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# Living with light: a Paris apartment
- URL: https://aurelia.samadesign.dev/living-with-light-a-paris-apartment/
- Published: 2026-09-16T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-16T14:00:00.000Z
- Description: Original mouldings, patinated brass and one strict rule: nothing without a reason.
- Author: Camille Laurent
- Tags: Interiors, #selection, #Import 2026-10-07 01:52

On the fourth floor of a Haussmann building, a couple has spent three years restoring an apartment to what it was always meant to be: a box for light.

They stripped back decades of paint to find the original mouldings, kept the oak floors scratched and honest, and allowed themselves only a handful of objects per room. Every piece has a reason to be there.

![A table lamp on a wooden sideboard](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1540759772348-12e90305e8f4?auto=format&fit=crop&w=2000&q=80)

A single lamp on an old sideboard: the whole decoration of the hallway. Photo by Jean-Philippe Delberghe / [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/?utm%5Fsource=aurelia&utm%5Fmedium=referral)

The result feels less decorated than edited. "We wanted the light to be the main furniture," they told us. It is.