A bubblegum-pink kitchen and stripey watermelon-green floor are some of the features inside this Tokyo apartment, which designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has completed in a sugar-sweet colour palette.
Described by Adam Nathaniel Furman as a formerly "claustrophobic" space, the Nagatach? Apartment had previously contained several cramped rooms that were arranged around a long, narrow corridor.

The ceilings were also "touchably low" and tiny, deep-set windows meant that little natural light was reaching the living spaces.
It's owners ? a retired expat couple ? therefore tasked Furman with redesigning the home to be "a place of happiness, joy and lightness".

"As I have quite a colourful portfolio of work, I'm very lucky to generally attract clients who are super passionate about experimenting with design and colour, and this project was no exception," the London-based designer told Dezeen. "My initial proposal was more conservative (aesthetically speaking), and I was pushed to do more of a 'total' design, in which a full ? but gentle ? atmosphere was created at every level of the flat."

Furman first went about reconfiguring the 160-square-metre apartment to form larger and more open rooms. At the heart of the plan is now a candy-pink kitchen suite, an element that encouraged the designer and clients to nickname the home "bubblegum flat".
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