The owners of this mansion near St. Petersburg architect Fedor Oparin suggested the original script of suburban life. The center of the house was a fireplace area on the second floor with a stunning view of the pine forest and the lake, while the first one housed cozy owners apartments

It so happened that this house has two authors. One designed a concrete parallelepiped on the hillside and came up with a sheath of corrugated board made of natural cedar. Another made two “tropical” fans rotate under the ceiling of the living room and convinced the audience that from the terrace from a certain angle of view a delightful view of the Mediterranean Sea could open up. "I was ordered the interior project when the house was already built," - says Fedor Oparin. Large panoramic windows overlooked the corner terrace. Around a beautiful pine forest with a forest river, in which trout is caught, near a large lake. All this set up a pastoral mood. And therefore, at first, the architect wanted to create a soft image of a country house, typical of the southern climate, with white linen covers on the chairs, canvas curtains, a ceiling fan and sun beds on the terrace. But gradually the idea was transformed into something else. "I admit, it was not without the influence of modern Swiss architecture," smiles Fedor Oparin.

The area of ​​the house is unevenly distributed over two floors: the second is much larger than the first, and therefore it is he who has the representative function. At the same time, the total area of ​​the house was initially small, and before proceeding with the decor, the architect reworked the initial design to find the best planning solution. In the first version, the built-in double garage was conceived. Fedor Oparin designed a special carport for the cars, and the former garage attached to the residential part of the house and arranged a study in it. Also on the site of the current living room were supposed to appear three separate rooms - a dining room, a fireplace and a home cinema, but the architect chose to combine them. The boundaries of the functional zones in this part of the house are very conditional, and yet the territory of each of them is easily determined due to the huge sofa of complex shape from Seat. One part of it is facing the home cinema screen, and the other is facing the fireplace and the windows facing the corner terrace. The interior decor is very laconic: the wooden parts are made of bleached oak, the floor is tiled with natural slate tiles laid diagonally. The ceiling is left unplastered, concrete, and communications are hidden behind the suspended structures.

The main decoration of this room is a fireplace, which was created specifically for this interior. Its firebox is located in the recess of a massive gray granite worktop, and the protective screen is a transparent cylinder of tempered glass. Through the glass of the screen and the huge panoramic windows one can see a forest approaching the house itself. A kitchen and a guest room are next to the combined space. These are isolated rooms, but they have a visual connection with the living room through original internal windows. The upper part of the partition in the guest room is made of glass, and in the kitchen the walls are generally entirely glass. Only outside the window is closed with a wooden "screen", reminiscent of a rustic fence.

Executive second and residential ground floor connected by a spiral staircase. In the roof above the staircase hall, a lantern is arranged, due to which natural light penetrates into the hall of the first floor. This is important because there are no windows in this room. Moreover, it combines two functions, being both a hall and a dressing room. (There is nothing surprising here, because we already mentioned that the living area of ​​the first floor is much smaller than the second, representative. Wardrobes with greenish glass doors are built into the walls around the perimeter of the hall.) In addition to this room, there are a bedroom, a nursery and a bathroom downstairs.

A sauna complex is located at some distance from the main house. Its facade is made in the same way (sheathed in red cedar) and the same materials dominate inside - concrete, stone, bleached oak. But otherwise it is a completely autonomous structure. Sauna, mini-pool and lounge pleasantly complement the functions of the main mansion, giving the opportunity to simultaneously enjoy the comfort of the city and the coziness of country life.

Project author Fedor Oparin: "I was ordered the interior design of the house when the box was already built. It brought a certain complexity to the work, but on the whole I am satisfied with the result. If we talk about the decorative leitmotif of the interior, I relied on materials with a pronounced texture - concrete, wood and natural stone ".

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