Tel Aviv-based designer Yael Perry renovated this apartment in the Israeli region of Sharon into a "cool, contemporary" space with unexpected colourful accents.

The 240-square-metre duplex apartment has been given a stripped-back colour palette, with walls painted in muted shades of grey and blue. Perry designed oversized geometric shapes for the walls, adding diamonds, squares and rectangles in contrasting shades.

This is echoed in other details added to the apartment, including a black-and-white patterned rug, and tableware with subtle geometric prints. Perry covered a wall in the living area with concrete to add an "industrial touch", and painted the entrance of the apartment in black so both owner and visitors can leave chalk notes for one another. "I wanted to give the duplex main room a sense of bright, airy and young space," Perry told Dezeen. "I wanted to bring a fresh style to the apartment and instead of hanging art on the walls or covering it with paint or wallpaper, I decided to give some flashes of colours in geometric shapes and the walls became the art itself."

The apartment is owned by a young couple expecting a child, so Perry balanced areas for them to entertain ? such as a living area with a large modular sofa and dining bar ? with smaller spaces in the apartment, which have been customised as miniature play areas.
To contrast the duplex's pared-back palette, Perry introduced flashes of colour in the form of smal...