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THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT Rooms for Twins and a Place for EverythingInterior Architectural Design - Minor Renovation with Storage Solutions
LIEU | LOCATION :
Montréal, Québec, Canada
(Plateau-Mont-Royal)
PROJET | PROJECT BY :
Jessica Gutwein
MANDAT | MANDATE :
planning – interior design – technical drawings – sourcing –
site supervision
ANNÉE | YEAR : 2021
SETTING
An 1870s cottage
Home to adolescent twins sharing the only available bedroom
Both eying the tiny adjacent space and dreaming of separate rooms
PLOT
The wall is relocated, creating two equal rooms.
Meters of new storage are devised, badly needed by the family of four.
Although both rooms receive the same treatment,
the personality of each twin puts a different face on its appearance.
THE EXISTING PLAN
The rowhouse provided a good sized square second bedroom, large enough for two people, but left little space for good use of the adjacent room.
EXISTING PLAN
NEW TWIN ROOMS
A new deep wall of cabinets envelops the bed, tucking it into a cozy corner.
The cabinets are mass-produced products, arranged and framed by custom cut trim to fit the space.
The opposite wall gets a wall-to-wall treatment of shelves with a niche for a desk.
TWIN A
The first twin prefers earthier tones and chooses a mix of white and green cabinets accented by darker woods.
A dark wood desk is fit into the centre of a library wall, between prefabricated bookshelves and a simple custom unit featuring walnut floating shelves, that houses the occupant's existing lego storage system.
TWIN B
A clean, cool palette of white and gray is chosen by the second twin, with added touches of bleached birch tones.
The library wall, though not long, pairs a tall prefabricated bookshelf with a small gray stained wood desk with a black metal frame.
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