In a high-end home, colour is rarely decided at the end of a project. It’s decided alongside room orientation, joinery choices and ceiling height, because the wrong tone in the wrong place can undercut architecture that was otherwise well resolved. The reverse is also true: the right palette can make an already well-built space feel,…
Minimalism and maximalism are usually presented as two opposite extremes, but in a real interior design project, they’re rarely chosen in their pure form. What actually matters isn’t the label, it’s how each approach translates into concrete decisions around materials, colour, furniture and layout, and which of them fits how the house is actually going…
A window onto the Mediterranean The vision of Marina López, Loto Arquitectos Origin: a home of pure lines, with an approachable soul This project began with a client’s wish to live in a home that was truly singular, built from pure lines, capable of conveying serenity without giving up a warm, approachable character. From the…
Full renovation or new build: how to decide It’s one of the first questions any owner faces before starting a luxury home project: renovate what’s already there, or build from scratch? There’s no single right answer. It depends on the condition of the existing property, the budget available, the timeline, and how much of what’s…
The bathroom has stopped being the smallest, least thought through room in the house and become one of the spaces where the quality of a project shows most clearly. The reason is simple: it combines water, humidity, high end materials and small scale detail, so any decision that isn’t quite right shows up far faster…
Designing a home office is about far more than putting a desk and chair in a spare room. With remote work now a standard part of how people work, many of our international clients run businesses, meetings and video calls across different time zones from their own home, and that makes the office a room…
Before the first meeting with an architecture team, there’s a handful of questions worth having thought through, not resolved in detail, but with a clear direction. The more defined these answers are going in, the faster and more purposefully the project moves afterwards. These are the five decisions that shape everything that follows. 1. How…
When people talk about multifunctional spaces, they usually picture small apartments where every square metre counts: a sofa bed, a folding table, a wall that opens up to create a sense of extra room. In a luxury home, with hundreds of built square metres, that argument doesn’t hold. And yet flexibility still matters, arguably more,…
