Design tips from a tiny Swedish apartment

[Tuesday Afternoon]

This one-room apartment listed for sale in Umea, Sweden, measures a tidy 35 square meters, or about 375 square feet. We wish we could claim to have dug it up ourselves, but actually, loyal Desire to Inspire reader Karin Karlsson sent it along to that blog, which is where we spotted it. (Short digression: Desire to Inspire is a terrific interior design blog, especially if you're interested in Australian design. Plus, who can resist a blog that has a category for wunderkammer?)

The apartment may be small, but it holds quite a few design tips for those of us who have to make do with limited square footage -- for starters, a tiny bed alcove with closet space; a bathroom with an ingenious shower enclosure; and an unexpectedly luxe touch in an entry/mudroom.



more at link:
http://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/design-tips-tiny-swedish-apartment-152415709.html?page=1

[Flaxbee]

1. thanks, Tuesday Afternoon! I looove design posts like this ... and am a big

fan of smallish spaces. There has to be a happy medium between gigantic 3000+ sq ft homes with a lot of wasted (badly designed) and unused space and super-small ones...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. me too, Flaxbee. Love my architecture porn -

[Suich]

3. Love it!

The shower is ingenious!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. most excellent shower, indeed!

[csziggy]

7. I wish I'd seen those shower doors when I was designing our house!

I could have had the same size shower stall without taking so much space from the rest of the bathroom.

[femmocrat]

5. Very ingenious use of space!

I'm trying to re-do some tiny bathrooms... they are a challenge!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. that shower is the perfect thing!

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. So clever, and very light and airy and not cramped feeling at all.