Renovation of a 70 sqm apartment in Leukada 

Photos by Katerina Selekou (digital) and Theodore Selekos (analogue film)

Editing by Dimitra Chrysoula

Lighting design by Katerina Selekou and Stela Livieratou

How many rooms can you fit into a 70 sqm home?

This 70 sqm holiday home is designed for a family that spends the summer there and welcomes relatives to stay. The project explores how a compact home can accommodate many people while remaining flexible in its everyday use.

The kitchen was moved to make better use of the available space. In the living room, built-in sofas provide extra sleeping places. A second sitting room can become a bedroom when needed, with a four-leaf rattan partition closing it off and wardrobes providing storage. The two bedrooms were reorganized with built-in headboards and new wardrobe spaces. The former single bathroom was redesigned as two compact bathrooms.

Built-in sofas and headboards give the rooms a sense of continuity, while hand-trowelled cement mortar brings a tactile quality to the interiors. Blue appears in the kitchen and sofas, and continues into the bathrooms through light-blue mosaic in one and blue finishes in the other. Terracotta details add warmth to the palette.