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Once covered with cement, the stone wall was restored and reintegrated into the space to add charm to the whole apartment. Part of the wall made way for the refrigerator, which couldn’t be put anywhere else in the kitchen. “We chose an aesthetically pleasing device, and then we highlighted it with a cement frame and supported it with [a type of I beam],” Lefèvre says.He and his team also restored the ceiling to its original appearance, and sanded and varnished the old oak beams. “The … ceiling in the kitchen was covered with cement and plaster. We removed everything and used a natural varnish on the beams instead of covering them with paint,” Lefèvre says. The steel plate covers a crack. “Rather than filling the crack in with a different kind of wood, we filled it with sheet metal. It feels antique and gives the impression of having always been there.” The soffit by the door hid the mechanism for motorized curtains, which were later removed in favor of a row of spotlights.Refrigerator: Smeg; copper pendant light: Maisons du Monde; wire-mesh pendant light: Meubles et Vous

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