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Small/Sustainable Living. No Muss, No Fuss: The DIY Custom Coffee Table. Finding a coffee table can be a pain.

No Muss, No Fuss: The DIY Custom Coffee Table

Usually they're an afterthought. You've managed to fit the couch and a couple of chairs into your space and then you remember, oh, that's right, I need a coffee table — to set down drinks, your iPad, a book, the remotes, maybe even to sub as your dining room table, with everyone sitting on the floor around it.

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Small Studio Apartment Design with lots of Cool Ideas. Like this article?

Small Studio Apartment Design with lots of Cool Ideas

Share it: For your daily dose of cool ideas, check out this small studio apartment design. It belongs to Swedish interior designer Jimmy Schonning. There are just so many great ideas and features in this studio, it seems that each time we look through the photos we discover something else. So let’s start with the color scheme first. Please Leave a Comment. Furniture. Closet Office. I have begun to meet up with several of my 555 residents to document some of their downsizing solutions.

Closet Office

It has been so much fun re-connecting with them, touring their homes and having them share their downsizing stories with me. One of my favorite solutions that I have seen is the closet office! In a smaller living quarters, sometimes the office space is the first to go but with a little creativity, one can put that workspace back into the plan! Free Home Design Software and Interior Design Software - Autodesk Homestyler. 20 Cool Home Library Design Ideas. Puzzling Optical Illusion Bookshelf with a Beautiful Minimalist Design. Seen on LikeCool, his highly creative shelving system was designed by John Leung from ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects and has a very intriguing appearance.

Puzzling Optical Illusion Bookshelf with a Beautiful Minimalist Design

According to the designer “the bookshelf looks cartoony and almost invisible but that’s not even the real illusion, the real mind bender is that there are what seems like 4 shelves on the left side but only 3 shelves on the right side”. Modern Sophistication in New York City's Upper West Side & Design... - StumbleUpon. 268StumbleUpon Today we return to the work of Frances Herrera, the inimitable New York interior designer behind Interiors by Francesca, LLC.

Modern Sophistication in New York City's Upper West Side & Design... - StumbleUpon

Working with a young, sophisticated family in the Upper West Side, Herrera transformed a blank slate into a comfortable, kid-friendly home that exudes an unquestionably chic, cozy and polished sense of style. The minimal, contemporary dining room allows the impressive Manhattan skyline to take center stage. The large, unobtrusive glass table and dining chairs that are upholstered in a practical, yet chic faux ostrich vinyl are perfect for everyday use and for young children. Abundant neutral and warm shades enhance the coziness of the living room. Modern New Home in Old Stone Church. From the outside it appears to be just the same as any other unassuming old church, however take a look inside and this place of worship has been turned into an ultra modern family home. Based in Utrecht, this small-church renovation features a series of levels within the existing large and awe inspiring space.

The mezzanine represents a partial reversion from the building’s last design iteration, and (as the plans above show) is less intrusive than it might appear. Underneath the upper floor mezzanine lie the bathrooms, bedrooms and a personal study, which provides the churchs inhabitants with privacy. None of these newly-created rooms, however, would be difficult to remove should anyone seek to fully restore the space at some point. Lofted Space-Saving Furniture for Bedroom Interiors. A Gallery of Out of the Ordinary Doors. Small Bedroom Lessons. I found myself loving this photo that I found of a bedroom and didn't realize immediately how small the room actually was.

Small Bedroom Lessons

That, my friends, is how you know you've decorated a small room well. Despite the size of the bedroom, the scale of the painting doesn't overwhelm; instead it detracts from it and becomes the wonderfully colorful and playful focal point. Lesson learned - don't be afraid of size and colors when dealing with a teeny room. After seeing the fabulous yellow room, I became inspired to check out some other marvelous small rooms. The bed barely fits in this room, but it feels so comfortable and homey that size doesn't matter. Bedroom Design: 20 Ideas for Your Own Designer Bedroom.

Amazing pictures and great ideas can be almost as helpful in designing the best new bedroom as having a cool designer – and inspiration is free.

Bedroom Design: 20 Ideas for Your Own Designer Bedroom

From retro and vintage to modern and bohemian, small spare rooms to magnificent master bedrooms, here are some of the most creative and unique photos of bedroom interior designs online. Cool & Hot Colored Bedroom Design: An age-old interior designer trick is to start with a great color palette and work from there, finding, designing and painting around that first defining choice. Small is cool. If you choose to live on your own as a young person (and i say this assuming that you don’t earn major bucks or perhaps you live in an expensive city – or both) you will probably be faced with the reality of renting a studio apartment. unless you’re an investment banker, or you won the lotto, or your granddad left you a sweet inner city pad the size of an ark that he bought back in 1950 for R500, or you’ve found some 3 bedroom palace with wooden floors and a working fireplace that’s being rented out for tuppence. if you’re one of those people, please don’t pity me. for i might be jumping on the studio flat bandwagon one of these days, and of course in lieu of that, the first thing i consider is HOW TO DECORATE. zach motl lives in a 178 ft² studio apartment in brooklyn. that’s 16m² folks… he’s an interior decorator, which explains why his flat looks the way it does.

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“the more stuff you put in a room, the bigger it seems” this NYC couple‘s apartment is only 200 ft² (18 m²!!!) Interior Design And Home Ideas. Casulo - mobiles Wohnen / Aufbau. Casulo - mobile living furniture_3. Casulo - mobile living furniture_2. Casulo - mobile living furniture_1. Jasmine's Cove, Estate of the Day.