Riverside Project Revives Classic Patterns for City Apartment Life
Riverside Project opens as a compact yet expressive apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania, shaped by designer Marija Orloviene in 2025. She combines warm woodwork, tailored furniture, and confident color to give each room a distinct mood while keeping the home readable as one continuous interior. Daylight, patterned textiles, and graphic surfaces work together so the apartment feels personal, modern, and tuned to everyday rituals rather than passing trends.
Soft daylight falls across herringbone wood flooring and catches the edge of a pale woven rug. A low cabinet, leather armchair, and framed art ground the room in quiet rhythm.
This apartment, titled Riverside Project, is a city home in Vilnius by designer Marija Orloviene, completed in 2025. She treats the rooms as a sequence of compact stages where color, pattern, and furniture set the tone for different moments of the day. Interior character comes less from bold structural moves than from tuned textures, crafted joinery, and a confident palette.
Living areas read as warm and calm, with subtle shifts between seating, eating, and working zones. The throughline is clear: a layered interior world built from wood underfoot, tactile fabrics, and expressive surfaces.
Living Room Composition
In the main sitting room, a timber media cabinet stretches low beneath a wall-mounted television, giving the electronics a measured presence rather than visual dominance. Slim wooden shelves above hold books and objects, their soft curves echoed in the rounded lounge chair and circular ottoman. Long curtains frame the glazing with a quiet color block at the hem, adding weight near the floor and softening the junction between interior and view. Pattern stays restrained here, limited to the rug and upholstered bench, so the room feels like a calm anchor for the rest of the apartment.
Kitchen In Green Tile
Around the corner, the kitchen shifts the mood with a wall of glossy green tiles catching light in small, irregular reflections. Cabinet fronts in a warm, figured wood bring a natural grain against the tiled grid, while a single brass-toned shelf runs in a sharp horizontal line that doubles as display and working storage. A retro-styled white refrigerator and black appliances keep the palette tight and legible. Overhead, the ceiling curves gently, softening the junction between cooking area and dining nook without the need for partitions.
Dining And Work Corners
The round glass dining table keeps visual weight low so chairs, textiles, and the patterned window shade carry most of the character. Bentwood chairs with cushioned seats sit around a lace-trimmed centerpiece, mixing everyday practicality with a hint of nostalgia. A few steps away, a compact study is carved out with a long wooden desk, slender green legs, and open shelving fixed to the wall. Natural light filters through timber blinds, and a single plant softens the geometry, making the room feel ready for quiet work or reading.
Bedroom Color Story
In the bedroom, color and pattern step forward as the main protagonists. A soft green headboard with fine checks sits against an arched panel of wallpaper patterned with leaves and coral-toned flowers, turning the wall into a gentle focal composition. On either side, slim green pendants with brushed brass shades hang from the ceiling, freeing bedside tables for books and small objects. Opposite the bed, tall wardrobes in glossy red lacquer add a strong vertical block of color that reflects daylight and quietly animates the room.
Bathroom Contrast And Texture
The bathroom continues the focus on surfaces through contrast rather than size. White square tiles line the upper walls with a subtle grid, while patterned dark tiles wrap the bathtub and lower band for a grounded base. A round mirror above the wooden vanity softens the lines of the sink and storage below. Simple chrome fixtures and a clear glass bath screen keep the room bright, letting the tilework carry most of the visual interest.
Light, timber, and color link every room, even as each one takes on its own personality. From living area to bedroom, the apartment reads as a set of distinct yet related interiors, tuned for daily routines and small rituals. The result is a compact home where pattern, palette, and crafted furnishings quietly set the pace of life.
Photography courtesy of Marija Orloviene
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