Design inspirations from Poland
Wed, 12 Jan 2011We received the following email recently from Ewelina: I am a young interior designer from Poland (Europe), taking my first steps in designing. It's not easy in my country to change peoples' mind and attitude as far as interior design is concerned. Many people still don't care how they live, but hopefully it's changing, slowly but still it is. Ewelina sent along photos of 2 of her projects which I'd love to share with our readers. (Check out the second one, my favourite, after the jump).
First set of photos is my latest project of a living room combined with kitchen. It's an old apartment, so it required to be change almost entirely.The only thing that hasn't been changed so much, is the kitchen. Before the renovation the kitchen had olive-green colour, so that the room seemed to be sad and dark. Thanks to the great material that it is made of (oak) I decided to change only the colour, despite it would be much easier and cheaper to make a new kitchen. All the shelves where hand-painted!. It took a lot of work form my carpenter :) The living space has a silk curtains and cushions, and a silver and glass accessories, such as table and the bracket next to the door. One of my favourite thing in this interior is a crystal table lamp, it gives romantic, warm light.
My second project, it is the white kitchen that reminds me a bit of Provence. It was a completely new apartment, that didn't demand many changes, only a good functional project. Characteristic are the scones on the wall. They are shabby chic style and were ordered from France. The kitchen work surface is made from american walnut (so it's called in Poland :) ). **Note: I ADORE the lights over the little breakfast bar!
Reader Comments (31)
Thank you for all your positive and negative comments. All of them are very precious to me!
Will give me motivation for my future, better projects!
P.S. To Joanna - interiors.creation@gmail.com
Congrats Ewelina!
I like these interiors, too snobish, glamour in my opinion, but ok, they are quite well-composed as we think about colours etc. However I have to disagree with the 'disegner's' opinion on polish style in 'interiors '. As somebody above has constated, what we can see in polish flats/houses, even those 'furnished' with specialised architects, is the result, in half of the architect, but in half of the owner, so estimating in such a pungent way is in my opinion an exageration.
Greetings,
Paula
P.S. I'm from Poland ;-).
Un style très élégant...
rather boring