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 tiles with a pattern resembling majolica and found an unusual application for them. Part of the tiles were laid behind the cooktop, while the rest went to decorate 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 or siblings come to stay overnight.

View full projectVisual way to raise the ceiling

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

View full projectFunctional bed headboard

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

View full projectHow to hide the range hood in the interior

Instead of the upper row of cabinets on the kitchen, designers hung two cabinet doors, one of which hides the range hood. At the same time, it creates an illusion that these are upper parts of buffets.

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In the bathroom in the Property Lab+Art project 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 full projectBudget alternative to marble

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

View 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 that the cabinet is hardly noticeable in the interior.

View full projectBedroom-transformer

To hide the bed cabinet, designer Maria Puzanova decided to decorate the wall with an abstract fresco.

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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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