Cube Six: Wooden Box Unfolds into Instant Spare Stools. Universal Kinetic Furniture Is A Transformer with Ulterior Motives. Lloyd Alter/CC BY 2.0.
Modular, Mobile & Transforming Bathroom Fixture Set. Wonderfully Childish: Modular Prefab Modern Playhouses. Playhouses help to stretch and develop little imaginations, helping kids to develop their pretend-play skills while keeping them amused for hours at a time.
But even the most imaginative of little ones will eventually grow bored playing in the same space each and every day. Architect Kimball Hales saw his three children playing inside cardboard boxes and was inspired to develop these modular modern playhouses to keep them occupied, interested and engaged. These stylish miniature houses are made with the same modern, sustainable design sense that Hales uses at his day job as an architect at Hufft Projects.
His small company, Play Modern, creates prefab kits to let you build your very own planet-friendly playhouses for your minis. Rooms in Boxes: Space Saving Bedroom, Office & Kitchen. Most of the time, we are content to have less flexibility and portability if it means we can have furniture, furnishings and fixtures of higher durability and quality.
However, we do not always have the luxury of permanence in small spaces – particularly when it comes to accommodating temporary shifts in usage, guests, etc… These three room-in-a-box designs are not meant to replace conventional interior design but to augment it by making other options available as needed. Such architectural furniture may never become mainstream but it certainly provides a conceptual counterpoint to our too-often accepted idea that interior designs are relatively immutable. Mini Apartment Hides Maximum Customization + Function. Although most of us can agree that a home is a static assortment of rooms with a semi-permanent arrangement of furniture and fixtures, there is no reason this definition has to be unflinchingly strict.
What about those of us who live in impossibly tiny spaces? Shouldn’t we all be allowed to make our homes conform to our own needs and wants? The Unfolding Apartment project from Normal Projects takes a tiny 450-square-foot apartment and turns it into a series of highly functional rooms. It accomplishes this seemingly impossible task with the use of a huge customized cabinet that can be folded, manipulated, changed and revised over and over to give the resident unprecedented living space freedom. Space-Saving Furniture: Home Office Desk & Storage Idea. The ultimate in visual and structural simplicity, the form of his combined home desk and shelving design by MisoSoup is composed of a single strip of curved wood that wraps up to become as much a work of minimalist wall art as it is a multifunctional work station with useful space-saving storage lofted above.
Like a shelving units or other storage systems, this combined furniture is designed to sit flush against the surface of the wall making it fit well wherever it works within a bedroom, living room or office layout. However, getting such a long and awkwardly shaped wood structure into a small space in the first place might be a difficult trick (perhaps the next move is to make it convert or come apart in a few places.
Otherwise perfect for small apartments and cramped condo spaces, very little interior room is taken up by this combination computer desk and bookshelf system. The keyboard slots back under the desktop surface and the chair slides in turn slides under the desk. Modular Portable Bathroom for Small Space Interior Design. Portable bathrooms do not have a reputation for luxury – shower, scale and fan?
Forget it. Small Bathroom, Big Idea: Space-Saving Fold-Out Fixtures. The best of both worlds: everything you could want from a master bathroom makeover except … there is no floor plan, minimal installation cost and essentially no remodeling involved.
Make Room: Small Space-Saving & Flat-Pack Furniture ‘Mat’ No matter how small you make them, most transforming furniture objects end up taking up at least some space in their smallest configuration.
Not so with this floor mat – a singular design object that folds flat to the floor but is filled with all kinds of creative surprises. Dubbed the ‘Land Peal’, this design idea from Shin Yamashita works just like an area rug or colorless carpet when not otherwise in use – but contains a hidden desk, secret chair and other cool stuff in its flat folds. It is intentionally nondescript – the only decorative touches being splashes of primary colors indicating functional purposes within an otherwise gray field. Modern design furniture for small spaces. Modern and Practical And 'know that half of the total population lives in cities of the world, with all that that implies, for example, increased consumption of fast food-equals-obesity, increasing urban violence and, of course, the 'accelerated urbanization.
This rapid growth increases the number of homes, but can reduce the square footage. That's why people see the need to make the most of available space, either by inventing systems containing 24 rooms in a modular, or using mobile devices such as transformers, one thing became another to solve more than a necessity at home, while saving space. How many of you probably start to fight or already suffering from problems of land on this occasion, it is about six projects proposed modular furniture.
Ozzio This table is my favorite of the list, so simple that it seems to make a dining table for 6 people and is really nice. Remember the table that becomes a table that we presented some time ago? 11 Coolest Offices You'd Love to Work For. 10 Ships with Unusual Large Cargo Heavy lift vessels are quite amazing vessels, built to load, carry and discharge large, unusual shaped cargoes (or even smaller vessels) that will simply not fit inside the holds of conventional vessels.
Unusual cargoes can include power plants, submarines, desalination units,oil platform, generators and yachts. Continue reading Top 10 Weirdest Places Around the World Did you know there is a cinema in the middle of the desert? HŠH architects. Tag Archive for "Architecture" It’s Fun to Live at the Y:Cube In the quest to provide much needed affordable housing to London, architecture firm Roger Stirk Harbour + Partners, in conjunction with YMCA London South West, has designed the Y:Cube. The simple 26 sq meter (279 sq ft) house is, according to the. Read More » Keep it Simple Schuybroek Least our readers think the only way to make a small space amazing is through hiding beds, moving walls and high tech gimmicks, let us point your attention toward Nicolas Schuybroek.
Read More » Two Faced Apartment When conceiving a space, the ergonomics of living are very important–i.e. designing a layout and orientation of rooms that accords with the way we live. Wooden Wall Picture Expands into Dining Table in Colombian Design. © Unodot Small, retractable, wooden, multi-purpose. Colombian Unodot studio's encuadra.Me piece has many of TreeHugger's favorite qualities. Pretty self-explanatory, it's a wall picture which hides a retractable table with seating for two. Although I'm not particularly crazy about the palm tree motive, the idea is simple and clever, and the carpentry is executed beautifully in the piece. When we first covered the studio's work, one of their products was a close sibling to encuadra.Me, though in its wall-frame mode it didn't quite achieve the frame effect.
Bedroom in a Box: Hideaway Guest Bed + Storage Spaces. Murphy Beds started one of the longest and strangest trends in bedroom design: the concealed, fold-down wall bed concept. In some ways, Boxetti‘s most recent attempt is much like the original idea, but by integrating surrounding storage spaces (drawers, cabinets and closet area) the goal is less to ‘hide away’ the bed than it is to celebrate the modern modular nature of this dynamic sleeping unit.
Like the other modules in the Boxetti furniture and interior design series, as much as possible is packed into an appealing, small and self-contained box, designed to save space and make installation as simple as setting the object in place. Office in a Box: Wall Furniture Unit, Desk & Shelves System. A close second-best to the corner office, how about a side-wall one instead? These Boxetti units are full of surprises – in this case, a flip-out white desk or orange read-and-work nook are supplemented by integrated drawers, enclosed cabinets, slide-out shelving systems and other open-and-closed storage features. Feeling like a bit of fresh air and open space? Slide the desk section out at a right angle and sit parallel to the unit on either side, depending on your home office layout.
Lounge in a Box: Modular Living Room Furniture Collection. Small space design at its finest, Boxetti is back with the ultimate modular living room furniture set – an entire collection of designs including storage units, stools, side and coffee tables packed (as always) into a single sleek white-and-orange box. Regular readers who have seen some great works by Boxetti before: this is the final piece, the last in the series to round out a convertible contemporary furniture collection that (combined) could be used to outfit an entire apartment, condo or small home. For starters, the pull out the coffee table modules (which double as footstools) reveal a three-seat couch with padded cushions. Home in a Box: 5 Room Solutions for Living in Small Spaces. Kitchen in a Box: All-in-One Island, Cabinet + Sink Design.
Cooks know that keeping clean work areas while cooking is critical – and incredibly difficult in small spaces. All-Purpose Kitchen Island Inside a 1-Square-Meter Cube. Multiplo Transformer Folds Into Just About Anything You Need. © HeyTeam How many different uses can you get out of a single piece of furniture? We have shown a lot of different designs on TreeHugger but few demonstrate as many variations as the Multiplo from Italian designers HeyTeam. Small and portable houses. A Side of Worms? Futuristic Auto-Composting Eco-Kitchen. Worms composting food right in your kitchen sounds kind of scary, right? Furniture For Small Spaces with Uniqe Design / Pictures Photos Designs and Ideas for House Home Office. Queen Space Saving Beds. ‘Hidden Kitchen’ Wall Transforms into a Dining Room Table. Danish Designer Builds a Chair the Way Others Make Brooms. © Christian Anderson Design I smiled when I saw the tip submission from Christian Andersen, a Danish designer.