The Complete Studio Floor Plan: Every Zone of This Tiny Apartment Seen From Above

Viewed from directly above, this studio apartment's entire layout is visible at once. Reading from top to bottom: a skylight window at the top, below it a cream sofa with cushions and a pallet-style wooden coffee table on a jute rug, then a small round dining table with one chair, a tiny kitchen section with a sink, copper pots, a wine-glass rack and a plate rack built vertically into the wall. Further down: a low platform bed with a wooden slatted headboard and natural linen bedding, a botanical print gallery wall to its right, a macramé wall hanging to its left, and a vertical bottle/wine rack built into the right-hand wall. Plants are visible in almost every zone. Every centimetre of this apartment has been considered.

The living zone: sofa and pallet coffee table

The cream sofa sits against the left wall, angled slightly toward the room's centre. In front of it, a pallet-style wooden coffee table — wide, flat, low — sits on a large natural jute rug. The table is styled with a round wooden tray holding a small plant, a ceramic and a candle. The pallet table is almost certainly DIY: two or three wooden pallets sanded, treated and stacked to table height, which gives a surface that is free (or nearly free) and exactly the right dimensions for a small sofa arrangement.

The dining zone: round table, single chair

A small round white dining table with one simple wood-and-metal chair occupies a minimal footprint between the sofa and the kitchen. One chair rather than two is an honest acknowledgement of how this apartment is actually used — and a round table with a single chair is more satisfying than a rectangular table crowded to its edge. A small plant sits on the table.

The kitchen: vertical integration

The kitchen here is tiny but extremely well-organized. The sink is visible, and above or beside it, a vertical wall-integrated rack holds wine glasses and plates individually — each item stored at its own level on a narrow rack rather than stacked in a cupboard. Copper pots hang or sit in a designated storage area. This vertical integration is the only way a kitchen this small can hold what it needs to without cluttering the worktop.

The platform bed: low and linen

The bed is a low wooden platform — a slatted timber frame at floor or near-floor height — with linen bedding in cream or oatmeal. The slatted wooden headboard gives the sleeping zone its architectural character. No bed frame is higher than the bed surface itself; the profile is deliberately horizontal and calm. Books are stored in a small row beside the bed, visible at floor level.

Interior tips

• Draw your floor plan before you buy anything: the vertical view makes clear how important the proportions of each zone are relative to the others. Even a rough hand-drawn plan prevents costly mistakes.
• A round dining table takes up less visual space than a rectangular one: the absence of corners means you can place a round table closer to adjacent furniture without it feeling cramped.
• Vertical kitchen storage built into the wall keeps every item visible and accessible without any counter surface being used for storage. If your kitchen has one free wall, a fitted rack is worth building.
• A botanical gallery wall above the bed turns a functional zone into a beautiful one without taking up any floor space. Print and frame botanical illustrations from free archives (The Biodiversity Heritage Library has thousands).
• A macramé wall hanging on one side and a gallery wall on the other creates a deliberate contrast between organic texture (the macramé) and graphic content (the prints). This pairing frames the bed as a designed space rather than just where the bed happens to be.