Depending on your home, the ability to fit everything into a small space can be frustrating and can be a design challenge for living and especially sleeping. Whether you live in an apartment, small home, or have to share tight sleeping quarters, finding a comfortable and stylish sleeping option is essential for comfortable living. Here [...]
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A Tokyo Apartment Exposes Itself
When you envision your home interiors with concrete blocks, plywood and exposed electrical wires in the ceiling, you’re probably thinking that your home is still in the construction phase! Actually, in the project House K by TANK architects is an apartment that features exposed materials as the finished materials. This apartment features concrete, wood, and [...]
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A Cheerful Renovation of a Tiny Kitchen in Bratislava
If you think your small kitchen in your home is a challenge, then you may feel in pleasant company with this tiny kitchen renovation in Bratislava. With the help of an off-the-shelf Ikea cabinetry system, a lot of imagination and creativity, Lukáš Kordík turned his 1930’s flat into a functional and beautiful space to cook [...]
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Maximizing Space in Your Shared Bathroom
It always seems like the bathroom is the one room that you can always use more space! If you share a bathroom with a spouse, roommates or even your children, you know the challenge is even greater. Sharing a bathroom can be made easier by remembering a few organization rules, and of course some house [...]
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Yale’s Historic Building Gives Way to a Contemporary Condo
There is something magical that occurs when iconic historic buildings are renovated to house new functions that its inhabitants feel at home in. Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut is already known for its Ivy League notoriety and historic architecture dating back to the early 1700’s. When John Ronan Architects decided to renovate the Yale [...]
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Modern retro style London penthouse apartment
With a plush and colorful interior, this 3,500 sq ft luxury penthouse apartment by Target Living in the upscale area of Paddington Basin, London, has distinctive elements of both retro and modern styles. Whilst the spacious layout and open plan design with contemporary furniture is undoubtedly modern, it’s the subtle touches of retro vintage furnishings [...]
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Exotic apartment design with atmospheric neon lighting
This interesting apartment design is from Sergey Serpuhov, art-director for ERGES, an interior design company from Riga, Latvia. Incorporating bright colors and mood lighting, the design makes for a stunning modern exotic apartment. By embedding colored lighting in the book shelves in the living room and underneath the kitchen cabinets at night time the apartment [...]
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Colorful Angolan modular houses designed to replace slums
Everybody’s favorite Spanish Architects A-Cero have recently embraced on a new architecture project in Zango, Angola, a generous effort to build 2,000 homes targeted at the population who live in slums. The houses are a modular design, organized into groups of four all on one ground floor level. The total area of each apartment is [...]
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Tiny space-friendly Hong Kong apartment with sliding walls
A lesson in how to maximize tiny spaces, architect Gary Chang walks us through his tiny 344 sq. ft. apartment in Hong Kong. Using sliding walls the apartment can be divided up into twenty-four separate rooms. One of the biggest challenges of interior design in Hong Kong is how to make the most of small [...]
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New York City art deco terrace apartment renovation
This renovation of two large apartments in a 1929 art deco building in Central Park West, New York City was designed and completed by Bonetti Kozerski Studio. It is a warm and tactile apartment design, decorated in travertine, dark stained teak and Venetian stucco, and with a large terrace to step out on to. Situated [...]
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Asian inspired New York Filmmakers apartment living room
Another stunning interior design from Specht Harpman, this time an upscale New York filmmakers apartment with a luxury living room featuring integrated cabinetry and Asian inspired partial walls. The project demanded a spacial distinction in a relatively small space. This was achieved with minimalist chairs and tables, and the sliding walls are fitted with translucent [...]
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Compact minimalist white, grey and walnut Kiev apartment design
An apartment designed for one to three people, the biggest challenge of this project for contemporary Ukrainian interior designer and architect Slava Stupchenko was the optimization of space to create a truly comfortable apartment within a compact environment. Omitting unnecessary clutter and furnishings and incorporating lockers for clothing and footwear, rather than traditional bulky wardrobes, [...]
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Brown and cream Manhattan loft apartment living room
Designed by S Russell Groves Architects, this chic loft apartment is situated in the trendy area of Manhattan, where the West Village meets Soho and Tribeca. The goal for this pied-a-terre was to provide an easy, comfortable, but low maintenance, environment for the jet set owners. The bright open space of the living room maximizes [...]
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