Small Apartment with Foldaway Features: Interior Design Ideas

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 07:46 AM PDT

This interior scene in soft beech wood and bright white décor, by Oleg Trofimov, achieves a spacious air despite its modest proportions. The key piece in this space saving scheme has got to be the wall of concealed storage in the lounge area, consisting of flat fronted cabinets which make up an unimposing entertainment unit. The run of cupboards go one step further than to simply stow away all of the household clutter, they actually house an entire dining room set consisting of a pull down table large enough to seat four diners in fold-up chairs, which are suspended from hanging brackets in an adjacent compartment.

Another clever little piece is a drop-away desk in the bedroom, which falls flush into a shallow wall recess when not in use, but can be easily flipped up to seat a laptop in an instant.

Anglepoise standing lamps eliminate the need for bedside tables in the narrow sleeping quarters, and large artwork above the bed cheats the proportions of the room, with the tall portraits drawing the eye up to create a lofty sense of space.

The furniture as a whole is kept minimal and simplistic in it’s approach, and a pale neutral décor with continuous hardwood floor running throughout fashions a seamless flow; taking away visual barriers of contrasting color and décor results in the eye perceiving one large space as opposed to small pockets of individual style.