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Small Space Style: Stacked Home & Studio

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This is home to an Italian ceramic artist. Enter the home's gallery-like living room and you'll see two colorful stacked spaces in the rear: a kitchen/dining room with a bedroom above.

 
 

The yellow-ceiling-ed little kitchen is a comfortable, warm workhorse jam-packed with open shelving, dining table, and washer/dryer. Climb an unabashed ladder to the vibrant blue bedroom and find a cool, cave-like room that looks out over the pure white main space.

The color and arrangement of this home feels like fun to us. Visit the rest of the home, including the ceramics studio, right here. Photo: Bamberghi Filippo / OWI

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Anyone know the name of the artist?

posted by ftpansy on April 27th 2009 at 3:11pm
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love it

posted by baba yaga on April 27th 2009 at 3:16pm
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the 'ceiling' between bedroom and kitchen is so thin i'd be afraid my fat ass would fall right through!

posted by tenderoni on April 27th 2009 at 3:50pm
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Looks horrible.

posted by ChrisGal on April 27th 2009 at 4:08pm
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have to agree with tenderoni, that is a very thin floor/ceiling and it looks like the size of a play house for little children?

but as long as they are happy, that's what counts......

posted by sassydo on April 27th 2009 at 4:17pm
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I love everything about this studio - you'd need to be a working artist to appreciate what's going on here. This sincerely inspires me to make a few changes in my lifestyle. Thanks, AP and thanks to the unnamed Italian artist.

posted by Vincent B. on April 27th 2009 at 5:13pm
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srsly people...looks like 2x4's and plywood same thing most floors are made of. This is awesome I'm currently trying to figure out a similar setup but with only 11 foot ceilings...a 5.5 foot kitchen and bedroom may work for me but any guest would have to stoop the whole time!

posted by RalphEMole on April 27th 2009 at 9:36pm
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I would rather see the second floor only extend 2/3rds of the way, to emphasize that beautiful stained glass window instead of cutting it in half as it is here. I also would not have painted the ceiling royal blue.

Ralph, I think in order to make this work, you need at least a 7' ceiling on the bottom. The bedroom can be lower if all it holds is the bed, meaning there would be no space to walk around the bed on the second level.

posted by nkr707 on April 28th 2009 at 11:46am
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As an artist, I would absolutely love to live here.

posted by rbrown15 on April 28th 2009 at 12:07pm
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The contrast in styles of the rooms makes this look even more like a doll house than it already would from the architecture.

posted by baba yaga on April 28th 2009 at 7:29pm
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