Design project for a fusion-style house, 106 m²

The entrance hall opens on contrast: deep burgundy walls argue with a honey-toned oak door and brass edging, while the strict horizontal of a black light fitting cuts across the geometric frame of an arched mirror. An ivory cupboard dissolves into the reflection, a metal console on slender legs holds a vase of cherry branches, and an emerald velvet pouf adds an unexpected cool note to a warm palette. The terrazzo floor is the archival material that brings different decades into one frame. Fusion is declared here at once: colour, metal, timber and textile argue and reconcile within one compact volume.

The largest area of the house opens kitchen, dining and living into one scene, where sage-green fronts and a marble splashback sit next to a terracotta bar counter and lit glass display cabinets. A round dining table with transparent ghost chairs and blue upholstered seats holds a conversation with the sectional sofa, whose charcoal and terracotta cushions carry the same contrast. A brass bell pendant and a floor lamp with a copper shade add a warm glow in the evening, and timber shelving with books and ceramics keeps the composition together. Panoramic windows erase the boundary with the plot, making this shared area the main stage of the fusion story.

The main bedroom is built on a dialogue between olive and mustard: a moss-toned velvet headboard and two round honey-coloured bedside tables hold a calm but far from bland palette. An abstract panel above the bed and white globe lights add graphic edge, while fresh branches in a glass vase soften the severity of the lines. By the window stands a compact dressing table with a mirror, a brass vase and scent bottles: a place where the morning ritual becomes part of the interior. A cream wardrobe completes the perimeter of the room and keeps it light. Fusion speaks more quietly here than in the shared area, but loses none of its character.

The children's room plays on the contrast of coral and deep charcoal blue: ribbed timber slats rise behind the headboard of the dark blue bed, and a burnt-clay wardrobe takes the whole facing wall. A work corner with a table on slender legs, a wall light on a bracket and a terracotta rug turns the bedroom into a proper place to work from home. A textured relief panel and small wall lights give depth to the warm, almost chocolate wall. Heavy curtains soften the morning light, and a living fig by the window brings the room back to nature. This set of textures is another fusion statement, this time in a private register.

The multi-use room brings together a home office and a small sitting room: a mustard sofa with an emerald cushion stands beside a round sage-coloured mirror, and next to it a writing desk with cubic shelving where books and ceramics are arranged almost like a museum display. A pink accent wall holds together furniture of very different kinds, from the restrained sofa to a timber chair with walnut trim. A panoramic window onto the plot and a vertical radiator emphasise the height of the space, while a woven rug with a geometric pattern adds tactility. The room works as the link in the house: neither bedroom nor living room, but a personal space with a fusion character of its own.

The shower room is built on calm sage tiling that balances the black fittings of the shower enclosure and the wall-hung toilet. A timber vanity unit with a round black basin brings warm contrast to the cool geometry of glass and metal, and a lit niche holds towels without disturbing the clean lines. Terrazzo on the floor continues the material code of the house and ties the private areas to the shared ones. Fusion is restrained here, working through the combination of textures rather than colour: timber, ceramic, glass and metal hold the balance without extra decoration.

The bathroom is given over to a warm meeting of timber and terrazzo: the bath panel and part of the wall are clad in large-aggregate stone, and a wall-hung vanity unit in natural oak carries a white basin and a black tap. A glass screen separates the area by the window, keeping the daylight and leaving the space whole, while a full-height mirror widens the room. Honey-coloured towels and a robe on open hooks bring life to a deliberately spare scene. This is one of the few areas of the house where fusion speaks through material rather than pattern, and it is no less convincing for it.