ResidentialBudaors, Hungary2025

A Sun-Drenched Home on Top of the City

Size138 m²
Duration6 months
StyleContemporary Geometric

At the top of Budaors, where the green of the hills practically reaches in through the window, there is no question about what must define a home's atmosphere. Nature here is not a backdrop. It is a partner. And this house knows it.

You step in and immediately feel: everything here is connected. The geometry that runs across the fronts of the custom-made furniture - fine, diagonal incisions that do not merely decorate but give rhythm - this same pattern returns on the living room's back wall cladding, this time in wood, at a larger scale, more confidently. Not a coincidence. A planned dialogue.

In the living room, the fireplace was born here too. It was not fitted in afterwards, we did not search for a place for it - we designed the space around it. It is visible from the kitchen too, as if it were the heart of the house, felt from every direction. The sofa beside it is modular - its elements can be freely rearranged as life demands. Today four, tomorrow eight, the day after just two. The furniture adapts, not the other way round. The light fixtures - in the living room a striking black disc on the ceiling, in the bedroom a smoke-glass teardrop each - are not merely light sources. They are characters. Both unique, both belonging precisely where they are, born for this place.

The kitchen is separated from the living room by a wood-slat ceiling element with soft elegance - not by a wall, not by glass, but by light and material. You can see through it, yet you feel the difference. The countertop's dark grey surface takes its job seriously, beside it the wood is warm, and between the two there is the bouquet - vivid pink, as if it deliberately interrupts the restrained elegance.

The bathrooms are siblings. Born in the same style, yet each adapted to its own space - like two siblings with the same face who are entirely different personalities. The mirror lighting is not solved by wall sconces but by vertical LED strips on either side of the mirror - stark, clean, modern. On the vanity cabinets, the geometric incisions are there, the same ones that run on the back wall in the living room. Those who pay attention notice.

On the lower level, a corridor of light greets you. LED strips run along the walls and across the ceiling - not pushily, kindly, warmly. Especially beautiful in the evening. Not unnecessary during the day either.

In the children's room, a fairytale world awaits. Tiny singing birds sit on the branches of the wallpaper - as if they too knew that on this hillside, singing is especially good. The room is soft, white, airy - and yet full of life.

In the bedroom, you stop. The pastel green - this is the colour I love very much. It is not pushy, not pale, but exactly what a bedroom should be: calm, deep, fresh. Like the hill the house gazes upon. The mirrored sliding-door wardrobe doubles the space and the light, and the smoke-glass pendant lamps are like floating water droplets - unique, delicate, fitting precisely. The painting above is dreamlike, blurred. As dreams tend to be.

This house knows where it stands. It regards itself as part of the landscape - and the landscape returns the favour.

Every morning the hills greet us through the window. We did not just move into a house - we moved into a landscape.

— The Family

Key Features

Geometric Diagonal Patterns

Fine diagonal incisions on custom furniture echoed at larger scale on the living room back wall

Fireplace as Heart

The fireplace was not added - the space was designed around it, visible from every direction

Wood-Slat Ceiling Divider

Elegant wooden slats separate kitchen from living room with light and material, not walls

LED Corridor Lighting

Warm LED strips along walls and across ceiling create a friendly light corridor on the lower level

Color Story

Pastel Green
Smoke Glass
Warm Wood
Dark Gray