Bollana Residence: Color-Rich Rooms for Relaxed Coastal Living in Italy
Bollana Residence sets a crisp gabled face to the Cervia, Italy landscape, its front door a confident blue. GRUPPO LITHOS Architettura recasts a 1970s house as a vibrant, livable home with a contemporary, eclectic interior. The result balances easy coastal light with color-forward rooms and collected furniture, keeping the plan simple while the palette carries the mood.
A low gable frames a bright façade as two large windows mirror the sky. A cobalt door pulls the eye across patterned tiles and onto a wide terrace.
This is a house, reworked in Cervia by GRUPPO LITHOS Architettura, that reads through color and craft. The studio keeps the 1970s volume intact while focusing on an interior palette that blends contemporary clarity with collected pieces.
Frame The Terrace
Out front, the porch steps carry a band of blue-and-white diamonds, setting a rhythmic base for rattan chairs and striped loungers. Two broad openings connect living areas to the outdoors, so daylight washes the rooms and potted citrus punctuates the threshold.
Blue Sets The Tone
Inside, cobalt trims the skirting and punctuates an arched doorway, a precise accent that anchors neutral walls and sand-toned floors. The main door and select millwork share the hue—one decisive color becomes the project’s steady thread.
Rooms With Collected Ease
The living room layers a pale sectional with ruby pillows, a deep rug, and built-in shelves holding books and framed drawings. Vintage wood pieces mingle with a pivoting wall lamp and large plants, producing a relaxed, lived-in cadence without clutter.
Kitchen As Social Core
A white island gathers cooking and conversation, while a wall of warm cabinetry adds grain and a trio of color-blocked cubbies. The dining table sits on a green rug under two wide pendants, close to a glass door that brightens everyday meals.
Arches And Texture
Across the plan, shallow arches frame moments: a niche for crockery, a bedroom headwall washed in dusty rose, a corridor recess holding art. In the long washroom, pink vertical tile, woven chairs, and a carved timber console supporting an oval basin build a tactile sequence.
The house ends on quiet notes of light and material. Morning reaches the terrace, catching the patterned riser before sliding indoors to the blue door. Color leads the eye, yet wood, fabric, and plants keep the rooms calm.
Photography courtesy of GRUPPO LITHOS Architettura
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