The neo-classical stucco ceiling sets the tone as soon as you enter. Its ornament runs above a room that has been cleared back to its structure, so the eye can travel from the restored plasterwork to the fireplace and out toward the large windows. In this apartment renovation, the old layers of partitions, lowered ceiling sections, and mixed floor finishes give way to a clearer route through the home. The result is less about adding surfaces than about revealing the room\u2019s height, light, and original sequence.<\/p>\n
The most visible move is also the most restrained: restore stucco ceiling details and let them lead the composition. The decorative ceiling sits above a living area where the fireplace returns to its original position, giving the room a point of focus without crowding it. Around that center, the surfaces stay calm. Darker joinery, pale wall planes, and the grain of the wood floor keep the attention on the ceiling line and the long room proportions rather than on decoration for its own sake.<\/p>\n
The living room with fireplace is shaped by daylight coming through the tall windows. Curtains soften the openings, but the glazing still reads as a broad edge to the room, not a closed wall. That contrast matters in a home of this size, because the apartment renovation does not flatten the historical character. Instead, it keeps the ornamental ceiling in view while opening the room enough for everyday use, reading, and family life around the fire.<\/p>\n
One of the strongest changes is the decision to open up the hallway for daylight. What once worked as a traffic zone now draws light through the apartment, so the corridor no longer feels like a buffer between rooms. It becomes a passage with a visual role of its own. The same move extends the sense of depth: the hallway continues into the kitchen, and the line of sight helps the spaces read as one sequence rather than as a set of disconnected rooms behind doors and frames.<\/p>\n
That opening also changes the daily route through the apartment. Instead of walking through a dim intermediary space, the path now carries light from one end to the other. The floor finish continues, the wall edges stay crisp, and the doors and glass partitions no longer divide the plan as strongly as before. In a large apartment renovation, that kind of change is often more effective than a dramatic gesture. It makes the plan feel larger because it allows the eye to move farther.<\/p>\n
The kitchen grows not by taking over the room, but by being extended with custom joinery. A suspended added element gives the cooking zone more presence and more working length, while still keeping the route open beneath and around it. Dark fronts and a window on the side keep the composition grounded. The kitchen therefore reads as part of the same interior language as the hallway and living room, with joinery doing the work that separate partitions would otherwise do.<\/p>\n
Viewed from the corridor, the kitchen expansion is easy to read. The hallway runs straight into it, and the joinery marks the change of function without breaking the view. This is where the apartment renovation feels especially disciplined: each spatial move has a clear job. The hallway brings daylight, the kitchen extension adds usable area, and the restored ceiling keeps the historical ceiling detail visible where it matters most.<\/p>\n
Built-in cabinet walls appear throughout the apartment as deep, dark planes that absorb storage into the architecture. In one area, a built-in cabinet wall with niche lighting turns a practical wall into a measured backdrop, with open recesses breaking up the surface and giving small objects a place to sit. The lighting stays tucked inside the niches rather than spilling out, so the wall reads as part storage, part frame. It is a precise counterpoint to the ornament above.<\/p>\n
Those joinery elements matter because the apartment still contains traces of its earlier fragmentation. The partial lowered ceiling and varied floor finishes once split the plan into smaller pieces. Custom cabinetry now helps gather the rooms again. Instead of adding visual noise, it lines the walls, hides everyday clutter, and leaves the ceiling, windows, and circulation route to carry the character of the apartment. The effect is calm, but it is built from specific moves rather than broad styling.<\/p>\n
The master suite layout takes over the entire floor above. Here, the room arrangement is organized around a bathroom that separates the sleeping area from a small lounge. Wardrobes wrap around that central wet zone, so storage and circulation are folded into one compact core. This creates clear zones without using heavy partitions. The sleeping area remains distinct, while the lounge keeps a quieter pause at the edge of the suite.<\/p>\n
From the bath, the view reaches out to the park and the neighboring house, which gives the upper floor a strong visual anchor. The bathroom with glass shower screen keeps the room open enough to read as one volume, rather than as a closed compartment. Seen together with the wardrobes, the glazed screen and the bath edge give the suite a practical order. It is a layout built around movement, storage, and a controlled line of sight.<\/p>\n
Materially, the apartment relies on a few steady contrasts. Stucco and plaster bring back the historic ceiling detail. Dark joinery adds depth to walls and cabinets. The wood floor runs through the circulation zones and into the rooms beyond, while the glazing and window openings keep the apartment connected to daylight. These elements are not treated as separate finishes. They work as a chain of surfaces that supports the apartment renovation from one room to the next.<\/p>\n
The visual result is strongest where old and new are allowed to stay legible. The neo-classical stucco ceiling remains decorative, but it is no longer surrounded by divided rooms and awkward transitions. The living room with fireplace, the hallway opened for daylight, and the extended kitchen each answer a different part of the brief. Together they give the apartment a clearer order, one that can hold a large family plan without losing the detail of the original interior.<\/p>\n
The clearest moments come at the points where movement, light, and built form meet. A doorway opens to the kitchen and the eye keeps going. A cabinet wall takes storage off the floor and turns it into a surface with depth. Above, the stucco ceiling remains visible, so the room never loses its scale. The apartment renovation works because each intervention is specific: the ceiling is restored, the hall is opened, the kitchen is extended, and the upper suite is reorganized around a bathroom core.<\/p>\n
What remains is a large apartment that feels easier to read room by room. The historical ceiling detail is still there, the fireplace sits where it should, and the plan now carries light farther into the home. The result is not a spectacle of change, but a sequence of measured adjustments that make the interior clearer to use and easier to live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13918,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"apartment renovation","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Apartment renovation with restored stucco ceiling","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Restored stucco ceiling, opened hallway, new fireplace, expanded kitchen, and a master suite with bath views shape this apartment renovation.","_yoast_wpseo_linkdex":"50","_yoast_wpseo_content_score":"90","content-type":"","_yoast_wpseo_focuskeywords":"[]","_yoast_wpseo_keywordsynonyms":"[\"\"]","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":null,"_yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes":"1"},"hoog_category":[2967,2968,2984],"class_list":["post-13907","hoog_project","type-hoog_project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","hoog_category-bathroom-ideas","hoog_category-bedroom-ideas","hoog_category-living-room-ideas"],"acf":{"hoog_project_owner":13783,"hoog_contributors":null,"hoog_project_badge":"","hoog_featured_project":false,"hoog_project_video":"","hoog_project_photos":[{"image_file":275110,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13908,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13909,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13910,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13911,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13912,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13913,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13914,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13915,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13916,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13917,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13918,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13919,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13920,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13921,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"},{"image_file":13922,"video_id":"","image_size":"full"}]},"yoast_head":"\n