Ten property interiors with inventive damaged-plan layouts

With the pandemic foremost to a shift absent from open up-prepare domestic interiors, our hottest lookbook showcases 10 houses with broken plans that supply far more privacy.


A damaged plan is an interior that has been divided into zones to cater to diverse activities and privateness stages, without the need of staying split into personal rooms.

This is generally realized working with impermanent or semi-open up partitions, but sometimes cleverly arranged furnishings these kinds of as bookcases, various ground finishes or split levels can be utilized to produce the influence.

In an interview with Dezeen past December, Albert Hill of design-led estate agent The Modern Property informed Dezeen that potential buyers were progressively seeking for households with a wide range of unique areas that allowed them to get the job done from dwelling devoid of interruptions.

“People are moving away from open-strategy areas now,” Hill mentioned. “Folks like a tiny bit far more selection.”

This is the most recent roundup in our Dezeen Lookbooks collection furnishing visual inspiration for the dwelling. Prior lookbooks shine a gentle on household loft conversions, mezzanines, and Scandi residing rooms.


Fruit Box, Uk, by Nimtim Architects

Adaptable, semi-open up partitions produced from plywood and planed softwood crack up the ground ground of this London townhouse that was not long ago revamped by Nimtim Architects.

Every partition is non-structural and currently positioned to distinguish the kitchen area, eating and residing places. Nonetheless, they are built to be loaded in to raise privateness or simply eliminated to maximise open up area depending on the family’s foreseeable future wants.

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An apartment divided by cabinetry

Kevin, Hong Kong, by JAAK

Interiors studio JAAK replaced partitions with custom cabinetry when overhauling this Hong Kong condominium in an work to produce a brilliant and flexible living house.

The bed room, which is accessed by two ways, is been nestled powering a built­-in desk with a Normann Copenhagen armchair to present privacy. The only absolutely enclosed space is the lavatory, which is hidden by a solution doorway.

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An apartment divided by curtains

Apartment in Sant Andreu, Spain, by Oriol Garcia

A break up-degree ground, bookcases and white curtains aid to define the diverse places in this 45-sq.-metre apartment, which was redesigned by architect Oriol Garcia as her individual home.

The curtains and bookcases independent the zone for sleeping and bathing from the location made use of for cooking and lounging. At one particular conclude of the lounge, a smaller action and a adjust in flooring masking have been made use of to produce a secluded sunroom.

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Open shelving joinery

Knightsbridge Mews, British isles, by Echlin

Echlin revamped this London residence with a collection of intelligent damaged-program layouts, together with a basement level that features a sunken seating spot to be certain the spaces are linked but visually independent.

On the ground ground, bespoke open shelving divides the research and dwelling area from the eating space, which is equipped out with cane and banquette seating.

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Open shelving joinery

Architect Workshop, Russia, by Ruetemple

A floor-to-ceiling plywood partition with built-in shelving gives increase to unique doing the job and leisure places inside of this art studio, which sits in just the garage of a house in Moscow.

The wood composition also incorporates a desk, a huge L-shaped couch with grey upholstery and a set of ways that ascend to a suspended sleeping platform with rope balustrades.

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A white living room with a marble partition

Antwerp penthouse, Belgium, by De Meester Vliegen Architecten

A two-ton slab of marble that is wedged among the ceiling and a steel fireplace aids to generate the damaged-program format of this penthouse in a 1960s creating in Antwerp.

The marble will work in tandem with a massive quantity at the rear of it, which is clad in walnut veneer and consists of functional rooms to split the dwelling’s living places into a lounge, bed room, eating room and place of work.

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A kitchen with a glass partition

Museum Sq. Dwelling, Spain, by Pauzarq

The broken-approach layout of this apartment in Bilbao was guided by its unique concrete girders that were being uncovered by Spanish studio Pauzarq during a renovation.

In 1 home, a U-formed timber-framed glass partition wraps around a eating desk to established it apart from the kitchen powering it. The intention was to shut the kitchen off whilst even now letting light to enter the place.

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A penthouse broken by wooden partitions

Penthouse BV, Belgium, by Adjo Studio

Substantial wood components that span from ground to ceiling were utilised to reorganise this open-approach penthouse in Hasselt into more sensible spaces.

Crafted from cherry wooden veneer, the things acquire the variety of kitchen area cabinets, wardrobes and bookshelves. Their arrangement also allows to maximise light from the glazed walls that wrap about the apartment’s exterior.

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A white-walled dining room

Residence CT, Italy, by Pietro Airoldi Studio

Whilst renovating this condominium in Sicily, architect Pietro Airoldi Studio removed all of its partitions to maximise mild. On the other hand, to determine its interiors into zones, customized-built cabinetry has been released.

The apartment’s most important residing area is set apart from the eating spot by a plywood and MDF partition that incorporates storage and openings to maintain a visible relationship.

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A bright blue staircase

Fin Residence, British isles, by RA Assignments

A dazzling blue steel staircase designed to resemble a sculpture breaks up the white-walled interiors of this London house, redesigned for trend designer Roksanda Ilincic.

Managing by the centre of the house, the stairwell is meant to produce division even though giving a “diploma of permeability”, according to architect RA Assignments. On one ground, it incorporates shelving and is applied to individual the kitchen area from a dwelling home on the other facet.

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This is the most up-to-date in our sequence of lookbooks providing curated visual inspiration from Dezeen’s graphic archive. For far more inspiration see previous lookbooks showcasing mezzanines, U-formed kitchens and calm dwelling rooms.