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Living Big in Small Apartments, by James Grayson
Trulove.
As can be expected with a book of
this name, New York is the setting for these architectural
solutions that economize on small spaces. Even though the
eighteen projects presented have a variety of sizes, plans,
and building types (lofts, new condos, renovations, etc),
some design solutions span across them. One is transparent
and translucent glass, which make rooms appear larger and
their edges softer than solid walls. Second, sliding panels
appear in many of the apartments, allowing for flexible
arrangements and shifts in size and scale of rooms. Third,
built in storage and walls that do double duty as storage
are also common. For each project, a floor plan accompanies
various interior images. This helps the reader understand
the space and the creative means required to maximize it,
though I would have liked to have seen at least one photograph
of the apartments exterior to give it a context and also
to see the influence of the different building types on
the various solutions presented. Ultimately, none of these
solutions in the book are cheap, though lessons can still
be gleaned from its pages, even if the reader is of limited
means.
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