Bright and stylish small size
Sometimes there are not enough funds for a full renovation, and the interior already needs updating. Despite the budget, you want to surround yourself with comfort and turn your apartment into a stylish nest. Is it possible to arrange the space inexpensively and with high quality? We found the answers in a small Swedish apartment.
Practical solutions
Apartment 53 square meters
Our attention was attracted by a two-room apartment located in Gothenburg. Its area does not exceed 53 square meters. Despite the small area, it was possible to correctly place accents here, visually expand the space and make budget repairs.
The walls were painted with white paint
The walls in the rooms were painted with white paint, and they did it for a reason. First of all, this influenced the visual perception of small spaces. So they seem bigger. In addition, a brick wall has become a very attractive decorative element, which serves as an accent in the living room..
Brick wall in the interior
As for the flooring, natural linoleum was chosen for the bedroom and living room. The price is cheaper than parquet, but slightly more expensive than laminate. But such a floor will last a long time. It is environmentally friendly, pleasant to the touch and looks quite attractive.
Linoleum was laid on the floor
Retro style notes
Budget furniture from IKEA and vintage items successfully coexist here.
In order to fit the old furniture into the renewed interior, the choice was chosen as a style somewhere between the Scandinavian style and retro. This made it possible to easily place modern pieces of furniture from IKEA and vintage items inherited from grandmothers under one roof. Here you can see an old sideboard, retro armchairs, vegetable boxes that act as a TV stand.
Stylish combination
Wardrobe instead of pantry
Almost every Khrushchev house has a small utility room. Many people use it as a pantry for groceries, unnecessary things or household chemicals. In the same apartment, a small room was turned into a spacious dressing room. It was equipped with convenient open shelves, baskets and drawers. There are convenient hooks along the wall to hang bags on. A very good trick for small spaces.
The main thing is to pay attention to lighting when designing such a wardrobe. The best option is built-in lamps according to the ceiling parameter. You can also equip the shelves with built-in lighting.
Compact dressing room
Narrow corridor
A narrow, dark and long hallway is not uncommon in typical apartments. In a Swedish apartment, she also could not do without. They decided to deal with the flaws of an uncomfortable space in several ways:
• Cut a hole in the wall between the kitchen and the hallway, allowing natural light from the window to enter.
• The walls here were decorated with wallpaper of a blue hue, which visually pushes the walls. The glossy metallic pattern also contributed to the visual expansion of space..
• Instead of one light bulb in the middle of the room, lamps were installed along the length of the ceiling.
• They did not clutter up the space with furniture. Only equipped the hallway with hooks for clothes and compact shoe racks.
Improvised window into the hallway
Blue works to expand space
Hooks and shoe racks installed in the hallway
Bright accents
When working with white, it is important not to turn the space into a boring and monotonous space. Therefore, you should use color accents. This apartment has chosen a bold combination of cold blues and warm reds. This is burgundy upholstery of chairs, carpet of the same color, orange lamp and aquamarine refrigerator in the kitchen, marine notes in the bedroom. To harmoniously balance such an unusual combination of colors and bring notes of warmth to the interior, golden and bronze details were used as connecting elements.
Small bedroom
White was diluted with blue and gold accents
Roomy chest of drawers
Neat little kitchen
The apartment has a place for a home office
Part of the brickwork was also exposed here.
Small bathroom interior
Small bathroom design
Apartment layout
If you want to decorate your apartment beautifully, but lack certain knowledge, then you should look at an overview of 17 color schemes that will significantly transform the interior.
