Located in the site of an old convent, this small apartment in the beautiful Parisian area Montmartre is very bright, despite being just on the second floor. The light and improvement of this environment, unique in the city of the lights, were the first requests of the owners, «explains the architect Céline Boclaud, of Boclaud Architecture. For what was going to be a Pied à Terre For parents and a student department for their daughter, The architects simplified the very compartmentalized plane: A kitchen, a bathroom, a separate sink and a reduced room grouping the bathrooms and placing the kitchen in the main room to create a real vital space. Because the small department only has one side oriented outwards, the bedroom is installed as a second day behind a large window to benefit from the light of the two windows of the room.
Bring the light
The existing parquet, «quite beautiful and graphic», typical of the sixties, was sanded and preserved. Céline Boclaud combined this clear floor with white -painted walls, and contrasted it with low dark walnut furniture, in an effort to mark the different spaces of the living room. «I worked the contrasts, the kitchen with its granite countertop and the dark walnut fronts identical to the large bedroom window …». A last dark note AE finds in the mirror lobby, a small coffee bank whose high and low modules respond to each other and dialogue with the geometry of the parquet, In a set of rectangles with mirroped doors.