telophase | Apartment decisions

Well, figured I'd throw the floor open to discussion on arranging my new apartment, in case anyone has any good ideas.

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Anyway, here's the apartment. 732 square feet, with a few of the important dimensions marked in case you care. There's no microwave in the kitchen, so I'm going to have to get one and a microwave cart, which looks like it'd work perfectly on that short wall next to the kitchen. The slightly longer wall to the left as you walk in from the entrance is gonna hold some sort of furniture that will serve as both storage and a place for me to dump my crap down when I come in, because otehrwise I'm going to dump it on the nearest available surface.

A few things you'll need to know about me before suggesting things:

-- I don't entertain. I don't need to have places for guests to sit and eat and whatnot, because nobody ever comes over. It's all about me. :D

-- The primary functional space wil be, basically, an art studio. I spend 90% of my awake time at home in front of the computer doing stuff on it, and I don't envision that changing. So my place is an art studio that happens to have some places for people to sit, rather than a separate living room, studio, and dining room.

-- As per above, my TV needs to be visible from the studio area as well as the sitting area, and I've got to be able to read subtitles from the sitting area (I can't read subtitles and do art at the same time, so it can be farther away from the studio area)

-- I dislike arranging furniture around the perimeter of the room, unless that furniture is bookcases. Which I have six tall ones and two small ones, by the way.

-- I'm a minimalist at heart. (

telophase waits for people who've been to her junk-strewn apartment to stop laughing.) Yes. I'm a minimalist, but I'm also a packrat, so you can see the inherent problems. I shall be arranging and purchasing much storage stuff in the next few months. My bedroom is going to contain my bed, and that's it. (OK, I've got a couple of hatboxes to stack to hold my clock radio and glasses.) My big dresser's going in the closet so I can stuff clothes in it and shut it away, and I've measured it, so there's room.

-- I don't have dining room furniture because I eat in front of the computer, or sitting in a chair reading a book. I don't care to have a dining room area, so consider that space in the apartment as potential living space. I'm sort of leery of putting my studio there because I don't really want to spend 90% of my time stuffed away over in that corner.

Furniture roundup: 1 futon to serve as a couch. 1 loveseat-type thing. 1 spiffy reclining chair and footstool. Four tall bookcases that match, and two tall ones that don't match those so would look silly standing next to them. Two short bookcases. One 21" TV with TV stand that looks vaguely like this. I've got a desk and art table that I'm probably going to eventually replace with a lot of nifty table-type stuff.

So. Ideas?

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The dining area I turned into a mini library, and I put your desk under the window to take advantage of the natural light. Instead of you buying a new console table or something I used your two shorter bookshelves on that wall to take it's place. The measurements aren't to scale, but they are close if anything my dementions are larger than they should be. I make this in Photoshop, so if you want the layers and all to re-arrange, I'll send you the file.

Ooh, cool, there's some potential there. :) I really like the library area. :)

Let's see ... I actually need a lot more space for the studio area, because I have printer, scanner, computer, *plus* various manga pages, inking stuff, and so on, *but* I think the sofa/loveseat thing could be pushed back a few feet and a table put in L-ing into the corner... hm.

I think I might move the two small bookcases over to the library area - they'll fit nicely under the pass-trhough bar from the kitchen there, and the reason I wanted a dresser/buffet/console table (with boxes under it) was to maximize storage... I could find a nice square table to fit in the box made by the couch/loveseat and put things under it as well...

MIght work, might work... thanks! :D

Happy to be of assistance. I have this dream about someday going back to school and becoming an interior designer. If I ever do you will have the dubious honor of saying that you were offered my first design! *big cheesy grin*

Good luck with moving. I've done that WAY too many times in my life to enjoy anything about it!

:D I shall heap praises upon your head. I've watched "Designers' Challenge" on HGTV enough to know what I'm supposed to say. "The designs were all wonderful. We loved them all and it was really hard to choose, but we went with designer C because we felt she really understood what we were looking for."

I also just realized that you don't have the other two tall bookcases in the plan, but I think they'd fit just fine along the wall to the right coming from the door. *ponder*

There are 3 tall bookshelves in the library area, and one next to the desk. Did you have more?

Yup.

Four tall bookcases that match, and two tall ones that don't match those so would look silly standing next to them.

:) They're slightly shorter and slightly wider than the set of four.

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