Anyone want to flex their design muscles?

wow. I'm no designer, but it really looks like you could spend some $$ and have some fun with a remodel... great spaces. that one pic with all the doors--- maybe wall one of them and do a narrow, hallway divider between them (across the more narrow... define the spaces is what comes to me...); that room off the kitchen with the loftiness & ladder would be a great bedroom... I'd put half og the wall in or out about 3 or 4 metres and create some movement & privacy with a side-entrance here as well (to 'the bedroom' area off of the kitchen... good luck!!

I would highly recommend they check out IKEA.  I was there this past week and they have rooms (with kitchen, living room and bathrooms all in 347 square feet.  It was a great visual with incredible space saving ideas.

Kathy

For me, it's all about the architectural detail!

The addition of contemporary baseboard, and cornice treatment (thinking metallic: stainless steel, granite, etc...) would add value!

Just my thoughts!

Lots of fun, Susan! -- Of course some clever opaque or other light enhancing partitioning, perhaps a raised platform area for bedroom, step down to living area, storage "drawers" underneath the raised floor. Are they going to fly you out there? :-)

WOW! That is an amazing apartment!! The natural light will really work int heir favour. I think they need to address the lighting in the other spaces though. Add some track lighting on the other side of the one long skinny room and/or down the middle. The one side looks so dark. Pot lights will really enhance the space and balance it off better, and will provide them a stronger canvas to work with.

The furniture will have to be compact and if they can avoid placing everything along the walls then they can get rid of that bowling alley affect. Walls will have to come down (if they have that flexibility).

The bedroom right off the kitchen with doors should be addressed. A wall here would be good, or like the other blogger suggested, if they want to maximize the natural light, put in opaque screens or sand blasted glass. Sound barriers may be necessary depending on who and how many will live there.

Looks like a designer's dream though!!

Excellent living space!  Id love to have a shot at that place.  Actually...maybe not.  Id make the living room a bowling alley and have a bar on one wall...lol.

Susan, it would be great to see you there! Great ideas here ~

Baseboards for sure, the opaque glass or a box on box divider with a few displays in the boxes. furniture placed at a right angle to the wall.

If there are 3 hangings for the gallery even better otherwise reduce to one (the orange) and pick that color up in accessories along with another. 

Some uniformity in the dining chairs would reduce the chaotic look, as well.