Interior design for studios & small spaces
Twenty, thirty, forty square metres. You have just bought and want to rethink everything before moving in. You already live there, and it overflows. Or you rent it out, and you know it could do better. In every case, the question is the same: how do you fit a real life — sleeping, working, entertaining, storing — into a small space?
Our conviction: the smaller the surface, the more the design matters. A large apartment can forgive a mistake in the plan; a studio cannot. Here is how we work with these spaces — and what they can become.
Your space, as it is
In a studio or a small two-room apartment, everything happens at once. The bed takes the centre and decides everything else. The desk waits its turn on the table. Storage, when it exists, eats the light or blocks the way. Every piece of furniture has to justify itself; every corner counts.
This is not a flaw of your apartment — it is the nature of these spaces. And the constraint has a virtue: a place where every centimetre is decided becomes surprisingly simple to live in.
What the floor plan can free up
It all starts with the centimetre. We measure everything — the walls, the heights, the recesses, down to the space a door takes as it opens — because at this scale, one centimetre gained changes a piece of furniture, and one piece of furniture changes the room.
Then every function gets its place, without stealing another's. Perhaps you dream of a real sleeping corner, separated without being closed off. Of a desk that disappears in the evening. Of a kitchen that no longer spills into the living room. Your way of living decides — and the light always keeps priority.
At this scale, you do not guess: you draw. The plan of your apartment as it is, then the plan as it could be — and perspectives, faithful to materials and light, so everything is validated before a single hammer is lifted.
A small space does not forgive approximation.
The file your contractor receives
At the end of our work, you receive a complete file: the exact measurements of every recess, the plan of every fitting, the drawing of every piece of furniture, face by face, the materials and colours referenced one by one. In a small space, this precision is not a luxury — it is what holds the project together.
You hand this file to your contractor; if you do not have one, we can look for the right one for you. Everything is decided beforehand; nothing is improvised along the way.
As for timing, it is often already there: in a studio, the works usually happen before you move in — between the purchase and the move, or between two tenants, with the apartment empty. And if you already live there, that works too: a job where everything is decided in advance can be a short one.
The furniture that makes the room grow
In a small space, store-bought furniture has an invisible flaw: it is designed for an average room that does not exist. Ten centimetres lost here, a dead corner there — at this scale, that is a whole function gone. This is where furniture made to measure changes life the most.
There is the fitted work, first: a bed set on its own drawers, a bookcase climbing to the ceiling, a light openwork screen that separates without stopping the light, a desk that folds away when evening comes. And then the pieces designed for you: a table cut to the exact size of your wall, a bench that stores as much as it seats. Every centimetre given back to life, drawn to the millimetre, built by the right craftsmen.
The right measure
A small project does not call for small care — and a beautiful project is not a question of budget. Everything can be done, at every budget: what you transform, what you keep, what is designed — every project has its right measure. We start from your budget, and we design the project that makes the most of it.
Your questions
An interior architect for a studio, really?
It is in small spaces that every decision weighs the most: a badly placed bed condemns the room, ten centimetres decide a wardrobe. A project drawn to the centimetre — the plan, the fitted work, the furniture — changes what the apartment allows, every single day. And you receive a precise file, ready for your contractor — whom we can look for, if you need.
In what order does a project unfold?
Four steps, always the same. Listening first: your habits, your wishes, the way you live. Then the sketch: your apartment, drawn differently — and redrawn as many times as it takes for it to be truly yours. Then the full project: the materials, and faithful images of your finished rooms. Finally the file, ready for the works. The full sequence is described, step by step, in our method.
Can you really gain space?
Almost always — by designing better the metres you already have. A rethought plan frees the passages, ceiling height becomes storage, each function stops getting in another's way. The same apartment, drawn to the centimetre, lives larger.
Isn't made-to-measure furniture for large apartments?
Quite the opposite. The smaller the space, the more made-to-measure changes life: it is exactly the size of your wall, your height, your need — where store-bought furniture leaves useless gaps and lost corners. Drawn to the millimetre, built by the right craftsmen.
And for a rental investment?
Yes. An efficient plan, well-designed storage, materials that last: a well-designed small apartment rents better and ages well. The method does not change — a project to the centimetre, a precise file, a budget set from the start.
