L | K Apartment
An interior design project in Brasília that integrated the living room, dining room and kitchen into a single social living area, designed the master suite in natural wood and extended the gathering space to the veranda with a vertical garden, a swing and a gourmet balcony.
- Typology
- Interiors
- Location
- Brasília, DF
- Floor area
- 210 m²
- Year
- 2024
The client's challenge
An apartment of nearly 200 m² of private area in Brasília, with four cramped suites, compartmentalized rooms and a closed kitchen, no longer matched the way its owners wanted to live. They wanted fewer bedrooms and more quality: genuinely spacious suites, separate closets and bathrooms, a generous living area for hosting, a place for the wine collection and a veranda that would stop being a mere passageway. There was also the wish to make the most of the city's light and climate, truly integrating indoors and outdoors.
The design solution
The four original suites gave way to two larger, more comfortable ones. The master suite occupies the footprint of two former suites and is surrounded by windows, with an island bed with a low leather headboard, independent his-and-hers closets, two bathrooms and a discreet make-up area behind the mirrored door. The living area became broad and almost square, defined by a sofa of around 4.5 metres on a single rug, designer armchairs and the classic Mole armchair by Sérgio Rodrigues. Dining room, kitchen and bar share the same space: the kitchen in black and wood stays open to the social area, and the bar corner brings together a climate-controlled wine cellar, a serving trolley and a table for an aperitif. With frames that open completely, the veranda became part of the living room — a barbecue and gourmet space for outdoor meals, a swing and a vertical garden bringing nature inside. Walls and doors in the living area, in natural wood veneer, give the whole a sense of unity and character, in harmony with the greenery of the veranda and the view over the city.
Opening up the floor plan transformed the circulation: the eye travels from the lobby to the veranda in a continuous gesture, enhancing the sense of space without changing the square footage. Natural light, previously confined to the windows, now reaches the kitchen and central circulation through strategic openings and the permeability of the cobogó screen.
The kitchen stopped being a service space and became part of the gathering area: the high countertop with caramel leather stools brings whoever is cooking closer to whoever is talking, and the brown ceramic cobogó screen filters the light, creating a delicate division from the dining room, where the oval wood table and linen chairs welcome the family. Properly sized exhaust and countertops in inert materials ensure air quality and hygiene during food preparation.
In the living room, the continuous wood panel, geometric artwork, linen sofa and caramel leather Mole armchairs define the conversation corner, while the bar corner — with a vitrified cobogó screen, glazed wine cellar and yellow stools — takes on the role of meeting point and color accent. The details do the rest: a wood console, curated objects, greenery and the powder room with a sculpted countertop, organic mirror and burnished cement.
The veranda is the natural extension of this living room: the lush vertical garden and the suspended swing create a resting refuge with a view of the city, and the gourmet balcony, with a built-in barbecue, round table and dark millwork, takes meals outdoors. In the private area, the master suite closes the journey with a slatted wood panel, light linen and a soft-diffusion light fixture — the same repertoire of materials in a quieter version, designed for rest.
Healthy Architecture pillars applied
Air Quality
Natural Light
Biophilia
