How to Fill Empty Corners: 16 Ideas from Designers

Evidently, an empty corner in an apartment often creates a feeling of incompleteness or poorly planned interior design. In small apartments, this is an outright luxury that cannot be afforded. What to fill the emptiness with? We have selected 16 stylish and practical ideas for you from designers.

1. Indoor Plants

A great option for apartments where there is no urgent need for additional storage or lack of functional zones. Also suitable for cases when the free corner is very small.

Design: Anton Suharev Design: Zhenya ZhdanovaDesign: Anna Timofeeva

2. Bookshelves and Shelves

A great way to occupy a corner and create additional space for storing books. Modern manufacturers offer many models of bookshelves and shelves (including corner ones).

Design: Irina SevostyanovaDesign: Anton SuharevDesign: Geometrium Studio

3. Decor and Accessories

You can give an empty corner purely decorative function: for example, place a floor vase, a large statue, or buy and hang corner photo frames.

Design: Marina Stashkova, Elena BorovkovaDesign: Nikita ZubDesign: BonhomedesignDesign: Katerina Gryshchenko

4. Hookah Zone

Those who love hookahs will appreciate the idea of creating a cozy mini-hookah corner in a free space. Don't forget to consider fire safety.

Design: Julia Panfilova

5. Hanging Chair

An additional rest area, an elegant element of interior design, and a wonderful way to occupy an empty corner.

Design: KreaZon StudioDesign: Dmitry Boldyrev, LOGOVO BureauDesign: KreaZon Studio

6. Work Zone

Modern furniture manufacturers offer models of tables and shelves that can fit even in a small space. Why not organize a mini-office or a small workshop (especially useful for those into crafts) in the free corner?

Design: Julia PanfilovaDesign: Irina DerbenyevaDesign: Marina Sarkisyan

7. Mini Console

A good solution for apartments that urgently need extra storage. Choosing a designer console table, you can add more charm to the interior.

Design: Antonina SinchugovaDesign: Ivan Pozdnakov

8. Chair

Probably the most obvious and popular way to occupy an empty corner. It will look especially well in a living room, bedroom, child's room, or on a balcony. Even if you think that another chair is completely unnecessary, believe me: a cozy mini-rest area and reading nook is never a waste.

Design: Marina BocharovaDesign: Katerina SizovaDesign: Tatiana LushinaDesign: Veronika Agarkova

9. Footstool

If there is not enough space in your free corner for a chair, place a footstool there. Especially appropriate in the hallway, bedroom, or near the wardrobe or closet. If needed, the footstool can become an additional seating area, and if placed on it a tray, it can turn into a coffee table.

Design: OM DesignDesign: CO: interiorDesign: Ksenia Drapey

10. Fireplace

Why not? Even if you only dream about a real wood-burning fireplace, nobody prevents bio-fireplaces or decorative fake fireplaces.

Design: Marina SarkisyanDesign: Daria Kharitonova

11. Vanity Table

A convenient and practical way to occupy an empty corner is to place a vanity table. It will be appropriate in the bedroom and a girl's teenage room. Don't forget about sufficient lighting: if there is not enough daylight in the chosen corner, add artificial lighting.

Design: Marina BocharovaDesign: Ivan Pozdnakov

12. Display Cabinet

A neat display cabinet is a wonderful way to occupy a corner usefully. It provides additional space for displaying personal mini-collections, dishes, and other small items you want to showcase.

Design: Valeriya Dzyuba, NIDO Interiors

13. Floor Lamp

Another very popular way to occupy a free corner in the room. An additional light source is never a waste, and the soft glow of a floor lamp adds warmth to the interior.

Design: Make DesignDesign: Veronika AgarkovaDesign: Julia Arslanova

14. Floor Coat Hanger

A small floor coat hanger for clothes is a good way to organize additional storage compactly in an empty corner.

Design: Natalia Anakhina

15. Living Corner

If you have a pet in your home, turn your empty space into a 'living corner'. It will perfectly accommodate a parrot cage, an aquarium with fish, a small hut for a hamster, a cat or dog's resting area.

Design: SPACEFORLIFE Studio

16. Functional Accessories

If you have a very small corner and definite needs, you can thoughtfully occupy the empty space with functional accessories. In the hallway, a raincoat stand will be appropriate; in the bathroom – a laundry basket and an angled shelf for bath items; on the kitchen – stackable stools for guests.

Design: CO: interiorDesign: Olya LatypovaDesign: SPACEFORLIFE Studio

In a musician's room, an empty corner can be occupied by a guitar on a stand or a music stand. In a mini-artist's workshop, a easel. In a child's room, kids will enjoy a playhouse or a wigwam.

Design: Katiya Alagich, Ilya Gulyants, El Born StudioDesign: Ekaterina TulupovaDesign: CO:interior

On the cover: Design project by Maria Rubleva.