22 New Decorating Tips for Your Small Space (Part II)

from: http://www.bhg.com/

Rent to Own.ph: Here is the next set of decorating ideas that will liven up your cozy space!

  

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Bathroom Furnishings

Bring furniture into your bathroom and you'll be adding plenty of function. A slender table with a drawer can be used for storage and a sturdy chair can become a perch for clean towels.

22 New Decorating Tips for Your Small Space (Part I)

from: http://www.bhg.com/

Rent to Own.ph: We are bringing you fresh ideas on how to decorate that rental space. These are, as always, simple, practical and cost efficient ways to create beauty in your cozy homes.

  

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Space-invading Apartment: Walk-thru Shower & Fridge-in-drawer

From: https://www.youtube.com/

Rent to Own.ph: Watch how this old storage room for a building's water tanks was converted into a posh micro apartment!

Twin Bed Style

from: http://www.tumidei.it

Rent To Own.ph: Bunk beds do not have to be boring. A small bed space for two need not be unimaginative. Have a look at these twin bed designs that are creative, efficient, space-saving and stylish!

  

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14 Hacks For Your Tiny Bedroom

from: http://www.buzzfeed.com/

Rent to Own.ph: Don't you just love life hacks?! These ideas make a tiny bedroom clutter-free, spacious, and neat!

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1. Hang your lamp. That way you can either skip the bedside table or keep your table space free.

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2. Get a console table for your bed that doubles as a shelf and a desk. It’s also perfect for those days when you just want to eat breakfast in bed.

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3. Hang towels and things on the back of your door. 

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4. Disguise your desk as a bedside table.

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5. Or, instead of a footboard, use your desk. So you have more space for your bigger computer.

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6. Prop up your bed on risers. Not really a “hack,” but hey, sometimes you just need the extra storage space.

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7. Make a low-profile hanging hamper.

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8. Tuck your bed into an alcove. This one has extra storage thanks to a bookshelf.

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9. Make one wall a focal point with removable wallpaper.

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10. Suspended tables can create an illusion of space.

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11. Desks and dressers can also float.

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12. You can skip the headboard in favor of a few inches of more floorspace.

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13. If you don’t have a closet, offset your bed from the wall and create a closet behind it.

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14. Use every corner of space.

Marcello Zuffo’s Movable Kitchen Design

from: http://freshome.com/

Rent to Own.ph: There are more and more ideas on space-saving home devices. Take a look at this adaptable kitchen.

Marcello Zuffo, a senior designer with Motorola’s Consumer Experience Design Group, entered the 2008 Electrolux/Interior Design Magazine competition for innovative kitchen design and took the Grand Prize with this design: an ultramodern kitchen with multiple movable components.  As required by the competition, Electrolux ICON appliances are incorporated throughout the space while the overall design can be shifted and manipulated to adapt to whatever task is required of the space.  The contemporary aesthetic allows for the user to be creative with what would otherwise be a boring, rectangular kitchen floor plan, and encourages an interesting degree of user interactivity between Zuffo’s design and your day-to-day preferences.  In fact, you might as well change up the space every few weeks just to try something different.

  

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10 Smart Storage Hacks for Your Tiny Kitchen

from: http://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/

Rent to Own.ph: Life is easier with clever hacks.

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1. Add Shelves Everywhere

There's probably a lot of unused wall space in your small kitchen right now, and you can clear counter clutter by installing a few small shelves. You can use them for the spices and seasonings you use most often, but you can also use them for bills, mail, coupons, and takeout menus.

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2. Move Your Spices Off the Counter

There are awesome spice rack hacks out there if you are handy and love DIY, but you can also save time and counter space by investing in a pull-down spice rack. I've had mine for years, and it keeps the counter clean and is super easy to use.

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3. Make Use of Your Cabinet Doors

There's a lot of empty space behind most of your cabinet doors. Depending on the layout of your kitchen, you can use door shelves under your sink for sponges, install strong sticky hooks to organize measuring spoons, and/or hang a shoe organizer on the back of your pantry door.

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4. Get Rid of Your Knife Block

Clear your counter for a neater look and more workspace by installing a genius magnetic knife block. It looks great and makes it easy to grab what you need at a glance. It keeps the edges on those knives sharp, too.

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5. Make Use of the Narrowest Spaces

You might have some wasted space next to your refrigerator, and if you do, then this slide-out storage tower is awesome for holding cans, bottles, and other kitchen essentials.

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6. Get a Stackable Mug Tower

Even though I normally recommend clearing your countertops for a cleaner look and better workspace, a mug tower clears out a lot of essential cabinet space. Since coffee cups don't stack well and you probably have a lot of mismatched mugs taking up prime cabinet real estate right now, you're better off moving out the ones you don't use. Use them in other rooms as vases or pen holders and get an affordable and attractive stack of mugs in your kitchen for your tea and coffee.

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7. Fridge Storage Magnets

The outside of your fridge is full of untapped potential, but don't clutter it up with disorganized bills and magnets. Instead, get magnetic storage shelves to organize miscellaneous paperwork, paper towels, and other everyday essentials. You could also make your own storage bins out of cans and bottles.

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8. Clear the Clutter Under Your Sink with One Tension Rod

This hack makes the best use of all that vertical space under your sink and organizes cleaning supplies at the same time. Pick up a small tension rodonline or from your local hardware or housing store, and use it to hang spray cleaner bottles.

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9. Hang Bottles from the Roof of Your Fridge

If you open your refrigerator right now, I bet there's a lot of unused vertical space between shelves. The bottle loft attachment makes it easy to hang beer bottles and other items with magnetic tops (like pickle jars) from the roof of your fridge. 

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10. Use Lazy Susans in Your Cabinets

In awkward corners or small cabinets, use Lazy Susans to make everything easy to find and reach. That way you'll be sure to keep track of all the food so you don't waste any.

Vila Hermina Small House Design by HSH Architekti

from: http://www.nhit-shis.org/

Rent to Own.ph: Talk about building on a terrain, this small home made use of the lay of the land and maximized its contour to create a very pleasing home.

  

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Transformer Furniture: The Ludovico Chest

from: http://www.furniii.com/

Rent to Own.ph: There are always new ideas on furniture transformers. This one is pretty awesome. It is so simple but it is packed with everything you need for a small office or dining room.

  

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Ludovico Furniture Set Design by Claudio Sibille is one involving ingenious furniture designs we’ve seen, we desperately would like one. Designed by simply Claudio Sibille, an Uruguayan industrial designer, Ludovico is a miraculously space saver for a small apartment or room. The main goal of this design isn’t to let that will minimum space limit you from maintaining your modern day décor. The main concept of Ludovico furniture set actually mimics a puzzle. You’ll find two chairs placed inside the furniture itself, these are incorporated in away in which fit exactly the actual lines of the furniture itself. The are generally 4 spacious drawers you can employ to keep your clothes, devices, gadgets, books, or anything you would like to hide in plain view and retain things organized. When certainly not in use, it is possible to slide those chairs back inside Ludovico and also give the impression an individual only have modern 6-drawer furniture with minimalist aluminum handles.

Warsaw Loft with Multifunctional Furniture

from: http://www.dwell.com/

Rent to Own.ph: Knowing what you want and being creative goes a long way into making your apartment functional. 

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Nix and Novak-Zemplinski, founders of the design firm BioLINIA, in their 100 sq. m. apartment’s open-plan kitchen, dining, and living space. They had the decorative cabinets and ceiling panels CNC-milled by a Polish subsidiary of the Finnish company Koskisen.

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Nix and Novak-Zemplinski designed the black-steel bookshelves and had them fabricated at a local metal shop.

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Ornate concrete blocks screen a storage area in the kitchen while letting light through. The effect is “romantic—romantyczny,” says Nix.

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Caster wheels on the bottom allow the shelves to be stored under the kitchen island or rolled elsewhere to create a library anywhere in the apartment.

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By lowering the custom Murphy bed and rolling a sliding plywood door, Novak-Zemplinski creates an insta-guestroom.

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The couple designed and built every piece of furniture in the apartment except for the Mezzo sofa from BoConcept. The coffee table can be flipped on its side to serve as a barstool. How did they test it to make sure it would support a person’s weight? “Olek jumped and sat on it,” says Nix, before adding, “He graduated from an engineering program.”

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In the Spotlight

“I’m a huge proponent of lighting as architecture,” says Nix, who suggests illuminating objects instead of empty space. “Light on an object creates ambiance.” In their apartment, they’ve trained track lights from the Polish company LightArt on the Cube, as well as on the handmade cabinetry. The fixtures, which Novak-Zemplinski describes as “good quality and inexpensive in comparison to more well-known brands,” are also installed at the MoMA in New York.

Practical Decoration

One of the secrets to living neatly in a small apartment, says Nix, is lots of storage space. To that end, the couple built big cabinets along the walls. To create a sense of visual unity throughout the eclectic but compact space, the couple hand-carved the tree pattern from the kitchen into these cabinet doors (from a template) using an electric router. It’s more than ornament: The cutouts eliminate the need for jutting cabinet pulls.

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Block It Out

Seeking an inexpensive way to create a screen effect between the bathroom and bedroom, Novak-Zemplinski and Nix hit on the idea of stacked open-cell concrete blocks, more typically used in parking areas. They discovered blocks with a more-interesting-than-average pattern in Chyżne, a town near Kraków. Better still, they cost just two dollars each. “When we saw how good these parking blocks looked in the bedroom, we thought they’d be a good way to hide clutter in the kitchen, too,” says Novak-Zemplinski.

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Selective D.I.Y

Nix and Novak-Zemplinski made the narrow concrete sinks with tilted basins in the bathrooms. “We couldn’t find any sinks we liked,” says Nix. “So we decided to make our own. But those are the most expensive sinks ever, at least in terms of man-hours.” Novak-Zemplinski concurs—while they are happy with the way the sinks turned out, “one of the lessons we learned is that some things are not worth doing yourself.”