Rosso Falun Apartment by RM Architecture
Rosso Falun transforms an apartment in Rome, Italy by RM Architecture into a warm, light-filled home shaped by pigment, books, and crafted storage. Across the reconfigured interior, the designers balance pared-back carpentry with playful cat paths and soft textiles to make each room more livable without losing the intimacy of a private dwelling.
Sun pours across oak flooring and climbs the Falun red cabinetry before dissolving into a bright white ceiling. Books, artwork, and soft upholstery ground the apartment in daily ritual.
This is an apartment renovation in the Trieste neighborhood of Rome by RM Architecture, planned as a complete reworking of rooms and circulation. The project is conceived around natural light, custom furniture, and a singular pigment that threads through every room. Interior carpentry, kept below full ceiling height, guides the eye, directs daylight, and quietly organizes storage for both people and cats.
Walls from the previous layout give way to a freer sequence defined by built-in elements that stop short of the ceiling, letting light skim across the upper plane and reach deeper rooms. Daytime brightness extends from the living area toward kitchen, dining, and sleeping quarters, assisted by glazed transoms and carefully placed openings. The result is a home that feels visually continuous yet still composed of distinct, domestic scenes.
Color Frames Daily Life
The Falun red carpentry anchors the living room, wrapping bookcases, sliding panels, and a media wall in a single saturated tone. This pigment, long used on timber houses in Sweden, adds depth and warmth against white structural surfaces and pale ceilings. Perforated doors hide storage while letting air and glimpses of shadow pass through, so the long wall reads as one rhythmic surface rather than a row of separate cupboards.
Storage Shapes The Plan
Instead of conventional partitions, the apartment relies on fitted furniture to choreograph movement from one room to another. Shelving walls, low cabinets, and tall but not full-height volumes define thresholds between lounge, dining, and kitchen, keeping sightlines open while granting each area its own character. In the kitchen, a central island aligns with bar stools and patterned flooring, drawing family and guests into the brightest part of the home.
Rooms For Readers And Cats
Along the day zone, a continuous cat refuge threads through the perimeter cabinetry, punctuated by circular openings at floor level and along shelves. Humans read on the generous sofa while feline occupants slip through tunnels and perches that never interrupt the clean geometry of the carpentry. Elsewhere, a dedicated library room lines two walls with white shelving around the doorway, turning books into a dense, colorful lining that softens the rectilinear shell.
Quiet Surfaces In Private Rooms
Bedrooms shift to a calmer palette, with white walls, slim timber bedside tables, and textiles in muted tones that sit over the same oak flooring. Full-height mirrored wardrobes double the perceived width of narrow rooms and bounce light from gauzy window shades. Bathrooms repeat the material conversation through Falun red vanity elements, blue and green small-format tiles, and simple white basins set on timber tops, maintaining a clear link back to the main living areas.
Throughout the apartment, light glances off the white ceiling, catches on book spines, and returns to the red cabinetry in softer tones. The renovation turns carpentry, color, and storage into the quiet infrastructure of everyday life, letting residents move from room to room with books, cats, and daylight always at hand.
Photography by Carlo Oriente
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