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Oh I see. All the different wood tones look great - really really well put together all round. Warm AND sophisticated. Super good job! Thanks for sharing with us.

There are a couple of different options for the acute angle - plant, reading chair with ottoman, corner cabinet, round dining table, big lamp, home office.

Personally I would have a round dining table in the corner next to the kitchen area. I would then place a sofa along the bedroom wall, with a coffee table in front of it and floating two armchairs on the other side of the coffee table.

I'd then float a desk perpendicular to the left window, facing the sitting area. This would give good light for a home office space, and I'd put some corner shelves in the sharp corner to break up the pointiness and store office stuff. Or maybe you could build a custom desk to go in that corner.

Fab house. Don't ever sell it to anyone who wants to take out the bathroom. Seriously. It would be criminal.

Do you have a TV in that cabinet in the living room? I get a little sceptical about the number of tours I see on here where there's no TV - I like seeing how people actually live in their spaces. I refuse to believe that nobody has a TV anymore.

If the desk fits into the alcove, I would put it there, to have a separation between study and living areas. If it doesn't fit, I would put it sideways on in the alcove, on the wall the wardrobes are on. If you can move the shelves I would put them there too. You will need a good lamp though.

Place the bed on the long wall with the foot pointing towards the sink, and put a chest of drawers at its foot up against the window so you can use it as a dressing table with a mirror and good light. Put a small sofa or futon on the wall that the door is on, opposite the bed - you can then have this double as a social area, with people sitting on the bed and sofa facing each other. Put the second chest of drawers in the middle of the wall between the bed and sofa to function as a drinks table with your kettle etc, or put in a small coffee table or trunk or something in the middle of the space. The easychair can then float somewhere near the door.

Do you need two wardrobes as well as two chests of drawers? I'd be tempted to get rid of one wardrobe and then put the other by the sink, covering the pin board.

I second the advice about hanging curtains over the curtains, and think about what bedding you will have to go up with - if you can buy or find some that will look OK with the carpet it will pull it all together a bit more.

Apart from that, rugs, wall hangings, posters. You can make it look less studenty by hanging pictures with frames instead of using blutack (probably banned anyway). Check out blogs to see what other people have done. People often say think of studios/dorm rooms as a classy hotel room - that can help with figuring it out.

I'm British and the range of living spaces which get called 'maisonettes' in the UK is, in my experience, fairly broad. This looks to me like a flat converted from a big Victorian which happens to have its own street entrance. I would normally expect anything called a maisonette to have two storeys. Many are like small townhouses; sometimes you get a two storey flat (which may or may not have its own street entrance) being described as a maisonette. Crucially 'maisonette' implies somewhat smaller than a regular house, generally flat-sized in terms of floor space. I've also seen things advertised as maisonettes that are definitely just flats - possibly people think they might get a higher offer if they call it that?

This is uncomfortably close to the X Files episodes with Eugene Tooms.

I don't normally like earthy colours, but there is something about the way the colour is put together here that clicks perfectly and just radiates warmth. I would like to see more too, and to know what kind of building you had to work with originally. A feature on design in India would be nice too!

I'm European (living in US) and I think it's a pretty sad comment on how normalised the over-consumption of power and the accumulation of food you don't need are in the US that you think this is a tiny fridge.

It's true that you can't freeze stuff in them (most Europeans will have a separate freezer unit, which I guess you may not have in a rental) but this is a perfectly normal size fridge for a single person (family ones will normally be a bit larger, but still undercounter). I found my US fridge too large so I got one this size and it is just fine - and I shop once a week and cook everything from scratch. So I'm really not sure what you're cooking that you think you need to shop every two days.

Arg! I feel like people who have open shelving in their kitchens never actually cook - you get dust and grease particles all over your stuff if you have open shelves. The only exception to this is if you have a Welsh dresser well away from the cooker.