Space saving ideas for small apartment

hej! we know more and more people are moving to cities and living in small apartments. so we challenged ourselves to make a bedroom as small as possible for a young couple renting their space. of course the bedroom needs to have room for sleeping, relaxing, getting dressed and tons of storage. the challenge is to think differently. we started by making a multifunctional bed. we built the base using metod kitchen cabinets for big time under the bed storage. we left this space for movable storage. we screwed wheels on an ivar shelf, so some things can be hidden but still easy to access. because this couple rents, we tried not to drill any holes. but they can still show their personalities with textiles and by taping up their favourite things. here we made a getting ready corner. these mirrors attach with double-stick tape and don't make holes, either.

natural light helps make a room feel bigger, so we were careful not to block the window. we have lamps, too, just not on the floor. what about hanging stuff? here, we made an outfit board out of a piece of wallpapered wood. on this wall, we built a different kind of wardrobe. we made the outfit board idea even bigger by painting sheets of wood and covering them with knobs. to maximise space, we worked in layers and put movable clothes racks in front. this multifunctional storage bench makes a place to sit and put on socks and shoes. that's a lot of storage and ideas in one bedroom, but we squeezed it down to 9.5 square metres. we had to build it, of course. come on in. we'll show you how it works. eventhough the room is small, well-planned storage makes it feel bigger. and open floor space leaves room for two even if it's tight sometimes. movable furniture means flexibility, so you can hide things and work in layers. added touches like knobs, handles and paint tie the room's style together.

textiles make the bedroom personal and of course, comfy, too. multifunctional is magical. a roller blind can be a movie screen. a drawer can be a bedside table. ready to find the possibilities in your small space? use multifunctional, movable and layered solutions to create smart storage and open floor space. happy planning!

Small studio apartment interior design ideas

hi, this is maxine shriber from simply decoratetoday we doing a studio for a young lady who just moved into new york city. she downloadedall of her style she wanted it to be contemporary airy and bright and of course cuz she's 21a little bold and edgy. she picked her colors which were creamy a turquoise green and abeautiful strong yellow she also gave us the things that she needed in the room and thebudget which was twenty five to three thousand dollars she gave us her wish list and thenshe also told us the things that she was keeping which was her coffee table love seat a bookshelfand her wall to wall carpeting which was part of the apartment. she also told us a littlethings about herself that you want to the dining room chairs to be thirty inches highbecause she wanted them by the bar area of

the kitchen she also let me know that shelives in new york city and that she's young and that the most important thing is she wantedit to look young and she didn't want it to look like an all persons apartment so it waspretty easy to get together and get all the things that she needed. she downloaded herfloor plan which is very lucky for us because it was a new building and she also downloadedall the pictures have the room and you could see that grey or brownish color carpetingthat's throughout so of course immediately we know we have to cover those things so thatthey will take away from the room so we looked at our floor plan and started working it outwe had to give her bedroom plus a living room plus a place to study and also a dining areawe picked fabulous colors. all the colors

that she wanted him prince carpeting it juststarted all coming together for her and for us from the collage you could see we reallygot the flavor of the girl we got bold colors fun carpets great prince and she got a lookthat young and very much her. so we also gave her three 3d’s this way she could see whereeverything is everything is you notice the living room has the dining seating by hercounter top she has a desk area a comfy chair we divided her living room with a shelvingunits so she can put all her books and then if you go into the foyer you could see weput the fabulous mirror and a console for her to have her keys down and to welcome herguests and as you further go into the room we could see her bedroom which we put curtainsis behind the bookshelves so she could have

some privacy and we did a wonderful west headboardwhich gives her that young young look i think it's a great space and can you believe thisis a studio. so what simply decorate does the very best is giving you a shopping listin fact our client also said i live in new york city and i'd rather shop online and haveeverything delivered and that's exactly what she can do all you have to do is hit shopnow and should have it all delivered and fact she did and the place looks fabulous thisis maxine shriber again but 269 you could have your bedroom or living room or even yourdining room done and its as simple as simple decorate has showed you. hope you are havinga great day see you soon.

Small studio apartment ideas for guys

hi, this is maxine shriber from simply decoratetoday we doing a studio for a young lady who just moved into new york city. she downloadedall of her style she wanted it to be contemporary airy and bright and of course cuz she's 21a little bold and edgy. she picked her colors which were creamy a turquoise green and abeautiful strong yellow she also gave us the things that she needed in the room and thebudget which was twenty five to three thousand dollars she gave us her wish list and thenshe also told us the things that she was keeping which was her coffee table love seat a bookshelfand her wall to wall carpeting which was part of the apartment. she also told us a littlethings about herself that you want to the dining room chairs to be thirty inches highbecause she wanted them by the bar area of

the kitchen she also let me know that shelives in new york city and that she's young and that the most important thing is she wantedit to look young and she didn't want it to look like an all persons apartment so it waspretty easy to get together and get all the things that she needed. she downloaded herfloor plan which is very lucky for us because it was a new building and she also downloadedall the pictures have the room and you could see that grey or brownish color carpetingthat's throughout so of course immediately we know we have to cover those things so thatthey will take away from the room so we looked at our floor plan and started working it outwe had to give her bedroom plus a living room plus a place to study and also a dining areawe picked fabulous colors. all the colors

that she wanted him prince carpeting it juststarted all coming together for her and for us from the collage you could see we reallygot the flavor of the girl we got bold colors fun carpets great prince and she got a lookthat young and very much her. so we also gave her three 3d’s this way she could see whereeverything is everything is you notice the living room has the dining seating by hercounter top she has a desk area a comfy chair we divided her living room with a shelvingunits so she can put all her books and then if you go into the foyer you could see weput the fabulous mirror and a console for her to have her keys down and to welcome herguests and as you further go into the room we could see her bedroom which we put curtainsis behind the bookshelves so she could have

some privacy and we did a wonderful west headboardwhich gives her that young young look i think it's a great space and can you believe thisis a studio. so what simply decorate does the very best is giving you a shopping listin fact our client also said i live in new york city and i'd rather shop online and haveeverything delivered and that's exactly what she can do all you have to do is hit shopnow and should have it all delivered and fact she did and the place looks fabulous thisis maxine shriber again but 269 you could have your bedroom or living room or even yourdining room done and its as simple as simple decorate has showed you. hope you are havinga great day see you soon.

Small studio apartment decorating ideas photos

bill: my name is bill andi'm an environmentalist. and we're here in new yorkcity in the east village. i moved into this space 10 yearsago, and it was in such bad condition. plastic bags as insulationin the walls. and the windows wereboarded up. the floor had basicallyholes-- you could see below it. i was recycling.

i'm an environmentalist. and so i didn't want to comehome to the same dirt that i was facing every day inmy life of cleaning up abandoned gardens. i had all these criteria,though, so i wrote them down. i had to have recycledmaterials. i had to somehow make theapartment look bigger with depth of field andlighting tricks. but then it also had to beexactly opposite of the stuff

i was doing in the daytime. it had to be you'd come in,it was perfectly clean. when i first moved in here,everybody in the east village wore black, and they didit for two reasons. to be cool, but alsobecause it was impossible to stay clean. these panels are plexiglas, andyou can see that this is the early design. the lights are in the corner.

i didn't know what to do,so i screwed it in. and i was experimentingwith it a lot. so then i come outwith this wall. instead of having the kick fromunderneath, i put the kick in the inside. i came up with a way to hangthem with fishing line, so there's no screws. if you can get behind here--it's almost like tinfoil, but you see how it moves?

and when it's a windy day,you'll see all this crazy shimmering. sometimes when you design stufffrom scratch, you'd have to really open up yourmind, and say, well, that's not right. but boy, it looks great. i started asking people betterways to do projects. the ceiling came out so goodthat i just laid on the floor and i just stood up inthis kind of mirror,

and thought, wow. the squares almost look likevery nice ceiling panels. so there's early designs mixedwith later designs here. and there you are. streamlined, everythinghidden-- but yet everything's here. this was something i gotfrom pan am when they went out of business. wow, these are really beautifulcabinets, and they

have such history. then i found this old-school'50s piece, and this is how they used to do it inside thewall, and i was trying to do some of that. in the bathroom, again,is recycled material. originally i didn't know whatto do with the shower. i'm still working on it, but ihave the drain out here and a drain over here. so you don't need a wall.

also, the floor isa heated floor. this little thermostatcontrols the floor. i saw this is in a casino, andi was like, gotta have that. again, the sink, you can seestraight through it. it makes the spacelook bigger. one time i saw one of thosecommercials where they made everything white. andi was like, that's how i'd want my apartment. just the product.

i know a lot of people come inhere, and they're like, it's this a spaceship? what is this? and i'm like, no. it's perfect. it's nothing it's what i want. i don't want anything. tracy metro: likehome and design? have facebook, twitter,tumblr, and pinterest?

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Small studio apartment decorating ideas on a budget

by the time you’ve paid your rent, bought your furniture, and forked over cash for toilet paper the last thing you want is to drop more money. this is 37 easy and cheap decorating ideas for your house by alanna okun & greta alvarez 1. hang art on your empty wall. there’s a ton of free public domain art available online like from public library sites or wikimedia commons. all you need is a printer and maybe a frame if you fancy. 2. display keys from everywhere you’ve lived.

if you have roommates or live with a significant other, add theirs to the collection too! picked up an affordable little shadow box from target and simply scribbled the location and date of each key underneath. 3. find a better way to use your old stack of books. you could stack them to make a fashionable side table, use them to hide unsightly things like cords or your router or just strap on a cushion on it and call it a seat. 4. make garlands from paper cut-outs. made a heart template out of posterboard and then traced and cut out all of the hearts.

sewed each strand together, wrapped each line around the wood and secured the string on the top and back with tape. cut some lace and hot glued it over the front of the wood, making sure to seal each string 5. use paint chips to cover an entire wall. you could use removable poster tape or painters tape to minimize wall damage. 6. download and print this adorable calendar or even-more-adorable 3d letters 7. you could also use these patent-design prints or just a simple wall flowers 8. if you want to decorate with jars or wine bottles nail polish remover will help you to take the labels off.

9. use newspaper to make a wall design, like a map or just straight-up use maps. even if you did it without the frames, it's still looks pretty rad. 10. re-cover you boring or beat-up lampshade with a diy vintage lampshade. 11. print out your instagrams even if *you* don’t have a printer for all of these chances are your office or your friend or your friends’ office does if everything else fail, you can spring for a couple bucks to have staples do it 12. display old t-shirts that have sentimental value. mount them on canvas if you have any

or you could use squares of cardboard cut from old boxes 13. diy a custom rug from caret samples. attach bunch of them using duct tape or display them individually 14. hang pieces of fabric samples as wallpaper. there’s a lot of places that will give out wallpaper samples for free. use them well. if fabric samples is too hard, you could use leftover wrapping paper instead. 15. display magazines on hangers. it’s a step above taping torn covers to your dorm room walls. simply open your most favorite magazines in the middle and strip them on the hanger.

easy-peasy. 16. hang vintage posters from freevintageposters.com 17. spruce up a bland wall with colorful tape it’s so simple even the most pinterest-challenged of aspiring home improvers could do it. all you need is colorful tape, scissors, and a desire to be happy. (bonus points if you use washi tape!) 18. make a pop-art picture of your dog take a photo of your dog, print it on a a piece of pink paper (play around with the contrasts) cut the image out, and glue it to a yellow sheet of paper.

do that and you’re basically andy warhol with a printer, glue, paper, and scissors. 19. diy a headboard made of books first head to your local thrift store and find yourself a lot of old books. get a piece of wood the size you want for your headboard and then mark the matress height. find the perfect book layout. mark the order you want the book in then hammer books in place. stick the top pages in place with some double sided tape and voila… your new headboard is ready. 20. make a unique rug using strips of cloth

you’ll need a non-slip cloth, one of those with little holes, and strips of cloth. in just a little bit of time, you’ll have a super stylish and ultra comfy rug. follow the exact step by step guide at craftaholics anonymouse. 21. make a polka-dotted wall or try a cool variation on your door gold on a white wall makes for a truly unforgettable effect. all you need is contact paper and scissors, and boom you have a stunning decoration that's also super easy to remove when you get bored with it. 22. use tree trunks as tables of course, you’ll have to have a lumberjack friend, or something like that…

23. decorate the washer and dryer with adhesive tape instead of washi tape. use insulating tape or electrician’s tape (the kind you use on electrical cables) to make doing your laundry slightly less annoying. you can get the tape in any hardware store. 24. hang photos, magazine images, or any other pictures on clipboards it’s got a workshop-y feel to it and is sure to be the envy of all your ~artsy~ friends. 25. add a touch of color to your old chair spray a can of spray paint to give your old chair chair a new lease on life. 26. make a wall of license plates in your bathroom

the greater the variety of years and cities you have, the better. 27. hang your photos in an original way get an old picture frame, clothespins, some string, and your best photo memories printed out and you’re set. 28. refresh your dining room table with different color chairs it adds a welcome pop of color to your space and is sure to brighten up your mornings. find chairs which already come with variety of color or if you can’t find it, spray paint them. 29. turn an old drawer into a mini-shelf you don’t have to go to ikea to get a look like this within an hour, you can achieve a more unique version for far less money.

simply repaint them, and attach them to your wall. easy… 30. a rustic coat hanger for fall prepare a piece of wood, sand and then paint them collect some dried branches, cut each piece at the base with a hand saw at a slight angle so when you place them on the face of the wood, they go diagonally upward. drill some holes in the diagonal direction as marked attach the branches with screws and a little bit of glue at the base. easy and awesome 31. use a ladder as a bookshelf

ladders are really useful to have around, but they also take up a lot of space. make the most of this necessity by adorning it with all your favorite books and maybe a framed picture or a vase of flowers at the top 32. a cool vintage flower pot the idea is to transplant a plant to a vintage piece (in a bag so you can still water it). just make sure you use plants that don’t require a lot of care and that don’t have very long roots 33. revive something old most of us have furniture in our homes that we love but we don’t get excited over them. so what should we do? take some risks and give them a makeover!

step 1: use masking tape, and mark some evenly spaced points on the bottom circular edge of the lamp shade step 2: paint the pattern onto the shade. when the paint dries, carefully peel off the tape with only 2 steps, now we have a totally different looking lamp shade. 34. ombrã© paint to revive an old dresser choose a color and paint each drawer with a different shade. 35. use an old window or closet door to hold your mail and postcards when you see one of these, grab it, paint it, and put it to better use 36. if you have stairs in your house, paint them to give more life into your house. 37. brighten up a corner of your room and add letters, photos, and other ~inspiration~

literally the only thing you need is a set of lights, an empty wall, and some inspirational photos and letters and that’s all for now… we hope that all tips on this video could help you redocorate your house better. for more fresh and creative organizing videos please to subscribe to our channel. thanks for watching and i’ll see you in the next videos.

Small one bedroom apartment design ideas

when you decorate an apartment, rental rulescan limit your options. here are 5 ways to make a rental feel more like home. use furnitureto divide the space. position your sofa to separate the living room from the eating areaor use a bookshelf to create the feel of an entry hall. add temporary upgrades. removablewallpaper or wall decals can turn a wall into a statement and they peel off easily whenit's time to move. pretty curtains dress up blah windows. choose accessories that freshenup what looks dated. here, green accents perk up the old yellow tile or try a fabulous rugto cover scratched wood floors. fabric panels can hide a multitude of problems. they makeawkward doorways, nooks and closets look stylish, plus they hide away what you don't want tosee. invest in double-duty furnishings. a

day bed, for example, works as a sofa by dayand a bed by night, and a hutch can hide home-office supplies and books. think of everything youbuy for your apartment as an investment in your next home. spend money on storage pieces,artwork and flexible furniture that will express your style no matter where you live.

Small living room ideas apartment therapy

can you get through this post without callingyour contractor? before we begin, please check the descriptionarea first, there are listed all the original projects that exist in this video. 31 insanely clever remodeling ideas for yournew home, by peggy wang. 1. lower your living room to create a conversationpit. the bi-level living room will give your homean incredibly spacious yet cozy effect. 2. turn an attic nook into a pillow room.

what is life but one long, perpetual movie-nightslumber party? 3. display your book collection under the stairs. 4. or use the space underneath for storage. 5. or use that space for a book nook. so much cozy. 6.

dogs are people, too, which is why your dogshould probably get his or her own little haven underneath the stairs. 7. make space for two dishwashers instead ofone. you can load one while the other washes. kitchenaid also makes a double drawer dishwasher. 8. if you’re doing a huge remodel, ask yourcontractor about tacking on a treehouse or guesthouse.

this add-on might cost less than you think. 9. turn your shabby garden shed into a charmingartist’s shed. with big windows for lots of light and visualinspiration. 10. install an in-wall pest control system. pest-tube installation means that all theexterminator has to do is inject some stuff into one end to keep insects and rodents away. 11.

maximize your space with baseboard drawers. especially in the kitchen and bathroom. 12. consider a hidden room. sometimes it’s as simple as adding a bookcaseto a door. 13. make your walls magnetic. magnektik makes large magnetic panels thatare strong enough to hang anything, including shelves and tvs.

14. an s-shaped seat turns your shower or steamroom into one you can lie down in. insane in le bain. 15. have an extra-tall ceiling? stretch a ceiling hammock across it. 16. a walk-in shower means no glass to clean. and they even fit into small bathroom spaces.

17. install chutes in your kitchen for your trashand recycling. funnel them straight into the garage. 18. a platform in a storage/guestroom hides awayall of your stuff while keeping the room usable. it’s also a great way to make a comfy nookroom more functional. 19. build a bar into your deck. 20.

turn dead space above a staircase into a playroom. 21. build a second mini-fridge in your kitchenisland for beer. or really, anything you want. 22. instead of typical cabinets, build a pull-outcabinet for instant counter space. 23. put a sink with jets in your laundry roomso you have a convenient place to wash your delicates.

24. utilize dead space with a built-in wine rack. 25. two words: vacuum baseboards. 26. kids will love having slumber parties in theirbunkroom. 27. bring the outdoors in with these accordionglass windows and doors. 28.

swap out your boring old ceiling for a star-gazingsunroof. 29. install a two-sided fireplace between thebathroom and the bedroom. who needs heated tiles when you have a bathroomfireplace? 30. frame your living room fireplace with built-inseating. fireplaceseat is the new windowseat. 31. and finally, go ahead and add that masterbedroom balcony.

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