One-Room Mansion
Living in a single room or a one room apartment or a small studio
apartment is quite challenging and living comfortably in one means
that you must know the tricks how to make a small space feel more
spacious and airy and combine efficiency, comfort, function, beauty
and style in your home décor along with making place for all your
activities in limited space including sleeping, dining, working,
studying and entertaining friends. Here are some sure-shot ideas
that can make your life easier and make you feel less cluttered and
more organized in your stylish apartment:
- Buy multipurpose furniture with storage space.
- A
curtain shower and a bathtub can turn an area into
bathing space. Open the curtain and cover the bathtub with a heavy
stone lid and you have your kitchen counter ready for keeping
utensils, chopping, cutting and dicing vegetables. After cooking,
clean the counter and serve food on it and add
chairs near it (till now stacked in the corner)
and your dining area is ready.
- The three keys to live king-size in a single room is hiding
(tidbits, blankets, cosmetics in baskets that can be kept under the
bed, trunks, chests, furniture with storage, corner shelves, sliding
shelves and laundry bags), elevating (shelves, wall-mounted
lamps, televisions to make better use of vertical
space) and stacking (keeping chairs, utensils, clothes and towels
one on top of the other).
- Five things to keep in mind while living in one room are:
» Color,
» Dividers,
» Furniture,
» Lighting, and
» Storage.
- Organization is must and avoid clutter that brings with it the
feeling of chaos.
- Keep your place serene, calm and your décor subdues, muted and
quiet to make the space feel larger and more restful.
- If possible, leave one of the walls completely blank without any
elements added to it including shelves, wall mounted fixtures and
artwork to make the space look larger.
- Instead of screens to divide the space, use room dividers with
shelves that can be used to keep things and yet allow you to see
through them so that you don't feel claustrophobic.
- Half-height and low book cases, filing
cabinets with wheels; slider doors and low
furniture line are an asset for one room living.
- Velvet fabric hung from ceiling height down to the floor makes
an interesting background and can hide dirty clothes and utensils
too.
- Venetian blinds on windows look cleaner and make the room appear
more airy.
- Chair that can pushed in the table, furniture with wheels or
that can be folded away when not in use, sofas that can become a bed
while sleeping, Loft beds with
home
office working station underneath with built-in
closets, cabinets and drawers are all some of the pieces that make
even a single room look like a mansion.
- Lightweight small tables and club chairs that can be put
together to make a larger table and sofa or can be separated, a
narrow bed that can serve as a couch when pillows and cushions are
added to it are pieces to invest in along with tables and beds with
hinges.
- Flexible and layered lighting making use of ceiling lights,
halogen spotlights and dim and soft incandescent lights are helpful
for mood lighting and control light according to the activity you
are performing at the moment.
- Use mirrors and sparkling surfaces to reflect more light.
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