The Workshop House is considered the pinnacle of Melnikov's work due to its innovative design features, original artistic image, and well-thought-out functional layout.

"There were two of us – the contenders – and two objects," Konstantin Melnikov recalled, "and we decided to introduce a cylinder into Golosov's project, which still sounds lonely with a decorative solo.

[Note 2] Thirdly, the architect built his workshop house in 1927–1929, when he had a large number of real orders and could allocate funds for construction from the family budget.

[2] The total amount of fees he had received for the Bakhmetievsky and Novo-Ryazansky workshop projects by the time the actual construction of the house began in September 1927 was 10,900 roubles.

According to the architect's own calculations,[13] his proposed design reduced brick consumption by almost half compared to conventional masonry with the same load-bearing capacity.

"Our lack of means was replaced by an abundance of architectural imagination," wrote K. Melnikov, "independent feeling destroyed any dependence on caution; the intimacy of the theme opened up grandiose perspectives of life's unsolved problems; indeed real economy made the nine-metre span as dangerous and no less new as the hulk of Santa Maria del Fiore".

The pedestal beds, which grew out of the floor and were part of the seamless interior with rounded corners, were made of plastered boards and finished with a golden material on top.

[3]From the mid-1930s until the mid-1950s, there was a critical assessment of the workshop house due to the transition of Soviet architecture from avant-garde ideas to neoclassical stylisations, known as Stalin's Empire style.

On 23 July 1941, a bombing raid hit the nearby Vakhtangov Theatre, causing the blast wave to knock out some of the glass in the windows of the rear (northern) cylinder of the Melnikov House.

[25][26][27] Despite requests from the building's residents and letters to various authorities, the restorers' mistakes and shortcomings were not rectified, and the work was accepted by the Moscow Department of Monuments Protection with an 'excellent' rating.

In the 1990s – 2014, intensive construction work was carried out around the architectural monument, which resulted in the deterioration of the building's insulation and the loss of the historic view from the workshop to the Transfiguration of the Saviour Church on Pesky.

[30] In 2019, Arup specialists prepared a report and work programme to study the structures of the house, including its foundations and bases, as well as the geological and hydrogeological conditions of the adjacent site.

The survey was funded by a donation from PIK Group (Russia) and a grant from the Getty Foundation (USA) as part of the Keeping It Modern initiative to preserve 20th century monuments.

[31] The in-depth engineering survey of the building and the adjacent site was a crucial stage that determined all subsequent long-term conservation and restoration measures for the monument.

The results of the pre-restoration survey of the Melnikov House are available to the public on the website of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture[33] and in the Getty Foundation's online library in English.

Given that the building's structures pose no immediate risks and with proper operating conditions, monitoring, and timely maintenance repairs, it has limited suitability for use as a museum display and for organizing excursions with strict restrictions on the number and total weight of visitors.

To ensure the safe use of the building, it is important to follow recommended organizational measures such as limiting the number of visitors and avoiding overloading the roof with snow during the winter season.

[37] According to Pavel Kuznetsov, Director of the Melnikov Museum, the priority when developing restoration measures is to maximise the preservation of authentic materials and original architectural and engineering solutions from the 1920s.

A few days after Victor Melnikov's death, it was revealed that Ilganaev had sold his stake to Sergei Gordeev,[41][44] who was a senator of the Federation Council from the Perm region at the time.

Despite Viktor Melnikov specifying only one heir, the Russian Federation, in his will, both of his daughters, Ekaterina Karinskaya and Elena Melnikova, are legally entitled to a compulsory share in the inheritance.

The Museum of Architecture has been responsible for preserving the house as a cultural heritage object and implementing restoration measures since October 2013, in accordance with monument protection legislation.

637-PP of 13 August 2002[50] to construct and reconstruct buildings with a total area of approximately 13.6 thousand m2, as well as several levels of underground parking, within 100 metres of the Melnikov house wall.

In October–December 2012, the Gersevanov NIIOSP conducted a comprehensive survey of the structures of the Melnikov House, including the building's foundation, on behalf of Moskomnaslediya and at the expense of Trust Oil.

LLC 'Rosecocenter' conducted a forecast to assess the impact of anthropogenic activity on hydrogeological conditions resulting from the proposed construction at 39–41 Arbat St. (north-eastern part of the territory from the Melnikov House).

Based on the geotechnical and geophysical surveys conducted by SVZ LLC[57] in 2008 at the site near the Melnikov House, no significant zones of soil decompaction were identified up to a depth of 60 metres.

The survey conducted in 2017–2018 on the foundations and bases of the building, as well as geogical conditions, and hydrogeological situation of the adjacent plot did not reveal any risks to the house structures.

The museum reconstructed the garden paths, shrubs, and flower beds based on archival materials, photographs, paintings, and diaries of Konstantin Melnikov.

In 2019, a wooden garden shed was recreated on the historical site in its original dimensions and adapted to the needs of the museum shop, based on a joint project by the architectural bureaus "Alexander Brodsky" and "Rozhdestvenska".

[69] During the summer, the garden hosts lectures, master classes, and annual outdoor festive events to celebrate Konstantin Melnikov's birthday on 3 August.

In 2016, the museum signed an agreement with the Centre des monuments nationaux (France) to twin the Melnikov House with Villa Savoye, a masterpiece built by Le Corbusier.