In Castelfranco Veneto, in the context of an allotment characterized mainly by low-rise houses and single-family villas, Didonè Comacchio Architects has curated the restyling of a residential building, originally built between the Sixties and the Seventies, giving life to new interiors and lending the project a modern aesthetic made of refined and austere atmospheres.

Outside, the meeting of seemingly contrasting materials – such as the very fine grit chosen for the steps of the apartment's access basement, the white plaster of the wall cladding, and the dark panels framing the openings of the entrance door and the French door in the dining room – suggests a certain discretion in the choices of intervention; likewise, the original roof in earthenware tiles is preserved, in dialogue with the pre-existing brick boundary wall, so that those typical aspects of the country suburb, quite common throughout the surroundings, do not get distorted.

Once inside, the main space is represented by the dining room with an open kitchen, seamlessly flowing into the living area, where the large sofa with double chaise longue is absolutely the real protagonist. Again, its soft lines contrast with the stark orthogonality of the wooden dining table and bench that extends the full length of the wall behind it.
Echoes of Carlo Scarpa's Venetian modernism can be traced in the treatment of the narrow staircase that leads first to the slightly raised level of the sleeping area, then to the first floor, where a small study room occupies almost the entire accessible area of the attic.

The steps, almost suspended, generate a slit in the space, and a real threshold between day and night areas, emphasized among other things by the elongation of the first two steps leading to the door of a small bathroom, carefully concealed in a sequence of wooden panels resembling a wardrobe.
On the opposite side, the same extension of the step produces a hollow below the TV screen, intended to accommodate books and magazines, and elegantly hiding the electrical outlets.

If main spaces are characterized by the light colors of the flooring, the wood of the fixed furniture, and the white of the walls, in the bathrooms the grayscale colors give a peaceful tone to the most intimate spaces, restoring a general sense of balance to the entire domestic project.