Coping with small spaces

Coping with small spaces
Choosing multifunctional furniture helps apartment dwellers utilize tight spaces with elegance. A dining table may do double-duty as a home office desk. Or a computer armoire – with doors that hide your office away when not in use – may have enough extra room to store books or blankets.If you don't have enough room for a dining table surrounded by chairs, Taryn Abbott Wilson of Pier 1 Imports suggests creating a banquette-type setting, with a bench against the wall, the table in front, and chairs on the open side. If the bench has storage beneath the seat, all the better, Wilson offers....turns into a dining table when company comes over. Interior designed by Tom Berta Photos courtesy of Decorating Den InteriorsOther multipurpose pieces could include a sturdy ottoman that doubles as a cocktail table or a futon chair or sofa that pulls out into a bed for overnight guests. Storage must be creative. Wiklem put a skirt around her bathroom sink to hide necessities, and she used two tension-mount shower rods – the interior one is for the waterproof liner and doubles as a towel rod after her morning shower; the exterior one holds an attractive non-waterproof shower curtain (you can easily fashion one out of nice fabric) and hides the drying towels from view.Let a folding floor screen fill up the blank space of a corner – and stash anything you like behind it. Wiklem and Meaney recommend using attractive trunks as coffee tables or end tables and hiding blankets or magazines inside. A sofa table or console provides height for displaying accessories or pictures and leaves plenty of empty space beneath for stacks of beautiful wooden or rattan boxes or suitcases, which also can be filled with a host of belongings.
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