Diagonal walls in Moscow apartment | SHKAF interior architects

The clients, a young couple, wanted the apartment to feel spacious but also requested that it fulfil a number of different functions. They wanted a bedroom, two bathrooms, a study, kitchen, living room, and, of course, big storage spaces.

The apartment is divided by angular walls and colour-blocked walls in dark blue and white.

A diagonal hallway splits the apartment's plan across the centre. To the left is a small triangular cloakroom and beyond that, a marble-lined shower room. Further along to the left the hallway opens up into an open plan living, kitchen and dining room.

We wanted to turn it into a kind of labyrinth, where you can find something unexpected round the corner.