Understair storage

“We made it up as we went along,” says Carissa of the down-to-the-studs remodel.

Designed by Arba, the retreat’s enclosed garden provides outdoor space out of the wind while the cuts give it a strong connection with the setting.

Visiting a Manhattan apartment designed by Tim Seggerman is like sitting inside one of Nakashima’s cabinets, a metaphor realized most fully in an ingenious "library"—really a glorified cubby with a banded maple ceiling, conjured from a free space adjacent to the loft bed.

In this truly tiny apartment, a 240-square-foot shoebox of an apartment in NYC with a sleeping loft over the kitchen, architect Tim Seggerman went straight to his toolbox to craft a Nakashima-inspired interior. Photo by David Engelhardt.

A slim pull-out pantry beside the LG refrigerator offers added storage for kitchen items without taking up too much floor space.

the open custom maple stair (which hides a plethora of storage) and flow through the open living room with a soaring, 14 foot ceiling.

The kids’ rooms all feature built-in raised platform beds.