Private Home: Playful Minimalist Interiors For a Lithuanian Retreat
Private Home draws daylight deep into a quiet suburban corner of Vilnius, Lithuania, where tall glazing opens the house toward its garden. Designed by Daiva Rabaciauskaite, the project balances a cool minimalist shell with plush textures and vivid color notes that shift from room to room. Each level layers nuanced surfaces, sculptural furniture and tailored lighting into a clear, contemporary composition.
Morning light falls across glossy floors and a low, black sofa that reads as one continuous island in the living room. Shadows slide over its soft geometry as the garden outside starts the day.
This house in Vilnius is a private residence by Daiva Rabaciauskaite, composed as a sequence of calm rooms punctuated by color, texture and art. The interior work focuses on a restrained base palette that lets bolder elements stand forward, from chrome stools in the kitchen to deep blue carpet lining the stair. Daily life moves through these contrasts, which give each room a clear mood.
Framing Light And Garden
Full-height glazing anchors the main living area, bringing the lawn and perimeter trees almost to the edge of the black seating platform. Curtains in a pale tone soften the broad openings, so daylight arrives filtered and gentle through the day. A low marble side table near the sofa picks up reflections, its veined surface catching stray sun and echoing the quiet patterning of the floor. From this room, views stay wide and low, so the horizon outside feels close.
Color At The Kitchen Core
At the center, the kitchen works as both workspace and social hub around a long, blush-toned island. Cabinetry along the back wall stays almost graphic in its planar simplicity, alternating light panels with a single dark vertical band that organizes appliances. Three mirrored stools pull up to the island, their crumpled metal surfaces catching warm light and reflections from every angle. In the quieter corners, small objects and a bright red lamp bring a playful edge without crowding the room.
Textured Routes And Rooms
Circulation carries a distinct material character, beginning with a hallway wrapped in pale walls and a dense, blue-gray carpet that softens every step. A glass balustrade lines the stair, while the same saturated carpet climbs upward, turning the ascent into a tactile experience. Around a bend, a built-in black shelving wall shifts the tone, its open compartments arranged with books and small sculptural pieces. Doorways cut through the white planes with subtly irregular openings that break the strict geometry just enough.
Work, Rest And Ritual
The home office trades softness for sharp, precise lines, with storage volumes in muted grays and a single block of bold blue anchoring the composition. A continuous work surface runs wall to wall, while a sculptural, tubular chair adds a graphic note and keeps the room from feeling purely utilitarian. In the bedroom, a tall headboard wall holds a textured white finish that catches grazing light from slim sconces on either side. Dark bedding and a small yellow side table bring saturated color against the otherwise quiet envelope.
Calm Bathrooms, Precise Details
Bathrooms follow a more subdued palette, concentrating interest in form, proportion and light. One compact room pairs a wall-hung toilet and basin with an oversized, reflective wall fixture that reads almost like a polished stone. The main bathroom layers warm-toned surfaces with a freestanding tub, vessel basins and rounded mirrors edged in gentle illumination. Bronze-toned fittings and a glass shower frame add depth, while soft textiles temper the hard finishes.
By evening, light levels drop and the interior shifts from reflective to intimate. Surfaces that once bounced daylight begin to absorb it, leaving edges and objects to define each room. Throughout, Rabaciauskaite’s work holds the house in a clear balance between restraint and character, where every carpet, color block and polished plane earns its presence.
Photography by Incanto Solutions
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