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- Add Storage. One thing most small apartments tend to be short on? Storage. Living room storage may not be as essential as say, a linen closet, but adding a buffet or an armoire to a nook in your room can go miles towards keeping your small space free of clutter.
- Add Something Living. One of the best ways to ensure your small space doesn't feel sterile is to add something living to it. A bouquet of fresh flowers is every designer's trick to finishing a room, but a potted plant or air plant are also great ideas.
- Choose a Large Rug. This may seem counterintuitive, but a large statement rug can actually make a smaller living room feel larger. Not only does a well-placed rug add a lot of texture and warmth to a room, but a small living room can feel grander and more spacious with the right size rug.
- Keep Shelves Clean. The last thing you want in a small apartment is clutter. And that can be difficult, especially if your small space lacks closet storage.
- Go Bold With a Gallery Wall. To pack a punch of personality into your small space, go big and bold with a wall-to-wall gallery wall. “You’ll want to pick one really large piece that paves the way for the surrounding pieces and build out around it,” Yoselin Castro, senior interior designer at Mackenzie Collier Interiors, says “One of my favorite things when it comes to building gallery walls is filling in the small gaps with textural decor—think a clock, macrame hanging, or metal links.”
- Devise a Spot to Work From Home. With working from home a new part of our routines, including a desk in your small living room may seem like an unrealistic dream.
- Hang a Standout Light Fixture. If you'd prefer to keep your walls bare, take a risk with an eye-catching light fixture, like Mary Patton did in this living room.
- Layer a Rug Over Carpet. Most of us have been there, stuck in an apartment with less-than-ideal carpeting. If you're renting, pulling it up and refinishing the floors isn't an option, but covering much of it up with a rug is.
- Add an Entryway Bench. Small apartments are notorious for having awkward entryway areas or none at all. Adding a narrow bench provides a spot to slip on shoes.
- Use Removable Wallpaper. If you're renting your apartment, you might be unable to paint your walls. Turn to removable wallpaper for personalized apartment decor while avoiding damage to walls.
- Loft Your Bed. Capitalize on space in a small apartment by lofting your bed. This frees up a ton of floor space for storage. Add a ladder and place a desk or small dining table underneath to create a workspace or lounge area for guests.
- Use Temporary Decals. If temporary wallpaper seems like a bigger job than you're ready to take on, opt for removable decals. Transform your apartment decor by adding vinyl decals that put the finishing touch on your bedroom or living room.
- Color Distinction- Paint The Second Level in A Different Tonality
- Elevate The Bed and Give Yourself More Space Underneath
- Use Folding Glass Walls to Achieve Dynamic and Flexible Space Separation
- Sliding Staircase – Movable Elements Which If Necessary Can Be Hidden Or Blend
- Put Your Bedroom Into A Movable Cube – Fun on Wells
- Saving Space with A Suspended Bedroom
- Don’T Be Afraid to Use Dark Colors
- Make Use of The Space Behind The Sofa
- Movable Wall in Combination with Folding Wall Bed
- Partially Hiding The Bed in The Closed
Painting this mezzanine premise with stylish and characteristic wall accents that visually separates the premises creates the feeling that the bed area is a whole separate world. The design composition of this tiny apartment in Polandis laid on a duality of space concept: the deep rich green walls that accentuate the ceiling half of the space and s...
This light (bought as colors and space illumination characteristics) project of ICOSA in collaboration with Peter Suen, is located in the heart of San Francisco and offers a youthful, dynamic and contemporary solution for the space problems. The custom build unit includes the elevated bed platform with simple lines and luminous characteristic, the ...
This dramatic space composition in the restoration project of an old small apartment by Tatyana Bobylevais achieved through the dynamic contrasts in the materials palette, the textural and color combinations. The airy elegance and dynamic modern hint of the black metal – clear glass doors compo introduces flexibility in the small apartment’s interi...
Averagely the sleeping area is used only ones a day, so it is quite a clever solution the staircase that leads towards the bed niche to be movable and if necessary to free the space for the daily activates. This fantastic project of a cozy and functional small space design belongs to Concrete Architectural Associates for the Zoku Amsterdam – a new ...
Resolving the problems with privacy, space, and static border – this colorful bed box projectis offering a moveable, cozy and fun solution for small apartments with contemporary design. And as the designers ask; “Instead of buying a sleeper couch and feeling like a guest in your own home, why not create a private retreat within a given space?”. Bes...
This dynamic composition for modern small home is located in Londonand offers charming focal accent of a suspended bed above active working area ( with trendy furniture pieces). A memorable solution for restrained space options. Further on a large dining room table – to gather all your friends – and the decorative accent of the urban-art staircase ...
For some may be controversial, but in this case becomes a fact – using dark gray and black colors won’t make the small space appear smaller, but quite the opposite it will give it a dynamic and splendorous touch. The designer of this 258-square-foot studioused reflective surfaces, bold dark colors and shining metal accents to create visually dramat...
The fresh and artistic design of this tiny apartmentwill guarantee comfortable living space for more than one person – with its light emanation and multiple sitting zones, and chill-out niches, unique space design offers many opportunities for relaxation and privet quiet space. The light wood sculptural construct offer light, dynamic and youthful h...
This high-tech, dynamic solution is up to free a lot of space for modern urban dwellings. The compact 390-square-foot of this apartment can host all the rudimentary zones of a home – sleeping, kitchen, living room, bathroom, dining zone and so on, thanks to the latest evolution of MKCA’sresearch on micro-housing. The motorized movable wall (that wo...
Undertaking the challenge of renovating this tiny Milanese apartment and giving it a youthful and functional atmosphere that it will turn its 28 sq.m into a comfortable modern-day dwelling the designers from studio WOKhad searched for inspiration in the clear presence of the light wood. The structures that host the closed and wardrobes not only giv...
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- Urban loft Amsterdam by Bureau Fraai, Amsterdam, Netherlands. This tiny loft design aimed to convert a small former social housing apartment in the city center of Amsterdam into a modern urban loft.
- Carmel Place by nARCHITECTS, New York City. Carmel Place is the winning proposal in the adAPT NYC an initiative launched as part of former Mayor Bloomberg’s administration’s New Housing Marketplace Plan to accommodate the city’s growing small household population.
- Micro Live:Work Studio by Studio Bunyik, Budapest, Hungary. This micro live work studio is located in Budapest’s ninth district. The neat studio was reinvented as a micro live + work space featuring a set of pine and ash wood bespoke furniture elements that frame and anchor the main functionalities of the apartment.
- Urban Shelter by MYCC Oficina de Arquitectura, Madrid, Spain. At twenty square meters, this singular urban shelter is an enclosed space where a single person can live and work.
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Jan 2, 2024 · Although minimalism is a defined design style, there are countless ways to make this look materialize in your rental or owned apartment—it's not all white couches and quiet color palettes. Below, you'll find a list of inspiring minimalist apartment ideas you'll want to transpose onto your own living space.
