Space Savers
BK Magazine, April 11, 2008, Issue 232
Multi-purpose furniture to help you survive your micro home. By Sabina Ahuja and Alisara Chirapongse
Apartments are getting smaller and smaller as the price of land in Bangkok soars ever higher. Instead of spending your heard-earned dough on some extra square-meters, splurge on these multi-purpose furniture pieces. From a sofa bed to a closet box, here’s a space saving guide for you and your shoebox.
Coffee break or dinnertime? This puzzle of a table (B6,000, Hawaii Five-O) can become a chic geometric coffee table for your living room, or, if you jigsaw them together, a mini Japanese-style dining table.
Take yourself back to the prathom years with this wooden student-desk (B8,000, Hawaii Five-O). Open the top and instead of textbooks and pencils, you’ll find a mirror and lamps. Perfect for your retro boudoir.
Get those racks of CDs organized with the YMACI CD Roll (B58,140, Seenspace). Simply attach this round disc to the wall of your pad and get your CDs rolling alphabetically. YMACI CD Roll can hold up to 120 CDs, comes in many sizes and works as conceptual art, too.
Look at all that stuff lying around your coffee table: books, phone charger, remote controls, coffee mugs, last week’s BK Magazine. The Evasion (B7,990, Index) coffin look-a-like coffee table can surely help keep your junk organized or at least out of sight.
Grab the Sweetheart (B11,000 Index)—a sofa for three and a bed for two and a half people, or so it seems. Either way, it’s space saving, so tap into your creativity and turn that couch around.
If you’re planning a casual get-together with your old school friends, then this genius park bench (B9,400, Index) might be your buddy for the evening. With a few tweaks, it can be transformed into a picnic table—perfect for your home-cooked spaghetti and catch-up session.
