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Design Studio : Small Space ideas

Anna Nichols • Mar 14, 2020

How to maximise on your small spaces?

Don’t let any space go unused in a small room.

Create a multi-purpose space and consider dividing the room with a screen.

Build in storage walls to the ceiling.

To make sure the space doesn't look to heavy keep it light by using soft colours. 


Here are a few examples, designed and made by aln furniture.

Converting a mezzanine floor into a private space. Using a sliding door that hides behind the fixed bookcases allows the space to be used as a spare bedroom. The privacy screen closes of the mezzanine to the light from downstairs living space. Bookcases offering extra storage for an at home office. 

Floor to ceiling bookshelves
Semi-opaque materials or soft colours 
(Traditional Japanese Shoji paper screens)

Here a mezzanine bed was already in place in a tall ceiling room and the customer required a stair that was less steep than the previous ladder. The stair created storage underneath the stairs and a study hideaway.

Bedrooms with low roof lines and making the most from alcoves. Here are two different designs.

Maximise cupboard space 

Cupboards, shelves, sliding doors with hanging space and drawers.
How to utilise your walls, hidden space and corners in your living areas?

Under bed storage
Use your corners
Get items of the floor
Wall vertical space

Here are a few examples of a corner valet and wall mounted valets, under bed storage on castors, corner TV shelf and wall mounted bedside shelf by alnfurniture.

Need help making the most of your small spaces? Identify your requirements.

Get in touch info@alnfurniture.co.uk


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