Whether you inhabit a studio or a sprawling house
with one challenging space, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan,
co-founder of the most popular interior design website,
Apartment Therapy, will help you transform tiny into
totally fabulous. According to Maxwell, size constraints
can actually unlock your design creativity and allow you
to focus on what's essential. In this vibrant book, he
shares forty small, cool spaces that will change your
thinking forever. These apartments and houses
demonstrate hundreds of inventive solutions for creating
more space in your home, and for making it more
comfortable. Leading us through entrances, living rooms,
kitchens and dining rooms, bedrooms, home offices, and
kids' rooms, ''Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small,
Cool Spaces'' is brimming with ingenious tips and ideas,
such as: - Shifting the sense of scale through
contrasting colors- Adding airiness by using transparent
collections - Utilizing the area under a loft bed for a
kitchen and mini-bar - Tucking an office with chic
vintage doors into an unused bedroom corner In each
dwelling Maxwell points out what makes the layout work
and what adds style. Most of the ''therapy'' involves
minor tweaks that can be accomplished on a limited
budget, such as dividing a room with sheer curtains,
turning a door into a desk, or disguising electrical
boxes with art displays. An extensive resource guide,
including Maxwell's favorite websites for buying desks,
open storage solutions, and much more, will help you
turn even the tiniest residence into a place you are
always happy to come home to. |
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