Eight open-plan living areas with mix-and-match flooring

This lookbook collects 8 houses with roomy open up-prepare interiors, wherever various floor types have been employed to subtly determine parts for cooking, dining and lounging.

Open up-approach interiors are an enduring development in household design, employed most normally to mix kitchen area and dwelling spaces and generate a social coronary heart for the property.

However, this is now competing with an improve in property owners opting for damaged-prepare layouts that cater to distinctive routines and provide extra assortment to their interiors.

In this roundup, we explore the middle ground: open-approach rooms where by combine-and-match flooring is made use of to softly demarcate kitchens, eating and dwelling locations, visually reducing the dimension of the house with out truncating it.

This is the hottest in our lookbooks series, which offers visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For a lot more inspiration see earlier lookbooks showcasing discreet lifts, concrete bogs and non-unexciting beige dwelling interiors.

Cas 8 Household, Spain, by DG Arquitecto

A decorative vary of mosaic tiles is utilised throughout the floors of Cas 8 Household, a 1920s penthouse in Valencia that was not too long ago modernised by neighborhood studio DG Arquitecto.

As portion of the undertaking, the studio created an open-approach dwelling area with an built-in kitchen area. In this article, the tiles assist to set aside zones for lounging and food preparation, without breaking up the place.

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Hackney House, British isles, by Applied Studio

London architect Utilized Studio utilised blend-and-match chevron flooring in the rear extension of this dwelling in Hackney, where two various finishes enable divide the room.

On one aspect, black granite tiles define the kitchen area location, complemented by jet-black timber cabinetry. The reverse side of the area, which is employed for eating, is lined with wood planks teamed with white partitions and matching furnishings.

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Klinker Apartment, Spain, by Colombo and Serboli Architecture

Color-blocking marks out distinct spaces in the Klinker Condominium, which Serboli Architecture created in the shell of a hearth-destroyed residence in Barcelona.

In the open up-prepare residing region, a terracotta-hued strip of micro-cement flooring decorates the kitchen area, which has a matching ceiling, splashback and cabinetry that is contrasted with a neutral tiled lounge area.

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Villarroel, Spain, by Raúl Sánchez Architects

This open-system cooking, dining and sitting space in the Villarroel apartment is divided into two sections by the flooring, which marries gray-coloured stone slabs with warm wood.

This displays architecture studio Raúl Sánchez Architects’ general style and design strategy for the property, which was to set up it into zones devoid of partition walls, opting for “product codes” that distinguish rooms from a single a further instead.

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Mài Condominium, Vietnam, by Whale Design Lab

Chunky white-marble terrazzo is teamed with clean cement for the flooring of this monolithic, multi-function place in the Mài Apartment in Ho Chi Minh City.

The graphic terrazzo utilized for the kitchen and meals preparation region also handles its cabinets and worksurfaces, building the area sense like its have area despite opening out into the dining spot.

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Household Mellinet, Belgium, by Atelier Fréderic Louis

Architecture studio Atelier Fréderic Louis opted for a far more delicate terrazzo for the floor in the kitchen area of Household Mellinet, which shares the exact home as the eating spot.

Even though the terrazzo provides a purposeful truly feel to the kitchen area, the eating spot adjacent has wooden parquet flooring that establishes a warmer and much more intimate environment a lot more suited to accumulating at the meal desk.

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Nagatachō Apartment, Japan, by Adam Nathaniel Furman

Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman developed the vibrant Nagatachō Condominium in Tokyo as a “visual feast”, with open-system rooms that are crammed with an eclectic blend of colors, patterns and textures.

At the coronary heart of the approach is a candy-pink kitchen suite, which is completed with watermelon-inexperienced vinyl flooring. It connects to a sitting space with a contrasting soft lilac carpet that “looks like icing”.

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Apartment in Paris by Septembre Architecture

Modern poured-concrete flooring is juxtaposed with rustic wooden planks in this huge, light-stuffed multi-intent home, which is located in a renovated Parisian condominium.

The concrete is applied to mark out the kitchen place, which is disregarded by a lounge and dining area with Les Arcs chairs by architect Charlotte Perriand and a assertion Tulip table by architect Eero Saarinen.

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This is the most recent in our lookbooks collection, which gives visible inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For much more inspiration see former lookbooks showcasing discreet lifts, concrete bogs and non-dull beige residence interiors.