DMOA’s Office Penthouse Provides Endless Inspiration for Small Apartments

Belgian structure studio DMOA is doling out inspiration for small house dwellers by means of the 164-square-foot penthouse studio above their new five-story workplace constructing in Leuven, Belgium. The house options an open-floor “mini loft” format with a terrace that overlooks town. DMOA partnered with Belgian furnishings model Ethnicraft to furnish the house with space-saving concepts that might be carried out into any small residing space.

The doorway is on the high of a staircase that leads by means of the all-concrete workplace constructing. To the suitable is a residing space with a modular Ethnicraft N701 couch, desk, chair, and shelving unit. Cautious placement of modular furnishings all through the house is vital to conserving the studio gentle and spacious and permits for simple reconfigurations.

An extendable eating desk opens up the choice for entertaining.

Gentle-colored furnishings was purposefully chosen to open issues up and provides the phantasm of an even bigger house. Just a few black accents had been added to visually break up the house into separate areas, however including an excessive amount of black would have made the house really feel brief and claustrophobic.

The Ethnicraft Teak Studio Rack shelving unit is the primary black furnishings piece within the house and is used as a partition between the eating and bed room areas.

Small areas typically lack storage, so the design workforce made positive to compensate with wheeled storage choices. The house contains the Ethnicraft Oak Billy drawer unit and Oak dressing unit, which might each be wheeled off to a special space when not in use.