Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces |  | Author: Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 6000
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.7 x 1
ISBN: 0307464601
Dewey Decimal Number: 747
EAN: 9780307464606
ASIN: 0307464601
Publication Date: May 11, 2010
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Product Description
Whether you inhabit a studio or a sprawling house with one challenging space, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, co-founder of the most popular interior design website, Apartment Therapy, will help you transform tiny into totally fabulous.
According to Maxwell, size constraints can actually unlock your design creativity and allow you to focus on what’s essential. In this vibrant book, he shares forty small, cool spaces that will change your thinking forever.
These apartments and houses demonstrate hundreds of inventive solutions for creating more space in your home, and for making it more comfortable. Leading us through entrances, living rooms, kitchens and dining rooms, bedrooms, home offices, and kids’ rooms, Apartment Therapy’s Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces is brimming with ingenious tips and ideas, such as:
• Shifting the sense of scale through contrasting colors
• Adding airiness by using transparent collections
• Utilizing the area under a loft bed for a kitchen and mini-bar
• Tucking an office with chic vintage doors into an unused bedroom corner
In each dwelling Maxwell points out what makes the layout work and what adds style. Most of the “therapy” involves minor tweaks that can be accomplished on a limited budget, such as dividing a room with sheer curtains, turning a door into a desk, or disguising electrical boxes with art displays. An extensive resource guide, including Maxwell’s favorite websites for buying desks, open storage solutions, and much more, will help you turn even the tiniest residence into a place you are always happy to come home to.
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 Small Space Style May 31, 2010
L. M. Keefer (Connecticut)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you've just moved into an apartment or small home where space is a consideration, this book is well-organized by room to give you tips on how to maximize your space in stylish and inventive ways.
From entrances to bedrooms to kitchens to baths, it has real life examples of what innovative individuals have done to find extra storage and living space in limited quarters. The styles featured tend to be young/urban/eclectic and contemporary but the same principles can apply to European and American country/cottage styles. It's perfect for those who like to buy second-hand, antique and flea market styles.
It's a great introductory book if you've just moved into a small space and want inspiration on how to utilize the space effectively while making it comfortable, welcoming and putting your own personal style stamp on it. If you go to apartment therapy's blog website, you can preview pages of the book there to see if the book is to your liking. If you like the apartment therapy blogs and other apartment therapy books, you should enjoy this book for small space ideas. It's a great resource for ideas--such as the loft over the kitchen/eating area featured on the cover--that should spark a few of your own ideas.
Space Conversion June 12, 2010
Bailey L. Hall (Grants Pass, OR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have a 1150 sq ft condo and I have 8 bookshelves for my books and files and the overflow is is all on the floor. The pictures of all of the wall shelfs in the book gave me the idea tha one more giant book shelf would take care of my storage problem until I can get some custom made shelving made.
Great ideas for small spaces July 3, 2010
Julia A. Person (Homer Alaska)
Really enjoyed this book from the first read! As an advocate for small spaces, I sometimes get stymied about how to best utilize what space I have. This book is full of clever ideas, nicely detailed, and a narrative that takes you through the process. Great resource for those of us in small space by choice or fate.
Not just for apartment dwellers... August 7, 2010
Lisa Goetschel
I honestly could not love this book more. My husband and I just bought our first home, and spent hours checking out the design/decorating section at the bookstore. I was apprehensive about getting this book because our house is enormous (we need ideas on what to do with all the space), and we aren't apartment renters any longer. Low and behold, we kept going back to this one; "Remember the kitchen/bathroom/kid's room in that AT book?"
This book is not for people who need a bucketload of cash to spend, and it is not for the super vanilla, traditional folks. The ideas are fresh and new, and aren't so over the top. If you are a little quirky and open to ingenious uses of space, you might just love this book as much as I do. I reccomend this book if you love the Domino Book of Design.
Usual AT publication May 27, 2010
Cat Lover (Chicago, IL)
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
Gorgeous pictures, of course, as with all AT books. Also as with all AT books, a tad too light on pics of overall setups and arrangments. I'm not against knick knack collections, as they do help complete certain styles of rooms, but I don't go to the AT website, or buy the AT books, to see closeups of other people's knick knacks. I'm there for ideas for solutions that other people have come up with, such as how to make a daybed serve as a couch in the living room...how to decorate a quirky alcove...innovative storage solutions, and so on. i'd prefer if AT would put out more "how this was done" step by step explanations, and more diagrams of some of the great ideas others have come up with. But I also realize that part of AT is showcasing not just other people's creative ideas, but their personal spaces, thus the closeups and detail shots of the people's personal items. I'm not as cranky about all of this as I sound - it's just that AT is a fabulous resource for small space solutions, and I personally would prefer more info and diagrams, etc., because I am constantly in search of exactly that. I appreciate the fact that others are willing to showcase their homes in the first place, because in my opinion, there's not a website out there that is better for getting help and ideas for small space living than AT.
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