No home is 100 per cent perfect. Whether you’re moving into a new space or have been living in your home for years, there are probably parts of your home that you’re annoyed with. Irregular room layouts, overhead beams and bay windows can create lots of wasted or “dead” space in your home, and they can be frustrating to live with.
And since space is such an important factor, especially in small Singapore homes, homeowners and interior designers have to get creative in order to circumvent these problems. We’ve rounded up some clever ways that homeowners here have managed to conceal or make use of these awkward spaces to their advantage:
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Text: Home & Decor Singapore
To many, bay windows are a “waste” of usable floor area. But the designers of this home interior project embraced it readily and turned it into a storage area instead.
Another way to make a bedroom’s bay window work twice as hard? Extend it further into the room and treat it like base for your bed. The extended portions can then be customised into deep drawers for additional storage – the perfect spot for storing extra sets of pillows and bed linen! Check out how other Singapore homes made use of their bay window to their advantage.
See the concrete bricks detail on the wall with an embedded mirror? Its main intention is actually to even out the original niche in the wall – how brilliant!
One foolproof method of concealing unsightly columns and overhead beams is to construct cabinets around it. By doing so, you can mold the silhouette of your home more deliberately.
Taking inspiration from the lofts in New York, the designer created an exposed brick wall on one side of the living room, and filled the original gap in the wall by placing faux windows in front of it.
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The interior designer for this home took advantage of the master bedroom’s awkward layout to craft out a large walk-in wardrobe along the slanted wall. Check out more walk-in wardrobe ideas for small homes here!
Using deep drawers to utilise the otherwise dead space under the staircase is a neat way to stow away bulky items. A pull-out compartment like this also allows all the items stored to be easily accessible.
In order to create a cleaner outline for the angular kitchen, the designers filled the nook with a wall mounted counter top which doubles as the homeowners’ dining table.
For more vanity space in your narrow bathroom counter, opt for semi-recessed basins. As they extend slightly out of the counter, it leaves you with more surface area near the sink to place your bathroom essentials.
And don’t forget how important kitchen cabinet features such as corner drawers are when it comes to maximising storage space!
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