope and sink, red peppers on a counter and wood panel with a red pattern above.

Modern kitchen with matte green cabinets, black counteratop and upper cabinets on red wooden grains; The dining table and chairs are visible next to the large window.

Modern dining room with large windows, round table, mixed chairs and wall mural camels wearing necklace and dress.

Modern kitchen with green cupboards, built-in oven, round black table, red textured chair and vase with white and orange flowers.

The blue door with a metal handle is set in a green wall, with a red ceiling and a black contradictions in the foreground.

Modern interior with geometric shelves containing wood grain wood, a tap mount on a wall and red shelves in the foreground. The black vessel is sitting on a gray surface.

Modern living room with green and black walls, blue sofa, black fotel, red candles and red wooden products that keep black vases and a vessel.

Modern bathroom with blue walls and floor, round mirror, red vanity with curved cutout and small animals partially visible under the cabinet.

Modern bathroom with blue walls and floor, orange vanity with circular cutout, round mirror, LED striptis and two walls.

Room with great blue paved walls and floor, window with red bars and recessed red shelf showing glass bottle.

Modern bedroom with dark tone with large windows, low bed, abstract wall art and minimalist decor. The natural light enters the clean curtains.

The bedroom is designed around a preimensioned created bed (with over 75 square meters of sleeping space!), Channel fantasy through the Italian wallpaper and children and a glowing mirror inspired by eclipse. Distorted vanity and lamps are trimmed on theatricality, while chain curtains reveal an elegant, completely black wardrobe. Even the bathroom is dramatically with contrasting cobalt walls with a shock red sink and shelves – plus discreet, cabinet entrance customized in the garbage box.

The bed with crushed gray beds and two pillows was placed on the wall of blue and brown abstract mural; Wall-placed reading lights and black pending lamp hangs.

The person is located on the bed in a dimly lit room with an abstract blue and orange wall, circular hanging frames and dark curtains.

Modern room with a large round mirror, abstract walls of sample, sculptural black stool for spinning and decorative rings and spheres on the dark shelf.

Modern, a weak bedroom contains a sculptural black chair, gray bedding and doors are stripped with metal chain curtains, partially revealing hanging clothes in the closet outside.

Moskalenko is called one of the most choked study projects until today, a space where customers’ willingness risk risking to the interior that is emotionally accused as it believed. It is an apartment where every detail – from the portal lined with the portal on the lizard – tells the story, blurring the line between everyday life and stage for imagination.

Modern, minimalist wardrobe with black walls, lighted shelves, one black jacket, bust and one shoe on the screen.

The man's arm is visible through the open glass door in a dark, paved room with a reflecting water pattern.

The balcony is lined with floor plates like water in selets and black mosaic tiles and deviates benches, and all result in the feeling of the pool.

The small paved black steam room contains a bench with a chess set, viewed from the entrance with iridescent glass panels and under the pattern.

The person sitting in the round window, looking at the sunset over the city's outline, with blue soges in the foreground.

A woman with a short blue hair leans on a modern kitchen counter with green cupboards, wooden upper panels, black black contrads and integrated appliances. The natural light enters the left.

Svitlana Moskalenko, founder of the metric bureau

Architectural framework plan apartment on an open concept containing a kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom, bathroom and entrance.

To learn more about a flat with lizard and metric bureau, go towards metricbureau.com.

Photography Andrii Bezuglov and Anastasia Osipenko.

Caroline Williamson is the editor-in-chief of design milk. It has BFA in a photo with SCAD and can usually be found searching vintage trenches, working in the transverse words of the New York Times in the pen or processing playlists on Spotify.



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