Modern Small Apartments: Ideas for Design and Decoration

Every day the floors are smaller, so you have to save on unnecessary decoration, furniture, and therefore you must be very smart when it comes to home decorating. Here we propose tricks to decorate small floors.

Colors on small floors

The first thing you have to think, is that there are visual tricks that deceive the eye and make a room seem much wider, playing with light. For this reason, he uses white color or very clear tones for the walls and floors, and tries to get a lot of natural light in between.

Mirrors

Another of the main tricks is playing with mirrors. These should be placed very strategically, to begin, they must be at eye level, placed just in front of the windows, or you can place them a meter and a half above the ground. These make a double-space effect, reflecting also luminosity.

Furniture in small apartments

Think of furniture or accessories that you can do without, since the more furniture or accessory you include, the more overwhelming you will feel. For example, in a living room, where you have a piece of furniture for television, a table and a sofa, it's enough for you, the rest is left over.

The bed is usually the most important place in a small apartment; so do not skimp on a good bed, cushions and cushions fluffy and shiny. That the bed has the best position on the floor (near the window). In order to generate the sensation of an elegant hotel room.

The theory that the size of the furniture must be proportional to the size of the floor is strongly rooted. If the floor is small, the furniture is too. Another interesting idea is to use the glass in both dining tables and lounge tables to create a feeling of more space.

So when it comes to decorating should not forget that there are furniture priorities in relation to little space.

Generally we opt for large armchairs, with curves or "L" shaped, to give greater integrity, and also avoid overloading the place, as every centimeter is necessary.

Things like a dining table, are generally avoided, changing by islands on the kitchen, which provide space for meals, with stools. Anyway, if you want to have a better defined site, place a table on one side, visually separated by the addition of a carpet.

Remember, everything is possible, no matter how small the space; nowadays hundreds of people around the globe, are dedicated to search permanently, solutions to take advantage of the spaces, without having to resign ourselves to lose any comfort.

Priorities

It is important to define what is important and what is not in the space you inhabit. It depends on who you live with or if you live alone. It is not the same to live in a small apartment with all your family, in which you must have all the traditional spaces of a house, to live alone in a studio, where the essential thing is a desk for your work and not a sommier that occupies half room (which could be replaced by a folding bed).

If you live alone in a studio, and do not work in it, you can indulge yourself in decorating it luxuriously.

Carpets

The small apartments are in themselves cozy because of its small space. So if the decoration elements are well managed, it can be splendidly arranged.

For those mono environments in which the kitchen is part of the only space, it is very good to differentiate the areas of each place with different carpeting textures.

Curtains

You do not have to live with the typical standard floor blinds. The long fabric curtains give a feeling of greater amplitude. It is not necessary to have a window to put a curtain; This illusion is openly used both in homes and flats, and in blind cruising rooms.

Illumination

If you have skills you can do it yourself, otherwise leave it in the hands of a specialist and you will see how a good installation of luminaires can leave your apartment made a real elegant and modern place.

Geometry

Most small floors are "90⁰ angle boxes". So it is interesting to give a touch of curves to spaces, whether with rounded seats, shelves with certain undulations or curved carpets with designs.

Order

Remember that the most important thing is order. Everything must be placed in its place. If you can, use organizer furniture, which is practical, and remove all the decoration that bothers you.

Construction of a second level

Today, it is very fashionable to get small flats made in old abandoned factory buildings, with designs different from those of the floors now, where the heights are much higher and the possibilities that can mean, too. Let's see some images of small loft designs.

The same, generally do not exceed 60 square meters and can go from 35 square meters only. Cases smaller than these, would be a real madness. Well, starting from the base that the horizontal surface is bounded, young people with vision, have opted for remodeling, creating a second floor.

The lofts with heights of more than 5 meters, have been subject to subdivisions, creating wooden mezzanines, which help to create closed spaces in the lower part, ideal for bathrooms and kitchens, while in the upper part, they have placed the bedroom, thus separating it from the functional and social space of the house.