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Refining A Luxury City Apartment - A Designer's Guide

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Published
04/07/2024

You’ve found that luxurious apartment in the middle of the city center, perhaps serving as a second home for vacations or as a first home for your child, and odds are the space could do with a touch of love. While these spaces are often valuable and competitive, they tend to be rather bland in design until an individual with an interior sense comes to resolve the issue. 

Of course, working with a blank canvas is a designer’s dream. With the right materials, you could have fun and learn valuable lessons involved in designing a smaller space with limited space. These insights could even help you when curating your own home, be that updating the spare room or extending the wings of your household.

Without further ado, let’s consider some golden principles to use when refining that city apartment, transforming it from a utilitarian space into a high-flying home:


Incorporating Multi-Functional Furniture

Working with compact city apartments means getting creative with furniture that serves multiple purposes. Even if you have the means to make the space look refined and sleek, you can still add utility in limited spaces with this function. Look for pieces that offer double-duty usage like storage ottomans, sofa beds, or lift-top coffee tables. We’d recommend opting for slim, streamlined designs over bulky items, but you can still select high-quality materials. You can also add optional comforts, such as pull-out under-bed storage, or wider shower shelves for hygienic products in a capsule shower unit.


Selecting A Cohesive, Well-Trimmed Color Palette

A carefully chosen, tight color scheme creates a sense of cohesion in small spaces that might otherwise feel choppy and disorienting. Stick to a max of 3-4 colors and implement them throughout via walls, textiles, and accents. Using varying shades of the same warm or cool tones adds visual interest without overwhelming you. 

Simplicity is important in these intimate city-sized environments, and nice added touches such as gold trims can add that touch of elegance, luxury, and grace. This can also extend to the fabric you use, such as beautiful Boucle fabric for cushions and throws. This is especially important in an apartment building however nice, where most spaces are designed to a similar specification and are crying out for your design personality. 


Implementing Reflective Surfaces For Depth

Natural light is important in smaller spaces, but instead of telling you to purchase lamps (you already know how and why to do this), consider how the light travels and reflects around the space. Remember that metals, mirrors, and glossy materials magically make tiny apartments feel more open and airy. Mirrored or glass coffee tables create the illusion of added space while also providing function. A metallic or lacquer cabinet looks refined while bouncing light around, perfect for a staging area. Large wall mirrors (not freestanding options), also serve as shiny decor pieces, and glossy tile backsplashes all lend depth and amplify that natural light we were suggesting.

With this advice, you’ll be certain to refine that city apartment well. By combining appropriate color palettes, reflections, and multi-use furniture, you’ll both improve perceived and actual space, while also adding a comforting ambiance that can be expanded by soft lighting. This will provide the perfect staging for your city adventure.

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