- Interior
- Architecture & development
With Cedarwood Apartment, Dubróvska Studio strived to avoid the feeling that the interior has been perfectly thought out. The apartment, located on the second floor in a stalinka – apartment buildings built between the years 1930-1950 – in Kyiv, exudes a warm and spacious feeling.
Despite the rather small surface, Dubróvska Studio managed to make the apartment feel spacious and airy. Initially, the client asked to design a dark bachelor apartment to the founder Natalie Dubróvska, but that idea soon had to give way to a couple with a cat. In the end, only the kitchen with a copper façade was retained from the original design concept. In order to make the room appear larger, all the internal walls were removed. As a result, the living room, the kitchen and the library with a double bed fit into this space.
The couple likes to have people over and the large living room played an important role in this. Therefore, it was decided to keep all other rooms as small as possible. The bathroom is separated by a wall of textured glass. 
All rooms were kept as small as possible to make the living room as big as possible.
You have read it correctly that there is a library in the apartment. The owners love reading and therefore have a considerable and impressive book collection. The large book rack was therefore just as necessary as the comfortable armchair with the coffee table next to it.
The old piano unexpectedly became part of the interior. During the renovation, the owner rented a piano in the other apartment. He quickly learned the tricks of the trade and wanted to buy a beautiful vintage piano for his renovated house. He sent twenty photos of different pianos to founder Natalie Dubróvska . She finally chose a model with compact dimensions. 
A sense of warmth pervades the whole apartment. The dominant colour accent is the copper façade of the kitchen, which takes on an even deeper hue as time passes. The main surfaces are the original red brick on the walls, the oak parquet, the walnut veneer on the dining table and the black granite on the kitchen worktop. The paintings by Anna Scherbyna and Alina Yakubenko bring an emotional touch to the space.
Dubróvska Studio clearly aimed to create a space where the client immediately feels at ease. It is a place you would like to come home] to after a long, tiring day at the office or a holiday. We would certainly like to live here. 
Photography by Yevhenii Avramenko