Estúdio BRA redesigned an old house into a compact and functional home at only 4 meters wide plot

Oh, what a complex task is to renovate a home! It is so difficult to decide what is good enough to keep and what needs to go. Sometimes, the only solution is to demolish everything. You know, like Estúdio BRA did in an old house in Pinheiros district of São Paulo, and managed to transform it

Step by step guide to a small bathroom design

Designing a small bathroom is always a challenge. The reason is pretty simple: to design a functional bathroom means to respect some common dimensions of fixtures and space between them. Now, there may be a lot of things you want to place in a bathroom. But the key is to start simple. And basically, a

i.s.m.architecten designed amazingly warm and cozy concrete house

It’s no secret architects love concrete. We love to see concrete. Since it is structural material (and not a decorative one), left visible, it has that certain honesty we are always talking about. Plus, you can’t just decide ‘this will be visible concrete’. It can be made in situ (which means poured on site into

How to remodel a bathroom

We feel like everybody wants to remodel their bathroom. There are few most common reasons: Plumbing system is old and needs to be replaced It’s cluttered and the layout is not really functional It’s ugly Whatever the reason, we get it. Bathrooms used to be treated (and sometimes still are, even in new buildings) as

How to design stairs

Stairs can be the most annoying, unflexible, impossible-to-update element that permanently occupies your space. They can also be the highlight of an interior. There are few steps in staircase design process: 1. Location You should know that stairs affect the entire functional organization of a house or an apartment – this means that the location

RÄS studio keeps beautiful old floor tiles in La Carme apartment remodel

A good approach to interior design is to put emphasis on apartment’s strengths, fix its weaknesses, and seize its opportunities. That’s exactly what RÄS did in this project. 

About tiles

Have you noticed how tiles made a huge comeback? We invented and reinvented dozens of materials to replace boring (but practical) tiles. We replaced them with wood, with polished concrete, with epoxy floors, with glass backsplashes, with water-resistant wall paint. And then the strangest thing happened. Little hexagonal backsplash tiles in few different shades of