Apartment Therapy’s Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces

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Whether you inhabit a studio or a sprawling house with one challenging space, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, co-founder of the most popular interior design website, Apartment Therapy, will help you transform tiny into totally fabulous.
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According to Maxwell, size constraints can actually unlock your design creativity and allow you to focus on whatâ€™s essential. In this vibrant book, he shares forty small, cool spaces that will change your thinking forever.
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BeachBrights "beachbrights blogspot" says:

June 25, 2011 at 11:17 pm

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M. Feeley "Poetessnyc" says:

June 25, 2011 at 11:56 pm

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It’s (not) related, July 5, 2010

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Decorating books could be divided between the ones that instruct, and the ones that display. Terence Conran began a different way of discussing how people live in spaces, and AT has been different in that it shows how people live in apartments — which aren’t just small spaces. They are, by definition, smaller parts of a whole space — a building, a street, a neighborhood, a city. AT led the way for thinking about functional living in apartments – and the entire line of ‘landing strip’ furniture now available would seem to be their doing.

This book, Apartment Therapy’s Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces, unfortunately, doesn’t do that — it shows little snippets and still lifes organized by room (bed, bath, living, etc.) without showing floorplans, and entire spaces. (With the possible exception of the G-R storage space outside the door to their apartment which mentions how they keep the space neat in deference to their neighbors.)Its more decorating porn than erotica: it shows you what someone else does, with no way to draw on those ideas — rather than excite your own senses about what’s possible for you and your space.

For example, the old Gillingham-Ryan pad (as shown in “Apartment Therapy Presents: Real Homes, Real People, Hundreds of Design Solutions”) was an object lesson in so many ways: rethink materials for their function, not purpose; expand one area (kitchen) and minimize another (lr) – but together, the sum is greater than the parts. In the bedroom, you need a place to sleep, and a place to store things — but you don’t necessarily need space to walk around.

It’s unfortunate — for all that AT has to say about living in (relatively) small spaces that this book misses the point. Much of what it DOES offer is said elsewhere, and often: get rid of clutter (your stuff)/hide wires/ light colors expand and dark colors. Really: do we need a book to tell us that mirrors can enlarge space?

It’s too bad, because, for me, the previous book is a bible: it shows complete apartments, describes who lives there, shows floor plans, etc. The Small Cool contest as shown on AT’s website did that, as well. But this book is like too many others: great photos filling lots of pages, and little more.

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Cat Lover says:

June 26, 2011 at 12:09 am

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Gorgeous pictures, of course, as with all AT books. Also as with all AT books, a tad too light on pics of overall setups and arrangments. I’m not against knick knack collections, as they do help complete certain styles of rooms, but I don’t go to the AT website, or buy the AT books, to see closeups of other people’s knick knacks. I’m there for ideas for solutions that other people have come up with, such as how to make a daybed serve as a couch in the living room…how to decorate a quirky alcove…innovative storage solutions, and so on. i’d prefer if AT would put out more “how this was done” step by step explanations, and more diagrams of some of the great ideas others have come up with. But I also realize that part of AT is showcasing not just other people’s creative ideas, but their personal spaces, thus the closeups and detail shots of the people’s personal items. I’m not as cranky about all of this as I sound – it’s just that AT is a fabulous resource for small space solutions, and I personally would prefer more info and diagrams, etc., because I am constantly in search of exactly that. I appreciate the fact that others are willing to showcase their homes in the first place, because in my opinion, there’s not a website out there that is better for getting help and ideas for small space living than AT.

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