10 Coolest Interiors of 2021

Stylish 68 m² apartment in Moscow for a British artist

This interior was created for a talented and beautiful girl — Veronika Smirnova, a British artist of Russian origin who lives and works in London. The apartment is located in a house designed by B.Ya. Mityurin, which is a historical heritage of Moscow. This could not fail to influence the stylistic and decorative style of the interior. The apartment has almost no right angles, and the windows overlook Kiev Railway Station, Moscow City, and the hotel "Ukraine".

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Design: Oksana Korotkina

Cool transformation of a typical Stalin-era apartment

Designer Daria Nazarenko refreshed the interior of an apartment built in 1935. Here, two generations of a family live — parents and an adult daughter. The second daughter with her family occasionally visits. During the renovation, the clients wanted to preserve part of the original finish — cornices, ceilings, parquet — and the spirit of a Stalin-era apartment. At the same time, they had to fit within a small budget and avoid a grand redesign.

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Design: Daria Nazarenko

Beautiful 46 m² one-bedroom apartment with a niche kitchen

This small but very cozy apartment is located in a new building at the foot of the mountains. There are only two windows on one side, but the view from them is worth a million — they overlook the beautiful Tian Shan mountains. The apartment was designed by designer Elina Musakulova for the client's aunt — the renovation as a gift. The original layout did not include a bedroom, but it was possible to adjust the space so that there was room for a bedroom, wardrobe, and a kitchen-living room.

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Design: Elina Musakulova

Amazing Euro-trash in a Stalin-era apartment with turquoise kitchen

In this apartment built in 1957 in a Stalin-era building, the client and her two daughters live, along with a cat and a dog. Designer Valeria Shimanska faced a number of interesting challenges. It was necessary to preserve part of the family heritage: a Romanian wardrobe from the 50s–60s, a chandelier brought from Germany during wartime, paintings, a piano, and parquet floors in two rooms. The family needed plenty of storage space — mostly hidden. With the style, there were specific requirements: the client wanted an "English style," armchairs with ears, and calm tones, while her daughters wanted something bright and "fun".

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Design: Valeria Shimanska

One-bedroom apartment with a winter garden in Kaliningrad

Designer Alena Nikolaeva decorated the apartment for the client's mother. Thanks to a neutral color palette with bright accents, a bright and cheerful space was created that evokes memories of the Mediterranean. Among functional tasks were organizing storage systems in sufficient quantity and a functional kitchen. The highlight was a winter garden, which is rarely found in apartments of this size.

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Design: Ksenia Yerlakova

Two-story apartment with interesting details and cool wallpapers

The apartment designed by designer Ksenia Yerlakova is located in Yekaterinburg, in a brick house built in 1997. It is an individual project. The feature is that it has two floors and the space more resembles a country house than a typical apartment. A complete reconfiguration was not possible, but innovative solutions were found in decoration — for example, metallic wallpapers with whales in the kitchen and lighting fixtures with a maritime theme.

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Design: Ksenia Yerlakova

Petersburg trash with large windows and beautiful wall color

Designer Anastasia Zarqua created an interior where color plays a big role and hides the shortcomings of the space. The clients wanted to move away from already familiar beige-gray Scandinavian interiors and create an interesting color scheme. The dominant and main accent in the entrance hall, corridor, kitchen, and living room was a terracotta wall tone, while a deep blue and patterned wallpaper were chosen for the bedroom.

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Design: Anastasia Zarqua

Light Petersburg trash for a medical student

Designer Yana Goshova and her team Lampa Design Studio decorated a 109 m² apartment. The layout and stylistic approach of the project were based on highlighting functional zones and making the space ergonomic, as the shape of the apartment is irregular. In the end, they were able to separate the common area from private space, organize a study with a sleeping area, a kitchen with a large dining table, a living room with a cozy sofa in front of the TV, and two bathrooms.

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Design: Lampa Design Studio

Light 64 m² apartment with non-standard layout for two people

Ekatrina Ulanova created an energetic, modern, stylish interior for similar clients — a young couple who in their free time from work at large corporations enjoy diving and traveling. The existing layout and load-bearing walls contributed to creating a non-standard space with zones that seem to flow into each other.

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Design: Ekaterina Ulanova

Exquisite 1950s Stalin-era apartment with many non-standard solutions

An apartment from the 1950s located in central Moscow was inherited by the clients. It had a typical layout of that era: a ten-meter kitchen, a long corridor, a small bathroom, and two rooms. The clients wanted to reconfigure the layout and add an architectural note of past centuries to not forget in which historical house their apartment is located. Thus, designer Anna Zueva came up with ideas for a coffered ceiling and a built-in hallway. Modern furniture and lighting created a stylish atmosphere and slightly "shook up" the classical composition.

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Design: Anna Zueva