Three Sites, One City, Endless Texture
- Victoria Bellerby
- 4 days ago
- 1 min read
Short stay, long stay, somewhere in between — flex living bends to the person, not the other way around. We’ve just wrapped three finishing-touch projects across Flex Living’s Madrid locations, and took a day to soak in the city that shaped their palettes. A designer’s field trip at its finest: chasing light across old stone, brushing our hands over centuries of texture, and letting Madrid’s heritage speak louder than any trend report.

Every street offered something worth stealing. Dust-soft neutrals, sun-baked terracotta, sand-warm naturals that feel fused into the city’s DNA. Between site checks, we clocked how locals truly live — the effortless layering, the unforced warmth, the kind of authenticity no mood board can manufacture.

By the end of the day, our camera rolls were overflowing, our shoes had argued with one too many cobblestones, and our palettes had shifted toward tones only Madrid can teach. A day in the life of design isn’t glamorous — it’s observing, borrowing, distilling, translating. Madrid handed us the good stuff. Now it’s headed straight into the next concept.