To cap off this week’s Compact and Environment friendly challenge, right here’s a favourite from the archives:

Meet the Twenty first-century model of the romantic Paris garret. It belongs to a fortunate younger screenwriter, who was nonetheless a pupil when she moved in. And, because of Anki Linde and Pierre Saalburg, the husband-and-wife workforce behind LSL Architects, her 26-square meter (roughly 280-square-foot) area is a now compendium of impressed tight-living options.

“The residence is in a four-story, 18th-century constructing within the buzzing coronary heart of the Sixth Arrondissement, steps from Bon Marché,” studies Linde. “It was located on two flooring, however the high story was so cramped in peak we determined to demolish it and create a brand new ‘floating’ mezzanine above the kitchen and residing space, leaving a double-height area on both aspect.” The architects sectioned off this new bed room loft with block-shaped storage cabinets that kind a playful and sensible barrier. In addition they launched a postage-stamp kitchen constructed from a mix of Ikea and customized components. And slotted in what simply may be the world’s most charming dish cabinet. Allons y. 

Images by Katrin Vierkant, courtesy of LSL Architects.

Kitchen and Residing Quarters