Whether you inhabit a studio or a sprawling house with one
challenging space, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, co-founder of the most
popular interior design website, Apartment Therapy, will help you
transform tiny into totally fabulous.
According to Maxwell, size constraints can actually unlock your
design creativity and allow you to focus on what''s essential. In
this vibrant book, he shares forty small, cool spaces that will
change your thinking forever.
These apartments and houses demonstrate hundreds of inventive
solutions for creating more space in your home, and for making it
more comfortable. Leading us through entrances, living rooms,
kitchens and dining rooms, bedrooms, home offices, and kids'' rooms,
Apartment Therapy''s Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces is brimming with
ingenious tips and ideas, such as:
Shifting the sense of scale through contrasting colors
Adding airiness by using transparent collections
Utilizing the area under a loft bed for a kitchen and
mini-bar
Tucking an office with chic vintage doors into an unused bedroom
corner
In each dwelling Maxwell points out what makes the layout work
and what adds style. Most of the "therapy" involves minor tweaks
that can be accomplished on a limited budget, such as dividing a
room with sheer curtains, turning a door into a desk, or disguising
electrical boxes with art displays. An extensive resource guide,
including Maxwell''s favorite websites for buying desks, open
storage solutions, and much more, will help you turn even the
tiniest residence into a place you are always happy to come home
to.
關於作者:
Part interior designer, part life coach, MAXWELL
GILLINGHAM-RYAN is the cofounder of the Apartment Therapy blog
network—which gets 3 million unique visitors per month. Frequently
quoted in the shelter and mainstream press, Maxwell has been called
a “Makeover Guru” by the New York Times. He is the author of
Apartment Therapy and Apartment Therapy Presents.