This home in Madrid strikes a balance between character and restraint, delicately updating its 1950s past

The interior design and renovation project, named Casa Eva, unfolds within an apartment located in the Manuel Becerra area of Madrid. Deleite Design rethinks the domestic life of this 200 m² home, originally built in the late 1950s. The commission, managed for Auria Homes, is defined by a dual challenge: responding to an unknown client—since the property was intended for sale—while at the same time endowing the space with a clear and functional character that invites habitation.

From the entrance, where an existing vault directs the gaze, the project organises the home around a sequence of interconnected spaces. The living-dining room opens onto the main façade and extends towards a generous vestibule that channels circulation towards the kitchen and the hallway. Along this axis are arranged a versatile room—suitable as a study or sitting room—a guest toilet, two secondary bedrooms with a shared bathroom, and the main suite, which integrates a dressing room, a washbasin area and a bathroom with natural light filtered through fine Murano glass pieces.

Deleite Design’s proposal begins with a careful reading of what already exists: ceiling curves and structural elements become the conceptual axes of the project. Corners and transitions are softened, and corridors and thresholds are articulated as transitional spaces that function simultaneously as rooms in their own right. This subtle, restrained decision transforms interior circulation spaces into itineraries through a carefully selected repertoire of materials and textures.

The material palette centres on soft, natural tones, with a continuous herringbone-pattern wooden floor in bleached oak running throughout the home, providing unity and scale. Upon this canvas, bespoke stained oak joinery defines 2.80 m-high doors, the kitchen, the living room bookcase and all storage elements, engaging in dialogue with walls finished in subtly textured lime paint. In the bathrooms and kitchen, stone—particularly in countertops and flooring—introduces depth and tactile contrast without compromising the overall coherence.

Artificial lighting, conceived as a complement to natural light, is carefully calibrated in circulation areas and interior rooms to ensure visual comfort where daylight is limited. Every design decision—from material selection to bespoke furniture—aims to create a harmonious and versatile space, capable of accommodating multiple ways of living without imposing a single stylistic narrative.

In the main suite, the transition from dressing room to bedroom is resolved through sliding doors that preserve the intimacy of the space. Here, an undulating headboard adapts the atmosphere to a fluid geometry, echoing the presence of curves that soften and gently contain the room.

In this refined project, Deleite Design’s interior designers, Lara and Dani, have created a home that balances character and sobriety—a home that breathes both past and present—where attention to detail and functional logic come together to offer a harmonious reading of domestic life.

Project: Casa Eva.
Location: Manuel Becerra (Madrid).
Surface area: 200 m².
Completed: Noviembre 2024.
Client: Auria Homes.
Interior design: Deleite Design.
Interior designers: Lara de la Mata y Daniel Povedano.
Photography: Montse Garriga.
Styling: Beatriz Aparicio.
Construction: Dos Planos.
Source: Deleite Design.

Deleite Design

Deleite Design was founded in Madrid in 2013 as the natural evolution of a way of understanding creative work: close, meticulous and deeply connected to people. The studio is led by the duo formed by Lara de la Mata and Daniel Povedano, both trained in Interior Architecture at ESNE and at Universidad Camilo José Cela, where they met during their final year of studies.

Their professional path began at a complex moment, marked by the economic crisis, which—far from holding them back—prompted an alternative way of starting their practice. First as a blog-studio and, shortly afterwards, as an online décor store, they began to shape their own language through direct contact with objects, furniture and everyday spaces. From there came their first furnishing commissions and, gradually, full interior design projects that consolidated the emergence of Deleite Design as a studio.

The work of Lara de la Mata and Daniel Povedano is built on attentive listening. Each project stems from a deep understanding of how their clients live, their real needs and their desires, approaching interior design as an exercise in precision rather than authorial imposition. The studio adopts a deliberately discreet role: identity is not expressed through a recognisable gesture, but through method—through a consistent way of approaching the process and caring for every decision.

Deleite Design advocates for timeless spaces, conceived to age naturally and to ensure long-term value, while still allowing for carefully measured contemporary accents. Their projects are constructed through detail, material coherence and a global vision of space, where aesthetics and functionality move forward in parallel. It is within this balance that their signature lies: a serene, conscious practice, oriented towards creating interiors that accompany—rather than dominate—the lives of those who inhabit them.

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