apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Great solution on the movie screen. A picture of the other side of teh apartment would have been nice to see.

The details in the studio are wonderful. I love french doors and they just add to the overall homey but open feel of the apartment. Genius with the movie screen - definitely saves space without a TV.

Great space-saving details. Nice, cozy space.

And great use of the photos to show us hwo your place transforms!!

Why is the dining set in the bedroom? You have to walk the length of the entire apartment from the stove to the table. (y issues, I trip and drop things a lot.) There seems to be room for it and the sofa in the other room?

I just want to be sure I understand the floor plan properly.

The screen is exactly what my husband is planning for our space. It's fun to see it in practice :) Beautiful, cozy bed. I have the same fabric on some throw pillows. Toile is so great! Beautiful space...well done.

Very nice! I love the multifunctional space but I think it is a bit unfair to submit 6 rather than three photos. That said, I'm curious about the other room...wish you had shown more.

Thanks very much for the feedback!
Lady J - we decided to put the dining table in the main room by the window because it felt more cozy. Putting a computer desk there would've been a waste of a great view onto the street.

lloyd - The "double" pics are basically the same pic. I just couldn't figure out how to show the use of the space otherwise. ;)
I felt like showing the screen and the scrapbook table was more important than views of our "normal" kitchen and bathroom. After all, this is a contest for the best use of small spaces! But I agree that 3 pics is not enough. :)

I'm a total tech nerd and I have to say that your projector/screen setup is the best I've ever seen in that small of a space. The only way it'd be better would be if the projector was mroe hidden.

But still, you're getting the top rating from me! :)

Am I seeing this correctly? It appears that your bed is blocking some lovely glass doors that join the kitchen to the livingroom. I think that's a shame. (Probably the fault of the queensize bed.) Even so, your place is beautiful and well put together.

I am in love with your French doors. WANT!

Great use ways to sneakily store the screen and your crafty stuff. The bed linens are also beautiful. Where did you get them?

Nice use of space and I agree about the TV screen. Ingenious.

I covet your comforter....:)

Love your apartment. Where did you get your bedding from? Also, do you have a blog?

I love it! But I think you must have mismeasured -- I know 350 sq. ft. and this apartment is NOT 350 sq. ft.

Just counting the grid boxes on your layout (based on a queen sized bed width of 65 inches) shows the apartment to be at least 420 sq. ft.

Anyway, just sayin...

I'd assumed the dining table and sofa are in the front room because the view/light are nicer. Judging from the plan, the kitchen and bathroom windows look onto either a service courtyard or something equally dire.

(You can tell the unit is part of a small apartment building because there has to be another closet to notch with her scrapbooking closet. That's the unit next door, with a matching bay window and probably a mirror floor plan, unless the adjacent unit is a corner unit. That kind of building is roughly dumbbell shaped -- you sometimes get a garden in the middle, but there's a tendency to put the service yard in the right-hand courtyard. Many 1920s SF apartments look like they started as one floor of a rowhouse, but the plan would be slightly different if they had.)

I do hope there's a way to open the French doors between the kitchen and the bed. I think that would be my dream on Saturday mornings. Roll out of bed and you're in the kitchen for more pancakes.

Wende - indeed, the view from the kitchen and bath is very dire... And dark. That's why the dinign table is by the bay window :)

Mlle Kate and pignolia - as far as closing the french doors to the kitchen - yeah, it's a pity, but we wanted a living room, as well as a nice bedroom and if you put the bed anywhere else... well.. it would take up everything. So we scooted it next to the french doors.

Cassis - the linens are from Pottery Barn as is the bed itself and the loveseat. I like their clean lines. The chairs, table, rug, scrap-booking cart are from IKEA.

15troy - I do have a blog, but it's pretty new :) http://red-moose-blog.blogspot.com/

i love this apartment. the layout is similar to an old Victorian i used to live in. I could never figure out what to do with the tv, dresser, and bed combination. the screen over the closet was brilliant.

as far as the sq footage is concerned, i am not sure where jchan is getting that measurement. if we use her 65" width for the queen, then that would be 4 boxes = 65". the apartment is 9 boxes wide, by 21 boxes long. which would give you 117" wide x 338" long. or 11.92' x 28.17'. this comes out to 335.75' sq. but that doesn't even take into account the adjustments needing to be made for the bay window, or the front door.

Karela, when we lived in a similar building, we referred to the view out the back as "the bowels of hell" and never opened those blinds.

I really like this place. It seems very light and airy. I could see myself living in this space!

Only 350 sq. feet?

Looking at this sweet apartment again, I wonder if there's some way to reverse the hardware on the French doors by the bed--so that they would open into the kitchen. Then you could live out Mlle Kate's Saturday-morning-bed-and-pancakes fantasy.

I wonder why it seems to some people that my measurements are incorrect. Granted, I used a wider lense in the panoramic picture so it might be perceived as large, but it's really not. The square footage is correct.

Cassis, I love your idea, thank you! Unfortunately, it is a rental and I am sure my landlord would not approve.

can you please tell me how you mounted the projector? i am having an issue as to the best way to hang on the wall. ceiling is not an option for my apartment. thanks!