Colombo and Serboli Architecture has used richly-hued paintwork to bring life to the previously charred interior of this apartment in Barcelona.
Klinker Apartment is set inside an art-nouveau building in Barcelona's El Born neighbourhood and serves as a holiday home for a family of four hailing from Coronado, California.

The mother, an interior designer, had initially planned to renovate the 75 square-metre apartment herself.
However, several months into the construction works, a large fire destroyed a majority of the new elements as well as a number of quirky historic details.
Locally-based Colombo and Serboli Architecture were thus called upon to carry out a budget-friendly renovation that focused on simple, aesthetic alterations ? investments made during the first intervention meant the client could no longer afford to make major changes to the apartment's layout.
"They contacted us one year later from Coronado, having decided to refurbish [the apartment] once again ? from a distance," said the practice.
"The challenge was to take the given spaces and make new sense of them, change the meaning and uses without moving walls, to make a new interpretation of the spaces."

After completely stripping back and repairing surfaces that had been blackened by the flames, the practice has used colour-blocking to delineate different living spaces.
Terracotta-orange paint has been applied across the dropped ceiling, splashback, cabinetry and central breakfast is...