Furnish a studio apartment; Ideas and Cosigli Interior Designer

Who says you have to have a great house to live in a comfortable and trendy environment? And if it were possible to have a mini house complete with everything, but everything? Even the smallest environment may surprise us and be made practical and fascinating. By making the most of the spaces, colors, lighting and furnishing accessories it is possible to create an elegant and original house.

We interviewed – The interior designer Andrea Castrignano – Professional in the design sector – to understand which points to focus attention when you want to renovate an apartment with ultra reduced measures.

Here are exclusive 7 precious tricks and ideas of Andrea Castrignano to furnish a studio apartment:

1. «Use the same floor for all environments.» The same floor model gives continuity between the various home environments for a wider visual effect. If clear, even better.

2. «Choose a single color palette for the whole house.» It is clear that light colors can visually expand the spaces; It is equally important that the colors of all the rooms of the house follow the same shades as predominant colors.

3. «Niches and false ceilings are space -saved solutions.» In small environments it is good to exploit every centimeter available and it can be done by creating new volumes, bearings, walls equipped to store useful objects and create design solutions.

4. «Cover the fixed furnishings and details of the same shade.» Tinting any doors, botolees, rates rasomur with the same color as the walls for a more harmonious effect.

5. «Organize the environment in a useful and functional way.» For reduced spaces it is essential to choose transformable furniture and accessories. Sofa bed, furniture furniture, modular bookcases and limelight shoe racks are multifunction solutions, useful according to need.

6. «Create a scenic wall with original decorations.» A fascinating wallpaper, the coating of a vintage or ceramic brick wall with XL tiles with three -dimensional textures, will be able to upset the environment for a unique effect.

7. «Create custom -made solutions and furniture.» When the space is little, it is necessary to design tailor -made furnishings that are practical, containing and that have character to better express the personality of its owners.

Here then an in -depth study on a particular renovation .. in the photo you can see the photo of a very small monocal; of only 25 sqm. Andrea Castrignano managed to amaze us again this time creating a modern and design apartment.

To request the advice of theterior designer Andrea Castrignano It was Andrea, a Genoese who wanted to renew the 25 sqm holiday home in his beloved Portofino. The goal was therefore to take advantage of every centimeter available to create a practical, functional environment without neglecting design.

During the inspection, intervention was immediately evident to renew and make spaces more functional; As the photos show, the house was an environment without personality and not very organized. It was in fact made up of a main room with sofa and table that could hardly be opened together, a small kitchen with old orange tiles I would say not very pretty and a dated bathroom.

The renovation starts from a new and captivating moodboard. To make the environment look bigger, you will choose to use a delicate color palettes ranging from gray to blue: A sweet call to the atmosphere of the holiday Portofino.

So here the floor It will be the same in all environments; A light wood effect porcelain stoneware, which in the bathroom covers a siphon shower tray. The old (now overcome) arches that divide the environments, are redeemed to give the environment a more modern aspect. The entrance and the kitchen are illuminated by built -in spotlights on a lowered swing in plasterboard. The chosen furniture are transformable and elegant furnishing solutions. A comfortable sofa bed is inserted and a table in a really simple equipped wall to manage. The equipped wall (rich in useful wooden shelves) overlooks the wall, where the TV is placed, made ultra chic by the imaginative nautical -style wallpaper that takes up the theme and colors of the entire apartment.

The Kitchen it is the same; But it turns thanks to a clear and modern wall, brick effect, which creates a certainly more vintage look.

What to say of the bathroom? Suspended sanitary ware (of more contained measures to take advantage of the centimeters available), a back on bowl and shiny chromed chromed finishes for the electric thermoarredo and the taps make the bathroom a refined environment. What makes it functional is definitely the practical removable shower cubicle, put in place of the tank that occupied too much space, and the tuning bath bathroom cabinet created to measure.

The choice of cooked linen fabrics and striped linen Of the same shades of the rooms is then that final touch that wears the house of elegance and gives harmony to the entire environment. I would say that the house is ready to be lived! What do you think?