17 Interesting Bifunctional Pieces of Furniture. Standing Ovation for Their Designers!

Small apartments and limited space can boost our creativity. Slide-out cabinets, shelves and tables, multifunctional furniture, stashed equipment or bunk beds are among the most common ideas. Below you will find a couple of real life examples how this looks in practice.

If the room is too small for a desk or a table, you can use some of the space over the headboard. In addition, you will get a few extra drawers that you can see as soon as the desk slides out.

Everyone who has some siblings knows what a bunk bed is. However, rarely do you see one that also divides space into two separate rooms.

This piece occupies the shorter side of a very narrow room. It combines a wardrobe with a bed.

Storing things under a bed is a very sensible approach. Here not even a single square inch is wasted – all the space under the platform bed is used.

Sometimes even a very small drawer is a life saver. We will always find something to hide there. That is why exploiting the storing potential of stairs is a fabulous idea.

If you have stairs like these, there are plenty of ways you can take advantage of them. This is just one option how you can manage the space – pull-out wardrobes for clothes and shoes.

A very interesting example of a three-level bunk bed, occupying very little space.

We don’t have enough space here to analyse the toy storage problem. Let’s just look at one way out: drawers sliding out from under the bed.

This folding table could be practical in small narrow kitchens. You can ‘open’ it only when you need it.

Stairs are coming back! I guess the more of them, the more ideas to arrange them. What do you think about this one?

The extra floor inside the room works both as a ceiling and as a bed. Moreover, on its side you have extra bookshelves.

Bathrooms are sometimes too small for a washing machine and a tumble dryer. Someone came up with an idea to put them both into a wardrobe standing in the living room!

Sometimes the best way to manage a very narrow space is a pull-out cabinet, almost as tall as the room itself.

If the bed is shorter than the wall, the space margin could be used. A good idea for tiny bedrooms.

If you have enough space for a seat in the kitchen, it’s worth making use of its storing potential. In this case these are drawers. Sometimes some baskets will do, too.

We all know that an extra top would come in handy in almost every kitchen. In a small kitchen it is almost indispensable.

It turns out that it is not just bed that come in two-level versions. As it’s also bars and restaurants that suffer from room shortage, their interior design also had to go a level higher…