JekaterinaKairiūkštienė

Every room was a line first.

Three homes, three plans, three doors that still swing the way they were drawn. Hover a plan, or focus it with a keyboard, and it redraws itself, exactly the way it was made.

• A studio on Laisvės alėja

  Kaunas2023

  full interiorjoinerystorage

  Thirty-one square metres asked for a kitchen, a study and somewhere to dream. All three fit, with four hundred millimetres to spare.

• Kitchen for a tall baker

  Vilnius2022

  kitchendininglighting

  Measured around a client who is 196 cm tall: the worktop stands at 920 mm, and the rolling pin finally has a home of its own.

• Bedroom by the lagoon

  Nida2021

  bedroomtextilesbuilt-ins

  A room that listens to the lagoon: pale pine, wool in three greys, and one window left gloriously undressed.

Concept Vaišnavų šventykla Lietuvoje a temple for the Vaishnava community: the idea, the room programme, a floor plan and three variants in 3D. In Lithuanian.

From first meeting to last cushion.

The same four moves every time. The line below is drawn to scale; the work between its ticks is not.

1. stage 01

   Brief

   We start with coffee and the floor plan of the life you actually live. I measure the room, the light and the habits: where mornings happen, where the quiet should sit.

2. stage 02

   Sketch

   First lines on paper, many of them wrong on purpose. I test the room in quick plans until the furniture stops arguing with the walls. The feeling comes first; the millimetres come later.

3. stage 03

   Plan

   Now the drawing tightens. Every wall, socket and joinery line is placed to the millimetre; materials are chosen, priced, and chosen again. You approve a plan you could build a life on.

4. stage 04

   Realization

   Trades, deliveries, dust: I stand on the site so you don’t have to. The final weeks are the finest: hinges adjusted, light measured at dusk, cushions placed. Then I hand you the keys.

Chosen by hand, checked by eye.

Six of them, all matte, all honest: the palette every project starts from. Hover a swatch, or focus it, and it answers with its measurement.

• 24 mm · solid plank

  Oak

  quarter-sawn; soaps to honey

• 280 g/m² · woven

  Linen

  unbleached; creases on purpose

• 1.5 mm · 3 passes

  Clay

  troweled lime, warm matte

• ø 30 mm · handle

  Brass

  unlacquered; darkens kindly

• 6 mm · felted

  Wool

  felted; outlives trends

• 0.5 l · one wall

  Graphite

  the dark that flatters oak

Bring her a wall.

A first sketch costs nothing but an hour. Write about the room that bothers you. Jekaterina replies within two days, usually with a question about radiators.