Adela Cabre | Casual look

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We've just entered what months ago was just a blueprint: A 1940 sq. ft flat in Barcelona with a terrace on the top floor. When entering the place we were surprised by our own reflection in a beautiful off-white oversized mirror.

Somehow, we interpet this first decorative detail as the owners wish to enhance the importance of people versus the material elements.

But how this effect can be achieved? How surrounding objects can be taken away from the foreground without losing their intrinsic value? In this case, Adela Cabré has been a sort of fairy who knew how to solve this challenge by interpreting what a family needs and by expressing it successfully. A success she obtained not with a magic wand but with her great expertise and her well-defined style.

The first and most important step, since it is the starting point, was to give the house its own personality. For that reason “we made a comprehensive alteration changing the whole layout: from space to every decorative detail. Our goal was to divide the house into two areas with very diverse characteristics: the day area and the night area”, Cabré explains.

The interiorist made a clear difference: The family had to be able to freely enjoy the available space without affecting any person's privacy. This was achieved in the big and spacious rooms but also in the bathrooms: one for the couple and the other one for the children.

The decorator knew from the start that her idea for the day area was "to create an open space where the kitchen, with a micro-concrete floor, and the living room were visually integrated as whole, but marking a physical separation between them, we decided to use a transparent glass wall to avoid noises and smell entering the living-room.”

In the living-room area there is a stair, reinforced with girder, that leads to the terrace. This stair is as well a decorative element because it goes through the owners personal library. The parque was chosen in “a faded matt colour so that the house remains with its casual look”.

A house where the style of life followed by Adela Cabré is successfully refected. The decoration has its own protagonism and is not opposed to what a family wants or needs.

Text by G. Costa
Translation by Irene Patiño