A studio apartment with light gray walls

This beautiful studio apartment has four functionalities combined into one rather small space. The kitchen, dining area, living room, and bedroom are all combined on a small amount of floor space, yet the different functional areas work very nicely together and the living space doesn’t feel cramped.

Even though this apartment has a separate bathroom, it doesn’t have a separate bedroom like in this beautiful home for example, which makes it a studio apartment rather than a one-bedroom apartment.

The kitchen and living area are combined into the space in front of the windows, while the sleeping space and hallway are combined perfectly together, including all the apartment functionalities into a self-contained space.

A studio apartment with light gray walls, round dining table with oak chairs, black sofa

The secret to decorating small studio apartments: visually separate functional areas

When decorating studio apartments, your goal should be to create an efficiency apartment in terms of functionality. There really is no square footage/meters available for extras, so you have to be very selective in what you included in the limited floor and vertical space you have available.

You can fit a lot of functionality into studio apartments like this one, as long as you select small furniture to ensure empty space around the pieces as much as possible and you work with smart ways to separate the functional areas from each other.

Work with an area rug, group artwork in certain functional sections of the home, or strategically place lamps to indicate the beginning and end of a functional area.

A kitchen that fully optimizes the available wall space

The limited space in this studio apartment has been used largely for a small kitchen that fits most of one of the walls of the room. The light gray cabinet fronts match perfectly with the white floor and the light gray walls in the same color and the white stone countertop goes well with the white ceilings.

The layout of the kitchen consists of both upper and lower cabinets to optimize the available storage space and the gray and white palette has been finished off with gold hardware in the cabinet pulls and faucet. The one-wall kitchen layout optimizes the available floor space in this studio home.

A small studio apartment with a light gray kitchen with white countertops and gold hardware

A dining room area in between the kitchen and sofa

The space in front of the window of the one-room studio apartment is the perfect spot for a beautiful round dining table combined with the Betty chairs in light oak from &Tradition.

The sheer white curtains in front of the window add a lighter shade to the gray walls, which gives the room a soft touch. The fabric of the curtains is matched by the tablecloth on the table which ties together the look of the dining area.

A small studio apartment with a light gray kitchen with white countertops and gold hardware, dining table

A black sofa combined with a hemp rug and a wood coffee table

To separate the sofa area from the dining area and kitchen, which are both in very close proximity to each other, a natural hemp rug was used. Other than visually separating the functional areas, this rug also adds a warm and textural touch to the studio apartment interior.

The black sofa adds a lot of contrast to the otherwise gray and white palette, which has been paired up with wood tones in the footstool, coffee table, and the frames of the art prints.

The white and beige textiles on the black sofa provide the space with a beautiful contrast, while the white Flowerpot lamp, also from &Tradition, contributes to visually separating the sofa from the dining area.

A strategically placed wardrobe as a room divider between the hallway and bedroom area

There are many ways of separating rooms or functional areas in a studio apartment. You can work with a glass wall partition or another custom-built solution to separate the rooms, yet you can also implement easier solutions like hanging a curtain or strategically placing a piece of furniture like the wardrobe in this studio apartment.

The wardrobe is placed at the foot of the bed, with the doors facing toward the hallway section of the studio apartment. This way, instead of walking straight into the room, you pass a small hallway created by the wardrobe itself and the wall on the other side. At the same time, it also fences off the bedroom from the rest of the space and gives it its own area.

The white and beige color palette on the bedsheets and in the accessories complements the light gray walls in such a lovely way, matching the overall color palette in the rest of the studio apartment.