Advice on workspace area in studio apartment?

[ex_brunetta]

  I've been living in a dorm, and I just moved into a fully-furnished studio apartment. I'm looking for advice on how to arrange the furniture. Ideally, I'd like one half to be my sleeping area and the other half be my studio/workspace, as I'm an art major.

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Hey fellow art major :D

[bartolome]

I graduated not too long ago with a degree in illustration and lemme tell you: nothing is more important than counter space.

Put your bed as far from your work desk as possible otherwise when you're up at 2am drawing, you'll start thinking it's a good idea to draw while you're still on your bed. Then you'll convince yourself you can draw while you're laying on your bed. You wake up the next morning only to realize you fell asleep while drawing and there are pieces of broken charcoal rubbed into your sheets. Awesome.

[justineith]

My studio is set up similar to your in terms of counter space (but slightly smaller). What I'm in the process of doing is using the counter space as my everyday work area and storing my supplies in drawers and shelves mounted underneath it. That way whenever I have company, I can toss the things in a drawer, pull up some folding chairs, and tada-- dinner table!

My big thing was to not use my bed and/or desk as "art space" since during my entire undergraduate career, it looked like an art supply store exploded in my bed. I've found that only using the counter as a work area and storing all my stuff in the same area has helped me do that.

Hopefully this was somewhat helpful and made some sort of sense :)

[guywithmonsters]

You can tuck shelves under the counter lip on the livingroom side for more storage too.

[helenatroy]

I know the original post is from a wh-i-i-l-e ago, but, I reccomend lots of shelf space - eg go vertical. I have a small space by7t I get a lot of mileage out of it. I'm rather tall, so that helps, but I think anybody can use this technique to maximize surface space in a small studio. shelves, & see through containers, open baskets, nice jars etc etc