The tiny house represents one of the elevations of the square on top of Reykjavik City center facing the famous church and the Sculpture Museum. This square is visited by each and every tourist that comes to Reykjavik. The apartment is on 2nd, floor with a view towards the church, the Museum, the Pearl Restaurant and the Blue Mountains in distance. This spectacular setting was the reason for the investment in the apartment which was in very bad condition.
There is only one apartment on each floor, each staircase level giving access to a tiny balcony that is not accessible from the apartment but just from the staircase. This balcony was of no interest but gave an excellent opportunity to include in the apartment creating a new entrance with total glazing towards the backyard together with a view towards the roof landscape and the seaside. By changing this entrance a new and cleaner kitchen solution could be established. Further a load-bearing wall and other walls were torned down and replaced with steel beam and in order to make use of the nice view towards the church and the square the windows were enlarged giving possibility for a replacement balcony as the French balcony and a totally glazed bay-window even with a glazed floor and roof.
The ceiling height is rather above average and by establishing high kitchen cabinets the space is experienced with more grandeur. The white color is used to give the feeling of a bigger space than it is, just being 52 m2 after the enlargement with glazed bay window and the use of the balcony as a new entrance. The cabinets are in high glossy finish with car painting and without visible handles to simplify the design and refine it. The floor covering is Casa Dolce Case tiles in gray brownish colour in 60x60 cm. tiles on the whole apartment.
The black kitchen island is covered with Nero Assolute hand polished matte stone with integrated and almost invisible Miele cooking top. On the other kitchen table there is a white Italian Cristobal stone. The wall between the lower and upper cabinets is covered with glass for better maintenance. Some other lighting is established as well for effects as LED lights around the TV-wall and under the bed.
