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Collect this idea When you walk through the door of your small apartment , do you feel that your space is as inspiring as the ones featured in our post 30 Best Small Apartment Design Ideas Ever Presented on Freshome ? If not, this is the post for you. We’ ve gathered dozens of examples of space-saving furniture for your small apartment to enhance your living space, organize your belongings and give your home the modern edge you’re after. Here are the four categories of space-saving furniture we cover: We also have some ideas for color accents to make your space your own. Before you add any furniture to your small apartment , take a weekend to organize and clear your place. Go through your closets and cabinets, and donate or discard anything you don’t need or haven’t used for some time. Once you’ve sorted all your stuff, give your apartment a fresh paint job or a good wall and surface scrub to freshen it up. Starting with a blank canvas is liberating. Now it’s time to personalize! H...

One of the biggest downsides to studio living is feeling like you live — and entertain — in your bedroom. But even though that might physically/technically be true, it doesn't mean you can't use design to make it feel like it's more than just a studio. These smart and stylish studios — all under 500 square feet — employ three of the most successful ways to make a studio apartment feel bigger than it is. And they're design tips that anyone can use (whether you have more than one room or not!) to make any room feel better. Choose double duty furniture Alee Ruggieri's 200 square foot Greenwich Village studio Alee's studio apartment is successful thanks to the powers of double- duty furniture . In the morning, her bed transforms into what looks like a sofa by a simple rearrangement of throw pillows. Placing it with a long edge against a wall (like you would a sofa), helps the illusion. Arranging the rest of the home's furniture around the bed/sofa makes he...

Share This: Modern Studio Apartment %20-%20http://www.yliving.com/blog/decorate-modern-studio-apartment/" target="_blank"> Modern Studio Apartment %7C%20YLiving" target="_blank"> The stakes are high when decorating a modern studio apartment . After all, when every function needs to happen in a single, compact space—from sleeping to cooking to entertaining—even one poorly placed or scaled piece of furniture can throw off the balance of your modern living room or modern dining room . To avoid common missteps we called on Iain Halliday, of the New York- and Sydney-based architectural and interior design firm Burley Katon Halliday . A veteran designer who has detailed everything from studios to vast homes, Halliday offers modern living room ideas for smart small-space design. YLiving: What are the major challenges when decorating a studio apartment, and how can they be addressed? Iain Halliday: It’s important to understand that in a studio many thin...

As a former New York City resident and incidental claustrophobic, I understand the drawbacks of urban living. And so does Ori, Inc., maker of robotic furniture that folds, slides, and shifts to accommodate small spaces . The Massachusetts- based firm boasts two intelligent, responsive systems—Ori Full and Ori Queen—on display in apartments across 10 North American cities . [embedded content] See what the adaptive appliances can do at Chicago’s MODE Logan Square Apartments ; Bridge Park in Columbus, Ohio; New York City’s The Eugene building ; and Bluesky Chinatown up in Vancouver. Ori has also partnered with real-estate developers in Harrison, NJ; Miami; Seattle; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; and its hometown of Boston to showcase its high-tech designs. A full- or queen-sized bedroom can, for example, quickly transform your cramped co-op into a comfortable living room , spacious walk-in closet, or functional office, depending on your needs. Using the Ori control interface on the ...

A studio apartment is a great option if you're living on a strict budget or in a city with a flooded real estate market . While decorating a single- room living space can present unique design challenges , there are easy and inexpensive ways to create a beautiful, restful space you can call home. By using a few simple design strategies , you can find room for all of your everyday activities without feeling like you're drowning in a tiny sea of clutter. Go Big on Neutrals When decorating a studio apartment, consider neutral, light colors, which tend to make a room feel larger than it actually is. Selecting lighter tones for walls and larger furniture pieces will also add a sense of unity and structure that will anchor the space. To add inexpensive drama without making the room seem closed in, consider an accent wall that highlights a unique wallpaper pattern , bold paint color or oversized poster or painting. If you want to add bright hues to your neutral color scheme , ...

IN THE 1960s and ’70s, long before helicoptering emerged as a parenting style, adults had far less interest in looming over their children, frequently urging them to go play outside or downstairs. The netherworld to which these parents pointed was usually a recreation room or finished basement, clad insipidly in wood-veneer paneling and linoleum. Furnishings typically included a saggy sofa, a scratched ping-pong table and a built-in bar never used for mixing drinks; instead, the kids commandeered it as a make-believe store or a stage for puppet shows. Not even Dad’s novelty naked- lady martini stirrers lured him down once the children moved in. And the closest Mom got was to stand at the top of stairs and yell, “Supper’s ready! Wash your hands!” Perhaps these ratty rec rooms weren ’t worthy of House Beautiful, but the stints of physical distance they offered parents and offspring arguably benefited both in ways today’s airy cathedral-ceiling’d great rooms can’t. These days, peopl...