Today is all about small apartments – we are renting a studio whilst in Paris the teeny tiniest thing I have ever set foot in. You step through the front door into a kitchen which consists of a sink and a cupboard (thats it) and through into a bedroom. It takes me approx 1 minute to get from one side of the apartment to the other. Which got me to thinking (apart from wanting to paint it dark of course) how to make small apartments fabulous. Normally I would have advised the one colour look throughout but sitting here (I forgot to mention there is a sofa in the corridor as you step through the front door its kind of in the kitchen) I think the way to go is to make each zone completely different otherwise I’m thinking I could get really bored.
Rita Konig’s old apartment in NY was also pretty small and she did a fabulous job of zoning certain areas giving each small bit a different look and feel. So for her kitchen which was also in the hallway she did this:
Wallpapered (the most beautiful wallpaper by the way its by her mother Nina Campbell) her kitchen and hallway. Its dramatic but somehow its also whimisical, boho and very different. I think that’s the key if I lived here I would do exactly the same – some big dramatic statement in the transitional area.
The living area which I don’t have here got a softer approach:
I would have been a little bolder with my hues but hey – my point here is although the space is small Rina has really filled it to the brim with stuff which automatically makes it look and feel lived in and loved.
I must dash with the incredibly long day yesterday we all overslept so please excuse I haven’t answered any questions you guys posted yesterday I will do that tonight. Have literally 5 mins to get Maud feed, me showered then her off to school me off to work.
Help!
Oh my, the first picture, I’m drooling (sorry, no other word for this) that wallpaper!!!!!!, indeed this would be great for a small space. And the lamp. is it brass? beautiful.
It is indeed brass x
I love the black wallpaper, dark with splash of colour.
I’m really confused – is Maud your dog (that’s what I’m thinking) and your sending her to school?
She is my dog – in London she goes to dog school as they call it one day a week (when the cleaner is in as she”s not good with hovers). They pick her up in the school bus and off they go to the park or marshes for a run. Back at school its games, rest time and then home time. Fun hey. In Paris with not so many green spaces its a stroll around the marais and then playtime for vertially the whole day it seems
thank you for posting these photos – i remember seeing them a few years ago and being so inspired. right now i’m wrestling with a small and rented flat which is driving me nuts as i can’t change much, but i can dream!
Just watched the mb film again, and am now totally convinced that I want to join the dark side. In terms of paint, that is… Your place looked utterly perfect, wonderfully cosy and glamourous at the same time. Just what I want to achieve as well.
Thanks for the constant inspiration.
Yay – welcome over it’s far more fun over here
I absolutely love this wallpaper. I stayed in a small house/hotel in France a couple of years ago and they had this wallpaper in a lighter colour in the bathroom and it was amazing. I set about finding out who it was by as soon as I got home. I love it love it love it and its even nicer in the dark colour..