Modern House by Gintare Jarmalaviciute
Modern House anchors a new family home in Vilnius, Lithuania, by interior designer Gintare Jarmalaviciute. The single house leans on warm minimalism, pairing pale timber, textured stone, and soft textiles to catch every shift of northern light. Across the open-plan core, careful lighting, layered surfaces, and muted furnishings keep the atmosphere calm yet precise, giving everyday routines a quietly polished backdrop.
Morning light filters through full-height sheer curtains, washing the chevron timber floor in a pale glow. Shadows from the sculptural dining pendant fall across the dark tabletop and slide toward the stone-clad fireplace wall.
This is a compact house in Vilnius, Lithuania, arranged around an open living volume by Gintare Jarmalaviciute. The project focuses on interior palette and furnishing, using restrained materials to draw together kitchen, dining, and lounge into one calm daily setting. Each surface carries a clear role in the composition, from warm wood underfoot to cool stone panels that ground the rooms.
Layering Light And Texture
Large windows line the main living room, softened by gauzy white curtains that temper daylight rather than shut it out. The fabric reads as a continuous veil, giving privacy while keeping silhouettes of the garden beyond in gentle view. Against this light envelope, a tall stone fireplace wall with pronounced relief brings grain and depth, its darker tone echoing the slim black fixtures dotted through the interior. The contrast between the crisp white ceiling and the textured vertical surfaces keeps the room visually active without visual noise.
Living Volume In Neutrals
In the combined lounge and dining area, a large sand-colored sectional sofa lines up with the window wall, oriented toward both fireplace and television. Low, generous cushions encourage sprawling rather than perching, keeping the mood relaxed even when the layout stays precise. Nearby, upholstered dining chairs in a similar palette circle a slim black table, their rounded backs softening the geometry of the room. Overhead, a linear pendant with glass globes and a dark metal ring stretches across the table, turning evening meals into the house’s visual center.
Kitchen As Dark Anchor
The kitchen tucks into one corner yet stands out through its deeper hues and crisp detailing. Matte black upper cabinets meet a stone backsplash and counter with subtle veining, while light oak lower cabinets and tall storage frame the working zone. A peninsula in dark stone extends toward the dining area, doubling as prep surface and casual perch between meals. Open shelves at its end give a place for glassware and small objects, catching the glow from a circular wall light and adding a softer domestic note to the otherwise spare composition.
Private Rooms In Grey
Moving toward the private rooms, the palette shifts cooler while keeping the same disciplined restraint. In the bedroom, a sculpted stone panel behind the bed runs from floor to ceiling, backlit along one edge so its ridges pick up a gentle halo. A grey upholstered headboard and draped curtains fall in front of the window, their soft textures contrasting the rougher stone and tying into graphic bedding with a simple linear pattern. The bathroom leans fully into stone, with large-format grey tiles wrapping walls and floor and a walk-in shower framed in glass, while slim black fixtures cut a precise profile against the muted surfaces.
Back in the main volume, daylight tracks across the chevron floor from morning to evening, marking quiet shifts in routine. Pale timber, measured stone, and soft furnishings hold that light without glare, letting the house feel composed yet easy to inhabit. As seasons change outside Vilnius, the interior maintains a steady, grounded calm, tuned through material choices rather than overt decoration.
Photography courtesy of Gintare Jarmalaviciute
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