This rehabilitation project in Príncipe Real, Lisbon, began from a situation unlike most: having already undergone a renovation, it had been left halfway there.
There was structure, there was functionality, but it lacked soul. The existing bathrooms were too basic, and the walls, though in place, said nothing.
The intervention was neither demolition nor radical reinvention; it was one of precision: understanding where this space’s character lay and bringing it to the surface. The answer emerged in two complementary gestures: colour and mouldings.
On the walls, classic mouldings restored to the apartment an identity with history; colour, in turn, defined it. Each room thus came to have a presence of its own, a clear intention, without the whole losing coherence.
In the bathrooms, the approach was similar: elevating the detail where it had previously been absent, transforming what was primary into something that invited attention.
After all, rehabilitation does not always mean starting from scratch. Sometimes, it is enough to know where to intervene and to have the courage to personalise.
