Gizmodo has some fantastic coverage of Treehugger.com founder Graham Hill’s apartment in New York. This tiny house, with its eight transforming rooms, packs all the necessities of a full size home into a mere 420 square feet. Appropriately, the hyper-functioning space is called a “Life Edited” apartment. Essentially a square cube, the home features a living . . .
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A Tiny Taiwanese Apartment
This Tai apartment design, by WCH Interior, is extremely chic and uncluttered despite its small scale; using a cohesive color palette throughout, and unobtrusive storage designs, the dwelling manages to maintain a light and airy appearance. Recommended Reading: Playful Modern Taiwanese Homes With Slides Inside
Transformative YO! Home: Big Design in a Small Space
Using technologies that are usually relegated to car design and super-yachts, YO! Home’s founder, Simon Woodroffe created a modern, forward-thinking alternative to the small urban apartment. At the touch of a button or the pull of a handle, twelve moving parts transform the tiny apartment into a luxurious living space with all the amenities of . . .
Super Small Space Living: Inspiration IKEA
When it comes to kitting out small spaces in our homes, IKEA is the place to go for oodles of inspiration on clever multifunctional storage ideas and brave layout choices for limited proportions. This selection of super small room designs by the Swedish firm is yet another set of excellent ideas to re-educate us on . . .
Small Spaces: A 40 square meter (430 square feet) Apartment [Visualization]
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This interior visualization, by Polish firm Pressenter Design, depicts the challenge of decorating a forty square meter (430 sq ft) flat, with the intended use of a mother with a 6-year-old daughter. The home was designed with particular attention to the growing needs of a child at the very beginning their school life who would . . .
Small Living: Super Streamlined Studio Apartment
The clever layout of this tiny studio apartment, designed by WCH Interior, holds everything a home owner wants and needs despite an extremely limited floor area, whilst managing to appear remarkably uncluttered and sleek in style.
Small Space Design: A 498 square feet house in Taiwan
The key to furnishing a small space is a stylish concentration of storage areas without compromising the layout of well-spaced living; this clever home design, by designer Wu Chengxian for Taihe Design in Taiwan, highlights the space saving principal to great effect. Here are some of the other small living space designs we have covered . . .
Small Bathroom Design
They say good things come in small packages. If you have ever sulked that the tiny proportions of your bathroom are just too restrictive in which to create a vision of beauty, and an air of stylish triumph, then think again and read on… Even if you have a small bathroom, it doesn’t mean you . . .
Saving Space at Home – Some Ideas
With properties getting smaller and smaller, what solutions are out there to free up the floor area? You may already be familiar with popular favorites like lift top coffee tables for multipurpose storage or wall-mounted entertainment centers to reduce furniture bulk. But those everyday essentials are just the beginning! In this post, we take a . . .
Cool Beds To Climb!
With space being of constant concern in many of our compact homes, or in open plan residences where everything is on show all of the time, may be it’s time to think vertical. Beds are one of the largest pieces of furniture we’re ever likely to own, they take up a huge amount of floor . . .
Small Apartment Zinging with Color
This conceptual apartment, by Anna Marinenko, is positively bursting with bright decor decisions in the choice of paint, furniture, and accessories, but the vivacious palette finds success in this small space by limiting the hues, combining only two colors amidst clean white and fleeting bases of black and grey. The original clock concept was born . . .
Small Apartment with Foldaway Features
This interior scene in soft beech wood and bright white décor, by Oleg Trofimov, achieves a spacious air despite its modest proportions. The key piece in this space saving scheme has got to be the wall of concealed storage in the lounge area, consisting of flat fronted cabinets which make up an unimposing entertainment unit. . . .
Space-Saving Designs for Small Kids’ Rooms
Many parents are faced with the problem of furnishing small-scaled kids’ rooms. The littlest members of the family are usually given the littlest rooms but still have a whole host of toys and games to store away, as well as needing allocated areas for homework or crafts, depending on their age, and then there comes . . .
Super Small Apartment Design in Manhattan
Here is a 450 square feet apartment in Manhattan that makes use of every tiny inch of space available. Owner Eric Schneider entrusted the task of making this little space beautiful and livable to New York based firm MKCA. Here is what they came up with: Pictures… The whole project amounted to $305,000 (includes home . . .
Small Apartment Design in St.Petersburgh
There are so many little things that stand out in this tiny apartment that we couldn’t imagine passing this up. With the living decked up with probably one of the most original pieces of lighting we have seen recently and a bedroom that doesn’t do so bad on novelty side either, we are glad to . . .
Cute Little Apartment in Poland
The masterminds behind this cute, little apartment in Poznan, Poland, are mode:lina, a Polish architecture firm that was inspired to create an apartment for guests visiting the city for the Poznan International Fair. As a result, they ended up with an apartment that combines elements reminiscent of the accommodating design fixtures of a hotel and . . .
The World’s Narrowest House [is 60 inches wide]
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Architect Jakub Szczesny has laid out design concepts to fill in a small crack between an old tenement building and tower building in Warsaw, Poland with plans to erect the world’s narrowest house, which will be 60 inches in width. Talented Israeli writer Etgar Keret is a symbolic patron of the project and he will . . .
Young Workspaces
Young people take a lot of pride in the way they set up their room. Though grown-ups often feel that a child’s space should feed and nurture their creativity, curiosity, and ability to focus, the space usually ends up as one that shows off the child’s passions. As each has their own unique tastes and . . .
Cute and Groovy Small Space Apartment Designs
Sometimes we get accused of featuring spaces that are a little ‘larger than life’. The argument put forth is that such spaces are unrealistic and seeing them do not contribute to in any way for the majority of people who read this blog. Though we actually beg to differ here (we believe that inspiration can . . .
Small Space Living
We have a thing for small spaces. Having featured small space solutions for houses (remember the 344 sqft & 480 sqft ones?) which can barely boast of any area to play around with, we are back again with a new gem from Portugal which puts its 474 sqft area to maximum use. Designed by Consexto . . .
Small Floorspace Kids Rooms
To continue on our quest to highlight more space saving designs, today we feature the latest works of Sergi Mengot, Barcelona based interior designer who specializes almost exclusively in designing beautiful small-floorspace kids rooms. He uses a variety of combinations that make use of innovative kids room furniture and vertical space to magically add more . . .
