An architect tells about his own house. Tatyana Boronina.

"What a pity that this pimped is not for sale!" - such a seemingly paradoxical thought suddenly occurred to me at the sight of this house. Once, in the past, it was the administrative building of the dacha cooperative. Two-storeyed, eerie-looking (made of silicate brick, with broken windows), it has not been heated for ten years and has never been used at all. I liked it because of its foolishness, through which something promising was peeping. It felt good base. I realized that something can be done out of it, or rather, anything can be done. In short, this house seemed to reach out to me.

It is elongated, it can be divided into zones (into wings and living middle), I decided. And the walls and roof can be saved - they are in good condition. I really do not like to build something from the very beginning - to dig a ditch, to lay the foundation. Still scary when you come to a bare plot - without trees. And here the plot was wooded, and I really liked it.

Once upon a time, driving past this place, I said: "Here I will have a cottage." Then still not having in mind any particular house. So it happened. In general, the dream must be convinced. I am sure that if you really want something, it will come true. Especially if you say out loud what you dream about.

I broke everything that could be broken, except for the bearing walls, of course. On the ground floor organized open space. The heart of the first floor is the dining room and kitchen. I have a big family, and in big families always, probably, like this: life revolves around the dinner table. In one wing of the first floor - my mom's room. In the other wing - a block of guest rooms, a Turkish bath, utility rooms. On the second floor, the rooms are arranged in the following way: in the middle there is a studio and my office, where I receive visitors and work on projects, in one wing there are children with an adjacent bathroom, in the other there is a bedroom with a large bathroom and a dressing room. By nature, my work is quite private, so I designed a work area on the second, private floor. There are two entrances to the house. The first - the front, with a balcony; the second is chamber, it is located on the side of the courtyard.

It is difficult to say which style the interior belongs to. I like modern techniques, but if there are too many of them, they somehow do not heat, and for life warmth is very important. Therefore, I like to combine the most up-to-date things with classic elements. So, in my bedroom there is a bed from BLUR with a rectangular back, covered with leather, and a chair in the spirit of Louis XV. In addition, I love exaggerated classic elements. For example, on the balcony of the second floor I put a chair from COLOMBOSTILE. In its design, certain typically empire moments are deliberately exaggerated, for example, armrests in the form of wings. But on the chairs, which stand in the hall and in the dining room, you should pay special attention. In their form, the outlines of a typical Louis XVI-style chair with a round back medallion are guessed, but the decoration is exaggerated: not only the wooden parts of the chairs, but also the leather covered with seats are silver plated.

I recently took a fresh look at the old truth - that taste depends on the environment in which a person grew. Ideas about the beautiful laid in childhood. For example, one of my friends loves the style of the 70s: the direct forms of furniture, and that there was certainly a “wall” in the living room. She loves it because she grew up in such an interior. I grew up in a different interior. In general, the situation was relatively standard, but there were other things at home - a carved chest of drawers, an old lamp, candelabra ... There were mom's drawings (my mother was a graduate of the famous Mukhina School). And from the windows (we then lived on Osipenko Street) there was a beautiful view of the high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment. Stalin's Empire - style, very respected by me. His echoes can be found in this house - just look at the facade with a characteristic rust.

Of course, I didn’t recreate the style of that apartment exactly. There is a connection, but it is very mediated. There, for example, there was a beautiful dark parquet, and the walls - light. I also built the interior of this house on contrasts. I have already said about the contrast of forms, but this also applies to color. Doors in black contrast with granite floors of a lighter shade. Private areas are painted in bright colors.

In my office, I hung my mother’s graphic and painting works (this 50-e years of the twentieth century). And in the bedroom - photos of my first object, made in pure classics. So the classic looks at me from the photos. And if we talk about receptions, then there is something that is more than any reception - the creative atmosphere that was and is in our house. And - more broadly - continuity in understanding the beautiful, when objects in the styles of the past and the nineteenth century (whether it is Art Deco, or Empire, or something else) easily and artistically exist in a modern context. "

Project author Tatyana Boronina: "The main entrance to the house turned out to be truly ceremonial. Through the windows you can see the two-light space of the halls of the first and second floors and a spectacular festive chandelier from FLOS. The impression of grandness is reinforced by the construction of the house itself - it is stretched horizontally, the two wings are arranged symmetrically relative to the entrance. There is in this an implicit hint at the architecture of the Russian manor. And in principle, in the appearance of the facade you can read the main intrigue of the interior: this is a modern style, creatively rethinking the classics. In addition to the main entrance, I designed the other, the chamber. It is located in one of the wings of the house from the side of the courtyard. There are a lot of trees around, so for the exterior walls of the house I picked up paints of two natural tones - the color of pine bark and fir bark. "