Studio Apartment

See how this renter tackled the challenge of small-space living and created a minimal-maximal home in just 220 square feet.

Tour the cozy, creative, thrifted, clean, and urban style of this small, rented studio apartment.

The lovely balcony is perfect for cozy movie nights.

Tour a former artist’s studio transformed into a small but stylish home for digital artist & creative director Pol Solà.

Cris Batula helped design this teeny studio apartment, which is eclectic, maximalist, and feels larger than it actually is.

Renters Morgan Vaca and her boyfriend, Landry, have even become best friends with their landlords.

See how professional stager Jason Saft reimagined his 475-square-foot studio apartment without fully renovating it.

Cara and her dog, Sterling, share this small studio apartment in Philadelphia’s Center City neighborhood.

Rodney Perez decorated their 600-square-foot apartment to be a reflection of themselves.

Colorful prints pop among the cool-toned modern, rustic furniture in this studio apartment.

It’s a maximalist space with a “generous sprinkling of bohemian influences.”

It's a "creative homebody's safe space" for Chaereen Pak and her two cats.

See inside this 600-square-foot Chicago rental of a Pakistani American woman who mixed both U.S. and Southeast Asian decor styles.

Ashley Watson’s beautiful and cozy apartment is the ultimate retreat from the chaos of New York City.

William Swinton-Ginsberg has been renting this studio apartment in Austin's Cherrywood neighborhood for four years, and built the kitchen table, which has a round gap that was designed to wrap around a cement column.

A DIY separation wall makes a huge difference in breaking up the space.

Emily and her boyfriend made sure to focus on function when decorating their small shared studio apartment, including making visually separate spaces in the one-room rental.

"Everything I changed in the apartment is renter-friendly and can be un-done," explains Zoe Wetherall, an architectural and landscape photographer. "The biggest challenge was working with such a small space — making sure I could fit everything in and have enough storage."

Nicolas Lecoeur's rental apartment is a Haussmann-type space with moldings and parquet flooring, located in the historic district of Montmartre.

Lifestyle and food blogger Camilla Hughes lives alone in this small London rental studio apartment, so she has the "freedom to make my home exactly how I like it."

The kitchen in Courtney's SF studio apartment is no wider than her arms can spread out, but it is "character rich, with wood shelving painted pale blue."

Thanks to the studio apartment's high ceilings and huge windows, as well as Leecy's brilliant small-space styling and organizing skills, her home feels much larger than it actually is.

Rachael Harvey, Assistant Membership Director for a synagogue in Manhattan, moved to this 275-square-foot, $1,800-per-month Upper East Side studio apartment eight months ago.