Interior design of compact apartments

The topic of designing compact spaces in a dynamically changing and constantly growing city is becoming more and more relevant.  Clients are more likely to purchase small apartments and new creative horizons open up for designers. In our opinion, the interior design of an apartment of a small area 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 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 seating for a dining group. Implemented by “pulling” the back a short distance.

BedDressing Room

At first glance, it looks like a bed on a high podium with a ladder.

But behind the lifting mechanism of the bed lies 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 proportions elongated in height. In this case, the space is organized into several levels.  A sleeping place or a home office is placed on the mezzanine, and another functional program is organized under it: a living room, a dressing room, a guest bedroom, a dining room, etc.d.

In this case, the designer provides access to the upper platform using a retractable library ladder on a horizontal rail.  This solution also allows you to reach open shelves, shoe racks and baskets of 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 an apartment of a small volume 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 systems of sliding folding partitions to combine or divide the premises.

Text and photo provided by interior design studio KYD BURO