The topic of designing compact spaces in the context of dynamically changing and constantly growing cities is becoming more and more relevant. Clients more often purchase small apartments and new creative horizons open up for designers. In our opinion, the interior design of a small apartment is a task of combining various functions and scenarios in familiar objects on the one hand, and designing transformable objects on the other. Below we will present some interesting, but at the same time, simple solutions implemented by our Western colleagues, and we will try to do without clichés like falling out wall beds..
Multifunctional objects:
Combines a soft low sofa with a guest berth and a seating for a dining group. Implemented by «pulling» the backrest a short distance.
BedWardrobe
At first glance, it looks like a bed on a high podium with a staircase.
But behind the lifting mechanism of the bed is a full dressing room..
Which on closer inspection looks like this. The height of the podium is formed by a bar for jackets and shirts.
Often the architectural volume has elongated proportions in height. In this case, the space is organized into several levels. A sleeping place or home office is located on the mezzanine, and another functional program is organized under it: a living room, a dressing room, a guest bedroom, a dining room, etc..
In this case, the designer provides access to the upper platform using a retractable library ladder on a horizontal track. This solution also allows you to reach open shelves, shoe racks and baskets with clothes located behind it..
Often, the staircase itself acquires an additional function and becomes an element of the storage system, as in the interior of this small apartment..
Thus, the interior design of a small apartment is the creation of a space with an accurate functional basis, in which the boundaries between familiar objects mix, sometimes blurring altogether, making up unusual but comfortable forms..
Sometimes boundaries are required, for example, between private and public areas of an apartment. In such cases, you can use the systems of sliding folding partitions, to combine or divide the room..
Text and photo provided by interior design studio KYD BURO
