00:00This house is not very stereotypical.
00:03As designers, we always look to functionality.
00:07When we were planning the house, we said,
00:10OK, it's small, but let's make it very functional.
00:13You have little details here that recall an industrial aesthetic.
00:19I'm Giovanni.
00:20And I'm Cecilia.
00:21We are graphic designers.
00:23And, yeah, we open our own studio.
00:25It's called Paper Paper.
00:27We do graphic design.
00:29Brand identity.
00:30Editorial design.
00:33This apartment needs 45 square meters.
00:37This flat is a one-bedroom flat.
00:40Giovanni is super nice and you can notice that from the house,
00:42like, it's filled by books.
00:44I'm not at that level of nerd-man.
00:47Those are my childhood encyclopedia.
00:55We have a lot of art from friends and that's really nice because you can populate the house with people
01:01you connect with and are part of your life somehow.
01:06The apartment is located in California.
01:10The station is called California.
01:12But it's really in the southwest of Milan.
01:15It's a very residential neighborhood.
01:17Very quiet.
01:19You have a bit of everything, but it's not too busy.
01:23When we found the house, we immediately wanted to renovate it.
01:27We have these architects' friends from Brescia called the Associates Architecture.
01:32It's very modern.
01:34It's very clean.
01:35They really understand our style, our needs.
01:42This is where our flat is.
01:47We have a nice area outside where we can keep and storage our bikes.
01:53The building has been renewed recently and they tried to recover all these beautiful paintings and restore them.
02:04So that's the entrance of our flat.
02:07It can seem quite small, but it's indeed quite warm and welcoming.
02:24When we get in, we remove the shoes and the coats, we put them there and the keys are here.
02:39So we say that the corridor is our gallery.
03:04So we say that the corridor is our gallery.
03:05We So we're記得 to多分.
03:13And there in that location, I find we have also a busy booking of spots.
03:16These are my childhood enciclopedia.
03:20What is the winter destination?
03:21No one is filled with슬jana, such a beautiful view here
03:26On Friday, we are always finished with Dusko Pablo Manor.
03:27And then the other day is our library is the digitalacı and the library.
03:33ошиб devo dollars.
03:33And I love you, as a beautiful designer, making the traditional details.
03:35Unlocking creativity, it's definitely useful, like, this is about fancy dresses, about circus.
03:42This edition is from 1967.
03:53It's the darkest area of the house, so by doing that we take advantage of it,
03:59and it allows us to walk through all the posters and arts.
04:21In Italian we say svuotatasche, svuotatasche is usually like an object,
04:26what we have at the entrance, you just throw everything you have in your pocket.
04:56Also, we want it to look bigger, so all these whites really make a difference.
05:00It makes you feel in a big room.
05:15So everybody thinks this is me.
05:26I say this is me, and this is Giovanni.
05:30I love the kitchen, because it's so handy and compact.
05:35It's so big, in a way.
05:37It takes the whole wall, so it's much bigger than a normal kitchen.
05:41Kind of an industrial kitchen.
05:44So we decided to keep it blank for two reasons mainly.
05:49The first is that we wanted to add a layer of waterproof paint to make it easy to wash.
05:56The second reason is that we have a projector.
06:10We didn't want to have the sand yet.
06:13We decided to have it here.
06:14When it starts, it's quite noisy.
06:18You see.
06:19But it works very well.
06:25That came from the window.
06:27They had to...
06:30Unique piece, yeah.
06:33There's many storage places.
06:39You can see here we have the glasses.
06:43Here we get the dishwasher.
06:58Lastly, we got a tiny fridge.
07:01So that's one of the challenges of the house.
07:03Because the fridge and the freezer are so small, we really have to...
07:07Like, it forces us to buy fresh food.
07:10But it's okay.
07:11You just have to get used to that.
07:14Pull it up or down.
07:16Yeah.
07:17And you can also...
07:18Use it to wash our...
07:20Use it to wash our...
07:21Mmm.
07:30It's very greasy.
07:33Sort of.
07:34Nourished.
07:35Yeah, nourished.
07:36Yeah, we really wanted this space to be welcoming to people.
07:40We really, really love to have friends over.
07:46We've been doing a lot of dinners here, especially because of the way this room is organized.
07:52It very much allows us to have people over.
08:16Like...
08:25We want people over there.
08:25We are drinking water when they're eating.
08:25We want people over there.
08:25Because you can tend to sit together when they inexpensive.
08:27here we have six chairs but when we have more friends over we just open those chairs
08:33they're so clean yeah so we do three three one one that's a metallic pantry just because we wanted
08:45to first of all decorate a little bit the room but also have things at ends when like we have
08:51breakfast we pick up things or when we chill on the sofa there's chocolate
09:09that's an idea we actually stole from my mother's house actually the curtains themselves we stole
09:15the curtains we actually stole them from my mother's house they come directly from there
09:20the wire we stole the idea also we needed something that covered the split that's the hair con but
09:26in the winter we use it for warming up the room so this core that goes right in front of
09:32the split
09:32allows us to adding an element that makes the atmosphere warmer in my opinion
09:54we plant herbs in italian we call them the odori which means the spices so we have rosemary
10:02we have salvia lemongrass so we like produce them and use them while cooking when we have dinner with
10:09friends we just open the door and everybody hangs out in this area
10:14so this is a nice corner of the biggest big room and it's the corner where we usually put this
10:23light
10:23because in the night we project movies and tv on the wall this is useful for us to eat while
10:30watching
10:30because it's not too bright i think they used to be something they use at work
10:58so yeah when friends stop over we just move these
11:03move the table a little bit and back here the legs
11:14and here we come to bed
11:32when renewing the house we decided we wanted to put all the effort economically wise in the living
11:39room and then the bedroom is quite basic ikea furniture nice and clean but very basic
11:50so
12:00so
12:24I made fun of Giovanni because he wanted to put so much effort in finding the perfect
12:29mattress.
12:47Another important thing is the wardrobe.
12:55So, we got clothing, clothing and then storage, storage and shoes here, Joe, you had me been
13:04here.
13:05Yes.
13:06Well, it's very messy.
13:09What we would like to do is to solve better the space out there.
13:14Definitely or somehow cover it at least.
13:18Today we are lucky there is such a beautiful sun.
13:20It will take some time but we planted two yasmin over there so that can fully cover the aircon
13:27machine.
13:28Of course, in the night we need to use the shutters.
13:33You see how everything changes.
13:40So, that's my side of the bed, that's where I wake up every morning and it's very simple
13:48and easy.
13:48I got my lamp here, it's an eclipse so I can decide how strong I want the light to be
13:55by turning
13:56the wheel.
13:56time.
14:23So
14:26the first room that you can find entering the house is the bathroom.
14:30The first thing you find is this area where we storage all the things that we need for
14:36doing laundry.
14:37So there is a washing machine up here, all the products to clean the house.
14:43It's very messy.
14:44It's a bit messy, a bit messy.
14:46It's the back where we put dirt clothes.
14:48We chose curtains because we could have made them less impactful.
14:54Having a door would have been conflicting with this other door.
14:57It's just a nice resolution for the tiny space we had here.
15:29All the parking is in here.
15:38So this is like a nice, useful storage thing.
15:44This storage doesn't go all the way to the floor, just because it feels lighter and also
15:50like create some space for, I don't know, the scale or anything we want to storage underneath.
16:20So this is the shower.
16:22It's quite big for being a shower, which we love.
16:25So at first we wanted to have a very big shower head to make the shower more comfortable, but
16:31unfortunately it couldn't come from the top.
16:34We were forced to have it on this side and have it this size, but it's still okay because
16:41when you close the door, it creates some sort of a sauna.
16:46In the shower we needed a shelf because it would have been too expensive, of course, to customize
16:52the door in order for it to accommodate this shelf to continue.
16:58We decided to just have a very simple black metallic shelf over there where we storage everything
17:04we need.
17:04Shampoo and brush and anything.
17:07When it comes to home, I really like to unplug, like having a space where to just feel comfortable
17:15cooking and reading books with the playground like that, yeah.
17:20For me, it meant a space that I could design and plan as we really wanted to.
17:29I've been living in like rented spaces, which I kept very messy.
17:33I felt they were like very temporary.
17:36I thought maybe I'm just lazy.
17:38In the end, buying this house proved me right, like I got my house and I really took care
17:43of it.
17:44It means that you're shaping the house around yourself and it's a few simple things that
17:50makes the house your own one.
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