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 . . .
Tag: small space
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 . . .
Multi Purpose Furniture
You have to hand it to these guys from Clei. These Italian transformation furniture wizards specialize in researching and manufacturing furniture that let you squeeze out every inch of usable space at home. Nearly all the furniture featured here has at least two functions built in (and some even more!). These multi-purpose furniture would come . . .
Super Thin Apartment in Tokyo
This Japanese architectural firm did wonders for the views of this single family home in the outskirts of Tokyo’s metropolis. Now the exterior of this home may look like a flat screen television on steroids but the intent was to set the house back from being too close to the street on its very small . . .
Space Saving Tiny Apartment, New York
This tiny but highly sophisticated studio apartment in the East Village of NYC has made us very proud, thanks to JPDA
Space Saving Furniture (Part 2)
If you have been a long term HD fan, you’ll probably remember our first space saving furniture post. Well, it’s time for an update. The level of sensibility and innovation that goes into creating multi-functional units is truly remarkable and well worth the quirky surprise when you realize your workstation is also your bed! And . . .
Space Saving Apartment That Can Transform Itself Into 24 Combinations
Here is a mind boggling piece of space saving wizardry by Hong Kong based architect Gary Chang that helped him transform a tiny cramped apartment into something really special. With the use of accordion-like wall units, he is able to create at least 24 different room configurations out of his 344 sq. ft apartment. Gary . . .
Space Saving Ideas for Small Kids Rooms
We have featured Spanish designer Sergi‘s kids’ rooms concepts before at Home-Designing, but he is back with more! Having worked to create rooms that are individualistic and unique in their own right, this designer has once again created magic with colors. Working with less space and creating more out of it has been the USP . . .
Cute Space Saving House In Tokyo
‘Less is more’ and that is the new mantra! For those who need proof, here is ‘Reflection of the Mineral’, a house built in downtown Nakano, a ward in Tokyo which is roughly just 480 square foot in size. What stands out in this house designed by Yasuhiro Yamashita, is the successful usage of modern . . .
Ideas for Teen Rooms with Small Space
We have gotten a lot of feedback from readers that they require ideas for rooms that are a bit short on space. Here is a set of space saving furniture for teen rooms from Italian maker Clei. The highlight of these space saving teen room designs are their foldable beds which can be folded to . . .