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 in the kitchen design and found an unusual application for it. Part of the tiles was laid behind the cooktop, while the rest went towards finishing the bar counter on the outer side.

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Additional sleeping space

Designer Kristina Izotova in the child's room decided to install a sliding sleeping block with an additional mattress — just in case guests come to visit the little one.

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How to visually raise the ceiling

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

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Functional bed headboard

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

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How to hide the range hood in interior

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

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How to do without curtains?

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

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Budget-friendly marble substitute

Line Design Studio designers initially planned to make an apron from quartz mimicking marble but later found a more economical alternative — they used large-format tiles.

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Kitchen in cabinet

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

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Bed-transformer

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

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Solution for 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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