Some stories need time to be told. With every emotion and journey, with every collected or created object, they take shape and, at some point, when they meet the right artisan, they choose to settle gently in well-arranged settings.
It's been about two years since Cristina Bordoiu received a rather unusual request from a couple: to leave their mark on the interior design of their home. She was quite intrigued by their request, but she accepted, feeling that what was to come would leave its mark even on her. Sometimes you choose with your heart and you know it will be good.
They started getting to know each other and that's how she found out that there was a house furnished about 10 years ago, and they, the owners, felt it was time for a change of atmosphere. They turned to Cristina, wanting a current design but one in which they could also integrate some of their most cherished objects.
The refurbishment work focused on the ground floor of the house and took place in two stages. It started with the bathroom and living room, and after a year it continued with the kitchen and the entrance hall. They worked calmly and joyfully even in the more difficult moments of the project, Cristina testifies.
The concept she came up with exploited the common passion of hers and the beneficiaries for natural materials, DIY and handmade, some of the objects being kept intact, while others were reinvented. The new interior was to be a dynamic one, where you wouldn't get bored for a moment and where you would smile wherever you turned because every thing awakened a memory.
Let's take each stage and its transformations in turn.
For the living room, Cristina focused on reorganizing the space to make it brighter and airier, with fluid circulation. Initially, the existing pieces gave a feeling of suffocation, so they got rid of most of them.
She kept only a few pieces that she reconditioned: the sofas and armchairs reupholstered with the help of upholsterer Dan Chira, the solid wood coffee table, painted white, and the table with chairs, to which she repainted only the legs to integrate them into the new landscape of the room.
The rest of the furniture pieces were sketched by Cristina and then executed locally on order. For decoration, an ethnic patterned rug from Rugvista was chosen; the same patterns are found in the lampshade of the vintage lamp painted by Ioana from Tourmaline Boutique.
Then came the sorting of decorations from the old arrangement and the creation of new objects made by them, such as supports for decorations and photos made from logs.
The next area to be refurbished was the bathroom. Here, the tiles and faience were kept, and the shower cabin was removed. In its place, a walk-in shower was installed, with a glass partition and a mosaic floor made of river stone. Again, Cristina and the owners bricked up some objects such as the towel rack, the mirror frame or the light fixture.
