BI Village Showroom

The BI Village showroom is a developer’s display apartment: buyers are brought here to see how a home in the village can be laid out. We designed the interior in a neoclassical style, in light warm tones, with wood and plaster mouldings as the main materials.

A display interior differs from a private one in what it has to show: the buyer sees how the house is lived in, not the finishes on their own. So the showroom holds all the areas people usually buy this kind of home for, from the entrance hall to the spa.

Entrance hall: the first thing a visitor sees

The entrance hall is finished in warm-toned wood panelling with vertical raised panels. On the wall opposite the door there is a gallery of small graphic works in matching slim frames, arranged in an even grid.

The floor is oak herringbone parquet, the same as in the rest of the apartment. One floor running through from the threshold makes the layout clear from the first step: you can see where the corridor leads and where the living area begins.

Light in the hall comes from recessed fittings around the edge of the ceiling and from the lit niche where the console stands. There is no pendant here: the room is low, and a chandelier would take away the height.

Living room: shelving and glass

At the centre of the living room is a built-in unit with the television. It is assembled from walnut-veneer sections: closed cupboards below, lit open shelves at the sides, and a niche for the screen in the middle. The upper sections have glass doors with slim brass glazing bars.

The walls of the living area are painted a light tone and divided by plaster mouldings into rectangular panels — the main neoclassical feature of the interior. The ceiling has a cornice, and a cascade chandelier of glass plates hangs at the centre of the living area.

The upholstered furniture is light, with one piece of colour: a mustard armchair on slim legs. A blue-green rug with an abstract pattern marks out the seating area against the pale floor.

Dining area

The dining table stands by the window: a marble top with grey flecks on a wooden base. The chairs have woven Vienna-style backs, and the weave lets light through and leaves the window in view, unlike chairs with solid upholstered backs.

The light above the table matches the living room chandelier. The two areas share one room, and the matching fittings tie them together.

Staircase to the upper level

The staircase is white, with wooden handrails and wrought-iron balusters in a fine pattern. In a neoclassical interior a wrought-iron balustrade does the same job as a glass one in a contemporary interior: it does not block the view through the stairwell.

Beside the staircase stands a console with a mirror and a table lamp. The wall under the stairs has been left empty so the narrow passage does not feel cramped.

Spa area: sauna and lounge

A separate part of the apartment is given over to the spa. The floor here is laid in wide wooden boards, and the walls are clad in large stone slabs with pale flecks. The sauna door is glass in a wooden frame, with a long vertical handle.

In front of the sauna there is a sitting area: a round wooden table, a soft armchair, hooks on the wall with robes and towels. A television is mounted on the stone wall opposite the chair.

The light is warm and dimmed, and the ceiling is plain, with no pendants. Bright overhead light would be out of place in a room where people rest after the sauna.

What the work covered

For the showroom we drew up the layout and the concept, chose the materials and the furniture, and prepared the visualisations and the working drawings, including the drawings for the joinery: the shelving, the panelling and the staircase balustrade were made to our dimensions.

We do the same work on private projects; it is described on our interior design page. The second display interior for the same developer is the showroom at Akbulak Riviera, done in a contemporary style with a double-height living room. Our other projects are collected in the portfolio.

Project by Aulet Architecture interior design studio.