Wendy C Photographer
Design ideas for a small bohemian u-shaped enclosed kitchen in Christchurch with a submerged sink, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, red splashback, stainless steel appliances, no island and glass sheet splashback.

Photo of a small scandi master bedroom in Milan with green walls.

We completed a luxury apartment in Primrose Hill. This is the second apartment within the same building to be designed by the practice, commissioned by a new client who viewed the initial scheme and immediately briefed the practice to conduct a similar high-end refurbishment. The brief was to fully maximise the potential of the 60-square metre, two-bedroom flat, improving usable space, and optimising natural light. 

We significantly reconfigured the apartment’s spatial lay-out – the relocated kitchen, now open-plan, is seamlessly integrated within the living area, while a window between the kitchen and the entrance hallway creates new visual connections and a more coherent sense of progression from one space to the next. The previously rather constrained single bedroom has been enlarged, with additional windows introducing much needed natural light. The reconfigured space also includes a new bathroom.

The apartment is finely detailed, with bespoke joinery and ingenious storage solutions such as a walk-in wardrobe in the master bedroom and a floating sideboard in the living room. Elsewhere, potential space has been imaginatively deployed – a former wall cabinet now accommodates the guest WC.

The choice of colour palette and materials is deliberately light in tone, further enhancing the apartment’s spatial volumes, while colourful furniture and accessories provide focus and variation. Photographer: Rory Gardiner

Small contemporary grey and yellow single-wall kitchen/diner in Sussex with a double-bowl sink, flat-panel cabinets, blue cabinets, blue splashback, stainless steel appliances and an island.

This is an example of a small scandinavian study in London with white walls, laminate floors, a freestanding desk and grey floors.

Cuisine ouverte
Design ideas for a small contemporary single-wall open plan kitchen with grey cabinets, quartz worktops, grey splashback, lino flooring, grey floors, white worktops, flat-panel cabinets and glass sheet splashback.

Solène Héry & David Granger
Photo of a small scandi ensuite bathroom in Paris with flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, a built-in shower, a two-piece toilet, grey tiles, stone tiles, white walls, concrete flooring, a built-in sink and wooden worktops.

Christoph Düpper

Foto Christian Johansson / papac
This is an example of a small scandinavian open plan living room in Gothenburg with white walls and medium hardwood flooring.

Fotos: Viktoria Stutz
Photo of a small contemporary galley open plan kitchen in Hamburg with brown floors, flat-panel cabinets, white cabinets, black appliances, light hardwood flooring and an island.

HUBSTAY Boligstyling og indretning Foto Andreas Vrontos - Zigna
Small scandi kitchen.

Grifflose Küche mit grauen Fronten. Griffschiene Edelstahl.
Design ideas for a small contemporary l-shaped kitchen/diner in Munich with a built-in sink, flat-panel cabinets, grey cabinets, grey splashback, stainless steel appliances and grey worktops.

Ove Nilsson
Small scandi shower room bathroom in Stockholm with a walk-in shower, white tiles, porcelain tiles and grey floors.

This entire wall is deep storage space. It fits heaps of stuff! Nathan Nostaw's clever remote controlled retractable bed design took away almost no storage space - just two narrow tracks.

Kitchen: We located the kitchen between the living and dining room to bridge between the two areas. The units are high gloss in order to reflect as much light as possible coming in from the rear garden and uplift the internal space. The kitchen worktop is made of type of resin which is actually more durable than marble stone. It resembles the marble stone of the fireplace surround.

Raumspartreppe Freiburg
Photo of a small contemporary wood straight staircase with open risers.

The kids bedroom in the front of the original house with feature balloon shaped wall lights float up the wall to the loft play space over the wardrobe. Image by: Jack Lovel Photography

Anna Stathaki
Small midcentury home office in Surrey with white walls, carpet and grey floors.

Immagine con la scala "chiusa". Lo spazio si amplifica. General view with the stairs in "closed" position. Space becomes much more larger.
Small contemporary mezzanine games room in Rome with white walls and light hardwood flooring.