This year’s March issue of the magazine Diivan features a story about a special home in Väike Tallinn. However, all the homes in Väike Tallinn are special. The interior designer from Ace of Space, Ines Käärma, immediately knew what the homes there should look like. As a student, living a few streets away, she was infatuated with the atmosphere of the area every day while rushing to a lecture. Each of her mornings began by passing by a house with a black cat sitting on one of the windowsills, a small tile of the ventilation window open above, and a curtain moving gently in the wind. A complete sense of small town charm only a few dozen meters from one of the liveliest streets in Tallinn, Pärnu highway.

The homes of Väike Talllinn are surrounded by wooden houses in pastel tones, just like in Türi, Võsu or Paide. The interior architect also uses tiles inspired by the garden picket fences surrounding such houses on the interior walls of Väike Tallinns homes. With regard to the colour scheme of the walls, which are visually divided, regardless if the bottom half is tiled or simply painted, Ines Käärma has clearly been inspired by the apartment buildings from the middle of the last century. She has thematically connected all the rooms in the home – for example, the curtains that feature different colours or the back wall of the kitchen worktop that is at the same height as the stripe. The rooms may change colours, but the stripe running along the wall harmoniously connects everything into a whole.

Based on the interior architecture concept, Väike Tallinn’s demo home was created by Liven’s interior designer Greete Mätas. Creating a synergy with ideas of Ines, Greete got rid of the top cupboards of the kitchen to create the impression of a dining room, just like at grandmother’s place in a small town, where there was necessarily a chest of drawers next to the dining table. Everything you need in the kitchen, from the refrigerator to the spacious cabinets that did not fit under the worktop, has instead been placed in a large wall cabinet that functions as a room divider.

Photos by Märt Lillesiim