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There are a lot of small home design options to make a small apartment look streamlined, uncluttered and roomy. An open-floor kind of plan is the favorite from amongst many popular small house design ideas. Very few full walls, or at best half-walls and more open, flowing and connected places can make a small apartment look airy, open and large. With formal living and dining rooms out of question, combining living and dining area into one open big area integrated with kitchen will avoid unnecessary walls, verandas etc. Tiny areas apportioned as kitchens can best benefit from innovative small house designs like kitchen islands with built-in hobs, sinks, storage shelves. Sleek kitchen islands can double as counter-height dining tables with bar stools for dining seats.

Small home designs call for pre-planning at design level for storage options; storage in the living, kitchen and bathroom areas. Wall built-in storage shelves are best to stash away things without giving a cluttered look. Minimalistic and stylish contemporary furniture can be ideal for making the most of small home design ideas. Small home decorating needs again planning and careful selection of display items. Floating shelves can help in small home decorating saving precious floor space. Built-in entertainment TV consoles, wall-built-in bedroom dressers and bathroom vanities can give sufficient storage areas as well make the most of the available floor space. A huge mirror can benefit small room decorating adding to the existent space. A small apartment can look chic and elegant with clever designing and wise planning.

Luxurious And Spectacular Island Home Design

The island house designed by WRB Architects is located on an island in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden. This waterfront cottage set among the beautiful natural surroundings is a vacation home for a young family with children. It is a small …

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Small and Compact House Design with Tasteful Interiors

Good home design is about creating a safe heaven where family flourishes among safe and secure environment. Is this possible on a tight budget in a highly populated street with closely built small houses? Here is an example of such …

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Small But Innovative And Stylish Forest House Design

Here are the pictures of a minimalist forest house located at Tellada, Spain. This house is located in thick woods of North Western Spain. The Spanish architectural firm Rosales & Crecente Architect designed the house with a theme of natural …

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Elegant And Luxurious Small House Interior Design Ideas

Living in a tiny and small home does not really mean that it should look like a small house. Some small houses are even designed in the luxurious manner with two floors and some even with a basement in it. …

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Small and Modern House Design in Tokyo

This apartment present on the outskirt of Tokyo looks like a transformation of a mansion apartment. It is an example of post war housing stock which is affordable as well as comfortable. This apartment is only 400 square feet with …

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Floating Houses Interior On Lake Union

Floating houses has been a long time tradition especially in the region of Lake Union, Seattle. Even though from the exteriors mostly all the house in a particular vicinity look same, from the inside most of them have their own …

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Modern Home Design with a Low Budget

The beautiful small house has been designed by Pb Elemental Architecture. They know how to do the best job with the smallest place. Though the site this house is built on is only 1600 square foot, still it looks like …

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