At Plum Living, in Lyon
We had been dreaming for months of meeting you in person. A pop-up? Too fleeting to let you really dive into our colours and materials. A street-level showroom? Not intimate enough to take the time to welcome you, and to design, hand in hand, the interior that reflects who you are. An apartment soon became the obvious choice: 150 square metres at the foot of Place Bellecour, where we have brought our vision of interiors and colour to life. A four-room flat designed to last, so we can guide and inspire you better. Shall we show you around?
Welcome to our home
10 letters on a golden nameplate, installed on the door in pure Lyon tradition to give you the reassurance: you’re definitely at Plum Living. It has to be said that between the wood-panelled entrance, the glimpse of the bedroom and Marie’s radiant smile, coffee cup in hand, you could easily think you’d rung the neighbours’ doorbell. A far cry from a traditional showroom, the Apartment was designed as if someone actually lived there, making the most of Haussmann-style features – and the constraints that come with them! Goodbye to the carpet, the false ceiling and the movable partitions that marked out the offices still there a few months ago. Through playful use of colour and the illusion of made-to-measure, 105 rue du Président-Herriot brings our ideas to life.
Holy Wood
Wood, storage and colour. On the Plum bingo card, the entrance to our Lyon flat ticks every box of what makes us buzz. On the wall, Edge fronts have been repurposed and simply glued on to create an atmosphere and give the room a graphic dimension. Add a Pax wardrobe framed with 2.5 cm-thick finishing panels and a bench seat created with Metod cabinets, and you get a layout that doesn’t leave anyone indifferent. Our Honey Oak is enhanced by a slightly pinkish beige by Ressource (La Jouvencelle, R151), applied to the walls as well as the ceiling to reinforce the cocooning feel of the room.
To the Millimetre
A marble fireplace, flanked by two cupboards that we had no use for. That was all we needed to imagine a colourful bookcase in the living room, where we could play around with our doors and finishing panels. Once the doors had been removed, it was time for colour. Here, Le Totem (Ressource, R601) was applied to all the sides of the niche to create a box effect. We used Metod wall cabinets, cut down in depth so they would fit to the nearest millimetre, before finishing off the walls with fillers cut to size by our installers. Our Honey Oak shelves were also resized to fit the walls – which are never straight in old buildings!
The Bronze Age
This is undoubtedly the subject that excited us most when designing the spaces. Bronze in all its majesty, shades of blue to enhance it, chalk to tie everything together, and a touch of pink to shake things up. Shade by shade, the palette took shape as if it were the most natural thing in the world, guiding us — and giving us the confidence to be bold! In the living area, the Bronze of the bookcases and kitchen engages in dialogue with the elongated chalk of the resin floor and the painted ceiling in the same shade, by way of the Ivory of the cabinet fronts, which makes it far more subtle than a plain white. The touches of greyed Almond in the furniture lift the whole scheme, allowing us to play with colour without ever tiring of it.
What else?
Open the cupboard to find a cup. Rummage in the drawer to get your hands on a tea bag. Complain about that tower of capsules that’s as unattractive as it is practical. Since the advent of working from home, making yourself a coffee is no longer a trivial matter. Needless to say, in a showroom the machine is running at full speed. There’s no question of hiding it away in a cabinet! So we took the opposite approach and came up with a niche in which the ritual takes centre stage. On the right, the fridge column so you can grab the milk in no time at all. Below, a drawer unit to store capsules and sachets. At the back, a custom-cut mirror to give the room depth and style, into which we’ve set sockets designed to plug in the kettle and coffee machine. Three coloured finishing panels to echo the Bronze of the wall units, and you have a coffee stand just waiting to be used.
Back to the Future
Well-placed sockets, an LED strip embedded under the wall units, sconces positioned one above the other… So many details that are anything but trivial, and that must be considered right from the design of the electrical plan to make sure the right cables are run to the right places. From the kitchen to the floating headboard, drilled so it can house two reading lights, from wardrobes fitted with LED strips sold by Ikea to the island designed to incorporate sockets in the worktop, foresight is key.
Immaculate Conception
Classified ceiling and a breathtaking view over Place Bellecour — our design room is the beating heart of the apartment. On one side, a kitchen that is both bold and refined, blending deliberate details with a play of facades that appear deceptively simple. Five 80 cm-wide units, accentuated by Edge drawers in Givre matt lacquer, behind which lie inset drawers designed with everyday use in mind. The splashback — in reality a repurposed compact worktop — stretches all the way to the floating shelves to assert the kitchen's style, and echo the interplay of materials on the island, conceived to complement our colours and finishes. Look more closely: the worktop has been expertly cut to follow as closely as possible the mouldings that frame the windows.
Chameleon charm
On the facing side, our passion for built-in bookcases has found a new playground. Here, the colours are designed to contrast, between the soft blue that bathes the room and the deeper Olive of the raffia doors. These conceal black Metod cabinets, chosen to blend in behind the fronts and be as unobtrusive as possible. As in the kitchen opposite, the finishing panels were also crafted on site by our installers to follow the curves of the mouldings that give the place all its charm.
Consistency of thought
We could have settled for a large wall of wardrobes and placed the bed facing the window. That’s just not us! Tucked away at the back of the flat, the bedroom was an invitation to bring in a hotel vibe. Designed for everyday life, it combines a chest of drawers, headboard, desk, niche and bathroom. Quite the set‑up, held together by a common denominator: storage. Made from Pax frames cut down to create extra-tall units, the wardrobe stretches right up to the ceiling to make the most of all the available height, while blending into the room as much as possible. Chosen in the same tones, the Sandberg wallpaper helps to demarcate the desk area, making it feel cosier.
Mirror mirror
The niche and the bathroom were created by inserting Metod cabinets between two Pax columns, using our finishing panels to compensate for the difference in depth between the two ranges from the Swedish giant. A bespoke mirror for one, a tiled splashback for the other, and you have two distinct spaces designed to simplify everyday life.
From us to you
A ceiling painted in the same soft blue shade as the walls of the design room, a frosted chest of drawers that echoes the kitchen codes, Edge doors in Honey Oak fitted behind the headboard to dress it up… Like a thread running through the flat, the bedroom follows the same language and, above all, the same ambition: to inspire you and give you, too, the desire to create a unique, well‑designed interior. Good news: our designers welcome you there by appointment throughout the week.
