Gulya Akhmetshina was born in Moscow in 1970, graduated from school in 1987 and until 1990, in her own words, "was in search of herself." From 1990 to 1996 she studied architecture with Professor V. P. Lomakin (MARCHI). The first project is a brick house on Nikolina Gora (1994). In 2000, created the salon Factory VIP, and in 2001 together with her husband Sergey Barabadze - architectural bureau VIP House (specialization - country residences). Sergey is the director and chief curator of the projects, and Gulya is the lead architect. Sergey was born in Batumi in 1969. He has two higher education: technical and economic. Own "country residence" in the old suburban area architects created in close cooperation"This site was once received by Gulin grandfather. In 1949, he built a five-wall log house here. Generations were replaced, the house gradually weary ... We started this house when we waited for our daughter (she is three years old). The child needs to grow on the air ... There was a question: what to do with the hut? Disassemble? Repair, retaining in its original form? .. We chose a different way - we decided to create a full-fledged country house on the basis of the grandfather's five-wall station, "says Sergey. “He became the embodiment of our dream of owning our own home,” continues Gulja. “We managed to preserve the atmosphere of an old country house that inspires our modern home.” It is known that houses look like their masters; for the house of the architect, this statement is doubly true. Both planning decisions and home decor indicate that a friendly family lives here, which loves and knows how to receive guests. And architectural delights in a thought-out space, for example, building perspectives for a house according to the laws of urban planning, a subtle game with a looking glass, give head to professionals. “Actually, I approached the interior as a city planner,” the architect explains. “I built certain“ points ”in the space of the house, connecting it with the environment. For example, when you go into the living room, you see door portals, and in the mirror above the fireplace - a reflection the garden. " The spouses invented the fireplace in the living room themselves, and the painting over it was made by friends - artists Yulia Pokhaletskaya and Mikhail Nemtsov. In the company of a TEAM BY WELLIS upholstered cowhide chair and a black lacquered table, the hearth looks even more elegant. In the wide aperture is visible dining room, perhaps, the main room in this hospitable house. The hosts exhibited here a collection of paintings by Claudia Eskina and Petrov-Gladky. Gulya Akhmetshina made a wonderful chandelier and made it herself, ingeniously connecting two lamps in one piece - with electric bulbs and candles. Dining a deep dark green "English" color looks magically in their light, reflected in the handmade carved mirror (the couple brought it from a trip to Thailand). Opposite the mirror, a painted gold slide picks up a game of reflections in a glazed mirrored display case. It can hardly be guessed ordinary piece of furniture 60s. Gulya put on her vases of the Soviet era, which all together remind of the past ... In general, the color in this house is a separate story. Gulya and Sergey argue about the color as true artists, in order to designate shades, juicy definitions are invented. The color of the kitchen, it seems, you can even try: "vanilla yellow." The color of the bedroom: "the color of water as you see it from under the water." The shade of silk Thai curtains in the bedroom exactly matches the color of the walls. For the owners of the house it is like a reminder of their favorite sport - diving and "underwater" sensations. Gulya loves to relax in the designer chair of Josef Hoffman with the beautiful name “Seating Machine”, looking through the looking-glass, in which the garden is reflected.
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