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This is a very creative way to divide space, using your upright piano and hanging art and it looks great.

This is a nice orderly well edited apartment for under 400 sq. ft.

I Love your place...I would love to live in your place. If you decided to move out one day, let me know because I'll move to Texas just to be in your cozy and amazing place ;-)

great division of space! you have a place for everything, but nothing looks cramped. Nice job!

BRILLIANT use of space. Love the invisible wall with hanging wall art.

I would live in a closet to be in Austin. My favorite city.

This floor plan is brilliant. I had to click back and forth between it and the images several times before I believed it was as small as the plan makes it look.

Outstanding!

LOVE the picture frame divider! Good job!

I love that you included the piano in your decor. Lots of us would have fits trying to make it work, me included.

Like everyone else, I also think you absolutely did an awesome job with the space. Good work!!

great photos, too--they really make it easy to see how well it all works together. Love the divider of framed pictures, and the kitchen looks wonderfully spacious.

Great job. I love the table abutting the sofa. Love the corrugated steel (is that a closet door?) in the sleeping area. But my favorite is the hanging photos separating the space. I always wanted to do that in my studio apartment, but I recently moved. Good luck.

I'm not much of a commenter but I had to come on to say that your framed art divider is beautiful and 100% effective. I love the rest of the place, too. Great job.

Wonderful job! The framed photos divider is genius. I also like how the table sections off the kitchen area. I would have oriented it the other way, so it would be more of an island, but this works much better.

well done!

what's the framed piece over the bed?

The furnitures & things aren't great. But very good layout. Nice transition from work desk...to bed...to living area...to dining table...to kitchen.
You're a smooth operator...

Impressive floating picture-hanging skills! This is a well-organized and laid-out tiny apartment. Well-done!

yeah, i really love the implied wall. it took clicking through the pictures twice before i noticed the bed behind it wasn't peeking out through a door.

I'm so impressed that you fit a piano in your place and it doesn't look crowded. I've seen pianos in much larger homes that looked shoehorned in.

the hanging photo wall is a real keeper as is your layout. I would work on improving the furniture especially that couch. I also love that in this smaller space you have a piano.

very smart use of space

I'm with the rest - picture frame solution is genius!

Very tastefully done! I love your invisible wall - it's smart and looks great! I like the teapots on the table too - nice touch.

I really like the "virtual wall" created with the artwork hanging from the ceiling - That's darned clever...

...but what's with all the screens and keyboards?
A Laptop, a Desktop Computer, a Flatscreen TV AND an Electric Piano?
I'd urge a purge...

that room divider is brilliant!

get smart....got smart! neat little pad there.

Great space planning, esp in the kitchen table and piano/art "wall."

But I have to ask, how many times a day do you whack your shins on that glass coffee table? It's great that it looks light and airy like it's not really there...but all I can think is OUCH!! The bruises I'd have!

A very creative use of floor space. It's very impressive that you got a piano in there.

love how you did this, the bed is still pretty hidden, everything looks chic and in place. i'm in austin too, currently live in a 1200 sq ft place, considering a 500 sq ft place and this place makes me feel like i can do it :)

Nice job with such a small space.

Love the framed art as a wall/room divider!

You did a great job with a tiny space. Love your aesthetic Makes me curious about your art & photography work...!

Bepsf,

If you read the blurbs, he's a designer/photographer, the laptop allows him to do other things while his iMac renders stuff or simply to change settings, sitting at a single desk for a while gets old, plus he can take the laptop to the coffee shop for web browsing or writing or whatever.

Have you ever thought about the fact that might actually PLAY that piano?

Also, he watches Blu-Ray movies, I doubt it's available for the iMac, although I have a blu ray burner in my PC currently.

As for the poster's place, very well done in so far as space usage and while I agree, some items need to be upgraded, it's the ingenious use of the space used that wins here and that virtual wall using framed photos and the piano work very well as a demarcation solution for the bedroom area and the futon/dining table for the kitchen/living area.

I see you've had to do what I've had to do, place the TV on the view wall due to space and door location constraints, in my case, a 3 section slider that leaves me with not quite enough room to place the sofa and both end tables, if that and the sofa's back would be towards the view so I stuck my AV stuff in front of the 2 fixed sections of the slider and placed the sofa on the opposite wall as you have done as it's longer. Works well IMO since the room is wider than it is deep.

And I might add, one can't do serious video editing or what have you on most laptops so a desktop is the better choice and being a designer, more than likely he's not rich by any stretch of the imagination as most don't make over 40K a year at best in most markets.

Millimetre perfect, and full of personality. Wow. I also particularly love the hanging pictures divider, and I imagine the fact it's not a solid barrier makes the bed area feel quite airy, too.

Also, I don't think you have too much tech, from your blurb you clearly use all of it and it doesn't clutter the place up due to your exceptionally finely thought out plan. In general I don't think there's any need to purge unless you have too much stuff for your place.

awesome use/division of space. Great job!

I love your space! And not to chime along with the crowd too much, but the wall divider and bedroom are wonderful.

I am curious, though - what kind of washer/dryer combo do you have?

I would also like to know what kind of wd combo you have. I am currently shopping for one that is vented, and I am super sensitive to noise. Thanks!

clever!

That's a bloody smart layout

And I have to say that I'm not going to say whether it's 'to my taste' or not, I do find that remark on AT sometimes a bit annoying because if this apartment had furniture to 'my taste', well.... it would be a bit girly for a lad then, wouldn't it??!!!