Rational design on the example of an apartment in Marseille

Not only in Europe and America, but also in our country there are many apartments that appeared due to the conversion of production facilities for residential. Some homeowners are lucky and they get spacious rooms with incredibly high ceilings, allowing you to equip the second level with an increase in living space almost doubled. But there are also such families as, for example, the heroes of this publication, who got a modest room with a large height, but a small area.

We invite you to a tour of the small apartments in Marseille, where a family of three with a small child lives. In a room with a modest living area, they were able to equip all the necessary life segments due to the arrangement of the second level.

Falling into a Marseille apartment, you immediately find yourself simultaneously in the space of the hallway, living room and kitchen, while being “under the roof” of the upper level of the dwelling. Of course, such an asymmetric room of small size needed a light finish on almost all surfaces. Snow-white constructions of floors and supports, furniture, light wood for flooring and partial furnishing, even light sand stone for wall decoration - everything in this room seeks to visually expand the space and blur the boundaries of asymmetry.

A small but cozy living area is located literally at the entrance to the apartment. The snow-white coldness of the walls and floor structures is compensated by the warmth of the wood flooring, cozy warm lighting and carpet with a country ornament.

When designing the design of the room, the owners tried to use to the maximum all available square meters, while preserving the spaciousness of the room, giving him the opportunity to “breathe”. It is not easy to not litter such a small space, therefore storage systems play a key role here, and light mobile furniture, which takes up little space, acts as a guarantor.

Here, on the lower level, near the stairs there is a small kitchen area, presented in the form of worktops and a dining table with a pair of bar stools.

Small spaces push homeowners into interesting design moves. For example, the Marseille family decided to store the bike on a special hook mounted in the upper level ceiling.

Thus, the bike does not take up space in the hallway and is firmly fixed until the next trip. This method of rational use of space can be useful to many of our compatriots, whose living conditions are also modest.

Climbing the stairs, we get to the upper level of the apartment, where the private rooms of the residents are located. The stairs are always bright in the daytime, through a large window, not decorated with textiles, an incredible amount of natural light penetrates.

In the small bedroom, we see the same methods of surface design that were applied at the lower level - light finish using a sandy tint of masonry and a warm tone of wood coating. Snow-white racks are used not only as storage systems, but also as screens zoning the space.

From the bedroom you can look at the lower level of the room through the original window-porthole, which is not only a source of lighting, but also a piece of decor.

Near the bedroom there is a small bathroom, in the setting of which everything is also subject to functionality and comfort. The snow-white finish and the design of one of the walls with frosted glass visually expands the room.

Despite the modest size of the bathroom and the inability to install the bath itself, all the essential items for water and sanitary procedures are present in the room.Compact plumbing, white shades and an abundance of glass surfaces, made it possible to create an interior in which the room is not overloaded. The bathroom looks fresh and light.