Sometimes "small" means fashion, sometimes "small" means "lifestyle", but how small can you live? Here are few examples of how to obtain cool living spaces from "mini" houses. A 35 SQUARE METERS LOFT... The renovation of a studio apartment in the province of Lecco. Vintage and industrial style furniture. A living area wall painted with soft cream and dark brown vertical stripes, giving it a cozy, welcoming and warm effect. The studio apartment owner has chooses custom made furnishing, starting from the shelves, enriched with complementary iron and steel elements, creating an industrial atmosphere. Architects from Studio76 at Osnago in the province of Lecco, has created a small yet comfortable apartment of 35 square meters at the first floor of a typical lombard tenement's house. Compact dimensions, but comfortable, well-finished details, the loft suits a young couple or single people, illuminated thanks to a wide balcony, it develops around an open diagram that includes the kitchen, a family room and a dining area. With the renovation operation, the architects has remolded the surface, emptying the volume from the dividing boards, creating an open space rich of light, privileging the living setting, without giving up to an intimate space for the sleeping area, obtained using a mezzanine structure. The underlying area welcomes a wide walk-in closet and a utility zone as storage area. The chromatic palette recalls soft and warm tones as the whitened oak wooden floor, while opting for furniture revoking industrial styles, with open view steel channelings. Iron furnishing and the big Danton of Cargo table with the upper part made out of recycled oak. The project is a perfect example of an optimized ambient with reduced measurements. Source: http://www.elledecor.it/interior-decoration/mini-loft-35-metri-quadri-osnago-lecco-ristrutturazione-mobili-vintage-stile-industriale#3 The biggest boundary that i noticed in Milan's apartments for rent, is the furnishing. Not the dimensions, but the aspect with which the owners presents the properties. To find my charming two rooms apartment, it took me two long months and infinite research, that has literally unmotivated me for most of the time. Yet, it doesn't take much to convey an ambient, even if small, making it gracious and desirable. This 35 sqm micro loft (discovered virtually reading ELLE DECOR) is located in Osnago in the province of Lecco. At the first floor of a typical lombard tenement's house, the architects of Studio76 we're able to design and recreate a very small loft, using smart spaces. The loft is equipped with every comfort but above all paying attention to the smallest detail; this is a really important aspect to who finds themselves choosing a place to live in. Source: http://www.violetwool.com/en/blog/inspirations/un-mini-loft-lecco Even smaller.... 21 square meters "used at the cm..." A two levels home, well designed thanks to creative and functional ideas, that offers cues inspiration. Even the frequent changes of quota aren't an obstacle. The kitchen is furnished with a corner custom created composition to satisfy the particularly needing spaces, yet using standard modules, with the exception of the final ones. Orange laminated shutters we're used to brighten the very limited ambient, matching it with a light gray Okite® top. A material formulated with the combination of quartz, polyester resin and natural pigments. The step is integrated to obtain more foothold surface, without giving up to the useful top centimetres, a base that extends surmounting it. In the following element, the ground difference gets compensated with a extractable drawer, the two modules has both identical shutters. The kitchen is very functional and welcoming, in spite of the micro dimensions. The result is incredible thanks to a very accurate attention for the detail. The top window is "motorized" allows to entirely use the walls. The terminal part of the kitchen top has a rounded profile in tune with the wall. This way a little more surface was gained, precious in this kind of situations. The underlying part is a corner cupboard, very pratical near the table. The kitchen lower part is differently equipped to fulfill various functions, included the built in household appliances. Everything was decided during the project development, to facilitate the furniture creation and the systems predisposition. The table? Under the stairs. The visual effect gives lightness to the stairs flight that brings to the mezzanine, corresponds to a small but essential space. The underlying space is workable and can be used as dining area. To make it a more comfy solution the table was positioned in the corned where the tallest space is. At the second floor the ambient can be doubled up and transf0rmed, from a relaxing spot to a single bedroom or even for two people, thanks to the day bed model. The elements within the room are indispensable, with a long container in addons to the angular closet. Bed and wall unit: Hemnes and Bestå Burs by Ikea. A drywall, essentially refined, functions as protection to the stairwell. Shaped and about 90 cm tall, it was created to be used as foothold from the bedroom side. In front of the bed also usefull as tv and computer holder. The bathroom "critic" dismensions we're resolved with compact fixtures, arranging the sink and the shower on the corners. A custom shower closed in that has allowed to avoid using a tray, and would have involved construction works. The ambient, complete and functional, gives the feeling of a bigger space thanks to the reflecting surface of the mosaic wall stripe and preponderance for soft colours into the finishings. The project The interiors at the ground floor are on different hights, after the entry door, going down three stairs reaching the central passageway, in which faces the access to the bathroom on the left and the day area, in front to enter in the ambient it's necessary take a small step. Mezzanine At the first floor, the sleeping area uses the already present mezzanine, on which was only taken away the stairwell. The new stair was crafted, with the objective to reduce the impact on the volume. Source: http://www.cosedicasa.com/21-mq-utilizzati-al-centimetro-97784/ Apartment Study: a 30 square meters house, used at the "centimeter" In the 30 sqm mini apartment, a banked structure was build to add 9 sqm of walkable surface. Drawn solutions allows to optimize the reduced spaces. The study apartmnet is located at the first floor of a 1900's building, "old Milan" style. The characteristic feature of this types buildings, is that the different complex of real estates units , faces on an internal courtyard: they are distribuited on a building gallery that in different levels runs along the facade. A rectangular plant, the mini aparment has a surface of abiut 30 sqm: the spaces rational organization and custom solutions, and with rollways, allows to obtain, without giving up on the comfort, every indespensable function: area night/day, dining, kitchen corner, bathroom and ante-bathroom. The ceiling evelated hight, over 5 meters, allowed the construction, on the side, of a mezzanine, equipped as an office area. The unique area, is furnished with "fixed" custom solutions, and with just few pieces, of which becomes easy their positioning upon one's needs. In the dining area, a round table allows to reduce the encumbrance, making a easier passage. Table: Pic-Nic of Plinio il Giovane, Leather Chair: Fjord of Moroso, design by Patricia Urquiola, White Coffee Table: Occasional Table LTR of Unifor, design by Charles & Ray Eames. The convertible couch lays on the wall portion between the window and the entry door: respecting the ambient windows/floor surface, the latter is composed by a transparent tempered glass panel mounted aluminium profiles. The floor finishing in opaque white laminated visually ease the ambient, making it look bigger. Resistant, sturdy, easy to put in place, lamina is a composit material made of multiple layers, the superior one is a decorative film that resemble the wood aspect, of the ceramic or other elements. Convertible couch: Eclettica of Plinio il Giovane A "All in one solution" The apartment reduced dimensions has made necessary to concentrate in the same space the essential day and night functions. Without employing custom solutions, possible thanks to a convertible production element that can assume different positions. Chair, couch and bed: One unique composable piece, that changes aspect along the day allowing to furnish the family area/bedroom reducing to the minimum the room occupancy. The upholstered furniture is form by two wooden structures that slides one on top of the other like a joint game. When closed, the dimensions are the ones of a chair, the extention can be used as lateral foothold, or covered with the pillows included, allowing to obtain a 200 cm single bed. Placing them side by side, it's possible to obtain a double bed. Hidden elements Considering the apartment cointained dimensions, the choice was to divide and identify withing possibilities the spaces with flexible dividing systems that allows to articulate the small ambient in multiple modalities. Underneath the mezzanine volume, along the wall, it has been obtained a wardrobe space, 60 cm deep, close by two white refined panels that slides one on top of the other. The internal space has been equipped with a small walk-in closet, a coat hanger, drawers and containers that can change position. In the bathroom, the surface is little bit over 3 sqm, the elevated supporting brickwork depth was used to obtain a corner where to place a suspended a custom flat surface wth the sink. The floor and the shower box wall has been covered with dark mosaic. The in-line kitchen micro-composition, 60 cm deep, developes along the same wardrobe wall, all the operative area element can be entirely hidden as the wardrobe doors. Within a lenght of 200 cm, it was possibile to inser a sink, a kitchen corner, a underneath fridge and a microwave within the pensile. The area is illuminated by a built-in spotlight within the the drywall that hides the mezzanine structure. The operative block Within the opposite side tof the entry door, in an about 15 sqm of space, has been concentrated multiple functions. In the base mezzanine lowered area, there is the kitchen corner with the attached dining area, the wardrobe and the bathroom, this last one, forerun by a anthe-bathroom as expected by the legislation, uses the under-stairs ramp that leads to the mezzanine. In this part of the house, to reduce at the minimum the space impact, to have continuity with the walls and to keep everything in place, each compartment is closed and mimetized by panels that slided in some cases within the insides, and in other case at the external of the wall. The overbuilded home-office The study apartment living spaces has been widen by the mezzanine built over the bathroom and the kitchen. This way it was possibile to obtain an office area equipped and indipendant. The mezzanine has been equipped with office furniture. From the open shelves built with a aluminium metal sheet was combined the desk built with the same material, completed by a chest of drawers in the lower part. The orange stool it's a modern example of the 50's, of the type included with the old designers table equipped with the drawing board. Book shelves: K1 of Hi-Tech, Desk: Less of Unifor Design by Jean Nouvel, Table Lamp: Eable of Artemide. A suspended structure The new built mezzanine extends within one of the plant short sides, the opposite one in the home entry door, the walkable area has a lenght of 5 meters and a depth of 180 centimeters. The supporting structure is formed by built it beems, within the perimetral walls on which they unload their weight. the walkable area is made in marine multi-layered, covered matchboards painted in white. A organized area To access the overbuilt ambient, there is a ramp stairs made of iron bended metal sheet. A balustrade with iron profiles allows to face the under neath area. The inner side is occupied by metallic shelves of the industrial type, and by some lower pieces of furniture that allows to foothold the printer and other electronics. The desk was arranged so it was possibile to benefit the most light. Concentrated style and fuctionalities in a 35 sqm loft... This is a project by http://www.thegoort.com for the restoration of a 35 sqm located at the first floor of a small industrial building. The owners, a young couple, choosed to transform the apartment in a modern and comfy loft with a precise request, to make it more bright, practical, and functional as possible. It was from this specific request that has born an extraordinary that has revolutioned the apartment spaces, that was an ex office building and before a warehouse. The Goort Study has worked using the most of the spaces in their hight, thanks to a 4 meters tall ceiling, indeed, a mezzanine has been created that not only guests the sleeping area but also works as a "container" for the kitchen and the bathroom at the ground floor. The day area occupies a wider space of the house and it's an ambient able to perfectly adapat to to the tenants needs. Thanks to the planning, the custom furniture and the "space-saving"decorative elements, the daily area can be transformed into a family room and a dining area, to a tv room and a study. The kitchen has been developed using the lenght. Alongside is the bathroom. At the first floor a big walk-in closet that anticipates the sleeping area that guest a big bed. Source: http://blog.casa.it/2015/02/24/un-concentrato-di-stile-e-funzionalita-in-un-loft-di-35-mq/ Stay tuned, for small space living Part 2! |
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