a kitchen that opens onto the living room

On Rambla de Catalunya, one of the main arteries of Barcelona’s Eixample, an American couple fell in love with a flat. Theirs was not a love at first sight. Although the flat was perfectly located and more than adequate in size for them, the finishes and distribution did not drive them crazy. But this changed radically after passing through the hands of the interior design studio Arquium, which worked the miracle and got the couple to declare their eternal love for their home.

As Maribel Fernández, the interior designer of Arquium, explains, the couple wanted to have an open kitchen, “since they like to invite friends and family and want to be able to interact while they are cooking”. Said and done. After knocking down a partition, the kitchen opened to the living-dining room, visually delimited by a hydraulically inspired tile floor and a white marble island with a bar for informal meals. The white and simple line cabinets go unnoticed and we almost forget that we are in a kitchen, perfectly integrating the space with the rest of the house. Maribel confesses that, although the concept of an open kitchen is very typical of the United States, the finishes manage to make it more European. The New and the Old World reconciled between these kitchens.

www.arquium.es
After photos: www.ramonclemente.com

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