10 amazing miniature apartments

All the places

Square: 44 sq.m.
location: New York

For Michael Posner apartment - is not only a place of rest, but also a workspace. However, due to the lack square meters in his house always was a mess, as if things were not in their place. Therefore, referring to Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture agency, he set the task to organize and zoned. The problem was that the apartment Michael is long and narrow.

But the architects consulted. They erected a wooden structure that divided the room into 5 zones: a dressing room, kitchen, bedroom, shower + toilet and living room. The most interesting idea - a bedroom. For it is a small elegant staircase with functional stages mailboxes. Also the problem of "promiscuity" of things helped to solve a roomy walk-in closet, in which you can change clothes. So Michael is now all in their places.

Manhattan micro-loft

Square: 39.5 sq.m.
location: New York

A typical Manhattan high-rise building of red brick. Last floor. Tight and uncomfortable two-bedroom apartment with a roof terrace. Looked something like these gorgeous bright and spacious apartments, while behind it is not come from experts of the company Specht Harpman Architects.

Removing walls, spreading functional areas and highlighting levels, if they Adv space. Downstairs is hallway, bathroom and kitchen, just above - a bedroom, a staircase which leads to the balcony. Naturally, every centimeter is used to the maximum - under the stairs drawers for storage. In addition, a lot of white in the interior that visually enhances the space.

Cupboard

Square: 39 sq.m.
location: New York

A school teacher from New York, Eric Schneider lifelong dream of his housing. His dream came true in the 39-meter studio apartment in Manhattan. Perhaps it would be a tight bachelor malogabaritki, if not a miracle-cabinet that Eric came up with the architects of the company's Normal Projects. This cabinet makes the room or in the bedroom (if you open the flap and put a bed) or in the living room (The same space separates the flap from the sleeping area) or in an office (y flap is hinged table). In addition, in this cabinet are books, clothing and other household items.

Special attention deserves the kitchen - there are many spacious closets, where to hide all the "unnecessary" (for example, a refrigerator and a microwave oven).

Thanks to this closet in the apartment has plenty of space, even for the reception.

Here videoWhere Eric talks about his wonderful wardrobe.

"Slums" millionaire

Square: 39 sq.m.
Location: New York

The rich have their quirks. The entrepreneur Graham Hill, for example, extremely puzzled environmental issues and the consumer society. Things, the production of which causes environmental damage, not to make people happy, and without most of them it is possible to do - that is his philosophy. To prove it, Hill launched LifeEdited project.

As a result of the efforts of the Romanian Architects Catalin Sandu and Adrian Iancu and investing $ 300,000, his little apartment turned into a comfortable high-tech home.

Bed "hiding" in the wall, a desk - in the closet, the walls move, making a one-room apartment of turns in the bedroom. Do not believe it? look video presentation by the owner himself.

24 1

Square: 32 sq.m.
Location: Hong Kong

Chinese architect Gary Chang has inherited from his parents a small one-room apartment and gradually began to rebuild it. The fact that he did it 30 years later, is an enthusiastic shock. Chang was able to place 32 m 24 functional areas - bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, library, living room with a hammock, dressing and others.

All this thanks to the mechanism of cell walls Domestic Transformer, works on the principle of an accordion. The walls together or apart, forming a right at the moment the living space. Another feature - the yellow window, creating a sunset effect and plunge into the atmosphere of the lounge.

Tour of the apartment, Gary Chang.

Apartment-transformer

Square: 24 sq.m.
Location: Barcelona

King size bed, a spacious kitchen with a refrigerator, dishwasher and microwave oven, shower, toilet, a dining table for 5 persons and a terrace with spectacular views of Barcelona. Do you think that all this is impossible to mark 24 m? You are wrong!

Photographer Christian Shallert using architect Barbara Apolloni turned his nondescript little room on the 6th floor in a real "penthouse." The idea is simple: a person can not simultaneously be in two places, which means that he does not need a bedroom, kitchen, dining room and bathroom at the same time. So a flat transformer.

Going into it, it seems that he was in a small rectangular room unfurnished. But a slight movement of the hand, and there is a kitchen, another room - dining room, a couple of movements, and from under the balcony "leaves" bed, which, incidentally, can also be a convenient sofa. How is this possible? See for yourself.

Men's "lair"

Square: 21.5 sq.m.
Location: Warsaw

What do you need a bachelor? A place where to sleep and a place to wash. And you need a lonely man who has a son? The same thing, just another place where to play. This became the basis of the concept developed by architect Jakub Shchensny that of a small apartment made a "den" for two real men - an adult and a smaller one.

Apartment with a loft style. Bed bedroom is located on a small hill at the kitchen unit. From it you can get to the bathroom. The kitchen is usually "hidden", so that was where to run and play. But, if necessary, in the living room easily it appears quite spacious table that can be used as a dining, but you can both work.

The interior is made in bright contrasting colors, and all the furniture is either soft or built into the wall.

monastery cell

Square: 15 sq.m.
Location: Milan

Once in the building of the early twentieth century, the monastery housed a hotel, so it is no wonder that the "numbers" were very austere - bed and bathroom, no frills.

But the designer Silvana Citterio was able to turn that cell into a cozy apartment in the center of Milan. Now there's a bathroom, bedroom, dining room, cloakroom and (attention!) Kitchen. Bed and a small round table placed on a low pedestal, on which is a small ladder. It is "hidden" roomy closet. But the real magic begins when the catwalk turns into a kitchen with cupboards, sink and stove.

"Prison cell"

Square: 9 sq.m.
Location: Harlem, New York

This apartment, slightly larger than single prison cell, is located in Harlem, near Columbia University. On the tiny 9 km.m has everything that a student needs: a small kitchen with stove and fridge, bathroom and sleeping area. According to the landlord, it is ideal for a young man who wants to live in a dorm and can not be removed "full" apartment.

The rent is - $ 1,275 per month (including all utilities). Many real estate experts say that the price is too high (by the way, they concluded 9 meters provided free of charge). However, tenants are not scared - quickly found a house owner.

"House gnome"

Square: 8 sq.m.
Location: New York

House for dwarf - in another apartment in the Upper West Side (the exclusive residential area of ​​New York) will not name. After all, its area - a little more than 8 square meters But Felicia Cohen really wanted to live in Manhattan.

Normal apartments woman can not afford - rental housing in the area costs about $ 3,600 per month. Cohen takes his apartment for only $ 700. In principle, it has everything to life - a case behind the curtain, a small bathroom, a computer desk, a place for cooking, bed under the ceiling and a window with a view of Central Park. She admits that initially it slightly tormented claustrophobic (especially at the top - in the "sleeping"), but now she was so used to that, leaving somewhere, really misses his cozy nest.

Excursion to the microcosm of Felicia.