Optimizing the space in each room has become essential for anyone living in a small home. Designers are doubling their imagination to create space for us where there is little or no space. In recent years, many ultra-practical modular pieces of furniture have appeared and are becoming increasingly popular thanks to their ingenuity. Let's take an overview of these innovative products that are changing our lives and revolutionizing our interiors.
1. The storage bed
An essential space-saving tip, the box spring allows you to convert the space lost under the bed base into storage space. The storage bed is ideal for people with a small bedroom with little storage. For example, a bed for two people with a box spring only 21 cm high offers a storage capacity of around 800 liters.
Discretion, comfort and ample storage are the key words defining the storage bed. You can easily store bulky duvets, household linens, or even use this space to store your clothes from the previous season.
The storage bed being above all a bed, it must provide you with flawless sleep, which is why it is available with different options (active slats, passive slats, numerous dimensions, etc.).
BSide Quiet storage bed
2. The convertible sofa
If you want to set up a guest room in an office for example, or simply benefit from an additional bed without having to push back the walls, the solution lies in the convertible sofa, which offers sleeping comfort equal to that of a a real bed at night but also a designer sofa (depending on the model) and welcoming during the day.
An essential element in any interior, the convertible sofa fits into a living room while optimizing it... In the blink of an eye, this intelligent piece of furniture opens and closes, thus saving precious square meters in spaces. increasingly restricted interiors.
3. The storage chair
Whatever anyone says, we always need more storage, but not to the detriment of our relaxation space! To overcome this problem, some very clever designers had the idea of creating an armchair that would serve as a bookcase or storage space.
The structure of the armchair is in fact hollow, which allows you to store books or any object you want to have within reach. Don't worry, the chair is still comfortable and can support heavy loads when its interior space is left empty.
Storage armchair
4. The Wine Wall
In any apartment, bottles take up a significant amount of space and generally, they are stored on a bottle rack which sits proudly in the kitchen. As stylish as a prison door, the bottle rack is really not a space-saving solution.
Fortunately for us, and for our interior decoration, a simple little tip not only allows you to store your bottles in an ingenious way and save space, but also to add a rather original decorative touch! Simple hooks attached to the wall will be enough to hold wine bottles in a modern way!
For the more daring and not afraid of work, it is also possible to dig out the wall (if it is not load-bearing) to integrate a storage space inside. With these few tips, bottles will never clutter up your kitchen again!
Wine wall design
5. The lifting table and the extendable console
If in one and the same room it is not always possible to have a coffee table, a dining table and or a desk, here is the 3 in 1 solution that is as innovative as it is easy to use: the extendable lift-up coffee table! This multifunctional table allows you to take advantage of the right piece of furniture throughout the day and activities (snack, aperitif, dinner).
Designed and created to make your life easier, some of these tables are equipped with a gas piston, a mechanism allowing you to adjust the height to the nearest centimeter! Another space-saving tip, the extendable console is another innovative piece of furniture, which finally allows you to invite all your friends for big dinners, then fold up in just a few movements.
Easy to integrate into any room, the Spazio+ extendable console, by Maison du Convertible, is an excellent example of these ultra practical expandable consoles. With its 4 extensions, the small 50 cm deep console becomes, depending on the number of extensions arranged, a table of up to 250 cm, able to accommodate 12 guests.
Top: Spazio+ extendable console - Bottom: Cop lifting table
To go further, discover other modular tables !
6. Storage stairs
No more square meters will be wasted with well-thought-out storage under the stairs. The space available under the staircase can be optimized to create a functional space and thus free up other rooms that may be too cluttered. The storage under the stairs can be adapted to suit our wishes and the time when it gathered dust is now over.
Shoes, clothes, books or even a foldable bike can now be stored in this ultra-optimized and very clever space. There are a host of ways to arrange storage in a staircase, cupboard, drawers, dressing room, even an office space can be installed there! It's up to you !
Example of optimized staircase
7. The bed cupboard
The bed cabinet is a real revolution in furnishing. In fact, on its own, it can contain all the furniture necessary in a studio or living room, from the TV cabinet to the sofa, and even for some of the most complete models, a bookcase.
The Nuovoliola bed cabinet is a reference among the different models of retractable beds. This creation is by Clei, the specialist in bed wardrobes combining design, safety, solidity and refinement. This foldaway bed is decorated with a comfortable sofa including a storage box, all of which is hidden under the bed when the furniture is opened when going to bed.
If the bed function of this intelligent piece of furniture is its primary function, the bed cabinet is intended to be, according to your needs and your interior, a space of comfort and storage. By being completed with a desk, shelves or other modules, your bed cabinet becomes the central island of your interior by optimizing your living space as much as possible!
Nuovoliola bed cabinet
8. Sliding panels
What if you decided to have 24 rooms in 35m²? Do you dream of it? Well an architect from Hong Kong, Gary Chang, did it. Thanks to an ingenious system of sliding panels, his apartment has become ultra modular. All he has to do is push one of the walls to reveal a room with a hammock, push another to reveal a room serving as a cinema room. Check out her incredible apartment in the video below.
9. The wall secretary
When you lack space to create an office area, you need to be more imaginative in order to create a work environment. The wall-mounted secretary then constitutes a very interesting solution. Suspended on the wall, it frees up space on the floor or in the center of the room, so this space can be completed with another piece of furniture such as an extendable console and your office area thus becomes ultra-scalable...
Wall secretary
10. Stackable outdoor furniture
It is common for city homes to have an outdoor space, but their surface areas very rarely exceed 8 square meters. It is therefore difficult to decorate and furnish such a small space without it taking up all the space. Here's an innovative way to do both... a stackable outdoor furniture set! Stacked on top of each other, these elements form a designer tower, which when opened reveals a complete garden furniture.
Designer garden furniture
Furniture has never stopped evolving, moving from functional to multifunctional. Stackable, connected, expandable, convertible... The smart furniture of today and tomorrow is transforming and will transform our homes, our lifestyles to better bring all their intelligence to our spaces!
