February 11, 2025

Casa CS . P in Bologna Transformed by CIMA Studio

CIMA Studio renovated an apartment in Bologna, Italy, creating an open-plan layout tailored to the client’s needs. Designed in 2025, the revamped space prominently features a blue and white color scheme. The interior emphasizes bespoke furniture, dynamic chromatic contrasts, and fluid zone transitions, enhancing both function and aesthetics.

Minimalist living room with white walls, wooden floors, blue cabinetry, and a cozy sofa.

Initial and colorful linear space

In the Croce di Casalecchio area, the transformation of an apartment with a dispersed and poorly optimized layout culminated in a new sartorial spatiality akin to the client’s simple and decisive needs.

The theme on which CIMA studio focused from the outset was the characterization of a large entrance practically unused in the configuration of the state of affairs. This was incorporated into an initial linear space characterized by a longitudinal cabinetry that seamlessly transforms into a kitchen.

Vibrant blue kitchen cabinetry, white built-in wardrobes, and a bold graphic artwork create a modern interior.

Peculiar open space

The only way, in fact, to recover precious square meters while creating stylistic continuity with a complete living area, was to designate a peculiar open space in which, through the skillful use of custom-made furniture, the areas merge with pleasantness and balance.

As soon as one enters, one is faced with a long cabinetry that guides the visitor’s gaze immediately to the French door of the kitchen/living area. This bright backdrop attracts and allows the rest of the space to be analyzed secondarily.

A modern, minimalist hallway with white walls, bright blue accents, and built-in bookshelves.

Bichromatic blue and white

The blue and white bichromy designates itself as a fil rouge characterizing the first cabinetry area at the entrance, which, then, fades into the kitchen with quartz countertops and blue color for the low modules. The division between entry and kitchen/living room is also designated by the doorway to the sleeping area that frames a second blue cabinetry behind which hides the bathroom.

Built-in shelves showcase a vibrant book collection and sound system against a blue accent wall.

In a continuous play of colors, also taken up in the shelves of the bookcase, the functions remain but are lost at the same time, and so the central chimney becomes an opportunity to support the shelves of the kitchen area defining a perceptual filter tenuous and decisive at the same time.

Built-in blue cabinets with shelves, books, and decor items in a modern interior design.

Beauty and light

The bookcase bends curving toward the living room where behind the sofa the dining table enjoys the light from the French window.

The blue of the pass part of the living area furniture conquers the entirety of the anti-bathroom cabinet, where the volume is lightened by the shelves and focuses creating an invitation to the bathroom where beige and green tones mingle with the oak of the washbasin cabinet. The two bedrooms complete the apartment that the photos show lived in and made their own by the client, the daily janitor and user of this welcoming and vivid two-tone.