We get why so many metropolis dwellers everyone knows favor bikes to cars. Apart from the environmental causes, discovering parking for 4 wheels on metropolis streets may very well be a precise doozy, whereas discovering parking for two wheels will likely be so simple as strolling by way of the doorway door. And now that we’ve seen this charming residence in Vienna, we discover there’s but yet one more compelling motive to chose bikes: They make good art work.

Hanging entrance and coronary heart on the partitions of the spacious entry are the owners’ bikes. “The bikes…have a specific meaning for the owners—they aren’t solely their most important strategy of transportation nevertheless an expression of metropolis freedom,” says Blaž Kandus, co-founder of Kombinat Arhitekti, an construction company based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, that labored on the rework. “The character of the residence and its owners is expressed on this spacious entry hall.”

The rest of the residence—pleasurable, clever, and stylish—moreover shows their personalities and priorities. Let’s take a tour.

Pictures by Janez Marolt, courtesy of Kombinat Arhitekti.