Ideas for decorating and renovating a small apartment
Living in a small apartment does not mean giving up comfort, functionality or style. The key to make every square meter really counts lies in the planning and execution of a smart reform. If you are thinking of reforming a small apartment, these ideas that we give you from Studio by Clikalia will help you not only to raise the decorative level, but also to gain amplitude, light and plenty of storage, making your home feel comfortable and bright.
Layout tricks: Gaining spaciousness without adding meters
When space is scarce, distribution becomes the most powerful tool to transform your home.
Breaking down walls and creating open spaces
One of the best and most effective decisions to generate a greater sense of spaciousness is to unify spaces. Integrating the kitchen with the living-dining room is a reform that involves considerable work, but that offers very satisfactory results, as it visually expands the space, increases the useful meters and fills the area with natural light, as well as promoting coexistence. To manage cooking odors, you only need to install a powerful extractor hood.
Similarly, removing the partition that separates the living room from the terrace or balcony, if you do not use them much, allows you to gain a lot of meters without losing light. You can choose to install glass curtains, which minimize the profiles and allow the passage of all the light.
Another option when renovating a small apartment is to get rid of elements that create "visual noise". For example, in a duplex, removing the stair railing creates a more homogeneous and wider space, although it should be avoided if there are small children at home.
Lightweight partitions: Sliding and glass partitions
While removing partitions is useful, sometimes we need to separate spaces for privacy (such as the living room from the bedroom or study). Instead of using traditional walls, you can use lightweight solutions:
Sliding doors: Replacing a hinged door with a sliding door allows you to gain at least one square meter of usable space, since it does not need a clear area to open. Sliding doors can be kept open to unify or closed to create privacy.
Glass partitions: A glass wall between rooms, such as the kitchen and the living room or the living room and the bedroom, brings style, modernity and brings light and spaciousness to both areas, without any complete loss of privacy.
Intelligent storage: Every nook and cranny counts
In small apartment renovations, the ability to store objects without visually saturating the environment is essential.
Custom furniture and suspended solutions
Smart furniture can make a big difference.
- Built-in closets: Although more expensive than freestanding closets, they offer much more storage space and make the room look more uncluttered and homogeneous. Sliding doors in closets also help save space compared to hinged doors.
- Multifunctional furniture: Bet on sofa beds or extendable tables. Also, in the kitchen, take the cabinets to the ceiling to maximize storage capacity.
- DIY designs: In the living room, a circular coffee table with a lid, ideal for storing objects inside, is practical and avoids the linearity of the space.
- Suspended furniture: In the bathroom, choose a suspended vanity unit for a lighter effect. In the bedroom, overhanging or suspended bedside tables help to visually multiply the meters.
Making the most of deadlocks
No space should be left unused in a downsized home.
- Under the window: The space under the window or at the foot of the bed can be used to build a custom closet or shoe rack.
- Stairwells: If it is a duplex, the area under the staircase can be converted into a kitchen, closets with large storage, a shoe rack or a closet with extendable rods.
- Integrated headboards: Instead of a traditional headboard, you can plan for a niche or a custom-made headboard with palletwork, which serves as an integrated bedside table, freeing up floor space.
Decoration and finishing touches for renovating a small apartment
The choice of finishes and colors is crucial to enhance spaciousness.
The power of light and color
To reflect light and give a feeling of spaciousness, use light and neutral tones such as white, sand, beige or soft gray. You can combine these tones with light wood or natural stone to add warmth without visually overloading the room.
If your living room receives a lot of natural light, you can allow the use of more intense colors, such as blue, as long as you combine them with white upholstery and washed woods that provide luminosity and warmth.
In addition, artificial light should be strategic: use warm LED lighting on ceilings and walls to create depth and highlight specific areas, such as the headboard in the bedroom. A simple but effective reform is to open an interior window from the kitchen to the hallway, to give luminosity to that passage area without natural light.
Uniform and sustainable materials
When choosing coverings, opt for continuous flooring, such as micro-cement or large-format porcelain tiles, which reduce joints and create a more uniform surface, contributing to the sensation of continuity and spaciousness.
Renovating a small apartment is also an opportunity to improve energy efficiency. If you hire a renovation studio like Studio by Clikalia for your small apartment, we will propose you to install efficient air conditioning systems, insulate walls or change the windows to increase comfort and reduce consumption.
In the bathroom, look for light-colored wall coverings and low-profile partitions for a cleaner, lighter look.
Without a doubt, renovating a small apartment requires creativity, functionality and detailed planning. Whether it's opening up the kitchen to the living room, taking advantage of every opening to create invisible storage or choosing hanging furniture, every decision adds spaciousness and style. With these key ideas, you'll achieve a home that, while small in size, will be comfortable, stylish and functional.
For this reason, in Studio by Clikalia we specialize in integral reform for small, medium and large apartments. Whenever it is an integral reform, you can count on us. If you want us to send you in a few days and totally free and without obligation a reform proposal for your small apartment with the budget included, just ask for it here.
