Optimizing Your Studio Apartment Space

Studio apartments offer a unique living experience. Whether you choose to embrace the open floor plan or create the feeling of individual rooms through décor, there are a variety of ways you can choose to optimize your studio apartment space.

Live Along Your Windows

If your apartment features a wall of windows, this can be the ideal place for your daytime living space. Arrange the furnishings and items you use most during the day near or against your windows so you’ll enjoy ample natural light for your daytime activities. Long, low furniture can be ideal for this type of layout, providing the furnishings you need while optimizing the view and light from your windows. Keeping your bed on the opposite side of your studio apartment allows you to create a relaxing and soothing nighttime retreat where you can enjoy a quiet night’s sleep every night. Alternatively, if you love sleeping against a window wall, consider a convertible bed or daybed that can double as a living and sleeping space.

Mix and Match Your Storage

Using a combination of open and closed storage allows you to keep clutter behind closed doors while still providing space for personalization. Open storage, such as shelves and baskets, allows you to store certain items out in the open, where they will contribute to the overall look you’ve created for your apartment. Books, dishes, selected knickknacks, and other decorative items work well in an open storage situation. Closed storage allows you to prevent clutter from taking over; covered decorative boxes, trunks, cabinets, dressers, and drawers provide storage for linens, clothing, and other miscellaneous items that you don’t want readily visible at all times.

Delineate Spaces via Decoration

One of the biggest advantages of a studio apartment is its single open living space. However, if you want to delineate certain spaces for dining, working, sleeping, and enjoying company or entertainment, there are many ways to create the feeling of separate rooms while still enjoying the open feeling of your apartment. Finding ways to visually separate each space in your studio without physically laying down dividers is one of the most creative and fun aspects of living in a studio apartment. Planters, lamps, and large vases are all decorative elements that can also be used to define the corners of a given space. Area rugs make great space dividers without placing a physical barrier between the various spaces you choose to create. You can also use your furniture to divide your studio—place your couch with the back facing the inner portion of the room to create your “living room” or use a bookcases and filing cabinets to frame your desk and “home office.”

Carmel Pacific ridge features spacious studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments for rent in San Diego, California. You’ll love your expansive windows, upscale finishes, and the access you’ll receive to a variety of amazing community amenities. We invite you to check out our floor plans and apartment features on our website, where you’ll also find our extensive gallery and interactive map of our local neighborhood highlights.