This is a lilong apartment located in downtown Shanghai
It cost 4 million yuan
This shabby 30-square-meter apartment
Is very humble
One room and one kitchen and that is all
But I have a family of four
My whole family was going to live here
So I had to rearrange the horizontal structure
The floor height is over five meters
I divided it into two horizontal spaces, the first floor and the second floor
After the modification, we have two living rooms
Two bedrooms
Two restrooms
A leisure area, a working area
A laundry room
And abundant storage room
There are more than ten function zones
Just inside the door is a hallway
And if you turn right, you will see a restroom
The small one can't even fit in a sink
So I installed a sink across the restroom
Go further in and you will find the child's bedroom
If your tour starts from the left, your first stop will be the kitchen
And the attached dining room
Next is a big living room
I have put every inch of space into its best possible use
Going up the stairs, there is a relatively big bedroom
And a leisure area
And a working area
The one space that I really put extra thought in
Is this balcony-like platform between the first floor and the second floor
You can overlook the first floor
Or you can open the skylight and look outside
The smaller the space is
The more necessary it is to section
Divide it into small sections
And tailor views for each section
Though I'm already in my fifties
My design is young and novel
I was in charge of the structure and space design
My son did the decoration
In total we spent about 300 thousand yuan
If there is one thing worth mentioning about our apartment
It must be our side-by-side refrigerator
I love refrigerators filled with foods
And usually laundry rooms are seen in mansions
But we managed to put in a laundry room in a 30-square-meter apartment
Basically we hide everything in cabinets
Including the washing machine
A small apartment
Could really use more mirrors
Mirrors make the room seemingly bigger
I would go for thinner legs
When I chose sofa, tea table and end table
I integrated my father's photograph into the decoration
The one behind the sofa was taken by my father at Jing'an Temple
In term of color, we have green and jacinth
And we also have some metalwork
Bronze ones
My personal lifestyle stance is black white grey
But after I became a father
I started to enjoy more colors in my life
And rituals as well
They spice life up
And a little spice is good enough