Double Height and Mezzanine

 

There’s something about double height spaces that make them look elegant and classy. And add a mezzanine to the space and the result is amazing! Unfortunately, I don’t have such a high room (only 3.2m) to be able to do it at home, but I'm sure I’ll have one or both, when building someday the house of my dreams :)

Here are some inspirations!

Which one is your favorite?

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Hay algo en los espacios de doble altura que los hace ver elegantes! Agrega un mezanine y el resultado es espectacular! Desafortunadamente en nuestro hogar no tenemos espacios tan altos (sólo 3.2m), pero estoy segura que el día que contruyamos la casa de nuestros sueños haremos uno o ambos en alguna habitación!

A continuación, unas fotos que me inspiran!

Cuál es tu favorito?

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Jest coś o podwójnej wysokości pomieszczeń, które czynią je elegancki wygląd. I dodać antresolę do przestrzeni, a wynik jest niesamowity! Niestety, nie mam tak wysokiego pokoju (tylko 3,2m), aby być w stanie to zrobić w domu, ale jestem pewna że będę miał jeden lub oba, kiede będzie zabudować kiedyś dom moich marzeń :)

Oto kilka inspiracji!

Która z nich jest twoim ulubionym?

 

Old tenement Houses into modern apartments

Hubby and I started looking for apartments since a few weeks ago and he always used to say that he likes tenement houses (kamienicy). I didn’t really understand his love for them until last week. We went to visit one in Wilda and I just fell in love with them! The only downside about them is the location. They are usually located in a not child-friendly place. So that means: Wilda, Jeżyce, Grundwalska, Stary Miasto or places like that. So now we’re in a huge dilemma between an apartment in a building from 1910’s with sky high ceilings (not sky high.. but 3 – 4 m approx.) or a new one which will have low and tiny rooms but a nice location and façade.

I love the idea of combining old fragments of the building with new modern decoration. My favorite thing is that you can expose the old red bricks and show the “heart and soul” of the construction. I’ve heard that sometimes you can find bullets from the II World War!

The following pictures are not exactly from Poland, but they still are in tenement houses.

 

Something interesting also is that in some doors into the apartments you have the hole for letters in German “Briefe”.

Here are some before and after's from Manhattan Nest :

 

What do you think? Do you like them or would you rather live in a new building? Of course a new building with high ceilings and big rooms in an amazing place would be ideal. But we can’t be picky when we are in kind of a budget.

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Tricks and Tips for HIGHER CEILINGS

Have you realized that in old buildings or houses the ceilings where higher? Here in poznan’s city center, old buildings apartments are bigger and have beautiful high ceilings! I’d love to live there. But lets face it. Im already married.. soon will have kids, and I would like them to have a place where to go out and play and stuff like that, and new developers aren’t making that kind of buildings anymore. Of course they’re nice and modern, but roofs are lower.

So, how to make them seem higher?

Here are some tips:

1)      Always keep the ceiling color lighter than the walls. You might be thinking: duh.. of course. But hey, some people don’t know this and some like having crazy colored ones. This will draw you eye upward. You can also paint the first 5-10cm of the ceiling, the same color as the walls and it will give the illusion of them being taller.

Another tip is to use a glossy paint (or semi-glossy), this will reflect light and make it seem higher. (I’m not really a fan of it, but it’s a tip).

2)      Dark floor with a light ceiling will also make the room look higher.

3)      Don’t hang anything from the ceiling. A chandelier will only draw attention to the ceiling and make it seem even lower. No ceiling fans, moldings or overhead lighting either.

4)      Hang your curtains from floor to ceiling, it will look soooo nice and wont break up your wall.

5)      Avoid chair rails and other horizontal stuff. This will make them feel lower because it will be breaking up the wall. Its like in fashion: using a belt will not make you look taller or ligher. But ok.. IF YOU WANT IT, usually its supposed to be located about 1/3 up the wall.. but put it lower, this will trick the eye.

6)      Avoid thick basebords (that piece of wook that boarders the whole room at the very bottom).

7)      Use vertical patterns. Vertical sripes. This will help draw the eye upward.

8)      Hang paintings and picture frames up high. It will help if they are  vertical ones or with some strong vertical lines in them.

9)      Wall lightning instead or overhead ones.

10)    Mirrors. It will reflect natural and artificial light, whick will brighten up the room.

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Amazing how something so simple can change a room, huh???

vertical elements

floor to ceiling curtains (I love this way of hanging them)

squared frames (above) vs vertical ones (below).

see the difference???

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