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150 Best Apartment Ideas

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The design of an apartment presents several challanges not imposed on the designer of a free-standing house. The most restricting is probably size, and second having to deal with walls that probably can't be moved. Even more interesting or challenging is dealing with the confines of an older building that may have beams in strange places, or in one instance in this book a now abandoned water tank on the roof to be converted into a penthouse.

As you might guess from the title, this book consists almost exclusively of pictures of 150 apartments from around the world showing how some of the best architects in the world have handled the challenges presented. The apartments are not your low end Government supported housing, but top of the line units in New York, or Milan, or perhaps Melbourne. It makes this an 'idea book' suitable for any architects office.

The book itself is beautifully printed on heavy weight paper and the book has a sewn binding with headbands, features that will make it last a long time even with heavy usage.

This is a great inexpensive book to get you thinking about design ideas. There are excellent pictures and a little text to briefly describe what is happening. It would have been nice to get a more detailed description of how things are actually built... but a great book to casually look through.

Very disappointed by this book. I have the "Lofts 2" book which is also published by Good Ideas, and apparently many of the spaces featured in this "150 Best Apartment Ideas" book were the same exact spaces from "Lofts 2," the pictures are the same, even the text/copy and floor plan illustrations are exactly the same things! Very disappointing!

Packed full of beautiful photography and great ideas, this is the book I keep coming back to when I get the itch to redo a room or simply dream of future places. I seem to discover new things every time I look through it.

Actually implemented a few in my studio apartment. Very useful and just a fun inspirational book to have around.

Apartment living presents decorating challenges unlike homes, and this book will show you how to get around them.

150 best house ideas is much better, this one is ok