Full Renovation of 65 m² in Start Residential Complex, Lukianivka

Full turnkey renovation of a 65 m² apartment in Start Residential Complex, Lukianivka, Kyiv — from bare shell to move-in ready. Start RC is a monolithic frame comfort-class building by developer bUd development, completed in 2022 at 30 Sholudenko St. The apartment was received directly from the developer in a pre-finishing state: no finish screed, no partitions erected, and utilities brought to the apartment without internal distribution. The layout covered all zones: a living room with an exposed concrete loft-style ceiling, three bedrooms, a hallway, a bathroom with a walk-in shower area, and a separate laundry room. The client wanted an industrial aesthetic in shared zones and warm, lively details in the bedrooms — so the design solutions in different rooms differ intentionally. Demolition was limited to surface preparation and sewage routing. Room walls were built from plasterboard and machine-plastered — some for painting, some for decorative concrete-look plaster in the hallway. Full electrical fit-out was completed: a multi-row distribution board with circuit breakers, RCDs with test buttons, and a digital voltmeter; cables are colour-coded — blue for neutral, yellow-green for earth, red for phase. Low-voltage lines are housed in a separate board niche. The bathroom features a threshold-free shower zone: the floor is 60×60 cm light-grey ceramic tile with a marble pattern; walls and the built-in vertical niche are clad in large-format porcelain stoneware imitating dark marble with white veining; a linear drain with a black frame is positioned against the wall for the correct slope. Kludi plumbing fixtures were installed but not yet commissioned at the time of photography. Between the living room and the adjacent room, a partition of “frosted glass” glass blocks with a wavy texture was erected — it allows diffused daylight through without compromising privacy. In the living room the ceiling was left as exposed monolithic concrete: wiring runs openly in black cable, surface-mounted fixtures with black hardware — all within one loft logic. In the bedrooms, a concealed perimeter LED profile with a black aluminium housing provides indirect ambient lighting. The laundry room accommodates a stacked Siemens washer and dryer, a wall-mounted horizontal boiler, and an Ecosoft water treatment system with a salt-based softener filter. All doors are flush, frameless, with black metal boxes and bar handles; the transitions between vinyl flooring and the bathroom tiles are finished flush without a threshold profile. The accent wall of the children’s room is hand-painted — a mountain landscape with geometric peaks executed in emulsion paint in several shades of blue and white. The client received a fully completed apartment with connected appliances, installed air conditioners, and a ready-to-occupy engineering infrastructure. The KyivReno team, with experience since 2014, managed this project with a dedicated site manager and a fixed price written into the contract — from substrate preparation to final clean-up.