How to Improve Apartment Interior: 10 Design Hacks from Projects

Every month we select the most interesting home ideas from projects. Which solution did you like the most?

How else can you use kitchen tiles?

Designer Maria Nechaeva used tile with a pattern resembling majolica and found an unusual application for it. Part of the tiles was laid behind the cooktop, while the rest went to finish the bar counter on the outside.

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Designer Kristina Izotova in the child's room decided to install a sliding sleep block with an extra mattress — just in case guests like siblings come over for a night stay.

View the full projectVisual way to raise the ceiling

Designers decorated the painted walls in the apartment with moldings and baseboards in wall color: this visually raised low ceilings (only 2.45 meters).

View the full projectFunctional bed headboard

Julia Kandybej designed a headboard from soft, fabric-covered rectangular blocks of small size. There is a small space between them for temporary storage of magazines, books or drawings.

View the full projectHow to hide the range hood in the interior

Instead of the top row of cabinets on the kitchen, designers hung two facades, one of which conceals the range hood. This creates the illusion that these are upper parts of buffets.

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In the Property Lab+Art project bathroom there is a window. To avoid closing it with curtains or blinds, designers came up with an idea to decorate the glass with colorful stained glass.

View the full projectBudget alternative to marble

Line Design Studio designers initially planned to make a backsplash from quartz in the style of marble, but later found an economical alternative — used large-format tiles.

View the full projectKitchen in a cabinet

To visually expand the space of a small studio, the kitchen was hidden behind doors. They were painted in the same color as the walls, so the cabinet is almost invisible in the interior.

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To hide the facade of a bed-transformer, designer Maria Puzanova decided to decorate the wall with an abstract fresco.

View the full projectSolution for a narrow hallway

To expand the space along the entire wall in the hallway, mirror cabinet doors were installed. This also solved the storage problem.

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