These 10 Tiny Apartments in New York City Embrace Compact Living
In these examples, homeowners and renters alike have found clever solutions to less-than-ideal square footage, carving out comfortable, hardworking digs in the most unlikely spaces.
Living small is par for the course in New York City, but accommodating a family of four in under 700-square-feet rarely looks as effortless as in this storage-smart renovation. Scott Oliver and Margarita McGrath of Noroof Architects created many clever built-ins and transformable furniture in this apartment.
James Davison and his wife, Fanny Abbes, left lucrative careers in finance to start a company, the New Project Group, that rents out designed, furnished apartments in New York City. A parallelogram-shaped window pane, rescued from an architectural salvage yard, was outfitted with steel edges and casters, and repurposed as a coffee table.
This concept apartment presented by LifeEdited in SoHo shows how much one can fit in 420 square feet. Murphy beds make it possible to sleep four. When they're not in use, a large dining table can be pulled out. Heavy red curtains pull out of the walls to enclose each room for maximum privacy and sound control.
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