What You Can Do with a Flat in a Panel House: 10 Great Examples

Small area, low ceilings, impossibility of re-planning and other drawbacks of panel houses can be turned into advantages. See how professionals do it.

Apartment with walk-in closets on balconies

Owners didn't want to change the layout in the apartment. They preserved unusual transitions between rooms through the balcony. This idea led to combining the bedroom with a walk-in closet, and in the children's room, another walk-in closet and a mini-cabinet were placed on the balcony.

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Design: Home Emotions

Trash in vibrant colors

Customers lived in a flat in a panel house of the KOPЭ series with atypical layout. Designer Dasha Ukhlinova restored the geometry of all rooms. While the tasks for re-planning were obvious, decorating the interior was more complicated. The flat owner liked the loft style, but it was going to be lived in by two women.

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Design: Dasha Ukhlinova

One-room flat turned into a two-room one

Nina Shubert developed the layout of this flat with consideration for future family expansion — the designer managed to organize a private bedroom in a one-room flat.

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Design: Nina Shubert

How to handle an unfavorable layout in a St. Petersburg flat

Re-planning in a panel house is a complex engineering process that takes time to coordinate. Customers were not ready to go through this. Interior design tasks were solved with custom-made furniture. Natural finishing materials and natural textures made the apartment's interior bright and airy.

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Design: LINES

Interior inspired by "Big Bang Theory"

In this trash in a panel new building, space was found for characters from the series "Big Bang Theory" and fragments of Harry Potter movies, Marvel superhero posters, and the SHIT emblem in the bathroom.

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Design: ANTEI

Two-bedroom flat in blue tones

The existing furniture in the apartment was updated, complemented with bright accents and natural materials, and bedside tables made of cork were installed in the bedroom. The decor was brought from Miami.

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Design: Maria Solovyova-Sosnovik

Interior for those who love guests and parties

The theme of contrasts became the foundation for this project. The authors decided to combine classic and modern styles, adding drama with elements of art deco. Beige-gray color scheme for the entire interior in the bedroom was diluted with dark emerald and burgundy furniture and textiles, while in the living room — with purple-gray cornices.

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Design: Natalia Patrushova's studio

Small flat with a comfortable dining area

Designers from Flatforfox studio maximized the use of available space: first, they moved the entrance to the children's room from the kitchen-living room and shifted the door frame in the bedroom. In the kitchen, a comfortable dining-living area was created.

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Design: Flatforfox

Cozy flat in Scandinavian style

Light wood on the floor, light gray walls, simple and practical layout solutions — an interior that will appeal to many.

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Design: Oleg Mints

Loft with colored parquet flooring

The flat owners prefer the loft style, and the project author used traditional natural finishing materials for it. Brickwork appeared on the walls of the hallway, decorative plaster and textured wallpapers in the rooms, and parquet from the floor was "brought" to the wall in the living room. It was exactly this, or rather its color scheme, that served as the starting point for the entire interior.

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Design: Alena Gorskaya