Bedroom

In an effort to maximize space, the architects skipped bulky walls, instead utilizing curtains on curved tracks that allow the residents to manipulate the interiors on a whim.

Like much of the Italian Riviera, La Spezia on the Ligurian coast has a long maritime history. It was precisely this seafaring legacy that inspired the design of this tiny home, a 377-square-feet apartment that was reconfigured to clearly separate the living and sleeping areas. A cabinetry wall is constructed with marine plywood.

The two halves of the home can be sectioned off with sliding glass doors—one side for the parrot, and one for the cat.

At 193 square feet, this former maid’s quarters in the 18th arrondissement in Paris feels much larger than its postage-stamp size. Lots of sunlight, bold colors, and geometric shapes give it a punch of life, and light oak shelving delineates the bedroom area to create a nook-like feeling.

In the New York loft that he shares with two friends, industrial designer Joshua Skirtich covered one wall of his 8-by-11 bedroom/ design studio with a pegboard for organizing his tools. A plywood desk runs the length of the room, accommodating Joshua’s 3D-printing equipment at one end and clothing drawers at the other.

From the living room wall, a panel folds down to reveal a bookshelf and form a table.

The unit can be configured to allow room for meal preparation around a built-in kitchen.

Madrid-based firm PKMN dreamed up this flexible concept for a client with a tiny home north of the city. Made up of three shelving units on track system, the All I Own House can be configured in countless ways, making space for a bedroom, kitchen, sitting area, changing room, and more. Shown here is a horizontal Murphy bed, which makes a great space-saving solution as well as a comfortable sleeping space.

Budapest design studio POSITION Collective employs clever storage solutions, including a wardrobe rack, modular walls, and a storage-filled bed, in order to maximize functional space. Though the 323-square-foot studio is now being leased out on a long-term basis, the clients had originally wanted to turn the small apartment into a stylish and memorable space for design-loving travelers visiting Budapest.

The master bedroom is furnished with a rug from IKEA and a Mysa bedframe from Chilton Furniture Co.

About a year after Cy was born, the couple turned the loft’s single large bedroom into two spaces—a combination office and nursery (below) and a bedroom for Phoenix, seen slipping between the two rooms through an opening that she likes to call the “portal.”

Vintage Moroccan rugs are scattered throughout the apartment. The bed linens are from Marimekko.

Bookcases made of String Shelves by Nisse and Kajsa Strinning keep things light and airy.

In love with a one-bedroom loft in a former piano factory in Brooklyn, Merie Subryan and Alex Sierra made it work for their soon-to-be family of three. When their second child came along, they tweaked it further rather than move.

"I like to include window benches wherever possible, because it's a small detail that can be so calming,