Small apartments can be a challenge to design but can also be approached as an adventure and not dread. You’ll need the following ingredients: Research, Creativity, and Enthusiasm. This will lead you to a path of a creatively designed home space. Hence,
Small space + Tight budget + Creativity = Happy customers.
With this in mind, let’s design a space-saving and budget-friendly apartment…
Ideas For Designing a Small Apartment
Do you like the above image?
Who wouldn’t? It screams of comfort and yet, is so budget-friendly.
Rearrange Your Furniture
We all agree that arranging furniture can make the room look spacious, and some of the furniture can be foldable or stackable too. One could create perimeters of bigger furniture’s toward the walls creating a space balance. Be sure to leave plenty of open space in your small house, both for ease of movement and for maintaining utility. This applies to all visible areas, from the floor to your countertops to the amount of space you allow between furniture items.
A Little Less of Everything
The good thing about a small apartment is, you need less of everything too. The lesser items you keep, the livelier you feel. Less is more when it comes to creating a well-designed small space. So, throw it some love and imagine how divine it would be to have TV suppers while sitting on a comfortable sofa. Think of it as a conversation pit with your family and you save space for a dining table.
Play Around with Plants and Natural Light
Bringing outdoors indoors. Bunch up plants in a corner of your house and create a nice vignette. Try large plants like philodendron, areca palm, fiddle leaf fig tree, etc. Fill up empty corners with different kinds of plants — plants can never make a space seem cluttered. On the contrary, they make it look cozy and welcoming.
A small room can really open up with the right lighting. In addition to letting natural light shine in through the windows, use additional lighting throughout your space to bring in some additional warmth. If you don’t have room for floor and table lamps, choose lighting options that don’t take up any prime real estate, like string lights, wall sconces, or pendant lighting.
Play Around With Symmetry
We’re naturally drawn to symmetry—in faces, in nature, and in homes. If you really intend on having a ton of seating in your tiny living room or you just can’t do without some extra storage cabinets, make them work by having the pieces mirror each other in the room. It will make the space feel cleaner and appear more pleasant to the eye.
Go Bold With Colours
Indulge in complementary colours! Having said that, the best approach is to not pick your colours first but pick your furnishings, textures, and accents before that. Let the colours flow in effortlessly thereafter. Go for a palette of bold and not-so-bold colours. Or bright and not-so-bright colours — this will help create a harmonious effect. Choose bold sofas or accent chairs to act as focal points. Paint your walls a bold colour or leave them white but cover them with art that adds colour to the scheme.
Accessorise It
Is there something that defines you? Put that out on display! If you collect animal-shaped decor objects, use them! If you’re a nature lover, decorate with botanical-printed cushion covers, rugs, art prints or whatever reflects your passion. If you’re a ceramic enthusiast, bring out your treasured collection.
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Speaking of double duty, mirrors add both additional light and the feeling of additional space into rooms by reflecting back natural and non-natural lighting and giving an illusion of more space. Use one large mirror or arrange a few smaller ones throughout a room. You can even create a gallery wall of mirrors like you might do with art.
Utilise Nooks and Corners
A nook that you might otherwise leave empty in a larger space can be used in a small space for additional functionality, such as putting in a desk area or a bar table. If it won’t clutter the room too much, try to think of creative ways to take advantage of often under-utilized nooks and corners instead of chalking them up to wasted space.
Wind Up
Hope we were able to throw light on how one could design a space-saving and budget-friendly apartment. Stay home, stay safe!
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