Designing the interior of an apartment when you have very little space to work with is certainly a challenge. We all know that a home should be as comfortable as possible for its inhabitants, but when we have only a few square meters to work with and the essential functions of the home to distribute, finding an efficient layout is not easy. Following our popular selection of houses under 100 square meters, we've gone one better: a selection of 30 floor plans between 20 and 50 square meters to inspire you in your own spatially-challenged designs.

Apartments From 20 to 29 Square Meters  2 Story Prefab Houses

22m2 Apartment in Taiwan / A Little Design

Darlinghurst Apartment / Brad Swartz Architect

Apartments From 30 to 39 Square Meters

Small and Sculpted Studio Apartment / Catseye Bay Design

.A Guy, his Bulldog, a Vegetable Garden, and the Home they Share / HUSOS

30m2 Flat in Paris / Richard Guilbault

Apartments From 40 to 49 Square Meters

Tsukiji Room H / Yuichi Yoshida & Associates

Apartment X / KC Design Studio

Apartment In Vilnius Old Town / Interior Architecture

END THE ROC / nook architects

Bath Kitchen House / Takeshi Shikauchi

Apartment Filippo / Studio Alexander Fehre

Editor's Note: This article was originally published on January 20, 2019, and updated on January 21, 2021.

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