• Dividing space

• Color your small world

• Furniture & Accessories
• Light up your world
 Dividing space
• Opening rooms to each other
• Stretch your rooms to the outdoor
• Avoid blocking view to windows and door
Open rooms to each other

Open rooms to each other

• Limiting, and even completly demolishing the

seperation.
Open rooms to each other
Open rooms to each other

• Using a center block, which contains a toilet to

seperate the living room and the kitchen.
• Freedom of movement is permitted around the
central block.
Open rooms to each other

Open rooms to each other

• Limiting, and even completly demolishing the

seperation.
• Changing the height of the floor for each
differently functional space.
Open rooms to each other

• With 2 short steps staircase we can also feel the

change of function in each space.
Open rooms to each other

Open rooms to each other

• Limiting, and even completly demolishing the

seperation.
• Changing the height of the floor for each differently
functional space.
• Using other lively decorative details:
– Short shelf
– Bars of wood
– Glass
Open rooms to each other

Short shelf

• This short shelf gives us an open view over it and

make the space seems to be larger.
Open rooms to each other

Bars of wood
Open rooms to each other

Glass

• There’are some kinds of glass have high hardness which

can be used as space- separating details instead of using
walls.
• Glass’s tranparence links spaces together.
Open rooms to each other

This trend not only creates the

necessary independence of
different spaces but also prevents
the complete seperation that makes
the functional spaces much
larger than they really are.
 Stretch your rooms to the out
door

• A patio, deck, or screen porch, goes a long way toward

increasing usable space - without the expense of
adding on.
Stretch to the out door
Stretch to the out door

• The “wall” can be folded back.

Stretch to the out door
Avoiding blocking view to
windows and doors
• Blocking view cause
us to feel sultry,
suffocating, stress and
it may make you feel
like you are
imprisoned in your
own house.
Optical art
 Colour your small
world
• Choose soft, light hues
• The correlation of colors
• The comparison
Choose soft, light hues

Choose Soft, Light Hues

While dark, warm colors make a living space cozy and
intimate, light, cool colors make it open and airy.

Blue: cool color, peaceful, calm, relaxing feel.

Choose soft, light hues

Green: deeply
relaxing, connected Pale purple: romantic,
with nature and the sensual and introspective
sea. sides. Bluer purple: more
restful
Choose soft, light hues

Yellow: give the Cream: soothing and

appearance of natural result on the eye, but
light and brighten up the also elegant.
living space
Choose soft, light hues

Neutral: low-intensity,
White: clean and refreshing
simplistic, peaceful
atmosphere for your
room.
The correlation of color

The correlation of colors

Use just one or two colors per room for visual simplicity that
expands a space.
The correlation of color

• With a dark color for the walls, the ceiling should be in a

lighter color.
The correlation of color

• Focus the contrast on the furniture or accents.

The comparison

The comparison

• Warm colors make a room appear • Cool colors make a room seem
smaller and more intimate. larger and more spacious.
The comparison

• Intense colors make a • Low intensity colors

room seem smaller. enlarge it.
The comparison

• Dark colors make a room • Light colors make it

seem smaller. seem larger.
The comparison

• Highly contrasting colors make a room seem smaller.

The comparison

• The more of a particular color you have in a room, the more

intense it will appear.
 Furniture &
Accessories
• Scale & Arrangement
• Multi- function furniture
• Storage solution
• Mirror
Furniture and Arrangement

Furniture and Arrangement

• Furniture should be appropriate- scale wise - to the rest of
the room.
Furniture and Arrangement

Furniture and Arrangement

• Furniture should be appropriate- scale wise - to
the rest of the room.
• Slim and streamlined pieces are beautiful space
savers. 
Furniture and Arrangement

Slim & Thick

Furniture and Arrangement

Furniture and Arrangement

• Furniture should be appropriate- scale wise - to

the rest of the room.
• Slim and streamlined pieces are beautiful space
savers. 
• Use Multi-function furniture.
Furniture and Arrangement

Multi-function
Furniture and Arrangement

Sofa- bed
Furniture and Arrangement

Multi-function
Furniture and Arrangement

2 bed+ desk+ wardrobe

Furniture and Arrangement

Multi-function
Furniture and Arrangement

Only one step to turn a cabinet to a desk.

Furniture and Arrangement

Multi-function
Storage solution

Storage solution
Storage solution

Kitchen’s cabinet storage

Storage solution

Storage solution
Storage solution

Salvaging space next to the ceiling for a bookcase.

Storage solution

Storage solution
Storage solution

Paper fan- folding bookcase

Storage solution

Storage solution
Mirror

Mirror
• The mirror opens up a
virtual window in an
otherwise flat surface.
• This symbolically
opens up new vistas,
not just for our eyes,
but also for our mental
"vision" of ourselves
and our lives.
A wall that blocks your movement as you enter a
space
Widen a narrow entry or hall
A split view
"missing areas"
Light up your world

• Lighting
• Natural lighting
Natural lighting

• Any type of bright lighting will make a small room

appear larger.
• A small house even by Tokyo standard.
• Foot range: 320 square feet = 30m2
• House's floor space : 899 square feet = 83,6 m2
 A small space only squeezes you if you
squeezes your own brain. Don’t waste
your creative ability, use it to enlarge your
space and make it more and more
comfortable.
Good luck!
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