The Two-Bedroom That Stopped Feeling Small

Seven hundred and eighty square feet on paper, a couple who had lived there three years, and a baby due in four months. Nothing about the flat was badly built. The problem was that it had no storage designed into it at all, so every object the household owned had ended up in one of the two bedrooms, which meant the bedrooms had quietly stopped being bedrooms.

We ran one continuous wall of joinery from the entrance through the living area, floor to ceiling, and put the bulk of the household inside it. Beds went up onto platforms with deep drawers underneath, and the dining table folds flat against the wall on the four days a week nobody uses it. The flat did not get bigger. It just stopped storing the vacuum cleaner in the room where someone sleeps.