What You Can Do with a Khrushchyovka: 5 Examples

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What inheritance are we giving up? And is it necessary to do so? Take a look at what can be done with an apartment in a Khrushchyovka house

No, we are not saying goodbye to Khrushchyovkas. On the contrary, we hope they will live many happy years together with their owners who invested a lot of time and effort into their renovation and still don't regret it.

1. The Main Thing – Location

A 53 square meter apartment was thoroughly ruined by previous tenants, but it had one serious advantage — its location in the very center of Moscow. Not just in the center — the windows face the Apothecary Garden. Our heroes decided to fully renovate the Khrushchyovka — and were satisfied.

Photo: Kitchen and dining room in Scandinavian style, Apartment, Guide, modern interior in a Khrushchyovka, Khrushchyovka – photo on our website

2. A Playground for Experiments

The owner of this apartment, radio presenter Maksim Kovalyovskiy, was deliberately looking for housing in a Khrushchyovka. «For a long time I rented an identical two-room flat. While I lived there, I thought about how to improve this apartment and make the interior functional and comfortable. By the time I bought my own place, I already knew exactly what kind of layout I needed», — Maksim explains.

Photo: Living room in Modern style, Apartment, Guide, modern interior in a Khrushchyovka, Khrushchyovka – photo on our website

3. Dark Apartment

What was given? A two-room apartment in a five-story building, indeed made of brick and located in a decent area, and a male client with whom Kатya Alagich and Ilya Guliants from El Born Studio immediately found understanding and a shared vision of the future interior.Katya and Ilya had to make the apartment brighter, add air, plus figure out how to arrange the frequent overnight guests so everyone would be comfortable.

Photo: Living room in Scandinavian style, Apartment, Guide, modern interior in a Khrushchyovka, Khrushchyovka – photo on our website

4. Glamour, Shine, Beauty!

Originally, this apartment had a typical Khrushchyovka layout with three isolated rooms and dark narrow corridors. The homeowners — a family with a child — dreamed of convenient and modern housing. After receiving carte blanche from the clients, designer Olga Kulikovskaya-Eshbi completely restructured the space and found many hidden opportunities.

Photo: Kitchen and dining room in Modern style, Apartment, Guide, modern interior in a Khrushchyovka, Khrushchyovka – photo on our website

5. Scandinavian... Khrushchyovka

Architect Maxim Tikhonov managed to create a beautiful studio with a Scandinavian character from a run-down Khrushchyovka in Kuncevo. In the studio, peaceably coexist an IKEA sofa-bed, plastic chairs from the 1970s, a Romanian work table from the 60s, and an antique mirror from the beginning of the century from a flea market...

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