(Residential project)
A 1920s flat for a ceramicist and her daughter — reopened to the light, with two walls gone and every room given one clear job.
Location
Aarhus, Denmark
Size
112 m²
Duration
14 weeks
Year
2025
(01)
The brief
The flat had good bones and bad flow: five small rooms, a dark corridor and a kitchen that faced a wall. Our client wanted room to work from home, space for a growing child — and a home that felt calm rather than new.
Living room, kitchen and the new joinery wall.
Photography — Ida Holm
(02)
The approach
We removed two non-structural walls to pull courtyard light into the living space, kept the original oak floors and plaster cornices, and drew one long joinery wall that hides storage, a desk and the pantry.
(03) Key spaces
Room by room.
Three rooms that changed the most — and why.
Living room
34 m²
Two walls gone, courtyard light all afternoon, and a sofa long enough for everyone.
Kitchen
16 m²
Turned to face the window, with a limestone counter and the pantry hidden in joinery.
Studio corner
9 m²
A desk and a clay shelf behind sliding oak doors — closed off when the day is done.
(04) Materials
Five materials, used everywhere.
A short palette keeps small rooms calm — and ages well.
Smoked oak
Floors & joinery
Limestone
Kitchen & bath
Lime plaster
Walls, hand-trowelled
Washed linen
Curtains & bed
Brushed brass
Fittings & lamps
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It still feels like our flat — just the version we always imagined living in.
Maja Lund — Client, Atelier Arch
(05) Credits
Interior design
Interiora Studio
Joinery
Kaj Snedker, Aarhus
Build
Aarhus Byg
Lighting
Atelier Lys
Photography
Ida Holm
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