apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

I see this topic posted occasionally here, but I'm wondering if anyone has advice for doing this in small spaces. I like the idea of floating furniture, but I can't envision how it could be accomplished unless you have really oversized rooms.

same here-- live in a studio that's essentially one long rectangle: living space > kitchen > bath. there just doesn't seem to be room for a floated couch, which is kind of what I want to divide the sleeping from the rest.

Floating furniture is more about preserving the large living space to human scale, than a technique to make your home feel bigger. For example, if you have a large space, pushing all furniture to the side effectively shrinks the perceived size of the room, while making everything difficult to reach. Meanwhile, one can hardly achieve this effect in a small apartment, unless one has really small furniture.

We live in a small space as well and float our furniture by layering it in front of another piece. For example, we wanted more seating besides just a couch so we placed 2 matching chairs, on an angle, in front of our TV unit. (not directly in front but on the edges of the TV unit.) This was functional (more seating) and the furniture floating made the space feel bigger even though it was in front of another piece. In some very small spaces, this may feel bulky but give it a try and see how it looks. Good luck! -Rebecca

I think that top room is lovely and a really good visual explanation of what the "floating furniture" concept is all about.

I think floating furniture is a really good way of arranging space. But I think one should be careful what kind of pieces are being floated. A sofa like this George Nelson style daybed was never designed to be seen in 360 degrees.

As for angling, the placement of furniture should work with the architecture of the room. Arbitrarily angling a furniture scheme when there is no reason architecturally shows a lack of proper spacial planning. It is a lazy solution to bring "interest".

I can't imagine having two of those womb chairs, must be doing pretty well for themselves.

Anyways, I've been looking at the case study couch/daybed (the one in the first picture). But I haven't driven to Denver yet to sit in one, can anyone tell me if they are comfortable or not?

I like it, but I don't understand why I see so much of the deer antler thing in rooms's these days. Love the couch though.

Antler have become the great fashion of the day. The kitschier, the tackier, the better, you can all throw out your silver and diamond-adorned skulls.

Oh and prepare to throw the antlers out in a year, they'll be replaced with something else...

love the first room. good taste in furniture and good taste when it comes to audio.

I feel the first sentence in completely contradictory. If you don't have a lot of space, moving your furniture towards the middle will not give you much room to maneuver, if any.

I agree that this technique is only suited for large rooms, in truly tiny spaces it can just make the room smaller by creating spaces that are unusable (you can float the furniture but only enough to have a gap that is too small to walk through)