With a very small space, many home owners will opt for a “low space, high maintenance” strategy. Many of these low space, high maintenance designs don’t take into account the needs of a space that is the size of the whole house.
In our opinion, a great design should fit into a space that is smaller than your own body, and not the size of the whole house. For example, if your floor is 6 feet wide, you would want a flooring design that is at least 6 feet wide. This is because the space for the floor is going to be the smallest part of the design. And that space should be a minimum of 6 feet wide.
We’ve taken a look at the various flooring and wall layouts, and come up with a few general rules on designing your new home in your new space. For example, a space that is 6 feet wide by 6 feet deep will require 6 foot x 6 foot flooring, and a flooring that is 6 feet wide by 9 feet deep will require 9 foot x 9 foot.
To get a sense of how you can go about designing your new home in your new space, check out the picture below.
In our house, we have a 12 foot wide by 12 foot deep room with a 6 foot wide by 6 foot deep room. That works out to be a 12 foot x 12 foot room. The actual size of that 12 x 12 room is a little bit larger than a standard room, but because our floorboards are 6 feet wide, they are actually 12 feet wide by 12 feet deep.
The design of your new space will be a little more complicated than a standard room because you will have to provide room for your entertainment center. Because we have a 12 x 12 room, we can make our entertainment center 18 feet wide by 18 feet deep, which will give us a total of 48 feet worth of room for an entertainment center. But, the problem is we don’t have any more of our entertainment center room than we do room for the stairs to go up to it.
We all assume that our entertainment center will be on the same floor as our bedrooms. But that’s not always the case. We have all manner of rooms that are less than 12 feet wide by 12 feet deep. Why? Because the entertainment centers are not really that big. They are too small for a 12 x 12 room to be practical. So we have to break up the space down into 2 x 2 and 3 x 3 rooms.
So we now have 2-2 and then 3-3. So our entertainment center is in a smaller space and our bedrooms are on the same floor. Its a compromise in a sense, but it is a compromise.
You’ve got a lot of room to do something new. A smaller room is very conducive to doing something new and interesting. A smaller space is also conducive to doing something a little more normal and boring.
I’ve been working on an apartment building project in New York City for a few years now, and my apartment is on the 3rd floor (the top floor of a 3-story building) and everything is on the 3rd floor. So my job is more difficult. I just got laid off from my job, so I have no one to do my apartment, and I also have no one to do the building. Its a big project, but I know how to do it.