The smallest apartments: interior design and functionality

It is hardly possible to surprise our man with a hotel room of 8 square meters. Or a “studio” of the same size on the university campus. But today we will tell you about two miniature apartments in the largest capitals of Europe – Rome and Paris. And they both have all the comforts.

You can get here by stairs through a hatch, which has the dimensions of a normal interior door.

The hatch opens when the sofa is folded down and the room serves as a living room with a TV on the wall and a stereo on the shelf.

When unfolded, the sofa covers the hatch, thus providing a “privacy” and sleep mode.

And this is already a view from the window towards the front door and hallway.

Or the same angle through an open window, but the table is folded and the roller blinds are lowered in the living room-bedroom.

Although the kitchen is small, it has everything you need for cooking – a two-plate hob, an extractor hood, a sink, a work table and wall cabinets.

The bathroom is also equipped with everything you need, including a shower.

Apartment in Paris

This was once a servants’ room. The area of ​​the room was only 8 square meters, and of the amenities there was only a washbasin. Due to the fact that the water supply and sewerage system were nevertheless summed up, in order to convert a room into an apartment with amenities, only the art of the designer was required (without solving engineering problems).

This is how the apartment looks in plan.

In fact, the entire functional part of the living space fits into one large “box”, a window sill and a narrow pencil case between the window opening and the front door. And in order to make the most of the window area, the battery was taken out on a free wall. By the way, this position of the battery (opposite the bed) provides the shortest path for warm air to the bed as a result of natural convection.

To get “into bed”, you need to move the curtains of the top row of the cabinet and roll out the ladder from the extreme left pencil case, which simultaneously serves as a rack for books and removable shoes.

The next draw-out pencil case serves as a small wardrobe with a large compartment for clothes on ramps and an upper shelf for linen. And the adjacent pencil case is divided into two parts:

• upper compartment with shelves for clothes;
• lower compartment – dining / work table and a pair of hanging stools.

This compartment can be completely unfastened and rolled out to the middle of the room. Lunch can be prepared in the kitchenette in the window area. There is no stationary stove here, but a desktop one can be used. The sink is hidden under a folding tabletop. And next to her, in the lower cabinet, there is a small refrigerator.

The last pencil case in front of the bathroom door is reserved for a flow-through electric boiler and shelves for books.

The bathroom, although tiny, has everything:

• a toilet that closes with a curtain while taking a shower;
• shower with two watering cans – a regular removable one with a flexible hose and a large stationary one with a tropical shower function;
• cabinet with washbasin and side mixer;
• large mirror.

Another apartment in Paris

Although this apartment does not belong to miniature (its area is about 20 squares), it can be demonstrated as an ideal example of a designer’s work in the style of minimalism..

This is a view from the front door: a large kitchen, a staircase leading to the bed, and below (behind a partition) a washbasin and a shower.

White color and two large windows make this studio visually very large. And to make the apartment cozy, hidden lighting with warm light is arranged.